Movies
Have you noticed lately how many of the mainstream movies are coming out dealing with far-out themes? There’s a variety of sites across the internet that wonder if we are being prepared for something. With 2012 just around the corner, the more ‘out there’ people are wondering if someone knows something about what is coming and that we are being readied, or in some cases, inured against what is coming.
They don’t have to be trying for a specific awareness in the public. I’d imagine that any potential world-controlling group would have been quite upset when the general public got an appreciation of science and the world began to be a saner place in which to live.
By putting out all these ‘non-real’ movies, these shows that play on primal fears and indulge in massive use of basic psychological and emotional symbols, they can erode the faith people have that the world is explicable, understandable and controllable by themselves. It makes it much easier to be able to have ‘big brother’ or ‘paternalistic government’ come along and look after us.
By subtly eroding our concepts, by using symbols and emotional keys to drive in the message under our conscious awareness, our view of the world as a sane and explicable place gets eaten away. When some demagogue stands at a pulpit and tells us about demons, when they explain how the enemy is in league with Satan, we are far more ready to believe them than if we see the world as a sane and reliably repeatable system.
When we have been accustomed to having violence and gore prayed across our screens in graphic detail, the horrendous numbers of maimed and dead from real life seem almost boring as we switch the channel looking for more ‘realistic’ viewing.
It’s a sad world when alien invasion or a ghoul with a chainsaw is more interesting and real than children dying because someone wanted to make money from oil.
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