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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JOHN DRAKE? Patrick McGoohan, Secret Agent, The Prisoner, and World Civilization as The Village.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JOHN DRAKE? Patrick McGoohan, Secret Agent, The Prisoner, and World Civilization as The Village.

David Lemmo

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2026
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The world as The Village - a Prison Planet. In which Danger Man, Secret Agent, and The Prisoner are examined as a saga. An allegory about the struggles of humanity, in the metaphorical form of John Drake/Number 6, to survive as cultured beings and navigate through a growing Orwellian World Order. A Brave-New-Orwellian World Order. The concepts put forth are supplemented by observations from figures such as, James Baldwin, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Caroline Lamb, Pema Chödrön, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain, Mary Wollstonecraft, Richard Wright, Stephen Hawking and others. How did World Civilization become The Village? Third Revised Edition, reflecting the 2024 Presidential Election and Beyond. Be Seeing You.

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