The doctrine he taught the cells: "the genius of Guillaume DuPlessis"

pivotal · UNDATED (pre-YDAU; attested 30 April / 1 May YDAU)

• When: UNDATED — the teaching predates the YDAU present (Marathe speaks of it as accomplished instruction by a dead man); attested on the desert mountainside, 30 April / 1 May YDAU
• What: Marathe attributes to DuPlessis the A.F.R.'s whole strategic insight: that the U.S.A.'s appetite "to choose death by pleasure" is itself the death, and the collapse merely "the formality" — the Entertainment's existence, not any particular use of it, is the weapon. "This was the genius of Guillaume DuPlessis, what M. DuPlessis taught the cells, even if F.L.Q. and les Fils did not understand. Much less the Albertans, all crazy inside their head. We of the A.F.R., we understand." On the U.S. side, the doctrine registers only as illegibility: Steeply reports that the Bureau's Behavioral Science boys "can't see any sort of positive political goal the A.F.R. even wants. Anything DuPlessis was having your Fortier work toward" — fixing, in one line, that DuPlessis had been directing Fortier's work, and that U.S. intelligence never grasped toward what. What DuPlessis actually coordinated — a positive program, or precisely the goal-less patience Marathe describes — is exactly the gap between these two attestations, and it stays open, as printed.