Social Engineering and Sociogenesis, The Project's Real Goals

by S.N. Jackson

td@sunSITE.utk.edu


Editors note: This document was found in the Project Archive "Answers to questions you would never ask Bruce" by Jamie Cardick. Jamie was listed as a member of the Morrow Project technical training unit before she was frozen with Recon team I-7 frozen at <<censored>> Iowa. Jamie's team has not been recovered as of the release of this data.

***Susan Roya, Assistant Administrator, New Idaho Complex***


Pointy Headed Ideals:

Like the name of this document? For those of you who hate pointy headed ideals, you may want to skip this one. It talks about the reasons behind the project. If the big ideals bore you, flip over and read my post, "How I Learned to Love My Stoner". It has lots of gun talk, which every one know is fun.

 

Background

Now that the children are in bed (or reading avidly about the reasons why the project adopted the Stoner), and the project is about wrapped up, I am writing this missive on the true meaning of the project. In three days I will be slotted and shipped out to my resting place. Ops says my group is one of the last to go in the ground. Originally, I was slotted to lead RB Alpha at <<censored>>. My age is against me now, and older members, especially support staff, usually draw base duty. For reasons which will become clear, I fought it. I went all the way to Bruce, kicking and screaming, and they gave me what I want, lead place in a Recon team. I am going to be an assistant area commander, a duty that is three steps below my nominal rank. For the last year, I have been training the teams that will go into the ground with me, looking forward to sleeping for a dozen years.

Who am I? I am the senior trainer at the Morrow Pajaro Lake training center. My rank is Area Administrator. I was recruited to the project in 1975, right out of college, and have now served with the Project for 23 years. I have a BA in Industrial Psychology from Stanford, an MS in Engineering Technology from UNC- Chapel Hill, and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Utah. My two children grew up with the project without really knowing what Mom did for a living. As far as they know, I am terminally ill with cancer. When they slot me, I will be 54 years old.

If you are reading this, then you are either in the project and the project's mission has succeeded well enough that Prime Base and Library Alternate are now releasing stored historical documents, or the project died and your are an archeologist from the far future digging into one of the greatest human achievements of my times. In either case, its time to set the record straight.

 

Why the Project?

It's amazing how many people devote their lives to the project without really knowing what it is about. Part of that is Bruce, Kathy, and Leonard's charisma. In case you have never met these three, they are the heart of the project. Bruce talks like a cryptic wizard about saving mankind, and ages of darkness, and the dignity of human spirit. Kathy softly explains the meanings behind sacrifice and human compassion, and Leonard is the hustler that sells with dazzle and promises of hidden truths.

After watching this trio at work for two decades, I have come to the inevitable conclusion that they are the biggest con artist of our times.

Before I start this argument, let me make something perfectly clear. I am giving up my children and grandchildren for Bruce's ideal of the future. Not the ideal they espouse, but their real ideal. Krell and some of the junior planning staff yell and rant about Bruce now that the project is closing in on completion, but they were never high enough in the organization to see the truth, and its to late for them to buy the vision. I saw the truth because I was trained to look for it, and I saw the real meaning behind our training program. I also know the Bruce doesn't sleep well. What's more, I know why.

History Lessons

Back in the early fifties, a group called the Council for Tomorrow was formed. Led by Leda Scott and John Watson, it was a think tank of industrialists that wanted the American Ideals to survive a nuclear war. They hired a brilliant inventor from New Hampshire named Bruce Morrow, pooled their resources, and set him to work on the basics of surviving the feared Meggiddo (Armageddon). The founder's original ideal revolved around creating a bunker complex that the best and brightest scientific minds could retreat to. When the war was over, these scientists could emerge and rebuild America.

Bruce later told me the original ideal was crap, but that under the crap, a gem was waiting to be found. He returned to the industrialists, and in a series of events that to this day have not been put on paper 1 convinced them to throw their entire estates into Morrow Industries. Morrow Industries spent two decades in research. They perfected the sleep tube, the laser, the Matrix (or Eternal) battery, and the many other advancements that have since leaked to the main stream industry. In May of 1971, they began freezing the first Morrow teams.

The idea that Bruce sold was the purest crap. Three to five years after the war these teams would wake up, scatter across the country side, and help build a new nation. In 30 years of freezing, we put around six thousand people in the ground. We have the resources to put another fifty a year in the ground until doomsday, and I suspect that the numbers that I have from other training sites may be inaccurate by 500 either way 2, but its at most seven thousand to tackle a continent. Cortez took over the Mexico with a thousand Spaniards and six thousand Mayans by driving the Aztec agricultural system out of business. A million starved in Central and South America before Spanish control was firm, and Spanish traditions in place. No way can 7 thousand people emerge from the ground and do anything but flounder in a sea of 50 million survivors of the holocaust.

Bruce can't sleep because he has lied to us all. I only forgive him, because his lie is one they may save the human race.

 

Looking at the project:

The project is a highly decentralized structure based upon shared common goals with divergent experiences and personal goals. Around a thousand teams will lie buried across the United States by the time the balloon goes up. I learned the power of statistics when I was younger, and although Bruce would yarf if he saw my numbers, 3

they are based on 23 years of gathering data (extrapolated to include the 30 year active phase of the project).

Each year until this year, training has produced around 200 people for slotting each year. Pajaro Lake gets about half of them, the other three facilities get the other half, although all basic candidates go through Pajaro to start and for final preparation. After the basic course, they are assigned to teams. The average mobile team is 5 people. The average base staff team is 12-24. The largest mobile team we processed was 32, and we have no idea where they came from or where they went, so my count isn't all inclusive. Based on my numbers, the Project slotted pretty close to 6000 people in 30 years. This is the breakdown:

type of team  total people total teams  percent of whole

Recon  1600  320 27%
 Science  384  64  7%
 Science (base)  256  8  4%
 Mars  656  82  11%
 Psyops  78  26  1%

Engineering  498  83 8%
 Agriculture  444  74  8%
 Power (mobile)  88  22  1%
 Power (Generation)  120  5  2%
 Command  64  16  1%
 Supply (base)  72  3  1%
 Transportation  440  88  7%
 Communication  102  51  2%
 Medical  280  70  5%
 Medical (Base)  270  6  5%
 Ambulance  144  18  2%
 NBC Decon  57  19  1%

 Frozen Watch  120  20  2%
 Educational  60  12  1%
 Other?  116  18  2%

Notice, that by these numbers, more than 1 in 4 of the project is assigned to Recon. That's a lot of Recon. The next largest division is Medical, with 12%, although Medical field teams are more like Recon teams with a doctor and a medical assistant than purely medical teams, and are trained just like Recon teams. Science and Mars each come in next with around 11%. Some Engineering teams are called "support" teams because they are primarily tasked with vehicle recovery and repair, but this designation appears unneeded, all Engineer teams can act as construction teams or asset repair and recovery, only primary tasking is different.

Lets look at some more statistics.

Educational Level of the project members:

 education level  number  percent
 HS dropout  41  .7%
 HS graduate  118  2%
 Some college  235  4%
 AA or Certificate  382  6.5%
 BA/BS  2477  42%
 MA/MS  1071  18%
 JD/LLD  88  1.5%
 MD  441  7.5%
 MFA  324  5.5%
 PhD  706  12%

Note that is 5883 people and my records have 5884. The last, Swami Dur Gui Du Avasrahamanirami claimed to have a certificate in universal love after meditating for thirteen years in lotus and only taking one shower. Bruce believed him, and made him a Mars team leader - with the understanding that showers were OK in the future.

Looking at the numbers it appears that the average project member has 3 years more education that the mythical average person (1980 census data). So here we have the average bloke in a slot: A Recondo with a bachelors and a good chance of more. How about other indicators?

 Service history  number  percent  1980 percent of US population
 Special Forces  59  1%  .1%
Combat Veteran  147  3%  1%
 War Era Veteran  265  5%  2.5%
 Military Service  1000  17%  12%
 Police (no military)  177  3%  1%
 Civilian  4236  72%  83%

About twice as many military and police join the project as there are in the US population as a whole (as of 1980), but this is far lower than some estimates by new team members. One trainee told me point blank that he knew the project had around a thousand special operations types working for it (or about 1 in 6 if his numbers were accurate). We would not refuse a thousand (stable) special-ops types, but a thousand special-ops types dropping of the face of the earth is bound to attract someone's attention (especially since they have military clearance and are often tracked by the FBI). In general, about one combat veteran special-ops type processed through the project a year (maybe a couple more vets that hadn't seen combat), plus a single big bunch one year that never made in on any team lists I have ever seen.

So, our Recon person has a Masters degree, and is about twice as likely to have served time in the military, and is stupid enough to let someone crash his body temp down to around -75 C for ten or more years.

Now here is a kicker. I know that the project has never planned its team freezing schedule in advance. There was no master list of teams to be frozen, no over all organization chart existed that I have ever seen, and people who should have seen the chart say no master plan existed for freezing. Is that a way to plan a tightly coordinated continental rescue effort?

Each year a new set of "Process Groups" would come through Pajaro Lake. All of them were aware of the project, agreed to join, and had been observed for many more years than they suspected before the offer was even made. For two months they go through a summer camp style "basic training" learning to miss big, human size targets with a pistol, how to get a V stuck in mud up to its axles, and how to screw up a fool-proof medicine injector. This whole time we do psych tests on them, watch them carefully, and figure out what psych profiles they fit.

At the end of the Process training, we divide up the teams based upon who we have, not what teams need to be filled. Specialist teams get two people with specialized skills (engineering, agriculture, medical practitioners etc), and a bunch of BA's in Communication, English, American studies, and Basket Weaving. Science teams get the PhD's that are in shape enough to move around, plus a bunch of hard science MS/MA and BA/BS types. Mars teams get the people with low aggression scores (would you give a gun to someone who wanted to use it?) but high will power and ethical scores. Once in a while someone will have a very special skill, but wont fit with any team. They get held over and placed the next year.

Recon teams are special. They get the bankers, butchers, and candlestick makers of the project. In fact, if we have five odd eggs laying around, with a really warped skill set, they are instant Recondos (assuming their psych profile says they wont stick knives in each others ribs during times of stress). I have trained Recon teams that have had dog trainers, dietary science practitioners, historians, multimedia artists, yodelers, home economics teachers, communication engineers, dress designers, and camp counselors as members. I originally thought that Recon is were we send our misfits, until I figured it out.

All Project staff have a team position, be it Driver, Gunner, Contact, Leader, Communicator, or Mechanic. What most people do not realize is that this job position is the least important thing about you. You don't have to be great at the job, you just have to get by. Has anyone ever wondered why project drivers only get about a month at driving school? With all of the resources behind the project, if Driving was a life or death skill that will save the world, don't you think we would recruit, hire, and train the best drivers on the planet?

The fact is, all the other teams are just excuses to have Recon teams, and all for all of your training, the skills you bring from outside the project are the ones we consider the most valuable.

 

Thinking out of the box

So, now we come to the real reason for the project. Sociogenisis. It means "birth of society". The goal of making a better life for people is irrelevant in the large scale. Fighting oppression on a personal level is irrelevant. Helping society rebuild is even of only minor importance. The important thing, in Bruce's fevered mind, is that people who care about rebuilding, idealism, fighting oppression, and who remember a better world, are released onto a society whose moral and social fiber have been ripped away by disaster. When society is reduced down to a fight for survival, and for hundreds of years after, it is very vulnerable to new "memes", or thought viruses, spreading through the population and taking deep root. Witness the black plague in Europe. The black plague crushed medieval society, a society stagnant with established orders, lords led to excess crushing the people of the land, a population that could not innovate. Black death killed millions, a third of Europe, and brought untold misery and devastation to an entire continent. It also brought the Renaissance and modern society.

Manipulating these memes is hazardous. The memes that infected defeated Germany after World War One killed millions of innocents and again devastated the country. The meme of manifest destiny caught the newly free United States and devastated peoples whose partnerships the United States needed to build a truly egalitarian society. The meme of human indifference, which leads to slavery and bigotry, weakening a society even as they proclaim the master race, infects the whole world, as does the meme of quick riches, which devastates the land and destroys natural balance.

Dr. Bruce Morrow somehow saw the cliff that the world was headed to. What that cliff is, he wont even hint, but he created the project to fight back against the memes that will destroy our current society. The people of the project carry idealism, hope, and the hope of a better world through the long night and into the future, to take root during the dark ages to come and blossom into the next world.

The Recon teams carry not only the memes of hope, but a knowledge of a society were thought matters. For every seemingly dull liberal arts course that they took during school, they also learned a little bit about the best society has to offer. That doesn't mean classical plays and music (although it doesn't exclude them). It includes the course on French films, the painting class, wrestling, Czechoslovakian literature, and religious history. These memories will follow the project member to the new world, and might take hold in some back corner of America as a team member tells a small child about the wonders of Bugs Bunny.

The Recondos also carry the specialization of the mind with them. The Engineers build, and the Ag types plant, but in the Recon you will find an expert in Middle East History. Should we ever need an expert in fiber arts, one is on a Recon team ready to be awakened. A Celtic Languages major runs the big gun of a V, an expert in Macroeconomic theory leads a team in Vermont, and in Florida sleeps an English teacher who has a minor in Incan Anthropology. We know what the Agriculture teams can do, but we can't predict that the new world wont need someone who trains show dogs.


1) Ed. note: not exactly true : )

 

2) Bruce wouldn't tell his own bottom what the weather was like by his nose if he didn't have to, even Kathy and Krell don't have real solid numbers on the project. I only know because I am the lead trainer, and I know we couldn't train more than 200 a year if our lives depended on it.

 

3) Especially since I think that my numbers are pretty good. I have seen Krell's and Kathy's numbers and they are way off, just because I counted the people that went through our training center, and know the other trainers, and I know Krell and Kathy don't even know about any center but Pajaro. Krell thinks the project has 2700 frozen staff and that half that staff is Mars or Mars type teams. Kathy on the other hand thinks that the project has 14,000 frozen staff, of which most are frozen watch and specialist teams that are to wake after the initial recon of the country).