Oh Say, Can You See?

Unplug from the matrix. Take the red pill. Climb out of Plato's cave.

All great allegories in the quest for understanding the world we inhabit, and grist for the MAndrosphere mill.

But I was recently reminded of an old movie that I like even more. As Dalrock recently noted:

"This may be why I prefer the They Live! glasses metaphor to the matrix red pill one. Even prior to coming to the manosphere much of this was visible to me and yet the people next to me simply couldn’t see it."

"They Live!" sounded vaguely familiar. Anonymous Reader than posted the vid of the 5 minute+ brawl. It started coming back to me. Then I consulted the great Googoliath. Ooooh yeah....THAT movie!

Back when I first saw it while I was attending my local Institute of Brave New World Order Indoctrination and Operant Conditioning, I 'couldn't see it' either.

Oh, but I do see it now.

I'm thinking my current view of the world was in part shaped by the images and theme John Carpenter put into the "kickass sci fi horror flick with Rowdy Roddy Piper!" my buddies and I went to go see on a school night at the local cinema. Predictive programming from 1988.

Before recalling this movie thanks to Dalrock's comment, I already had this "sunglasses of truth" view of the world in my mind's eye. 

It's certainly relevant to the perspective I tried to describe in explaining how I view a typical Fast Food Value Meal. Most see it as food. Junk food...but food nonetheless.

All I see is FEED.

Every time I drive thru town and see all the Fast Food outlet signs, I see festering neon distractions, advertising their gross national product: BIG AG SHEEPLE FEED.

Most Popular FEED brands

When I turn my gaze to the line of cars waiting to que up to the menu board of the drive thru to order their feed, I see members of the sheeple herd, hungrily waiting for their turn at the Global Feedlot's trough.

Dalrock is right...this movie is a far better allegory to our current reality than Teh Matrix. Hell, it's not even an allegory, it's exposing the bare truth of our 21st Century existence as serfs and indentured servants to the Fiat Usury Cartel Inc.

One of Googoliath's search results was this political commentary written in 2008, just prior to the election of Obama's first term:

They reveal a world hidden beneath the visible reality. Billboards advertising exotic vacation destinations are exposed as subterfuge for Orwellian slogans: Obey. Conform. Consume. Marry and Reproduce. No Independent Thought. Paper currency bears the slogan, “This is Your God.” But most terrifying of all, members of the upper class, with their coiffed hairstyles and $1,000.00 suits, are revealed to be horrible, bug-eyed aliens. These aliens have infiltrated law enforcement and the highest tiers of government.

So far, so good. These was the hidden messages John Carpenter showed us the mass media programming in the emerging Brave New World Order of the 20th century. The mechanism is still in place, and many of the same messages are still being transmitted, some have been updated for the 21st Century PROGRAMMING.  


Marry and Reproduce has been replaced with Divorce and Abort and Safe Sex.

Put on your glasses, than look around at all the mass media narratives that saturate our environment, on our LCD flat Screen Tell-A-Visions, on our Mobile Affirmation Devices, on billboards, magazines, newspapers, advertisements, flyers, posters, T-shirts and broadcast over the airwaves.

SEX. Think Green. Change.World Peace. SEX. Overpopulation. The Environment. God is Dead. SEX. Democracy. Vote. Diversity. Borrow Money. Spend. Support the Troops. SEX. War on Terror. Equality. Alternative Energy. Don't Smoke. SEX. Recycle. Get Your Flu Shots. See Something, Say Something. Freedom isn't Free. SEX.

If you've put on the sunglasses, you'll see it too. Those are all the messages from both the left and the right of our so-called Two-party Participatory Democracy...which would be better described as Divide and Conquer Theater. 

Too bad the movie reviewer took off the sunglasses when he watched the campaign imagery of Obama on teh Tell-A-Vision...

Despite my wordy punditry, my purpose here is merely to suggest that everyone forget about watching the election eve news coverage. Tuesday, after you vote, go out and rent They Live. If you’re an Obama supporter, you’ll have a great time. If you’re a McCain supporter... Well, it’s still a great movie.

*sigh*

This guy could put on the sunglasses and see the aliens standing beneath the sign of the Pachyderm, but he never bothered to look over at the alien doppleganger under the sign of the Jackass.

The second guy on the comment thread of the Obama voter's review made a prescient quip:

Watch They Live! after four years of Obama and I think you'll have an even greater appreciation of this fine film.

Yup. If McCain would have won, the greater appreciation of the fine film would be just the same. THEY have taken over both political parties, voting for one or the other is just voting for your preferred flavor of enslavement.

THEY have infiltrated, subverted and subjugated We the People, and have turned us into WE teh Sheeple.

THEY have their subliminal messages and symbology infused into nearly every message, icon, sign, commercial, "public service announcement," ad copy, newspaper and magazine covers, bill boards, and TV and radio broadcasts. John Carpenter warned us over 2 decades ago.

"They have created a repressive society, and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They have made us indifferent to ourselves, to others. We are focused only on our own gain. Please understand. They are safe as long as they are not discovered. That is their primary method of survival. Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated."

THEY seek to destroy our homes and our relationships. THEY seek to cause dysfunction amongst Husbands and Wives, Parents and Children, Siblings and Neighbors. THEY want the masses unhappy, discontented and devoid of higher purpose, so that we seek to fill that unhappy emptiness in the false pursuit of materialistic consumerism, so that we sell our selves into slavery to buy what THEY are selling.

THEY appear on our Tell-A-Vision screens for our REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING.

"I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum ... and I'm all out of bubble gum".

They Live. Most of us are still asleep...but thanks to teh interwebz, many are starting to wake up.

 "The venom of snakes is under their lips. Their mouths are full of bitterness and curses. And in their paths, nothing but ruin and misery. And the fear of God is not before their eyes! They have taken the hearts and minds of our leaders. They have recruited the rich and powerful, and they have blinded us to the truth! And our human spirit is corrupted. Why do we worship greed? Because outside the limit of our sight, feeding off us, perched on top of us from birth to death are our owners. Our owners -- they have us. They control us. They are our masters. Wake up. They're all about you, all around you!".

Technocratic Conditioning by Electronic Leash

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US

Dispatch from the Palm-Zombie Apocalypse

Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high tech devices, while driving, while walking, while shopping, while in groups of friends, while in restaurants, while waiting in doctor offices and hospitals, while sitting in toilets – everywhere. While connected electronically, they are inattentive to and disconnected in physical reality.

Pavlov conditioned his dogs to respond unconsciously to his stimulus.

Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg et al, have taken Pavlov's experiment with canines, and applied the bell conditioning principle to mass marketed and mass produced, hand-held technological gadgetry, plugging humanity perpetually into teh interwebz.

Devious geniuses, these technocratic slavers.

They are the transumanist Borg that have assimilated WeTheSheeple into the Great Virtual Disconnection.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow found that half of the study participants reported checking their email once an hour, while some individuals check up to 30 to 40 times an hour. An AOL study revealed that 59 percent of PDA users check every single time an email arrives and 83 percent check email every day on vacation.”

A 2010 survey found that 61 percent of Americans (even higher among young people) say they are addicted to the Internet. Another survey reported that "addicted" was the word most commonly used by people to describe their relationship to technology. One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sex, sleep, cigarettes, and alcohol.

A recent study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project found that 44 percent of cellphone owners had slept with their phone next to their bed. Worse, 67 percent had experienced “phantom rings,” checking their phone even when it was not ringing or vibrating.

 Take a moment and pause in the mad rush of hectic life as techno-gadget junky debt serfs in our Brave New World Order, and put down the iPad, turn off the iPhone, quit retweeing your tmblr pics and log off DeFacedBook. Take a moment of uninterrupted, electronic free contemplation, and really think about this:

Have you recently experienced "phantom rings?"

In other words, when the bell rings, do you drool?

I see people as trapped in a pathological relationship with time-sucking technology, where they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude. Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our technologies.” Welcome to virtual living. To break the grand digital delusion people must consider how lives long ago could be terrific without all the technology regalia pushed today.

What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the crucial question. Who is really in charge of my life? That is what people need to ask themselves if they are to have any chance of breaking up delusions about their use of technology. When they can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then they can regain control and personal freedom and become the master of technology. Discover what there is to enjoy in life that is free of technology.

I can understand passing the time on your Mobile Affirmation Device, surfing teh interwebz while your doing things like standing in line for half of the day at the DMV or stuck riding on public transport with no companion to converse with...

...but how about in the middle of a concert, a play or movie at the cinema? A wedding...or funeral...during the ceremony or service? Or how about in the midst of a gathering or party of close family and friends? At the extended family, Christmas dinner table?Or mid-sentence in a personal, face-to-face conversation of some important matter?

As to globalization of technology servitude: Is this worldwide progress what is best for humanity? Is downloaded global dehumanization being sucked up?

Technology is supposed to enhance our lives...not take it over.

More importantly, realize we are being infiltrated, recorded, data warehoused, tagged, flagged and surveilled like no other society in human history. The technocratic tyranny is here, and the hand held gadgetry is one of their most effective tools in achieving their colonization of our mind, body and spirit.. Think about whether or not you use technology more than it uses you.

I can honestly say that as much as I fight it and rail against it, I'm an addict like anyone else. I recently attended a funeral, and found myself checking my pocket for the phantom vibrations of my phone in silent mode, despite deliberately leaving it in the car to avoid the potential distractions during a serious and personally grievous occasion. In the midst of mourning, the conditioned response reminds me I've taken off the electronic leash, and am mentally agitated by it. And I don't even have a "smart" phone.

All our base are belong to them.

The Last Ride

"Everything that starts has an end. For me, today, I told my team that this will be my last ride."

 The NFL Baltimore Ravens Linebacker, Ray Lewis, announced he plans on retiring at the end of the season today. After telling his teammates, coaches and organization, he held a press conference at the Raven's facilities to talk about his decision and why he made it. Here are some choice excerpts from that conference today...excerpts that will quickly become obvious why I think they make for a great blog posting in this fringe sector of teh interewebz.... you can see the video of the press conference here.


"Everything that starts has an end. It’s just life."

When Lewis suffered a triceps injury against the Dallas Cowboys on Oct. 14, doctors told him it would be season-ending. That meant perhaps career-ending considering Lewis is 37 years old.

Lewis immediately called Ravens General Manager Ozzie Newsome.

“I’m not going out like this. I’m not walking out on my boys like that,” he told him.

So Lewis was put on the injured reserve – designated to return list. And from that point on, he underwent intense rehabilitation just to have a chance to step back on the field and play with his teammates again.


Lewis called it the craziest 12 weeks of training in his life.


“Pain was really the last thing that was on my mind,” he said. “I just thought about getting through it.”

But the injury also made Lewis further realize something else.

It crystalized the importance of being a father first.


During his time at home rehabilitating, Lewis got a chance to watch his oldest son, Ray Lewis III, play football during his senior year at Lake Mary Prep in Florida, and his younger son go through his freshman year.

Lewis was there for the entire 11-1 season.

He would fly back from rehabilitation to meet his son every weekend.

For that reason, he called his injury “bittersweet.”

Had he not been injured, Lewis would have missed his son’s season.

“I could never say I would do it any differently because of what I had the opportunity to do, and that’s to see my babies go out,” Lewis said.

 The decision to prioritize family hits home with Lewis, who didn’t have a father throughout his childhood. His father wasn’t there the day Lewis was born, and the linebacker spent much of his youth angry with him and trying to erase him from his life.

“Me being who I am and not having a father myself, that damaged me a lot,” Lewis said. “I didn’t want my kids to relive that.”

"My children have made the ultimate sacrifice for their father for 17 years. I don't want to see them do that no more. I've done what I wanted to do in this business, and now it's my turn to give them something back."


"I knew I couldn't split my time anymore. When God calls, he calls. And he's calling. More importantly, he calls me to be a father. It's OK to be Daddy. Yes, this chapter is closing, but the chapter that's opening is overwhelming. That's what excites me the most."
  
Lewis made a promise to Ray Lewis III that he would be there for him if he got a full scholarship to play football. Last March, Lewis III accepted a full ride to the University of Miami – just like his father – with his dad sitting in the room when he signed the papers.
 
Now Lewis intends to keep that promise.