{"id":1741,"date":"2015-07-05T15:48:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T14:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2015-07-05T15:48:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T14:48:37","slug":"watch-repeat-dont-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/watch-repeat-dont-repeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Repeat, Don&#8217;t Repeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1742\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Dance-of-the_Dead01.gif\" alt=\"Dance-of-the_Dead01\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>George Santayana<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve got news for Mr. Santayana: we&#8217;re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That&#8217;s what it is to be alive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2015 Kurt Vonnegut<\/p>\n<p>I though I was hitting week one in the village running, I&#8217;ve already, <a title=\"The Village 106\" href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/village-106\/\">settled in<\/a>, <a title=\"Prisoner106 Supercuts by numbers\" href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/prisoner106-supercuts-by-numbers\/\">done a little prep<\/a>, <a title=\"Prisoner 106 in a spin\" href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/prisoner-106-in-a-spin\/\">started some investigations<\/a> and <a title=\"A Visit to the Office\" href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/a-visit-to-the-office\/\">visited the office<\/a> and filled in the forms.<br \/>\nI also had a <a title=\"Dreaming of Tina\" href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/dreaming-of-tina\/\">strange psychological experience<\/a> which seems to be par for the course.<\/p>\n<p>I got a bit of a shock reading <a title=\"Week One: Assimilation Week | Prisoner106\" href=\"http:\/\/prisoner106.us\/2015\/06\/assimilation-week\/\">this weeks diversions<\/a>. Lots too do!<\/p>\n<p>I had started to review the video records of number 6 with a view to developing a plan, the office seems to have a different approach to the reels which I&#8217;ll have to follow. After starting watching The Dance of the Dead, I&#8217;d agree with:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Although aired originally as episode 8, many sources recommend viewing this as episode 2.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>from: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dance_of_the_Dead_(The_Prisoner)\">Dance of the Dead (The Prisoner) &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a>, number 6 says, he is new and it feels like repeated phrases from the series, I&#8217;ll be seeing you are emphasized more than other episodes. I can only suppose that the official order was created to confuse rather than illuminate.<\/p>\n<p>My aims and methods are still basically the same, rather that taking an intellectual approach to escaping I am going to concentrate of finding out how the village works, what lies behind the rational. My methods will be to approach the problem via the automated, serendipitous and random I will give a little information (not INFORMATION) about these methods as I go.<\/p>\n<p>The idea being to understand. Number 6 went through some terrible ordeals continually butting his head against Number 2, my approach is to keep my head down, investigate The Village without leaving my room.<\/p>\n<p>As I watch the other occupants of The Village arrive I am somewhat puzzled that they seem to be taking on roles in the village. Have they already become part of number 2&#8217;s team, or have I miss understood something basic?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1743\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/closing-zoom.gif\" alt=\"closing-zoom\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana I&#8217;ve got news for Mr. Santayana: we&#8217;re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That&#8217;s what it is to be alive. \u2015 Kurt Vonnegut I though I was hitting week one in the village running, I&#8217;ve already, settled in, done a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/watch-repeat-dont-repeat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Watch Repeat, Don&#8217;t Repeat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74,132,130],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animatedgif","category-thoughts","category-weekly-review","tag-prisoner106"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RLlC-s5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}