by Quentin Quire » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:25 pm
I can agree with a certain amount of what you say in terms of the media being used as a control mechanism within culture and the concept of mind-war.<br><br>But I cannot accept that the vast majority of art - whether in be TV, film, novel etc. is somehow part of this psychological operation.<br><br>That isn't how the entertainment industry operates. Who are these 'social engineers'? You seem to say that this elite group controls aspects of entertainment from their very genesis to further certain goals. Having freinds and contacts in the film industry I can say that I don't believe that is the case.<br><br>Some shadowy figure doesn't walk up to the creators of South Park and say - 'okay guys, can you smear liberal anti-war activists in a new film.' There isn't a table of elites sitting in Hollywood creating 'mind-viruses' or 'memes' or whatever you want to call them. The industry runs on money, pure and simple. If the bigwigs at a studio think they can appeal to liberal viewers and those opposed to the Republican and White House regime by funding a satire such as 'Team America' they will do so. The same way they will throw money at a film that will appeal to a middle-American audience.<br><br>'V For Vendetta' isn't an elaborate piece of psychological warfare. It's a mediocre film based on a great graphic novel that has been changed and watered down to suit a mainstream audience with themes placed in a contemporary context.<br><br>I'm a writer - a struggling and unknown one, but a writer nonetheless. I've written a number of pieces involving topics such as mind-control, para-politics, organized crime and the occult. Does this mean I am somehow involved in 'mind war' and the creation of 'mind viruses'?<br>If I sell one of these scripts tomorrow to a studio or production company does that mean I am somehow under the control of 'social engineers'?<br><br>I watch South Park, I watch horror movies and play violent videogames like Grand Theft Auto. Have I been co-opted into the conspiracy of the NWO? Or am I simply able to discern what I believe to be true, right and real and ignore the rest?<br><br>Like I say, much of what you say is relevent and real. But I question this whole 'social engineers controlling the media' because in 90% of what I've seen I don't believe that to be the case. <br><br>You may now think of me as being either completely and naively under the control of mass-media or complicit in it, but I'm fed up of seeing posts in which broad strokes are used to tar anything which may have the slightest stench of para-politics without any balanced or critical analysis. <p></p><i></i>