Anthony Bourdain Found Hanged

Is it me, or are bodies are piling up lately?

In Bourdain’s telling, he never hungered for fame—even willfully shunned it, with drug addiction, a loose tongue, and an anemic business sense—and somehow still stumbled into a presumably multi-million-dollar career. “I sort of backed into success, not giving a shit because I was so certain that I was not gonna be successful,” he told me several weeks ago. When Kitchen Confidential came out, “I had zero expectations that there was any likelihood of making a living…”

… he’s a brand, whether he likes it or not, and Bourdain Inc. is more lucrative than ever: “Parts Unknown” was just renewed for four more seasons, he’s planning an international street-food market in New York City, and he has his own book-publishing line with HarperCollins Ecco…

Bourdain followed a love interest to Vassar College, but dropped out after two years of heavy drinking and drug use—behavior that persisted for years…

A privileged white suburbanite who became a cocaine and heroin addict—one responsible for cooking your food, no less—is hardly a narrator we’re inclined to root for. But at least Bourdain served time for his misbehavior, slaving away for years in uninspired kitchens and eventually working his way up from forgotten haunts to two-star restaurants. He didn’t enjoy real success in the industry until he got relatively clean, and didn’t become the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles until 1998. A year later, with 28 years’ worth of street cred in the restaurant world, he published the essay “Don’t Read This Before Eating,” in The New Yorker, and a year after that, at 44 years old, he spilled all the beans in Kitchen Confidential…

The book instantly turned him into a food celebrity, which must have come as a shock to the journeyman chef and unexceptional pulp-fiction writer. In the opening chapter, “A Note from the Chef,” he had speculated that “there’s every possibility this book could finish me in the business,” adding, “My naked contempt for vegetarians, sauce-on-the-siders, the ‘lactose-intolerant’ and the cooking of Ewok-like Emeril Lagasse is not going to get my own show on the Food Network.” But it did get him his own show on another cable network: “A Cook’s Tour” on the Travel Channel, which after two seasons led to “No Reservations,” which cemented him as a celebrity, period…

Increasingly, though, to follow Bourdain is to be reminded how unlikely that life is, how the “once-in-a-lifetime, freakishly lucky breaks that have become all too common in my life”—as he describes them in Medium Raw—almost certainly won’t happen to us, too. Watching the early episodes of “Parts Unknown”’s third season, it becomes clear that his stories could not possibly be ours—that he’s guiding us not through a world that’s accessible to us, but the world of a 1-percenter. The evidence of this has been mounting for years, but now it’s impossible to ignore, and no amount of self-deprecation can save Bourdain from appearing blind at best, hypocritical at worst.

Another hanging, to go with Kate Spade. I can’t help but picture having to kill someone, using their lapel from behind to cut off bloodflow for 2 minutes or so, and then stringing the body up. The neck trauma would appear as if from the hanging, and so long as I used gloves, and made sure the scene wasn’t impossible, it would be written off.

Makes you wonder if Cabal is short on cash, and cashing out some of its celebrity accounts. Nothing is impossible these days.

I have no doubt Bourdain was a Cabal asset, though I have no idea if he knew. I saw an interesting interview with this guy on TV, where he said his head spun when he made it because one night he couldn’t pay his rent and he thought he would die a failure, and suddenly almost overnight he was turned into a worldwide sensation with books and a TV show. He made it sound like it felt as if it were all done for him, or dropped out of the sky.

Anyone reading this who is just a normal person will never write a book on any subject they have mastered, submit it to a major MSM publisher, and get it published – unless they can culture some sort of relationship to the machine. That celebrity machine, of which publishing is a part, is a synergistic system. Once you are admitted to it, the system will promote you using all of its outlets, to maximize your sales, to maximize the machine’s profits beyond anything you can accomplish using just one form of media, or even worse one outlet.

Notice this guy is totally unremarkable. He talks pointless snark about other celebrity chefs, who he later befriends and then decides were not really deserving of the snark he was delivering previously. There is nothing he did which you could not do. But notice if you do a google search, you turn up endless articles about him and interviews with him. Other MSM TV shows promote his show by discussing him, as if he is super noteworthy and everyone should know him. They even have MSM shows that act as if celebrities themselves are worthy of quasi-news shows devoted just to revealing details about the shows they are currently trying to promote. Those shows feature his show. Try getting coverage for anything notable you do, that isn’t a machine asset, on those shows. It will never happen.

You could have written the same book as him, but unless you were in the machine, you would never get published. And you would never get the publicity of the magazine interviews, the TV shows, and even the President stopping by you in Vietnam to sit in on your show, as this guy had, no matter how many followers you accrued online.

All of that is machine support. It rolled out effortlessly for him when he promised 96% (or whatever it is) of all his book sale profits to go to the publisher (and by extension the machine), and made similar deals everywhere else for all his other endeavors. That is how the machine works.

I have a sneaking suspicion when recruiting an asset like that, they do not do it lightly or randomly. Once they make him a celebrity and give him an audience, he is made, and he could try to go out on his own. He could start his own network like Oprah (who you hear much less about today because the machine will try to use her to grab her audience, but they are much more circumspect about promoting her or her shows since she tried to make more profits by creating her own network). He could try self-publishing to leverage the audience the machine gave him, or launch his own magazine. In short, once the machine makes him, they would want him to be content to remain a cog in their machine, feeding his profits up the ladder.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but I can’t help but feel somebody was looking at him in detail long before he became successful. They were logging his moral weaknesses, his vices, his fears, his desires, and all the ways he could be controlled. I would not even be surprised if it was one of their assets who was placed close to him who suggested he write a book and submit it to a publisher.

And when he submitted that book, he was brought on based on a careful analysis of a detailed profile which he might not have even known existed.

I just do not see such a well organized machine as what they have created, with so many self-reinforcing integrated pieces, using its powers to make numerous celebrity money-makers, with no idea of who they are or whether they all will prove unreliable and use what they are given to try and enrich themselves at the expense of the machine.

I find it interesting he seemed unaware of the fact that trajectories like his do not happen by chance, and that a machine that has been around as long as this one has will have learned to not be reckless or random with the billions of dollars it feeds up the chain to its ultimate masters, or the cogs it recruits to be its face, and draw in those billions in the first place. What you see is a lot more controlled, and a lot more aware than you would ever believe.

It would be ironic if he were taken out by the Cabal, or as Randy Quaid referred to it’s celebrity subsidiary, the Celebrity Star Whackers, and he never knew his success was planned, controlled, and ultimately deemed expendable.

And if you are some sort of celebrity out there which has benefitted from the machine, watch your ass for the next few months. Cabal seems on the run, and I get the impression their funds may be running short. And if you are in the machine, have no doubts, they know everything they need to know about you to take you out quickly.

Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because knowledge is power, and we are running behind the Cabal