Sadly and predictably, we've had to get used to the slew of "died suddenly" celebrity demises over the last three years, but - given the much more significant impact of the same phenomenon in our own real-life communities - I haven't paid many of these premature passings a great deal of attention.
Super Size Me, The Corporation, No Logo… there really was a barrage of trendy anti-capitalist, anti-globalist output in the early noughties. I know because I consumed all of it. This was also when the apocalyptic, societal collapse movie genre was ramping up (again - after a 70s/80s hiatus, Mad Max movies being some of the few obvious exceptions), and probably kicked off by 28 Days Later in 2002, by Danny Boyle, he of London Olympics opening ceremony fame...
That operation is still ongoing, and has taken us from War of the Worlds to Children of Men to The Day After Tomorrow to 2012 to World War Z to I Am Legend to The Road to Cloverfield to Contagion to Dawn of the Dead (again) and many, many more in 20 short years right up to the present with Leave The World Behind and Civil War being the latest incantations.
Seen through the prism of today, I can only deduce they were all yet more Tavistockian predictive programming. Eroding the culture and the fabric of Western capitalism and civilisation from within using endless shame, fear-mongering and lies.
Although in the case of The Corporation, I think the messaging there was particularly poignant. Maybe even revelation of the method rather than social engineering? I dismissed it as anti-capitalist sensationalist propaganda at the time but I now see it as an accurate portrayal of how much psychopathy is intertwined with pretty much every aspect of how the world works.
Great comment. And isn't it interesting how it appears to now be those on 'the left', or those who are 'left-leaning' so to speak ('progressive') who were the ones fully behind big pharma's mass chemical injection poisoning (as if those chemical experiments undertaken in those WW1 'trenches' weren't enough for them) and who also are fully behind the 'tech' industries technocratic digital-prison road map - especially facial recognition, apps on your phone that 'track and trace' you and which snitch on you to the health regime and government (with your consent, of course) and AI (whose key role, in my opinion, is just to train people to accept it as an end authority - and to trust the science).
Just after the plandemic, I took a short trip to Helsinki and met a fellow Englishman who was working in a bar there. We had a good chat about 'recent events'. I asked him how on earth did the regime manage to turn all of those lefties who were espousing the Super Size Me, The Corporation, No Logo line during the noughties into rabid little authoritarians in the 2020s - and who were fully on-board with the big government/corporate/military/supranational quangos convideo criminal operation? They just swallowed it wholesale from my perspective...
Anyhow, the English barman had no answer, and was just as ponderous of the question as I was. How did 'the regime' do it over the past twenty years? Well, you've got to admire their ability to flip those people over to their side…
Or were they always just snivelling little authoritarians in the first place?
In terms of Sci-Fi and movies, I always recall the opening scene of the George Lucas movie THX1138 (1971) - it's an image of a woman, with her head shaved and her mouth in a sad, down-turned position and her head is frowning, full of sadness. She's working hard for the corporate machine that has trapped everyone deep underground through fear in their plato's cave, drugged-up and building their own robot oppressors. How did Lucas come to this vision?
Good and interesting article (though I'd never heard of Spurlock or Naughton before). I haven't eaten the buns for ages (you can order 'naked' burgers!), but rarely order burgers in the first place. I wouldn't fancy the chances of being really healthy on a diet at McDonalds, even if it follows Naughton's principles. In this day and age, you need to eat food that is as well sourced as possible (ie food that is produced in the healthiest possible way that you can afford), bearing in mind that so much poison is being added to our food, even from the skies!
I had no idea about Spurlock's antics (wow) and knew nothing about Naughton until now. The deception of the Super Size Me dude are not surprising, seeing as though the lies of the entire world are being uncovered at an unbelievable pace.
Totally agree with the reducing of carbs, yet we are inundated with them at every turn. Off topic a bit but the vegan world is painful to hear about mainly because there seems to be such "virtue" in being one and telling everyone. The problem is, most vegans I've seen look anorexic or very unhealthy. Mikhaila Peterson's ted talk about her struggles to be convinced of the benefits of red meat is quite eye opening especially since they would not air it as a ted talk.
And yes, people's food issues can certainly be annoying no matter what they call themselves.
Super Size Me, The Corporation, No Logo… there really was a barrage of trendy anti-capitalist, anti-globalist output in the early noughties. I know because I consumed all of it. This was also when the apocalyptic, societal collapse movie genre was ramping up (again - after a 70s/80s hiatus, Mad Max movies being some of the few obvious exceptions), and probably kicked off by 28 Days Later in 2002, by Danny Boyle, he of London Olympics opening ceremony fame...
That operation is still ongoing, and has taken us from War of the Worlds to Children of Men to The Day After Tomorrow to 2012 to World War Z to I Am Legend to The Road to Cloverfield to Contagion to Dawn of the Dead (again) and many, many more in 20 short years right up to the present with Leave The World Behind and Civil War being the latest incantations.
Seen through the prism of today, I can only deduce they were all yet more Tavistockian predictive programming. Eroding the culture and the fabric of Western capitalism and civilisation from within using endless shame, fear-mongering and lies.
Although in the case of The Corporation, I think the messaging there was particularly poignant. Maybe even revelation of the method rather than social engineering? I dismissed it as anti-capitalist sensationalist propaganda at the time but I now see it as an accurate portrayal of how much psychopathy is intertwined with pretty much every aspect of how the world works.
Great comment. And isn't it interesting how it appears to now be those on 'the left', or those who are 'left-leaning' so to speak ('progressive') who were the ones fully behind big pharma's mass chemical injection poisoning (as if those chemical experiments undertaken in those WW1 'trenches' weren't enough for them) and who also are fully behind the 'tech' industries technocratic digital-prison road map - especially facial recognition, apps on your phone that 'track and trace' you and which snitch on you to the health regime and government (with your consent, of course) and AI (whose key role, in my opinion, is just to train people to accept it as an end authority - and to trust the science).
Just after the plandemic, I took a short trip to Helsinki and met a fellow Englishman who was working in a bar there. We had a good chat about 'recent events'. I asked him how on earth did the regime manage to turn all of those lefties who were espousing the Super Size Me, The Corporation, No Logo line during the noughties into rabid little authoritarians in the 2020s - and who were fully on-board with the big government/corporate/military/supranational quangos convideo criminal operation? They just swallowed it wholesale from my perspective...
Anyhow, the English barman had no answer, and was just as ponderous of the question as I was. How did 'the regime' do it over the past twenty years? Well, you've got to admire their ability to flip those people over to their side…
Or were they always just snivelling little authoritarians in the first place?
In terms of Sci-Fi and movies, I always recall the opening scene of the George Lucas movie THX1138 (1971) - it's an image of a woman, with her head shaved and her mouth in a sad, down-turned position and her head is frowning, full of sadness. She's working hard for the corporate machine that has trapped everyone deep underground through fear in their plato's cave, drugged-up and building their own robot oppressors. How did Lucas come to this vision?
Good and interesting article (though I'd never heard of Spurlock or Naughton before). I haven't eaten the buns for ages (you can order 'naked' burgers!), but rarely order burgers in the first place. I wouldn't fancy the chances of being really healthy on a diet at McDonalds, even if it follows Naughton's principles. In this day and age, you need to eat food that is as well sourced as possible (ie food that is produced in the healthiest possible way that you can afford), bearing in mind that so much poison is being added to our food, even from the skies!
I had no idea about Spurlock's antics (wow) and knew nothing about Naughton until now. The deception of the Super Size Me dude are not surprising, seeing as though the lies of the entire world are being uncovered at an unbelievable pace.
Totally agree with the reducing of carbs, yet we are inundated with them at every turn. Off topic a bit but the vegan world is painful to hear about mainly because there seems to be such "virtue" in being one and telling everyone. The problem is, most vegans I've seen look anorexic or very unhealthy. Mikhaila Peterson's ted talk about her struggles to be convinced of the benefits of red meat is quite eye opening especially since they would not air it as a ted talk.
And yes, people's food issues can certainly be annoying no matter what they call themselves.
Some very helpful light relief after the Spurlockian (can I use that?) election campaign claims.