INCREMENT VICE - EPISODE #13: "...he's real intelligent about this kinda shit..." with Jacob Knight

“Was it possible that at every gathering, concert, peace rally, love-in, be-in and freak-in, here, up North, back East, wherever, some dark crews had been busy all along, reclaiming the music, the resistance to power, the sexual desire, from epic to everyday, all they could sweep up, for the ancient forces of greed and fear?”

That’s a question Doc’s mind-with-the-munchies chews on in Inherent Vice, both the book and the film.

"Gee," ultimately thinks. "I don't know."

Well, today’s guest certainly thinks so, as he walks us through the lattice of beastly beneficiaries to the betrayal of a generation, a movement, a decade, a country—COINTELPRO informants, conspiranoid CIA ops, mismanaged and malevolent FBI agents, rogue LAPD officers, and that strange sick fuck Charlie Manson himself—and just how easily they can swing you to their side, with a simple conversation in a room a lot like the one Doc finds himself in today…

About the Guest - JACOB KNIGHT

Jacob has written for Rebeller, Fangoria, Birth.Movies.Death., and Dark Moon Digest.