The War Room

THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS

Sadly, it came as no surprise to me when last week Charlie Sheen suggested that perhaps the American government was behind the 911 terrorist attacks. Now this is nothing new and people who read the Toronto Star will not at all be surprised that some people have these views.

What the Sheen remarks suggest however is that these views are more and more mainstream and that people are becoming more and more comfortable making them in public. It suggests that if Charlie Sheen feels comfortable enough making these remarks in public, then there are probably plenty in Hollywood who agree with him who he has already made these remarks to. That is both sad and disturbing.

Los Angeles based film critic Jeff Wells links to a 'documentary' on these theories called Loose Change. This 'documentary' examines the theores that evil conservatives inside the Bush Administration orchestrated the 911 attacks themselves in order to gotowartogetoilandoppressand...blah blah blah. You know the rest.

But people are noticing. Even Wells, who is an adamant left winger whom I respect for his honesty, knowledge of cinema and good writing skills thinks the theory is bogus:

"Anyway, I've seen it and thought about it, and I know a lot of bright people who seem genuinely jazzed about it, but I just don't accept -- okay, won't accept -- the notion that this kind of demonic, cold-blooded Machiavellian plotting could emanate from the Bushies. Evil is necessarily a matter of dedication and passion, but deep down it's most often about selfishness and greed and the willingess to look the other way."

"...I have never believed in evil manifested through the application of daring super-schemes requiring the utmost secrecy at the highest levels of government among a cabal of black-hearted right-wing fuckheads."

"And I don't believe that upper-level neocons are in possession of the necessary monstrous, heartless, Ernst Stavro Blofeld mentality to arrange for a slaughter of this magnititude, no matter how much their friends in the defense industry have benefitted, or how greatly the general neocon faction in the government would have benefitted."

What is sad is that if many people in the film industry believe it, you know many people in academia believe it and so on and so on. You can see the domino effect.

This is an extension of the sixties culture, which is what The War Room has talked about all along. This was a generation that saw corruption at the highest levels of government with Watergate, witnessed the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK and experienced and caused a level of turmoil that will be recorded in history. Now in thier old age, they can see nothing but conspiracy. For them, what is up is down, what is right is wrong, what is black is white. And they are teaching it to ourselves and our children.

They see the world through the prism of Vietnam and the American Civil Rights movement of the 60's and cannot fathom that there is any other evil in the world other than white, Judeo Christian, American, capitalist, male, patriarchal, heterosexual etc.

They believe they are the new way of thinking. I say they are the old.

They are the people who buy into The Da Vinci Code without any question and think that the Vatican colludes to oppress the Divine Feminine and the Jews control the international banking system to oppress blacks.

Fed on a steady diet of Michael Moore and Prime Time TV, they think they are questioners but instead they accept defacto that every sort of 'traditional' authority figure is evil (police officer, mother, father, priest, banker, minister, rabbi, accountant, CEO); and that any 'non-conformist' type holds the truth (ie. Hollywood actor, artist, singer, lawyer, judge, academic).

We must do all we can to negate the conspiracy theorists in our culture. If they win, it will be a complete unravelling of history and how we think.

Ration, logic and reason will be thrown out the window and the feelings and emotion of the 'Age of Aquarias' style of thinking will be in.

At this late date...I have no idea who is currently winning.

posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 8:06 AM