When MGSV: The Phantom Pain came out, some people thought it only included lots of story content in the form of tapes because it was simply unfinished. This is the start of a revolutionary YT series that seeks to examine whether or not this was the case. If we get enough support, we'll move on to the story itself: but for now, we have to 'set the table' so to speak, with some important context and background information.
We begin simply with the first tape you're given in TPP, 'British Sovereign Base Area - Dhekelia'. This, in turn, opens the door to a wide array of interrelated subjects, that form together a sort of tapestry of meta-meanings.
NOTE: At one point I intentionally change 'unconscious' to 'subconscious'. That has to do with the legacy of Sigmund Freud, who, though widely discredited as a psychologist, arguably, along with Carl Jung, pioneered the very concept that then he called 'subconscious' but today we prefer to call 'unconscious'. This, you see, is an example of 'word control': by saying one, you indirectly conjure to mind the other.
PT 1
0:00 - Introduction
01:03 - Tape 1, BSBA - Dhekelia
01:55 - Ocelot's peculiar, yet precise, choice of words are anachronistic
02:47 - The meaning of 'British Overseas Territory', and 'BSA
03:04 - Overview, Cyprus SBA (Sovereign Base Areas)
03:29 - Teaser for the 'Family Jewels' (huge trove of intel I've gathered over 5 years of research and development)
03:53 - The origins of the SBA on Cyprus
04:17 - The origins of the 'Special Relationship' between the US and UK, and the 'Concert of Europe' which became the UN today
05:18 - How the pursuit of global governance arguably triggered WW1
06:34 - The UK's rivals: Germany and Tsarist Russia (see: The Berlin Conference of 1884 and R. Kipling's "Kim" for more information)
07:08 - How the Victorian Era gave way to phantoms in the form of the Soviets and later, the Nazis (for more on the Victorian era Police State, see www.jstor.org/stable/20081332... and journals.openedition.org/chs/934 )
07:35 - Overview, suzerainty system, and how it morphed into 20th Century-era 'decolonization'
08:56 - The Suez Canal Incident
PT 2
10:24 - Ocelot's phrase 'British Military Hospital'
10:44 - The Alexandra Hospital Massacre in Singapore, 1942 (NOTE: The name Yamashita will be mentioned by Ocelot later on, who refers consciously to judo master Yasuhiro Yamashita, and unconsciously to Tomoyuki Yamashita, aka The Tiger of Malaya, who commanded the force that conducted the massacre)
11:24 - The debut of Disney's Pinocchio, 1 week and 2 years prior, at the Center Theatre (not Trade Center) in Manhattan
11:41 - Overview of Pinocchio in the context of its release on the verge of WW2
PT 3
15:50 - Monstruo, or the Whale (a paleo-etymological survey)
16:26 - Discussion of Livyatan Melvelli
18:30 - The deeply rooted origins of the concept 'Leviathan' in the 'unconscious past' of so-called Western society
18:50 - Pinocchio's monster being unconsciously conjured to mind by the fictitious phrase, "awaken the sleeping giant"
19:26 - Long-form discussion, analysis, and interpretation, George Orwell's "Inside The Whale" (see: orwell.ru/library/essays/whal...)
(NOTE: around 31:44 I blend two disparate songs onto each other in the background, subtly using music to enact Orwell's notion of doublethink)
FURTHER READING:
Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" (www.amazon.com/Tropic-Cancer-...)
Review of the book, which inadvertently gets at what I was attempting with this video: www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
"One might worry that I would have been corrupted by the book. Thankfully, at that point I found it totally incoherent; the page-long sentences unwinding like the ramblings of some drunken poet, wandering from meal to meal, drink to drink...The surrealist stream-of-consciousness style, the impossible mixture of social commentary and autobiographical rantings, did not provide me with the tools I required from so-called pornography. ...I mentally filed it away under "pretentious modernist experiment"."