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The word is a reference to a specific device called the "cloudbuster", which by drawing out the "orgone" forces the formation of cloud and rain. This "orgone" thing, of course, was never proven to be a real thing and was dismissed as pseudoscience later; the cloudbuster thus never worked. To me it means "by following the wrong theory all your effort is destined to be in vain from the start", pretty close to what I've been doing with my life in all these years...