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.Did you watch "Safety in Umber" Adam?

"Safetly in Umber" was an old tv movie that Valerie Prentis produced when she was 22.
when she and Gary Rainy were undeterred "setting referentials"
and the Rainy Method
as touchstones and stanzas in Allience Pictures' lexicon and film library

very subtle
and for all to enjoy
only" rainy day people" would get the extra reinforcement,like a pat on the back .a peck on the cheek from a mentor

films like "Safety in Umber" and "The Pineapple War"
movies found questionable during the hearings
the hearings that forced Alliance Pictures  to cease and desist..
 "to stop,"
as the judge mockingly put it"
putting anymore Enway into OUR airways"


Rainy said it was important to "think like THEM"
and she had a keen mind for it.as she was previously a THEM herself who only saw the New Way and Gary Rainy as a Demagogue


cease putting
" enway to the airway" Valerie thought

as if.
As if this was better?



it was 31 years later...and here she was driving through century city with Adam looking at the billboards.

the media
a common mind

but what was this mind about
she looked at Adam.she had read some of his neurals and was getting a jist.
still.He stood a chance.
if he passed.
the tests......

"winning?"she supposed
winning what
so instead of thought out specific imprints and a shared vision of a group sensibilty  of vision  almost biblical in it's designs by Rainy
and Alliance Pictures
it was about
being wealthy,young and loud?
it wasnt just her and Gary's generation that wanted something mystical
she wasnt just old
and it amused her that people thought of mysticism as something flighty and weak
so they put a suit on it and put some money in it's hand
and than they thought of it as sinister.
or silly
"if they only fuckin knew"

everyone was so bogged down in the fucking technology of it
of the means to an end and a new beginning
symbols, some clear and transparent cues
and an old fashioned mastery of one's thoughts and impulses
and how one's thoughts affected others
a hierarchy of respect of mentors was seen as demagogary?
or controlling?

it was taken as hostile and militaristic
but if that's what it took to make people into their true selves.and strong enough to fight for it
who gave a damn


the Enway rose up
like a cloud above los angeles ..it was in the warm california air..
and new language
whether they called it Rainy or not..