Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Cass Sunstein said that the 9/11 truth movement should be infiltrated with bullshitters who deny evidence.
Aren't trivialization, distraction and flooding signal with noise all known tools in the arts of denying evidence?
Occult Means Hidden wrote:How would a person of the moderate middle whom we are ostensibly trying to win-over, react to statements like this? With further curiosity of the WTC phenomenon or a shutting out of useless and easily forgettable static talk?
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WTC=A Bug's Life=ants=anthrax=anna's thorax=a complete breakdown of meaningful conversation through hyper-connectiveness.
Oh, and Hugh, your distracting exaggeration and frequent inapplicable use of the relatively minor keyword hijacking technique is also distraction from your often very interesting ideas and evidentiary presentations on CIA/Mockingbird orchestration of major US media in the postwar period. Among other things, such as your often insightful thoughts on military recruitment and propaganda.
Without these often interesting presentations of yours, and a feeling we're politically on the same side, I would no longer be addressing you seriously.
For fun I ordered A Bug's Life, as promised. Didn't like too much, its busy style fails to cover for pedestrian artistry. Formulaic fare. A few good jokes. Kevin Spacey gets to ham it up as the heavy. Surprisingly explicit politics: Charismatic visionaries inspire the good-hearted but culturally conformist drones of an agrarian society to realize their strength and unite to topple the hold of the feudal warrior class that had been terrorizing them into surrendering their annual surplus. After the revolution they abandon superstition and embrace the development initiatives of the formerly outcast intelligentsia, resulting in rapid production growth and a flowering of the arts. Further development is not shown, so we don't know if it proceeds to a counterrevolutionary restoration, the fraying of extended family ties and tribal solidarity as inequality and consumerism take hold, a stalinist nightmare, or about the happiest possible outcome given the situation, which would be Cuba. A bird provides the annoyingly predictable deus ex machina, suddenly eating the head grasshopper in the climactic fight scene. Fucking Hollywood, man.
This film has no connection to foreshadowing 9/11. It's more like a remake of Seven Samurai with ants as the peasants, grasshoppers as the bandits, and unemployed circus insects as the wanderers hired to save the village. It's not even worth kicking your ass over, despite the promise I would do that. Yes, "a rock" (occurs twice) sounds like "Iraq," but there is no association with "a rock" and any theme conceivably related to the aggressive invasion launched by the US four years later. Surely you're not saying that every mention of "a rock" in any context is meant to KWH "Iraq"? And, yes, the hero's romantic interest and leader of the ant society is a Princess Atta. On behalf of your thesis I was disappointed that this name was not assigned to the most bloodthirsty monster among the grasshoppers, the one who was used by the gang leader to terrorize the ants, as the naming of Princess Atta was, in my view, no more than another meaningless minor incidental detail that no one could possibly remember in a way that would function as you imagine.
In fact, a search test of "Princess Atta" versus "Mohamed Atta" suggests that 9/11 was conducted as a keyword-hijacking operation to prevent a revival of interest in the forgettable Pixar movie "A Bug's Life."
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