Way before the X Files was giving us a series with no answers we Brits were doing it 30 odd years ago.
"The Prisoner" a TV show originally broadcast 1967/68 told the story of a British Secret Agent who suddenly resigned without warning and for no reason. He was promptly kidnapped and taken to "The Village" Who ran "The Village and where it was located was never disclosed but conflicting hints are given as to where it is. The 17 episodes set out to break our agent known only as "number 6" by the top man "Number 2".
The two questions asked every week were to No 6 "Why did you resign?" and of No 2 "Who is number 1?". If you've never seen the series before I thoughrougly recommend it, and the final episode "Fall Out" where all is revealed??? is probably the most bizarre and surreal 54 minutes of television you will ever watch.
Why did I chose my moniker as Number 6? I first saw the programme at the very impressionable age of 14 in 1984 and as well as being the most mad TV programme I ever watched, it also started the streak of rebellion in me as my step-father initially forbade me to watch it thinking it somehow was the wrong influence. So I took the attitude that if it annoyed him then I was going to damn well watch it!
Also because I identify with the characters' struggle to be an individual against the pressure of "The Village" to conform. Also the fact that it raises more questions than it answers. I believe strongly in our absolute right to hold our opinions in the face opposition and that no organisation has the right to mould us to think what it wants us to think. (i.e. The Watchtower Society)
i used to post initially here as Mr Angry this being a reflection of how I usually feel when I read the heartrending tales of the trauma people suffer at the hands of the Watchtower organisation. At that time I was also a bit scared of being identified by others in the Borg who might know me. So my re-invention as Number 6 also brought down the barriers. I use my real name on my unblocked email and if those who once called me a friend and those family who are still in the Borg somehow identify my posting here and cut me off; the loss is theirs. I have been out a decade and wasted many of those years being scared of what the power the dubs have over me. My mind is my own.
In the words of Number 6: " I am not a number, I am a free man."
Be seeing you.
6 (aka Craig Reilly, Northampton, United Kingdom)
I am not a dub I am a free man.
