# Culture Control Group - Brussels Cheese Crisis Report - January 23, 2021 > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [363]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: video, 2011-01-23 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41jH2pVnTY8. Text: automatic captions, uncorrected - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009), before the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Playful crisis-management fiction; side work. - Career works it belongs to: - Course of Action (2006): Plan showing five actions with appropriate technology could prevent about a third of yearly deaths. (suggested by machine) - To bite the hand that feeds: survival (2010): Four-page essay: Nash equilibria lock each of us into breaking the world, so the way out is a new,... (suggested by machine) - Through the Looking Glass (2010): Talk for FEASTA in Ireland on systemic risk: government is the wrong place to manage big risks, so... (suggested by machine) - The Big Deal (2011): Four-essay blog series arguing that government has hit hard limits, so civil society, working with... (suggested by machine) - The Resilience Dividend (2011): Four-page paper: after the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis and riots, resilience can reach ordinary families... (suggested by machine) - Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013): UCL Institute for Security and Resilience Studies paper drawing lessons for city governments from... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - environment / green capitalism: Green economics: from oil efficiency to markets for facts about products. (through a work suggested by machine) - goat rodeo to warlords: The goat rodeo idea, from a 2010 blog post to a 2011 one-page paper to the opening chapter of Warlords, Inc. (2015). (through a work suggested by machine) - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: culture / history / fiction (50%) - Importance: core-text score 0.21 (1.00 is the top), number 348 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - On the same works, just before: [250] [Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md); [365] [social media and local resilience (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/365.md); [99] [User:Vinay Gupta/Gupta State Failure Management Archive (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/99.md) - On the same works, just after: [46] [Reawakening the Enlightenment | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/46.md); [51] [The Only Way Out Is UP | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/51.md); [50] [The Synthesis | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2011)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/50.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Culture Control Group - Brussels Cheese Crisis Report - January 23, 2021, video, 2011-01-23, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41jH2pVnTY8; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [363], https://guptaoption.com/texts/363.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41jH2pVnTY8&t=0s) so i'm at the european headquarters of a cultural control group which is a crisis management agency that deals with cultural disasters and attempts to limit the impact of natural disasters on local culture we've been here handling the uh belgian cheese siege in which farmers from all over europe blockaded belgium for four months and specifically would not allow any food items which were not cheese into the city to protest a change in subsidy arrangements which happened as europe reorganized into a series of city-states rather than the traditional nation-state model um the ccg having participated successfully in the resolution of this crisis is now on its way to the next port of call after everything is restored to its normal functions uh let's see if we can find some ccg personnel and maybe we can figure out what's been going on here hi are you with the cultural control group yeah can you tell us who you are and what you did in the crisis i uh i had some chocolate some chocolate it had some really nice chocolate and how it controlled my bowels very well which is the basis for all the culture some part of managing the uh diet of umi cheese for four months huh yes that's the one so now we're gonna collapse everything back in the trucks off to the next disaster thank you a lot more is happening again are you part of the cultural control group the cultural control group yeah they've ever heard of no you've never heard not personnel okay i'm on my way are you part of the cultural control group you're leaving okay you're leaving yes i don't want to die in a disaster yeah you've got to go you've got to go are you part of the culture control group pence is asking uh i'm making a report for ccgus okay yeah so uh tell us about your role in managing the cheese crisis well i'm frame manager so my role is to come into a situation and shift people's attention so they experience the scenario differently and how was that played out in this particular event i think things began to change about week three when the crisis went from being part of the foreground of people's lives to a background which they were taking for granted so our role is by the time it gets to that stage to have created a situation in which people are looking at the opportunities [2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41jH2pVnTY8&t=150s) rather than at the problems that this presents i understand thank you very much are you with the culture control group nope any more ccg personnel are you with the culture control group i don't okay are you with the culture control group no you're out you're uh were you with the cultural control group no no never been ccg personnel no responsibility at all there is no responsibility at all i understand the responsibility doesn't exist that sounds like exactly the kind of thing that ccg personnel would say are you with the culture control group sir i've just just been released out of prison 10 years ago i killed somebody in an equal camp like this sorry just don't know anything one more faster bye thank you are you with the cultural control group yeah you are great so tell me what has been your role in managing the crisis here um putting all your ego in your [ __ ] work this week so there's our report from the ccg one more disaster managed and who's to say what we'll be doing next time --- End of [363] Culture Control Group - Brussels Cheese Crisis Report - January 23, 2021. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [46](https://guptaoption.com/texts/46.md) Reawakening the Enlightenment | The Bucky-Gandhi Design... (2011); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.