The Prisoner Puzzle

"We all live in a little village." - Patrick McGoohan.

"The most dangerous thing on Earth is within us. And so therefore that's what I made Number One: one's own self, an image of himself, that he was trying to beat." - Patrick McGoohan.

Right, Patrick McGoohan is saying that it's all very well observing and resisting 'evil' outside of ourselves - even that is hard enough - but it is strongest in us, actually within ourselves. Number One, "the greatest enemy that we have" is the number one, most bestial, backwards ape, the part of us that has no been tames let alone refined. The number of the Beast, the lower self, or ego, that believes it is number one, the central most important being who has yet to evolve to the level of awareness exhibited by Number Six. The other numbers are like wallpaper or scenery, just the conformity that results from fear and weakness. The other numbers are like wallpaper or scenery. It's like they are sheep and Number one is the sheepdog - or Number One is the farmer and Number Two is the sheepdog. Well, Number Six is the wolf on the steppes, a stray sheep that got away, a number that was, in some way, perfect in itself, or self-contained. 'Six' can roll forwards and backwards and sit comfortably in balance, in harmony wit its environment. Or it can do so like a penny farthing, which the number might be said to resemble. But, yeah, one as in neanderthal, original, physical, animal man which we are meant to be working on, which is the reason we are one Earth, struggling against ourselves through projections onto others. The seed. the root of all evil. His dark "other half, his alter ego."

Antraeus

"The most dangerous thing on Earth is what is within us. And so therefore that's what I made Number One: one's self, an image of himself, that he was trying to beat." - Patrick McGoohan.

A very rare interview from Canadian Television circa 1977. Warner Troyer interviews Patrick McGoohan about the making and meaning of the 1960's T.V. series The Prisoner.

Comments

The last Orson Welles of our time. Everything now is just rubbish to entertain mass audience, very sad for all of us.

Ha, even when Patrick McGoohan isn't playing #6....he's still #6.

 

Remember, even in every intro to the show, they tell you WHO NUMBER 1 IS:

Number 6: Who is number 1?

Number 2: You are, number 6.

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