I just got out of my phil. of film lab, today we watched a film called "Blood in the Face" about the american neo-nazi movement. This film tied in a little bit to some of the stuff I've been think about recently in regards to the status of rationality and belief within various conspiracy theory movements. What caught my attention today is the these neo-nazis believed that there is a legitimate ongoing "power movement" within every race and that the "white race" is losing to the other movements. This seems like a rather large pill to swallow yet the seemingly sane people believed it to such an extent that they were stockpiling weapons. Specifically, one of the leaders purported that the holocaust was the only reasonable response to the "jewish takeover" of the german economy. This ties in directly with the people who subscribe to the idea that JFK was assassinated because he wanted to remove troops from Vietnam which couldn't happen because of an intergalactic treaty formed with the aliens we hold discourse with underneath area 51 that JFK didn't know about because the Majestic 12 did not deem him worthy of the information. There is some fundamental tie between all crazy people, or possibly a number of ties, I have been pondering what it/they could be.
One of these ties is probably fear/anger. In the case of the neo-nazis one of their leaders told a story about not being able to get a government job in the late 60's and having to turn to construction even though he was a vet, this was probably because he was a registered nazi. However, he saw it as a direct result of social programs put in place by the U.S. after the civil rights movement. This misdirected anger combined with a lack of understanding of the labour force or U.S. government has caused him to spend his life taking out his anger against anyone who has been helped by social programs, i.e. minorities and "race traitors"(poor caucasians or minority sympathizers). There is unfortunately no specific example case when it comes to something like the JFK assassination but one can be generalized. Either someone was so angered by the way the assassination investigation was handled and the "failure" of the government to protect the President that they now place the blame on the U.S. government by claiming that they contracted/planned the entire assassination plot. Or in other cases they would rather believe that it was planned by the government/mafia because it is too scary to live in a reality where someone as important as the POTUS could be killed so easily. It is of my opinion that there is definitely something beyond what me know going on with JFK however, the tie still applies to the far edges of crazies(FBI/CIA/Russians etc.).
The implicit psychosis within the UFO/Area 51/Roswell movement is a lot harder to diagnose and likely contains a lot more mental illness rather than lack of education and hate. The easiest perspectives within the movement for me to understand are the ones that contend that the current "story" is too simple. For instance, many say that the reason Obama's view on transparency has changed so much post-election is that he found out about what is really at area 51, many people prefer to believe that rather than dealing with the sad truth of what politics really are. This view also applies to some sects of the 9/11 "truth" movement. For them it is preferably to believe they have a government that is purely evil and perpetrated the attacks rather than trying to understand how the government could let such an atrocity happen when it is now documented that they knew it was coming. Unlike the white power conspirators this group seems to be both interesting and harmless.
I had a really good day today. Hell, I've had a really good week. I'm really clicking with a new group of friends and it makes me quite happy. I'm one step closer to being on a team for basketball, I just need to officially join online. I knew that being on a team would be fun and everything but it has also had an great impact on my workouts, I find myself much more motivated when I have a reason to try(crazy right?). I also haven't had any feelings like I had yesterday. I think maybe I was feeling so disconnected because I didn't get to talk as much with people I can connect with, who knows, all that matters is that I feel like a million bucks and its not even the weekend yet. I am super pumped to see my friends back home, go to the corn maze, and just generally relax.
This version of "Idioteque" features Thom Yorke's vocals pre-distortion. They somehow become even more haunting.
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