In recent correspondence with Jasun Horsley I learned that he relocated to Spain, having escaped what he called “Camp Canada” at some point during this country’s metamorphosis into mRNA-totalitarianism. I shivered. “Camp Canada” is right. Horsley displays his tireless wit and precision with this phrase.
Is it coincidental that, only days after my communication with Horsley, I stumbled upon an unsent letter to Andrew Siemen, written in Vancouver in 1991, in which I use the term “Camp Canada”? I was only joking around mind you, dropping the words inside two pages of absurdist riffing meant to amuse a friend. This letter also reminds me that I was missing England and wondering if I’d settled in the wrong country. But the point is that I was moved, at this particular time, for eternally mysterious reasons, to haul an old box out of storage and rifle through papers that have gone untouched for 32 years.
Maybe not so mysterious. Here’s an article I wrote in 2021 for Montecristo magazine on the topic of precognition and retrocausation, which I take to be real phenomena. I’m speculating that I wrote the words “Camp Canada” in 1991 because I unconsciously received a ping from December 2022. Retrocaustion fulfills itself in the future, so I was always going to open that box in December 2022 having recorded its message at some point in 1991, closing a loop in this case of more than three decades.
What cinches it for me is the fraught context of Horsley’s phrase, finally giving meaning to my flip use of the very same words. From 2021 onwards, having resisted the biosecurity state’s new hypodermic membership requirements, “Camp Canada” became a very real and frightening place for me and many others. In the worst moments of summer 2021, I sincerely wondered if I might be hauled off to an internment facility. Why not? I predicted mandates and passports months before they happened. Precognition is often wedded to events with a big emotional payload.
Horsley is also significant since I admire his intellect and advanced (his words) “paranoid awareness.” For equally mysterious reason, he would be part of all this.