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Dictatorship in Disguise: Authoritarian Monsters Wreak Havoc on Our Freedoms
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they’re people just like you. You’re wrong. Dead wrong.” — They Live We’re … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Film, media, news, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged civil liberties, culture, Dystopia, Escape from New York, fascism, film, Government, John Carpenter, police state, Science fiction, Slavoj Žižek, society, surveillance state, Technocracy, They Live
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We’ve Been Lied To Our Whole Lives About Everything That Matters
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com Stories about protagonists who’ve been misguided their whole lives about something very important have been emerging in our culture for generations, and they continue to delight audiences in the box office to this day. The … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Film, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Awakening, Consciousness, culture, film, media, Philosophy, psychology, society, Sociology, spirituality, The Truman Show
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Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly
By Adam Mastroianni Source: Experimental History You may have noticed that every popular movie these days is a remake, reboot, sequel, spinoff, or cinematic universe expansion. In 2021, only one of the ten top-grossing films––the Ryan Reynolds vehicle Free Guy––was an … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Film, media, Media Literacy, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Art, Corporate Consolidation, corporate media, culture, Economics, film, liturature, Mass Media, media, Media Literacy, music, oligopoly, Pop Culture, proliferation, Reboots, Remakes, Sequels, society, Sociology, spinoffs, Television, Video Games
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The Future Is Here: Dystopian Movies Fit for a Dystopian World
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Authoritarianism, culture, Dystopia, Film, Militarization, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged 1984, A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, Art, culture, Dystopia, film, George Orwell, Government, Literature, Margaret Atwood, Minority Report i, Philip K. Dick, police state, Science fiction, society, state violence, surveillance state, Technocracy, The Handmaid’s Tale
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Saturday Matinee: Chicago Conspiracy Eight
The Real Chicago 8 Movie: R.G. Davis Gets it Right By Jonah Raskin Source: CounterPunch In January 1970, R.G. Davis, the founder of the San Francisco Mime Troupe and one of the fathers of guerrilla theater, filmed a 60-minute video … Continue reading
Saturday Matinee: First Reformed
Synopsis by A24 Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the church is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Spirituality, Video
Tagged Amanda Seyfried, Art, culture, Ethan Hawke, film, First Reformed, Paul Schrader
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Saturday Matinee: Faces of the Enemy
Description from California Newsreel: As relevant today as when it was first released, Faces of the Enemy follows social psychologist Sam Keen as he unmasks how individuals and nations dehumanize their enemies to justify the inhumanity of war. Using archival … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, corporate news, culture, Empire, Film, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Philosophy, Psychology, Saturday Matinee, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Video, war
Tagged corporate news, Documentary, empire, Faces of the Enemy, film, geopolitics, imperialism, Joseph Campbell, Mainstream Media, media, Media Literacy, MSM, propaganda, racism, Sam Keen, Sociology, Steven Kull, war
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Charlie Chaplin and Truly Modern Times
By Daniel Warner Source: CounterPunch Acrobat, musician, composer, clown, mime, movie star, director and producer, Academy Award winner for lifetime achievement, but still driven from the United States for his backing of the Soviet Union, Charlie Chaplin should need little … Continue reading →