Saturday 27 June 2015

Reality Dismissed As Negativity

HYBRID HORROR – Jurassic World of Genetically Modified Simulacra - by Jay Dyer
 
http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/06/25/hybrid-horror-jurassic-world-of-genetically-modified-simulacra/

“Celebrity culture encourages everyone to think of themselves as potential celebrities, as possessing unique if unacknowledged gifts. It is, as Christopher Lasch diagnosed a culture of narcissism. Faith in ourselves, in a world of make-believe, is more important than reality. 

Reality, in fact, is dismissed as an impediment to success, a form of negativity.

The New Age mysticism and pop psychology of television personalities, evangelical pastors, along with the array of self-help bestsellers penned by motivational speakers, psychiatrists, and business tycoons, all peddle a fantasy. Reality is condemned in this popular belief system as the work of Satan, as defeatist, as negativity


An image-based culture communicates through narratives, pictures and pseudo-drama.  Scandalous affairs, hurricanes, untimely deaths, train wrecks – these events play well on computer screens and televisions….Kings and queens once used their court conspiracies to divert their subjects.

Today, cinematic, political and journalistic celebrities distract us with their foibles and scandals. They create our pubic mythology.  Acting, politics and sports have become, as they were in Nero’s reign, interchangeable.  In an age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we neither seek nor want reality.


-pg 49, Empire of Illusion - The End of Literacy and Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges

 

Friday 26 June 2015

MATT DAMON on ELITE and NWO





I don't know what makes an NWO-Hollywood based actor come out and say this, but he makes some great points. After all his Jason Bourne movie series and that movie on the illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq does go against what the mainstream talking points