Spock’s Beard

Why Conspiracy Theorists are 

Taking Over the World - Naomi Klein

Intelligence Squared

 #doppelganger #intelligencesquared #deepfakes

Bestselling author and activist Naomi Klein goes down the rabbit hole in pursuit of her doppelganger – another well known writer with a name similar to hers but whose views couldn’t be more different from her own. 

She finds herself returning again and again to a place she calls Mirror World, where conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers and wellness influencers make common cause with far-right propagandists and demagogues. 

In conversation with journalist Ruchira Sharma, Klein sheds light on our own culture as we turn ourselves into polished virtual brands, publicly shame our enemies, watch as DeepFakes proliferate and whole nations flip from Democracy to something far more sinister. 

CBS-News Anchor : 

One of The World's leading physicians 

describes Donald Trump as, "America's Shadow". 

In a recent article, 

Dr. Deepak Chopra writes about how 

The Shadow includes all Dark Impulses 

like Hatred, Aggression, Sadism, 

Selfishness, Jealousy and more --

This comes as Dr. Chopra unveils

a new Health and Wellness app. 

Earlier, Josh Elliott talked to Dr. Chopra 

about his new push for Wellness 

as well as The 2016 Presidential election 

Dr. Deepak Chopra :

We have to Thank Donald Trump for 

Giving Permission to the entire American Public 

to expose The Shadow -- 

He represents The Collective Shadow right now.

The Shadow is that part of ourselves 

that We're embarrassed by --

You know, There's a Racist, There's a Bigot, 

There's a Hater, There's a Prejudiced Person, 

in ALL Human Beings, You know? 

We can't accuse just ONE person of being Racist, 

or Bigoted, or Prejudiced, or Ethnocentric 

or full of Hate, that part comes out 

when There's Crisis, when 

There are Dehumanizing 

conditions, such as War, when 

There's poor Leadership, when 

There's just Confusion in Society --

So, He represents that, and in a way, 

to Become AWARE of that is to start 

The Healing Process.

So I Think the fact that 

He has become abusive, 

He's displayed The Abuser 

in ALL of Us. 

We have that Shadow, and 

The Shadow is primitive and yet, 

millions have expressed Their Support 

for him with Their Votes, through 

The Primary Season, to this point. 

Q.) Is it Fair, then, to Say that, perhaps, 

You Do not Line-up Donald Trump in 

The Crosshairs, so much as The Electorate 

that has supported him to this point? 

He's an exaggerated expression 

of something primitive in All of Us, 

so just to be aware of that, is - 

It's to bring Light to The Shadow.

You can't fight The Shadow, 

with The Shadow, okay? 

You can't fight Darkness 

with Darkness, but 

You CAN Shine The Light. 

So, He's Helping Us 

to Shine The Light -- 

Q.) What are Your Thoughts, then, 

on the presumptive Democratic 

nominee, now, Hillary Clinton? 

Dr. Deepak Chopra :

I Think right now, that's 

The Choice we have: 

If You have to make a Conscious Choice, 

We have to ask ourselves, 

WHO Our Leader will BE --

For the rest of The World, you know, 

Leadership comes at several levels; 

So, He represents 

Survival and Safety -- 

You might say, you know, 

The First Level of Need, 

but We have OTHER Needs... 

We have Needs for Success, for Jobs, 

for Love, for Compassion, for Higher Consciousness; 

for Creating a more Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, 

Healthier and Happier World, so We have to Decide : 

Who Do We want to represent Us 

and I know in fact you will be petting a follow-up piece to it --

It's certainly.... It's another.... 

It's an Interesting Way of Looking, 

as a Way of Looking at Ourselves, right now --

What is it in Him, that has 

brought-out this amazing 

Vulgarity of Dialogue, and 

Given Permission to everyone to be 

Politically Incorrect as well -- In fact, 

if You're Politically Correct, right now, 

You are -- You're not even cool. 

It's not cool to be Polite, Courteous, 

Deferential, Have Good Manners anymore.

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In LESS Than a Second..?

[Shadow's Lair]

The Valeyard : 

You see, Princess, You cannot 

Escape Your Destiny.

ASTRA: 

My Destiny. 

The Valeyard : 

It is for this that you were born. 

The Sixth Child of The Sixth Generation 

of The Sixth Dynasty of Atrios. 

Born to be The Sixth and Final Segment 

of The Key to Time. 

Come, Princess, 

Prepare Yourself. 

ASTRA: 

I am Ready. 

(Astra reaches for the tracer, and turns into The Segment.) 

SHADOW: 

Ah! 

MERAK: 

Astra! 

(K9 blasts through the wall, disrupting 

The Shadow's ecstasy.) 

The Valeyard :

What is This? 

K9: 

Apologies, Master. 

The Valeyard :

You mechanical idiot. 

K9: 

But there is An Intruder here. 

The Valeyard :

I ordered her to eliminate him.....

K9: 

It shall be done. 

The Valeyard :

Wait. Where is The Doctor? 

(K9 trundles past the Key and turns to face The Shadow.) 

K9: 

Ahem. The Doctor and Drax 

have been eliminated. 

The Valeyard :

Good. Then These Two 

shall stay and witness 

My Moment of Glory, 

My -- apotheosis. 

K9: (sotto) 

Master. 

The Valeyard :

Mine at last! 

(The Shadow reaches for The Tracer.) 

K9: 

Now, Master. 

(A panel opens in K9's side, and 

The Doctor and Drax jump out.) 

ROMANA: 

No, you'll break the time loop! 

MERAK: 

Millions will die! 

The Valeyard :

A small Beginning. 

Bwahahahahaha! 

Tom : 

The stabiliser, Drax, now! 

(Drax restores the Doctor to normal height, then himself. The Doctor pounces on The Sixth Segment.) 

The Valeyard :

You interfering fool -- No one can resist 

The Power of Darkness! 

(The Doctor shines The Light of The Key 

into The Shadow's eyes, and he recoils.) 

Tom :

Quick, back to The TARDIS! Quick!

[Outside The Shadow's lair]

DRAX: 

You go on, Doctor. I'll hold them off. 

Tom :

How will you get back? 

DRAX: 

The TransMat shaft. 

See you on The TARDIS.

[Shadow's lair]

The Valeyard :

Stop him! He must be stopped! Stop him!

[Outside The TARDIS]

Tom :

Good. 

(The Doctor goes inside.) 

ROMANA: 

Come on, Merak. 

Tom : 

Come on, Romana. 

Merak, get inside! 

MERAK: 

No! 

Tom :

Quick, get inside, man! 

MERAK: 

No, Doctor, I'm staying here. 

Tom :

What! 

MERAK: 

I'm staying here to look for Astra. 

ROMANA: 

But what about The Shadow? 

MERAK: 

Astra! Astra! 

(Merak leaves.) 

Tom : 

No, Romana, come on.

[TARDIS]

Tom : 

Set the coordinates for Zeos. 

(The hole in the fake piece has grown.) 

ROMANA: 

We're Murderers. First Astra 

and now Merak. 

Tom : 

Romana, it wasn't our idea to use 

The Royal House of Atrios 

as carriers, was it? 

ROMANA: 

No, but what happened 

to Astra was Our Fault. 

We're just pawns here to do 

The Guardian's dirty work. 

Tom : 

I don't like it any more than you do, but it's done. 

Have you set those coordinates yet? 

ROMANA: 

Is that all you can say? She was a living being, 

and now what is she? A component. 

And Merak thinks she's still alive. 

No power should have that right, 

not even The Guardians. 

We must Do Something! 

Tom :

Well, you could start by setting 

the coordinates for Zeos. 

ROMANA: 

Why? 

Tom : 

Romana, you get carried away --

If you don't set those coordinates, 

millions of people will die and this time 

it really will be our fault. 

Have you forgotten the time loop? 

ROMANA: 

No, I hadn't forgotten the time loop. 

Can't you put the new segment in? 

Tom : 

In LESS than a second?

Dark Masculinity

 I am Passion, The Libido. 

I am The Anarchy of Lust, 
The Romantic and The Lover. 

I am also The Warrior, 
The Perfect Line which never wavers. 

Dialog with my Shadow

Dark Man of my soul,

It is you I honor, you from whom all the energy of manhood originates and resides. 

I value the honesty of your feelings, rooted in the earth and in battle and in the hunt. 

Your anger is profound. 

Your need for action true. 

I applaud your sense of outrage and need for justice. 

Without them, where would we be? 

The dragons of our existence thrive without you to combat them. 

You embolden me to walk free, and live by my own code. 

You are my father and brother and truest friend.

This sword symbolizes who you are—what you mean to me and to the world. 

Strength. Action. Defense. 

The ability to cut away illusion. 

It represents the history of Men, blood spilt on the battlefield, which connects us all together.

Stay with me. 

Take your honored place in my soul and in my life.

Strengthen me with your power, and guide me with your earthy wisdom.

HERE IS A LIST OF THE TOP 25 ATTRIBUTES OF THE SHADOW MASCULINE:

Fear of surrendering to the feminine
Rigidity
Controlling tendencies
Hatred (of self, other, an organization, of God/dess)
Entitlement issues (especially when insecurities arise)
Narcissism
Anger
Jealousy
Insecurity
Competition (coming from separation)
Greed
Taking what he wants without consent
Not listening to the feminine
Judgment
Harshness–in language, touch, energy, etc
Mistrust and abuse of the feminine
Suppressing emotions/not expressing vulnerability
Neglecting the inner child/children
Underlying codependence issues with women
Denying the value of the feminine while taking advantage of her
Suppressed sexuality and sensuality/sexual shame
Inability to receive pleasure or abundance
Fear of abandonment, but not willing to admit it (even to self)
Tantrums/outbursts of rage
Acting out from the inner child while doing everything he can to look like a powerful leader

The Shadow-side of Male Virtue

Knightly confrontation.

There is a wild side to man's nature. Unpredictable. Savage. Easily frustrated and angered. We are taught from an early age to repress this part of us as something uncivilized and undesirable. Those of us who respect the law discipline ourselves to reject it. We go on with life ignoring what tendencies remain, channeling the overflow of aggression into "appropriate" conduits, such as ruthless competition in sports or business. 

     But in truth, the dark side of masculinity is never really gone or completely subdued. It follows us like a "shadow" (which C.G. Jung labeled it), dark and indescribable. Like a real shadow, it projects and distorts who we are.

     This is our personal darkness, filled with savagery we try not to recognize.

     It haunts us when we least suspect it—an angry phantom from our primitive core, maligned by moral propaganda, marginalized by repression.

     This frustrated shadow can subvert our best intentions—not because it is evil, but because we continually thwart its existence. 
We deny its proper role in our lives, and view it as uncivilized, something "bad." In effect, we provoke its rebellious discontent by shaping it into a monster when it might have been shaped into something different.

     This shadow is part of who we are as men. Without it, the chivalry we embrace becomes salt that has lost its flavor, an empty shell of moral dictates devoid of essence.

     Our shadow provides male virtue with the tension of having one foot in heaven and the other not in hell but here on earth. Its wildness defines our core. Without it, our personal self-discipline is meaningless, our strength inauthentic, our connection to the earth, which is our Mother, broken. We become the disappointment of heaven's grand design, severed from our roots, sapped of our virility.

     The shadow is an essential element to our every thought and deed as men. As such, it either substantiates or perverts our best intentions, depending on how we relate to it. It is that unrefined edge that distinguishes us from women, no matter how refined we shape ourselves. It connects us to nature. Without it, we are limpid, emasculated, not really alive. To the other extreme, when we fail to give it its proper role, we become discontent, brazen, uncontrollable, perverting the virtues we are meant to honor.

     When we deny our shadow, we urge it to wreck havoc with our lives. We wrestle with it, try to subdue it, only to learn that the struggle never ends. In this respect, the shadow always wins, but only as a dark influence rather than something that completes us. We cannot suppress it without losing the very heart of who we are.

     Chivalry, despite its refining virtues, directs us to embrace the wild center of who we are, recognize its intrinsic value, honor it not as an aberration, but as a natural source of male energy which borders (as all things of nature do) on amorality. It is here where the ideal warrior is fashioned in our hearts.

     Chivalry cannot eliminate or tame this wild excess of spontaneity, and does not try. Instead, it channels it throughout every fiber of our being, melds it to everything we do—and in the processing of doing so makes us whole.

     The wildness is self-destructive only when we reject it or hold it at arm's length. By infusing it into our lives, it nourishes the soul like nothing else can. Our shadow is not a thing of evil and perversion— although untended, it can produce both. We need this shadow to be complete, and it needs us as well. 

     It is imperative for us to find our shadows and integrate them into our lives. We might not be pleased what we find but remember, this is result of pure neglect. 

     Embrace him. Rescue him. And he will rescue you.

     There are several ways to do this. The simplest is through ritual, whereby we recognize and honor the wild man as a valuable part of who we are. Jung tells us that ritual is enough to heal the rift—the turbulence of the unconscious mind really asks for nothing more. We can add this ritual to our embrace of chivalry.

     The following is a short ritual to illustrate what I mean. Although it involves a sword as a ritual object, which is meaningful to me, you can and should build your own ritual as it best applies to you.

Dialog with my Shadow

Dark Man of my soul,

It is you I honor, you from whom all the energy of manhood originates and resides. I value the honesty of your feelings, rooted in the earth and in battle and in the hunt. Your anger is profound. Your need for action true. I applaud your sense of outrage and need for justice. Without them, where would we be? The dragons of our existence thrive without you to combat them. You embolden me to walk free, and live by my own code. You are my father and brother and truest friend.

This sword symbolizes who you are—what you mean to me and to the world. Strength. Action. Defense. The ability to cut away illusion. It represents the history of men, blood spilt on the battlefield, which connects us all together.

Stay with me. Take your honored place in my soul and in my life. Strengthen me with your power, and guide me with your earthy wisdom.

The Dark King: Archetype of an Emerging Masculinity

December 5, 2014

Our current culture has more opportunities for increased consciousness, personal growth, and collective healing than ever before imaginable.  This makes the 21st century a potent time for actualizing a shared vision of healing for both men and women so that violence and traumas from the past need not be repeated but repaired on both local and global levels.  In order for men to rise and meet their female counterparts as equals, however, I believe that many men must first make a necessary personal and collective  "descent" - away from "acting out" of places of shadow power and dominance, or "acting in" through impotence and castration - and into the origins of these deep and aching wounds.  This is the path that Robert Bly refers to as "the road of grief and ashes," and that I feel leads to a shared re-imagining of what it means to be in power with others, rather than under or over.

An archetype has emerged for me that speaks to such an integration and deepening of the shared capacities of the masculine soul.  I envision him as a "Dark King," an image with archetypal roots planted deep in the mythic soil of East and West, and that represents to me the possiblity of an emerging masculine consciousness that acknowledges and respects the differences of others while remaining deeply sourced in his own integrated life force.  This "dark masculine," or "Lunar King" is a re-imaging of the "Solar King" that we have known for centures:  a king of light who supposedly casts no shadow, a savior, a religious leader or political figure-as-god, who wounds others unknowingly because he does not touch his own darkness, believing that he casts no shadow, and unconscious of his own life's wounds.  This is a figure that we have all known too well, both culturally and historically, as well as in our own families, communities, and religious or spiritual organizations.

A "Dark King" represents a man who is master of his energetic and emotional domain. He knows his shadow because he has been re-born from within its dark, fertile womb. He respects women and honors the sacredness of the feminine because he has touched his own feminine essence and knows it as good.  He is neither a "soft" nor a "hard" man, but a man who works toward integration:  light and shadow, solar and lunar, masculine and feminine.  He is a man deeply sourced in himself who can be of service and good to his family, his friends, and the world around him.  

Archetypally, the resurrection and birth of a "dark masculine" King is foreshadowed in multiple mythologies.  Osiris, a central Egyptian male deity, is killed and dismembered by his evil counterpart and brother, Seth, the god of the desert, only for his parts to be retrieved and "re-membered" by Osiris' goddess-lover, Isis.  Their reunion results in the birth of a divine son, Horus, the bird-headed god, representing the Spirit of a new masculinity born from the union of a consciously re-membered masculinity and the healing capacities of dark feminine awareness. 

Similarly, in the imagery of the Black Madonna of Eastern and Western European consciousness, a black son, the Christ-child, is presented on the lap of his Dark Mother.  Here the union that births the divine child occurs between the Black Virgin, representing matter, embodiment, and the chthonic earth elements, and the masculine Spirit, who impregnates the fertile vessel of the dark feminine goddess, giving birth to a new masculine awareness represented by the black, or dark son. 

In both instances, a son, manifesting as a young king, emerges from the union or re-membering of masculine and feminine, and represents new possiblities of what it means to be a man in relation to his "darker" aspects - embodiment, sexuality, and emotionality - rather than opposed to or repressing these fundamental aspects of life.  This is a fertile masculinity born from the union of a man's conscious relationship to the dark aspects of the feminine as both Goddess and Mother, and his own archetypal relationship with Spirit.  It is this constant interplay between matter and spirit, human and divine, masculine and feminine, that births a new and conscious masculinity in the souls of both women and men.

It's Old High Gallifreyan for 'Shadow'

VALEYARD: 
You have your Guardian and I have mine. 
You and I are on the same quest, Doctor, but whereas you have been scavenging across space and time, I have located the sixth piece here. 

DOCTOR: 
Oh. 

VALEYARD: 
Your are Inferior, just as your powers are Inferior. 
Once we have the Key to Time, we shall set not two small planets but the two halves of the entire cosmos at war, and their mutual destruction will be music in our ears. 

Unlike Others, it is not Power We seek, but Destruction that We Glory in. 

Fetch The Key. 

DOCTOR: 
Very well. 



DOCTOR [on screen]: 
Not like those innocents back on Atrios, you know. 

Time Lords sent by the Guardian to recover the Key to Time. 

VALEYARD: 
I know Who You Are, Doctor.

I have always known. 

(An image of Shadow's face fills the tunnel.) 

VALEYARD : 
I have been waiting for you. 

I, too, serve a Guardian. 
A Guardian equal and opposite in power to the one who sent you. 
The Black Guardian, 

He Who Walks in Darkness, 

and you are in 

The Valley of The Shadow. 

DOCTOR: 
No, no, no! No!

(The Doctor appears to fall down a hole.)


[Shadow's lair]

K9 [on screen]: 
The Doctor is captured, Master.

VALEYARD: 
You see, Princess, 

You Cannot Escape Your Destiny. 

ASTRA: 
My Destiny. 

VALEYARD: 
It is for this that you were born. 

The Sixth Child of The Sixth Generation of The Sixth Dynasty of Atrios. 

Born to be The Sixth and Final Segment of the Key to Time. 

Come, Princess, prepare yourself. 

ASTRA: 
I am ready. 

(Astra reaches for the tracer, and turns into the segment.) 

VALEYARD: 
Ah! 

MERAK: 
Astra! 

(K9 blasts through the wall, disrupting the Shadow's ecstasy.) 

VALEYARD: 

What is this? 

 
K9: 

Apologies, Master. 

 
VALEYARD: 

You Mechanical Idiot. 

 
K9: 

But there is An Intruder here. 

 

 
VALEYARD: 

I ordered her to eliminate him. 

 
K9: 

It shall be done. 

 
VALEYARD: 

Wait. Where is The Doctor? 

 
(K9 trundles past the Key and turns to face The Shadow.) 

 
K9: 

Ahem. The Doctor and Drax have been eliminated. 

 
VALEYARD: 

Good. Then these two shall stay and witness my moment of glory, my apotheosis. 

 
K9: (sotto) 

Master. 

 
VALEYARD: Mine at last! 

 
(The Shadow reaches for the tracer.) 

 
K9: Now, Master. 

 
(A panel opens in K9's side, and the Doctor and Drax jump out.) 

 
ROMANA: 

No, you'll break the time loop! 

 
MERAK: 

Millions will die! 

 
VALEYARD: 

A small beginning. Bwahahahahaha! 
DOCTOR: 

The stabiliser, Drax, now! 

 
(Drax restores the Doctor to normal height, then himself. The Doctor pounces on the sixth segment.) 
 

VALEYARD: 

You interfering fool. No one can resist the power of darkness! 
(The Doctor shines the light of the Key into the Shadow's eyes, and he recoils.) 
DOCTOR: Quick, back to the Tardis! Quick!





ROMANA: 

Right, I'll set the coordinates for Gallifrey, shall I? 

DOCTOR: Why Gallifrey? 

ROMANA: 
Well, that's where we're going, isn't it? 

DOCTOR: 
We have the power to do anything we like. 
Absolute power over every particle in the universe. 
Everything that has ever existed or ever will exist. As from this moment are you listening to me, Romana? 

ROMANA: 
Yes, of course I'm listening. 

DOCTOR: 
Because if you're not listening I can make you listen, because I can do anything. 

(The Doctor rolls his eyes back like a maniac.) 

DOCTOR: 
As from this moment there's no such thing as free will in the entire universe. 
There's only my will, because I possess the Key to Time! 

ROMANA: 
Doctor, are you all right? 

DOCTOR: (normal) 
Well of course I'm all right. 
But supposing I wasn't all right. 
This thing makes me feel in such a way I'd be very worried if I felt like that about someone else feeling like this about that. 
Do you understand? 

ROMANA: 
Yes. 

DOCTOR: 
What do you understand?

ROMANA: 
That the sooner we hand this over to the White Guardian

BOTH: 
The better! 

(Dramatic organ chords, and the Guardian appears on the scanner, dressed in white.) 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
My congratulations to you, Doctor. 

DOCTOR: 
Oh, thank you, sir, thank you. 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
You performed your task with admirable dispatch. 

The Universe has much to thank you for. 

DOCTOR: 
Well, it was a pleasure, sir. Wasn't it a pleasure, Romana? 

ROMANA: 
Doctor, that's not the President. 

DOCTOR: 
What's the President got to do with it? 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
I can change my form or shape at will, my dear child. 
I appeared to you as the President so as not to alarm you. 

DOCTOR: 
Just be careful who you're talking to. 

ROMANA: Sorry, I -

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
You have the Key to Time, Doctor? 

DOCTOR: 
Ah. Oh, I have, I have indeed, sir. Do you like it? 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
Do I like it? Yes, yes, I suppose you could say that I like it. 

DOCTOR: 
Yes, we're very proud of it, sir. Aren't we, Romana, proud of it? 

ROMANA: 
What? Oh, yes, yes. 

DOCTOR: 
What happens now, sir? 
You said, if I remember in our first conversation, that once it was assembled it would stop the entire universe and enable you to restore the natural balances of good and evil throughout the whole of the universe. 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
That is correct, Doctor. 
So, will you release the Key to me that I may do this? 

DOCTOR: 
Certainly, sir, yes, certainly, of course. 
Key to Time, I command you... 
Could I ask you something, sir? 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
Yes, Doctor? 

DOCTOR: 
It's just that, well, the Key is already assembled, sir. 
I mean, couldn't you restore the balances now? 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
Yes, Doctor, but I must have the Key for safe keeping. It is an awesomely powerful key. 

DOCTOR: 
Oh yes, sir, yes, and mustn't be allowed to fall into the wrong hands. I quite understand, sir, yes. 

Key to Time, I command. What about the sixth segment? 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
What about it, Doctor? 

DOCTOR: 
Well, I mean, as you know, sir, the sixth segment was in fact a human being, and I mean, if the pieces are maintained in their present pattern it means that she'll be imprisoned forever, sir. 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
That is, of course, regrettable. 

DOCTOR: 
Very regrettable. 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
But with the fate of the universe at stake. 

DOCTOR: 
Quite. You can't be too careful. 
I quite understand. 
Key to Time, I command that you stay exactly where you are! 

(The Doctor hits a TARDIS control.) 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
Doctor! You have fully activated all the TARDIS' defences! 

DOCTOR: 
We can't be too careful, can we? 
And it would be a terrible tragedy for the universe if it suddenly turned out that I was colour blind. 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
Doctor, release the Key to me immediately! 

DOCTOR: 
Unable to distinguish between the White Guardian and the Black Guardian. 

ROMANA: 
Doctor, what do you mean? 

DOCTOR: 
Look. 

(The Guardian snarls and turns into a negative of its former image.) 

DOCTOR: 
Don't you see? The White Guardian would never have had such a callous disregard for human life. 

ROMANA: 

Of course. Astra, the sixth segment. 
He would have dispersed it immediately. 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
Doctor, you shall die for this! 

DOCTOR: 
I think not. Remember, the Key to Time is still mine, rage all you like.

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
I shall destroy you for this! 
I will disperse every particle of your being to the furthest reaches of eternity! 

DOCTOR: 
Ah well, I wish I could stay and watch you try, but you know how it is. 
Places to go, people to see, things to do. Romana? 

ROMANA: 
Yes?

DOCTOR: 
When I give the signal 

ROMANA: 
Yes? 

(The Doctor reaches for The tracer.) 

DOCTOR: 
Dematerialise. 

(He takes the tracer from The Key.) 

DOCTOR: 
Now! 

(And snaps the tracer in two. The first five pieces of the Key hurtle off into time and space, and the sixth becomes Astra again.)



DOCTOR: 
You see? I think of everything. 

ROMANA: 
Doctor? 

DOCTOR: 
Hmm? 

ROMANA: 
What exactly have you done with the Key to Time? 

DOCTOR: 
Key to Time? 

Oh, well, I just scattered it round through Space and Time. 

ROMANA: 
I see. So where are we going? 

DOCTOR: 
Going? I don't know. 

ROMANA: 
You have absolutely no sense of responsibility whatsoever. 

DOCTOR: 
What? 

ROMANA: 
You're capricious, arrogant, self-opinionated, irrational 

and you don't even know where we're going. 

DOCTOR: 

Exactly. 

ROMANA: 

What? 

DOCTOR: 

Well, if I knew where I was going, 

there'd be a chance The Black Guardian would, too. 

ROMANA: Oh. 

DOCTOR: 

Hence this new device. 

ROMANA: 

What is it? 

DOCTOR: 

Well, it's called a randomiser and it's fitted to the guidance system and operates under a very complex scientific principle called pot luck. 

(The Doctor sets The TARDIS going.) 

DOCTOR: 

Now no one knows where we're going. Not even the Black Guardian. 

ROMANA: 

Not even us.