Gods of Their Own Religion – REVIEW
An Orwellian Battle for the Human Spirit
Joanna Sharp
How do free spirits endure a tyrannical technocratic order? Do they succumb to endless rules, or do they keep doing their own thing? And what is the spiritual price of totalitarianism?
These are the questions which seem to be guiding Gods of Their Own Religion, a dystopian movie written and directed by Naeem Mahmood, an award-winning film director whose previous work includes Brash Young Turks (2015), Gangster Kittens (2016), In2ruders (2018) and Queen of Diamonds (Short 2019).
Inspired by and shot during the 2020 lockdowns, the film depicts a group of young, disobedient London urbanites navigating a totalitarian safety-first new normal set sometime in the future, in which speaking, singing, and sex are considered unhygienic.
Just like the actual defiant raves and parties continued illegally despite the 2020 lockdown rules and resulting in thousands of fines given to young people in the UK, in the movie’s new abnormal, as Kid (Kyd Nereida) calls it, outlawed remnants of freedom and spontaneity persist.
Underground clubs attract rebellious performers, musicians and non-conformists who have now been labelled by the state as dangerous biohazard denialists who don’t believe that society has the right to mandate their behaviour in a crisis.
Kid, King (Ricki Hall) and Oracle (Michael Hagan) hang on to their anti-establishment natures with their individuality, fearlessness, and transgressions.
Each of the three tries to get on with their ordinary lives and retain their own uniqueness; Kid, with her seductive energy, dancing, singing and chameleon-like beautiful self-creation, King with his raw masculinity and fearlessness, and Oracle with his pure and deep spirituality.
They have not chosen to resist authoritarianism; they are just not able to give in.
Surrounded by the literally silent, obedient and masked majority, the outlaws face cold, hateful eyes and risk being caught wherever they go. Even in a bar, only the outlaws eat and talk. The obedient sit still, alone, all in separate fragmented realities. Whilst hanging on to their desire for freedom, the three non-conformists feel increasingly hunted by the surveillance state and their own growing fears.
When Kid reconnects with the enigmatic C2 (Christopher Chung), her childhood friend, we get to see what made the two characters follow such different paths. We see a glimpse of their school days saturated with the pedagogy of fear instilling the virtues of staying safe, alert and apart.
Now in his conformist, comfortable but lonely adult life, C2 respects his wife’s wishes to sleep in separate bedrooms for safety: ‘If you love me, you will keep your distance’, we hear her tell him.
Unlike Kid, C2 is torn between the two worlds. Their meeting brings them, and us, the viewers, some hope for a love-powered escape from this Orwellian tyranny.
This synopsis is only a surface reading of the film as so much more is told through the film’s dreamy and, at times, nightmarish atmosphere, exploring the play between deeper realities of light and darkness.
There is a recognisable David Lynch influence both in the soundscape and the visual effects with layers of symbolic and literal meanings. The surreal fever dream-like soundscape immerses us in an ocean of vibrations played by the unseen forces flowing imperceptibly between light and darkness, between beautiful, dreamy music and unsettling, eerie sounds, touching the viewer on a subconscious level (look out for the low vibrations hitting you in the gut!).
Mahmood is showing us that when freedom is under attack, some essential balance of life energy is disturbed, and dark forces corrupt us at a deep level. As viewers, we are moved between the real and the imaginary terror without respite, just like an alienated citizen of technocratic totalitarianism would struggle to find coherence in a world devoid of human bonds. Streets and urban spaces seem hostile and haunted by pulsating sounds of automated public announcements and instructions, a permanent reminder of a tight net of restrictions.
The masked, who have chosen security over freedom, blindly follow orders, defer to the cult-like technocratic authority and tune in obediently to the mantra of slogans, ‘re-imagine, re-design, re-build, re-balance the world’, a recognisable reference to Klaus Schwab’s words, which echoed throughout the Western world in 2020 in the sanitised version of ‘Build Back Better’.
Their zombie-like oppressive stillness, with cold and fear-filled eyes, embodies
the concept of mass formation explored by Mattias Desmet in his 2022 book ‘The Psychology of Totalitarianism’. They no longer have or need any agency; they appear en-masse, their only expression being religious, cult-like devotion to, and faith in, the state; their thoughts not only being controlled but perhaps even genetically modified.
As a relief to this at times overwhelmingly dark scenario, the authoritarian state is portrayed with a few grotesque characters such as Banker (Regan King), Politician (Simon Brandon), Chief Scientist (Brian Marks) and Supreme Court Judge (Lee Dee); the most prominent being The Technocrat.
Brilliantly played by Ewan Henderson, he is a syringe-wielding, crazed professor type, an unelected dictator, himself an altered human whose behaviour, gestures, voice, and aura suggest his power is granted to him through some Faustian covenant.
References to the unseen forces of darkness operating in this captured world permeate the whole movie through the soundscape as well as visually. There is a significant undercurrent of spiritual forces operating on both the cult members and the denialists.
Humanity is–always has been–navigating the pitfalls of evil, waiting to attack at times of vulnerability. Here, evil forces show up to feed off the cracks in the human spirit: when love, care, unity, creativity, togetherness and empathy fade and fear, anger, depression, deceit, and attacks on our nature take hold. These dark energies threaten to affect and distort the perception of all characters – no one is immune, not even when they entrust a religious figure of the Grand Mufti, his words, and a promise of a ritual fix.
Religion, like any institution, is vulnerable to corruption, to being hacked and re-imagined, aligning with those in power. The key to unlocking the forces of light is not obedience and a sacrifice of the individual for the common good, no matter how rationally or scientifically defined, but a release of the human spirit to dream, create, love and make mistakes within an imperfect but more or less organic social reality.
Yes, there are risks in disobedience and in defiance of authority, be it traditional, religious, or scientific, but when the rules are anti-human, anti-health, incoherent, and feel oppressive and stifling, a longing for freedom and creative acts are life mechanisms which unlock human potential and growth.
The tension between the safety of conformity and the danger of freedom is not always resolved in this movie, and that does not surprise me in 2023, just as it did not when the psychoanalyst Erick Fromm wrote his book ‘The Fear of Freedom’ in 1941, describing the mechanism of escaping the anxiety of freedom into the safety of (then Nazi) authoritarianism.
The themes of freedom, disobedience and creativity are articulated not just within the movie and its symbolic language of images and sounds but also in the way it came about. This is a film which had no budget, no script, and no permission. Concerned with the impact the lockdown had on people’s mental health, Naeem Mahmood was determined to make a film in 2020, irrespective of obstacles.
After publicising his intent, he was ridiculed and received hundreds of abusive messages. Just as the bizarre reality of lockdown regulations unfolded with the incoherent medical advice and irrational prohibitions, and as his own film community was being affected by the tightening of the authoritarian mindset, a sensation of dark forces hovering in the background became apparent to
him.
With intimations of technocracy starting to emerge, Mahmood decided to let these
uncomfortable feelings work themselves into the movie through improvisation, without relying on a script and allowing the main characters and the plot to evolve organically.
The spontaneity was essential because he was recording the sense of oppression in early 2020 without understanding its origins or knowing its endpoint; he wanted to capture reality at an energetic, unseen level. The result was a full feature movie shot in 19 days with a total of around 160 people involved – all working without payment, having come together in a labour of love at a time of creative and
industry standstill. Not having permission meant needing to dodge real-life obstacles, including stopping the traffic to shoot a scene on a main road or sudden handling of a security guard enquiring why forty people were kneeling outside a public building in central London.
Asked, ‘What are you doing filming here?’
Mahmood replied without hesitation, ‘We’re filming for Black Lives Matter’… And it worked.
The making of the movie, as Mahmood told me when we met in the summer – was part of his personal awakening to what his creativity was always meant to be about. Having previously worked on projects which at times turned out, as he put it, ‘style over substance’, exploring the themes of darkness and light and a loss of freedom to an overreaching technocratic state at the time of lockdowns was a powerful personal experience of unlocking his own potential.
Making a full-feature film without a budget, a script, and improvising logistics, he was driven by an energy coming from the heart, an instinctive knowing of what is right. Somehow, all problems found their natural solutions and paths unfolded. At a time of working with intuitive improvisation, relying on dedication and collaborative creativity when the easiest option would have been to do nothing and remain silent, Mahmood’s ideas resonated with Rumi’s poem, which opens the film:
This place is a dream.
Only a sleeper
considers it real.
Then death comes like dawn,
and you wake up laughing
at what you thought was your grief.
The Gods of Their Own Religion is not just a film about freedom and defiance – it itself is an act of freedom and defiance. In telling a compelling story of an Orwellian battle for the human spirit, the movie tells us some fundamental truths about the importance of freedom.
It is spellbinding cinema.
Highly recommended.
Gods of Their Own Religion, directed by Naeem Mahmood is premiering on 23 November 2023 at Cineworld Leicester Square, London. You can follow the director on Twitter/X
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This is truly staggering. I’ve never seen the power of bullshit managed on a scale as vast as the following. First consider this tweet from the rabid James Wood:
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1724936198672749052
It links to a speech from what has been described as the “Largest Pro-Israel Rally in US History” (redstate.com). The speech is from one Rachel Goldberg who is apparently a mother of one of the Hamas hostages. More here:
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/11/15/mom-of-hostage-delivers-heart-wrenching-speech-at-pro-israel-rally-living-in-slow-motion-torment-n2166404
Now I’ve seen parents of hostages or missing kids before and they all have that shell shocked look, speak in stuttering fragments and often break down. There is none of that here. Instead we have a steely assurance accompanying the delivering of a speech so preposterously overblown that it mocks the very concept of parody.
This has to be the nadir:
“These children of God range in age from nine months to 87 years. They are Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists and Hindu. Why are they being left underground in the dirt? Abigail Moor Idon is 3 years old. She watched her parents get murdered in front of her and was then kidnapped. And she would like me to ask the world why are you letting her stay in the dark, in her trauma, buried in the Earth’s crust?”
Are we really being asked to believe that this “distraught” parent with the miraculous gift of stentorian oration is in some kind of telepathic communication with a three-year-old “buried in the Earth’s crust”?
What a magnificent and vastly well-funded extravaganza!
After the astonishing smear campaign that buried Corbyn, I was intrigued by the elevation of Keir Starmer and fascinated by that look of barely repressed terror in his eyes. This was a guy with his nuts in a tighter grip than anyone I’d ever seen.
This goes some way to explain:
https://novaramedia.com/2023/11/14/the-corruption-behind-starmers-rise-has-finally-been-exposed/
Though I get the feeling that the links traced here only scratch the surface of the odious network pulling Starmer’s strings- when they’re not grinding his testicles.
I looks like the toxic rats they are pulling out of the holes are getting bigger and bigger, Blair, Cameron, Starmer.
But Britain is not the only country who has these types, they are popping up in many areas of the world:
Senator Angelo Coronel of the Social Democratic Party of Brazil authored a bill (PL 5555/2020), which proposes adding a one- to three-year prison sentence to the Criminal Code for those “who omit or oppose the mandatory vaccination of children or adolescents” during a declared “public health emergency.
Those who choose not to comply with the country’s forced vaccination schedule will face a prison sentence of two to eight years.
Anyone spreading “fake news” regarding the safety and efficacy of the COVID vaccines will face the same prison time.
If the person works for the government, the penalty will be doubled.
https://dcweekly.org/2023/02/02/brazilian-senator-proposes-legislation-that-criminalizes-those-who-refuse-to-take-the-mandatory-covid-19-shot/
Nice article, good film. Wish it much, much success. Thank you.
President XI and Chinese Leaders are meeting with Elon Musk, Big Gates, Big Tech, Citybank, and US Big Corp in San Fransisco/US to agree the further agenda toward the digital global prison for the entire global vaccinated population.
https://www.technocracy.news/chairman-xi-to-san-fransisco-to-wine-and-dine-with-elon-musk-other-oligarchs/
Ref to the article: Gods of their own religion.
At any one time the whole human species (the “human spirit” as Weltgeist) is involved in rational economic activity that is so highly integrated that it must be considered as an indivisible and irreducible anthropogenic singularity. To account for technology, that activity is more than a hundredfold greater than embodied action alone could possibly produce. That is a human equivalent labour-force of ~800bn made necessary to manufacture and produce what the ‘west’ consumes; transforming the earth into the western collective ego-engineering – as an “insatiable libidinal consumptogenesis” – one that eternally bemoans the fact of how bad the apogee of consumption is for oneself (but selectively doesn’t mention the Rest.)
If whole species totalisation is not massification psychosis enough: “Why did the people become fascists? Because they wanted to” is what Fromm (echoing Reich) actually said as a totalitarian “Fear of Freedom” that has only grown exponentially since historical fascism was a thing; as a neoliberal “political psychology” – as was often cited by Deleuze and Guattari – people “desire their owned repression” by delimiting their thinking and critical faculties into a whole species authoritarian ordering as a care for oneself (Mishnah, abot – “Man for Himself”); people crave their owned repression especially when they extend the protectionist concept of “microfascism” to include an unprecedented level of bourgeois narcissism and paranoid-schizoid psychosis…. Such is this film.
So: why does “Everybody Want to be a Fascist” (Guattari) and “how do free-market spirits endure a tyrannical technocratic order?” Because it afforded them the highest standard of living economic imperialism and the destruction of the earth could sustain – and they want to protect it when they feel threatened by their owned isolationist psychosis. They literally are the self-protectionist ‘gods of their owned religion’ – the theology of the oneself – who cannot see the destruction they are wreaking, nor do they care. Their only care is in the impingement of their free-market freedom and defiance of economic reality in order to consume the whole earth for oneself.
The source of all microfascism has long been identified as such a reductive ideological individualism and isolationism as everyday economic behaviourism; as a “commonsense cut off from the senses”, “loss of a common world” and a dissociated Cartesian subjectivity solipsistically isolated “in the head” as the root of all authoritarianism, totalitarianism, and fascism (Arendt). Fascism is whenever the dynamics of isolationism or “loneliness and loss” – as a “free-floating” personalised psychosis – forms a critical massification (Arendt, Fromm, Reich, Desmet et al); an economic ‘neoliberal’ and ‘new individualism’ which is further identified with free-market freedom by Polanyi. Desmet called this “reductive-mechanical ideology” building on Arendt’s insights. It is not the “idiot in the head”, it is in the economic “fascist in the head” (Foucault) who wants to protect their owned market-economic freedom and liberty, and will do anything in order to do so. Today the butcher, the baker, and the doctor – tomorrow the next “new individualistic” Einsatzgruppen.
Self-absorbed people are now creatively name-dropping authentic anti-fascist insight to extend their owned microfascism – which will become the next macrofascism if it reaches a critical mass – unable to recognise itself for what it is. Unless people start looking at the economic and egologic destruction needed to sustain such a high-powered individual psychosis; by calling outrageously self-indulgent, narcissistic microfascism (like this film) out as microfascism…. Before it is too late.
In other words:
All we NEED is Love.
This is the problem of the self-absorption, not individualism. There is, though, the right sort of self-absorption, one which leads to self-knowledge. I suppose there is no harm in being wary of the seed within opposition to tyranny, which may produce fascism later, but given the degree to which the populace was being throttled, the focus had to be on getting out of the choke hold.
What is the “right amount of self-absorption?” We never hear about “other-centred” dialogue, excepting in therapeutic intervention. The dominant western worldview is a “theology of the self”, or “theodicy of the self” (a revelation or apocalypse of the self). In which case, the revelation of the self — as what behavioural economists call “revealed rational preference” — is the most greedy, most hateful, most hurtful and most destructive creature ever invented. And I do mean invented; because none of the discourse we have ‘in the head’ has anything to do with any form of realism — excepting self-realisation.
Foucault made the distinction between “care of the self” and “know thyself”. Taken further: “care of the self” means the imaginary care of of a non-entity — there is no self outside incontinent inner speech. Knowing thyself is knowing this. Thereafter: there is no self — period.
‘Freedom’ is never in the incessant pursuit of private property, freedom is freedom form the “inner idiot” that thinks this is necessary. Only freedom from outside intervention (Fromm’s “negative freedom”) makes people ‘happy’. Impingement of this indefeasible right makes people fascist when they decide on a strategy to remove any perceived threat. Nobody can tell a fascist that the only threat to their way of life is in their own head. All they can do is try to redress the balance and include other ‘lesser’ people’s perception of what western economic dominance looks like — real oppression as opposed to fake-oppression.
I can guarantee that the current author never read Fromm, just as previous authors never read many of the names they drop. For one thing: there is no mention of his ‘cultural marxism.’ The insights of previous scholars — many who lived through historic fascism, many who were Jews escaping Nazism — are the all lost to us now. Totalitarianism and fascism are the highest expressions of the Enlightenment. Thereafter: the metaphysical human person qua ‘rational self’ has two modes of authoritarian being — totalitarian or fascist; whenever fascism is totalitarianism recuperating. Thereafter: the metaphysical human person has one mode of being — totalitarian — as self-realised neoliberalism.
Millennia of increasing self-absorption and privatised moral entraining of the self is the human predicament. The only reality the inner voice has is the reality we give it. How much reality should we give to our owned unreality? None would still be too much.
Farming was a BIG MISTAKE!:
https://fitawakening.co.uk/2021/05/23/agricultural-revolution/
Oh why didn’t we stick to wandering around with spears?
They invented the gun. But where there is a will there is a way.
I noted recently how there is zero diversity in the media. This is more obvious with TV. I usually try to avoid it. But on perusal this morning I see every species of bullshit from the last 3 years – covid, climate, down to the Israel thing – presupposed relentlessly.
This most humorously displayed by one young American woman making a big issue about how fraudulent the democratic system is … and then she is seen walking around the streets with a fucking covid mask on!
Nowadays there are so many lies that it doesn’t seem to matter how many you resist, you keep bumping into others.
The old monotone of (Arendt’s). banality George.
‘Arendt’s book introduced the expression and concept of the banality of evil.
Her thesis is that Eichmann was actually not a fanatic or a sociopath, but instead an average and mundane person who relied on clichéd defenses rather than thinking for himself. It was motivated by professional promotion rather than ideology, and believed in success which he considered the chief standard of “good society”. Banality, in this sense, does not mean that Eichmann’s actions were in any way ordinary, but that his actions were motivated by a sort of complacency which was wholly unexceptional‘
Once you see it that’s all you see. I reckon most people never see it. And for most of the people who do see it well it can take most of the formative years of your life before you do. Unless you’re a particularly well balanced, insightful and thoughtful man or woman you’re going to spend your life up til about 20 imbibing everything with few questions. Then you’ll spend your 20’s chasing sex experiences, alcohol and good times plus jumping through employment or study hoops. Then your 30’s either busy starting a family or fucking one up. Then your 40’s…you can see where this is going. Point is…most people won’t see anything wrong. Everything is organic and normal. Some people cotton on. We all need to live 2, 3, 4 lifetimes to finally get what’s going on. Putting a stop to it or curbing it on an individual level is what they don’t want. And what few can do. Imagine if 60% of people in Australia had all at the same time stood on their own 2 feet and said screw your masks. I did. But almost nobody else did. etc etc
And you get taken in by one of them sooner or later it seems. If you see through covid the Ukraine lie gets you. If you see through that then Israel gets you. Sooner or later you’re in the Matrix playing their game for them.
https://twitter.com/trygoodbud/status/1721369969492193364
https://twitter.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/1716156143096168657
https://twitter.com/codeofvets/status/1707569165576679683
https://www.amren.com/news/2023/11/the-west-should-welcome-gaza-refugees/
The clear way to protect America is to stop funding Israel, declare Israel a terrorist entity, ally with the Arab League and Iran, and make a deal for these states to repatriate their immigrants as part of a larger peace deal.
I am no flag expert, but combining the Israeli and American flags 100% goes against flag code. In particular it violates this section:
(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.
(k) The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
There have been harsh penalties for desecrating the flag.
(a)(1) Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or ground, or tramples upon any flag of the United States shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/700
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/8
It’s really incredible when you think of it:
the US is sending billions of dollars of weaponry
etc to assist Israel in clearing out the “cock-
roaches”. Germany too, and other governments,
are also sending military equipment to help the
genocide…
Overkill…
“Hamas” must be a hard idea to kill ?
The real ‘magical’ part is … the defence-contractors accepting orders for the billions of dollars worth of weapons, from a bankrupt state, known to have an outstanding debt of $31+ TRILLION dollars. In the real-world, it would not make business sense.
In times of tyranny appear outwardly as a; Child, Madman or Fool.
Ascribed to Jalal Uddin Rumi. 12th century Persian Poet.
Good one. Just……we have all three at the moment:
The childish leftists (“how dare you”), the mad neo-cons (“fuck Europe”), and the foolish sheeple (“see my vaxx card all stamps updated).
Rumi, Persian or Iranian as it is now called. Now Iran is subject to the frothing madness of neo-con politicians.
Here’s what our honourable leaders think:
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
― Henry Kissinger
“What we are doing in Gaza, we can do in Beirut.” – Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant
Here’s an interesting perspective on the Middle East turmoil from Prof Michel Chossdovsky:
https://odysee.com/@LuxMedia:d/michel-chossudovsky-expanding-middle:9
He maintains total faith in BRICS, note how his own page, Global Research, has pushed the illusion of “multi-polar world order” as being a rival to the US empire. Do a search of the page using “multi-polar,” and see 83 items come up, all pushing the ideal In reality, it’s the same old empire using a new disguise.See this by regular Off G contributor Iain Davis.
https://geopoliticsandempire.com/2023/08/22/shc-for-multipolar-global-economy-part-2/
I didn’t know this. Thanks for the heads-up. Although I still think what he has to say in the video is worth considering.
“The Emperor’s New Clothes were woven out of words.”…(anon)…
(everyone knows that !)
Kiss your worries goodbye.
Tony and his pals are gonna save us:
https://winteroak.org.uk/2023/11/14/tony-blair-and-the-rothschilds/
Blair. The turd you can never flush away.
Rumor has it that anyone who meets him in the flesh has to go through a full Exorcism shorty after.
After Tony made peace all over ME as peace envoy, Tony is now leaving and available for global freedom.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/blundering-tony-blair-quits-as-middle-east-peace-envoy-only-israel-will-miss-him-10279906.html
Maybe George W or John Howard could slither into the job.
They’re both war criminals, so fully qualified
How uncommon is “rare”, and
how rare is “uncommon” ?
Who decides ?
W.H.O decides ?
Why cant The Weather enjoy
Extreme Weather Events ?
It’s normal for The Weather
to be abnormal…
One reason why people are foolish is because they act foolish. It’s a tactic to survive our crazy society: participate as if you are ‘normal’. One may find this cowardice or weak, but please bear in mind that we talk about dogmas that have been imprinted in our heads since kindergarten with many sticks and carrots. If you would not call it cowardice, and I certainly would not call it cowardice, it’s just a way of people trying to make ends meet and minding their own business. This is what most people (those who form the 90%) do IMO: act foolish. And by acting foolish they actually hurt themselves because ‘we are what we pretend to be’ (so you better be careful what you pretend to be)
Now instead of blaming these people who act foolish, the 10% (those who think for themselves) should try to convince the 90% of living a different life, and be patient with their acting. A good example is what these people need. They need examples (which makes them different from those who think for themselves). So give them the good example. If you fail: don’t worry, at least you gave the good example. If you succeed: tell me how you did it, since I never have been able to convince someone by giving the good example. Yet, I keep trying. This is my struggle.
Now I have the privilege to converse with the psychopaths on a daily basis. Fact is I used to be one of them (and then I woke up). Remember: I used to be a clinical epidemiologist, I told this before.
Psychopaths are those who implement the rules, and since they have to do this kindly yet firmly, they are the eloquent, studied, intellectual, charming… doctors and scientists that can be trusted and of which I used to be one. Now I look at these people with utter bewilderment. How can a fraction of society implement the most ridiculous, antisocial, harmful, yet profitable (for the 0.1%) rules and ‘think’ they do something good (because they all think they do something good). – Well for that you must be eloquent, studied, intellectual and charming. And foolish too (usually through narcism, greed, the cardinal sins). But even though this group of people is what I deal with mostly through my daily work (I am a consultant now, selling my expertise to the highest bidder), it’s only a minority. Most people are acting foolish as they see no other option. Heck, I am one of them: a field slave who would rejoice if master would call in sick (but he never calls in sick). But at least I know who I am and this knowledge is something that can be used for a greater good. I do not pretend for myself. Yet, I am not the guy that people think who I am. Mmm, the latter sounds like I joined the spy club, but far from it…
Anyway, I am rambling…
Mistakes were not made.
https://youtu.be/ueUXNL-A3Zg?si=oTKbIfF7XiL3H5x9&t=18
Very powerful message needs posting as many places as possible.
“Dont let “them” get away with it”.
What does she mean? The way she is saying it sounds like “them” is us.
Does she mean WE are THEM and we should not let us get away with us? If as WE were THEM.
Im outraged, my feelings insulted. My feelings have been hurt. It was not ME who said it. THEY said I should be doing it. I was only following orders!
What does she mean? Should we be spanking ourselves. Lock ourselves into a prison. She is crazy.
Why has the German High Court not done something long time ago before my comfort zone and my feelings were jeopardized and hurt. Achtung 😴 . (sarc)
Quite an amazing odyssey. Thanks for all of that. My thoughts before reading were running in parallel arcs.
“Alle menschen werden brüder”
~ Beethoven, on permanent loan from Schiller
CAVEAT LECTOR: a copy below of the WARNING downthread a few posts by Sandy, I posted my above comment reviewing the WRITTEN article. ONLY. I had not had the luxury yet on my runs to see the trailer, thought I’d wait till near a bigger screen, but since I trust the longstanding reliable quality of nearly all articles here, generally, I wanted to post a thank you for the one above. Maybe I pushed the “post” too soon, so I will keep that in mind:
Sandy posts:
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WARNING: I just scanned Mahmood’s work. Two features, then two shorts. All are slick stylized valorizations of criminal life. Gangster Kittens’ trailer on Youtube is blurred out requiring adult sign in and is about teen prostitution. In2truders is a sick horror film short about the “music business”. Queen of Diamonds is a short about gangsters and gambling. Same mean crap.
I don’t know who this is that wrote this review. The trailer is creepy and incomprehensible to anyone who literally squeezed through the hell of three years of meanness and cruelty. I couldn’t understand the article or even the trailer. All his trailers are similar style, dark and mean, with the FAKE coolness that only actors on screen can give us. A Scorsese wannabee? Hardly even that. Some young rich guy with connections.
Y’all should have done some research. That scene of crawling bodies up the hill, should have been a sign. I would pull this article until you’ve seen and digested this film to truly experience what it’s working toward. We all want some vindication for what we went through, but I don’t think this is it. WARNING.
I suspect and hope that in the coming years there’ll be a plethora of films, literature, artwork coming out that references the convid period, no doubt much of it will either be dross, revisionist and heavily censored but maybe there will be something of the stature of Orwell’s 1984 or Huxley’s Brave New World. Live in hope.
I did some searches on ‘kyd nereida” and only found photos of industry cheesecake, passing itself off as hipness of a generic kind. Not impressed. O, well!
I can recommend Alan Watts instead, he is profound and worth all minutes:
https://youtu.be/0wi7Wtocj9M
About our inner God, space as a black woman substance feeding light stars, Western manipulation of religion into idols, m.m.
Realisation of man’s inner God has the danger to end up as Western narcissism. We are Gods.
In East they are more aware of our divine inner self leads to a more humble person.
The key to unlocking the forces of light is not obedience and a sacrifice of the individual for the common good, no matter how rationally or scientifically defined, but a release of the human spirit to dream, create, love and make mistakes within an imperfect but more or less organic social reality. This is a lovely idea and something we yearn for – the wild in us – but of course, if we each do the wild, creative, lovely thing, this is subjective and leaves no room for others who have a different type of creative and wild, to also do their thing. Hence we have rules to which, ideally, we have all signed up of our own freewill (that’s the more realistic future I can see).
“The function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more efficient or more moral. I hope not. I think it makes us more human. And I am absolutely certain that it makes us more difficult to deceive.”
~ W. H. Auden (or close to him, maybe a couple words off, but don’t quote me)..
“The artist’s immemorial right to be wrong….”. ~ Aaron Copland (same deal).
WARNING: I just scanned Mahmood’s work. Two features, then two shorts. All are slick stylized valorizations of criminal life. Gangster Kittens’ trailer on Youtube is blurred out requiring adult sign in and is about teen prostitution. In2truders is a sick horror film short about the “music business”. Queen of Diamonds is a short about gangsters and gambling. Same mean crap.
I don’t know who this is that wrote this review. The trailer is creepy and incomprehensible to anyone who literally squeezed through the hell of three years of meanness and cruelty. I couldn’t understand the article or even the trailer. All his trailers are similar style, dark and mean, with the FAKE coolness that only actors on screen can give us. A Scorsese wannabee? Hardly even that. Some young rich guy with connections.
Y’all should have done some research. That scene of crawling bodies up the hill, should have been a sign. I would pull this article until you’ve seen and digested this film to truly experience what it’s working toward. We all want some vindication for what we went through, but I don’t think this is it. WARNING.
Even if you were to ascribe to the filmmaker the best of intentions, so what?
Terry Gilliam said of his masterpiece Brazil (set in a technocratic and fascistic dystopia) that he saw it as a documentary: everything in the film was happening somewhere in the world at the time. People see the film as fantasy/science fiction. If movies like that don’t change anything…
Movies are part of the indoctrination, social engineering and propaganda system. I bet most people never drew the connection between V for Vendetta and the Covid psy-op..
WARNING Indeed the premise would be laughable if not so sad. The new normal folk are best described as exactly the kind of people “revolting” against the system in this movie. And how do they revolt? Well by doing what they do best: Dressing up and modyfing their bodies in order to be seen. It’s the same drill: Strongly overdone paperthin human emotions devoid of any logic applicable to human life splattered incoherently on the screen in order to alienate you emotionally.
If the trailer makes you want to puke that’s a sign you remember how addiction to the fake glossy corperate culture depicted in this movie got everyone in line for the jab in the first place.
Another coperate piece of parasitic art trying to suck the life out of you. WARNING
Couldn’t have said it better, Don. We need to look hard before we leap.
The movie sounds Great! Thanks for calling attention to it. I hope it will someday soon be available to those of us living on the other side of the world (New Zealand).
Isn’t the female lead of this, an established low-grade porn actress?
Not the biggest deal, but during it’s heyday i enjoyed a nice edition or two of Black Mirror, primarily for it’s dystopic, psychological trappings- the parts were still written and majority played by establishment figures simply “telling a story”. It doesn’t matter how true they’ve turned out to become.
Yeah. I still have a copy of the 911 report, now to be used in an effort to demonstrate just how big and dumb all those lies are….
I live in Nova Scotia.
My wife is a nurse.
She was placed on unpaid leave – Dec 21/21 for not wanting jabs.
To this very day, right this moment they STILL demand the ORIGINAL SERIES of the jabs in order to work: take apha jab #1, wait 2 weeks, take alpha jab #2 wait a month. Then WELCOME BACK TO WORK!
Every province in Canada allows nurses to work without covid jabs. Why is Nova Scotia such a cunt?
I’d like to know. Neighbors, family and friends DO NOT CARE NOR SEE AN ISSUE. I’ve asked them their thoughts, they look confused or mumble something inane and stare at their shows and toe some pebbles ….
Please advise, or send help.
Move to a non-fascist place, or find a different occupation.
Where are the governments not globalists?
You mentioned it yourself, “other provinces in Canada allows nurses to work”.
If you both cant or dont want to move, find another occupation where you are.
If it can be of any help, many other people than you including here lost their job and paid willingly a high price too to preserve their integrity. Be proud.
“(One’s) own happiness should be preferred, but the misfortune of others should not be scorned.” 😅
All hijacked.
Is there a local chapter for Children’s Health Defense in your area? Might ask them if there’s anything they suggest. You’ll find compatriots in any event.
Maybe Nova Scotia is acting that way because that’s how it thinks you get your kicks. Perhaps it’s time to take your custom elsewhere.
BC is the same. It’s beyond fucked up.
Florida, Australia or New Zealand ?
Much, much warmer and no Dustbin Trudeau:
https://www.booktopia.com.au/how-to-be-australian-ashley-kalagian-blunt/book/9781925972801.html
Nasty Me can see gushing reviews from all the reviewers who were sliding around in masks and playing the game. We never really believed it but one has to eat and, come on dear boy, who do you think you are, Robin bloody Hood? Me Me likes the thought of those who made the film, flaunting free faced and fuck you, just doing it. You’ve got to be a bit of a bastard to flout the rules of all the decent, law abiding folk, don’t you know. The film may be arty farty, nouveau pooveau, lucy fairy anne, but I’m glad they made it.
@The film may be arty farty, nouveau pooveau, lucy fairy anne, but I’m glad they made it.
It may be 3-5 layers thick too, keep that in mind on your roaming adventurous travels.
Have you visited The Capital yet?
https://youtu.be/rOyy9nNsbFc?si=qpm4RlqGJEKCE-aN
So why was Rik Mayall ki/died ‘One By One’?
Dunno about you, but that thirty second skit of Mayall, outside for a smoke with his makeup artist, “you must turn off your TV, follow no orders….”- complete bollocks, imo.
Lifestyle perhaps or that quad bike accident brain injury he sustained back in 98. They say once you smash your head on any hard surface your days are numbered.
Everyone promoting the COVID nonsense is the enemy. Everyone going along with it is the problem.
Creativity is the doorway to divine connection. As long as humanity continues to create, the individual torch of spirit will never be extinguished.
Erich Fromm’s classic book, The Art of Loving, said it best, I think:
“And, maybe, here lies the answer to the question of why people in our culture try so rarely to learn this art, in spite of their obvious failures: in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power – almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving.”
“Many say that love is meant to be experienced at home, with the family. But at least in America, the health of the family has been under sustained attack for the last 100 years. 75% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and 25% of children live in poverty in the world’s wealthiest nation. Persistent economic stress does not breed a loving family environment. Yet, in this tense climate, media and the government promote a consumerist culture (in the guise that it’s the only way to keep the economy going) along with a continuous war mentality that keeps the population on the edge. Add in the 80,000 chemicals added to the food and water supply and you have weaponized the living conditions for a large part of humanity. How did we let it happen?”
“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individuals, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking – and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority. The consensus of all serves as a proof for the ‘correctness’ of their ideas. Since there is still a need to feel some individuality, such need is satisfied with regard to minor differences; the initials on a handbag or the sweater, the name plate of the bank teller, the belonging to the Democratic as against the Republican party, to the Elks instead of the Shriners become the expression of individual differences.”
“So through the appearance of individuality and equality which conformity provides us, we lose our unique integrity. We move the focus of our inherent divine power from within to those things that exist outside of us as is dictated by various control mechanisms such as modern media, advertising, and economic and educational institutions. In an effort to reunite with others and embrace our inherent power of love, we ironically let it be taken away from us and with our willing acquiescence to boot.”
Given this, Fromm realizes love requires conscious, proactive action on the part of man in order to truly thrive and not let love be stolen from us:
“Mature love is union under the condition of preserving one’s integrity, one’s individuality. Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unites him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits himself, to retain his integrity.
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two…In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving. For the productive character, giving has an entirely different meaning. Giving is the highest degree of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. The experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous.”
The Capture of Goodness
I’ve never gotten to share this before. And I just realized the reason why is that it was so hard to believe my own eyes and experience that it made me doubt my own grasp on reality for several years…
When the full blown lock downs were announced in Seattle, WA I was already sceptical of the whole shit show. So when they upped the ante to a full blown lose your job, possibly starve or have a medical emergency home alone for no damn reason stage I was just furious over the absurdity of the whole thing.
I was in busy suburbia, near a major highway. Quite visibly, every man woman and child complied and this was obvious because I have never seen so many vehicles in my life. 4 or five cars parked in front of every single dwelling, it looked like madness.
Then the sirens started. Non stop police sirens, ambulance, fire truck etc. over and over and over. I lost my shit the very first night. I was like, there is just no fucking way this is legit, I’m going to find out.
Like a normal curious person, I walked out to the highway that night to investigate. What I found was a parade of EMS vehicles making loops on the highway like clockwork at 100mph (empty roads) and the windows were all down and you could hear and see the laughing good time and screaming from the drivers having the most fun of their entire working lives.
Staged, fake, shameful.
I literally moved out of that state entirely
Here in Australia, the wailing of ambulance sirens started, and is still continuing, AFTER the roll-out of the C-shots. Even today you cannot take a trip with the car in any direction on an errand, taking around 2-3 hours return, without encountering two to three wailing ambulances. This is completely abnormal. Used to be that you’d see and hear one ambulance on the motorway once in a while due to a crash. Now they are in the cities, the suburbs every day.
The medical researcher, Steve Kirsch, reports that the excess dying is still going on, especially noticeable in those younger than 50 yo.
similar here in ireland.
You havent heard nothing yet. Just wait until the Fire Brigades and the Police sirens start up too.
We would have been happy here where I am living if we lived only with Ambulance sirens. 😣 .
Noise is a weapon. I also witnessed this and it didn’t take long to come to the same conclusion as yourself that it was all staged. The sirens and all the other BS was used to scare the shit out of everyone and drive them mad. They kept it going for 2.5 years and it must have screwed up a huge amount of people mentally, I bet some even took their own lives. Fucking Psychopaths
The title suggests the maker is a Luciferian. So do some of his past titles – Young Turks? Queen of Diamonds?
Antone who thinks raves are oppositional hasn’t a clue. EDM and MDMA are straight out of the control system’s heart. They can even call a rave center ‘Ministry of Sound’ and some people still think going there is rebellious. Who owned the Ministry of Sound? A British aristocrat! The Dionysian wing of the control grid is of course controlled. Raves originated in ‘The Second Summer of Love’ – the name is telling you that it was a deliberate re-run of the counterculture just with a different drug (MDMA instead of LSD) and different music (EDM instead of folk-rock). Re-watch ‘We call it Acieed’ for Smiley Face and All-seeing Eye symbolism. Mark Devlin has done a top analysis breaking down how the psyop was constructed.
All sorts of movies have ‘revealed’ the totalitarian future. For example, ‘Demolition Man’ in 1993:
It doesn’t mean Sly Stallone and Sandra Bullock are fearless truth-tellers (remember the story about what she used as face cream?). It’s constructing two wings of a fake dialectic – the conformists and the wannabe rebels who think Alan Moore is a good guy. It’s also just mockery.
I hadn’t heard the story about Sandra Bullock’s face cream. I read it was a “penis facial” but the details to that were somewhat disappointing! Though decidedly more Satantic!
The circumcised helmets of literal newborns story?
I thought everyone was aware of the adrenochrome craze, and it’s role in Savile, Epstein, Harris etc..
Cock cream. I get the feeling you’re tempted to buy some as a Christmas gift. Let us all know the reaction you get.
You can buy it?
Yeah. Just contact any lab that will mix some up for you. Comes at a high cost though, and you have to be dumb and wealthy to buy it.
There are four types of people who will not be affected by this movie.
• The ruling psychos
• The hubristic gofers (politicians, media maggots, Corparasites etc).
• Those who profited financially or in status.
• Those who are too lazy, too busy or too old to think clearly.
Anyone else watching it may be disturbed on different levels, depending on their ability to perceive Truth.
And the ones who shall never watch it.
Goes without _ _ _
And those who watch the trailer and then decide it’s a load of c r a p.
Better stick with the Marvels then Kalvin.
“We’re filming for Black Lives Matter.”
Love it. Every scam perpetrated by the media has its weak spot, its contradictory “free pass” that negates the whole shit pile.
He was lying. Thats what matters to me. Larry lied to the police officer.
Larry lied on foundation of untruths,deception and tyranny.
It’s actually spiritual/occult rules. There is always a loophole if you are intelligent enough to look for it. Seek and ye shall FIND.’
This film seem to have much merit. Although I haven’t seen it and can’t say much about its artistic value, it seems to be quite daring and creative. The spontaneous, voluntary and unscripted realization is what fascinates me here, as it seems to be a case in point for this particular style.
Notwithstanding, and without diminishing the film in any way, I couldn’t help but notice the dichotomy between the film and Rumi’s epigraphic quote, as it appears the story–as described here–hardly reflects the poem’s profundity. Not that this denigrate the movie, as doing so would necessitate a very different approach and more production means–Wim Wenders’ ‘Wings of Desire’ come to mind.
It’s often overlooked, but this ‘civilizations cruel blandness and Orwelian sheepishness, is perhaps more expressive of its consummate materialism and total negation of a ‘spiritual’ essence than anything to do with freedom or defiance, for what is freedom, if perception is reduced to comfort and limited by the fear of losing physical boundage.
There existed many civilisations with no such ethos to glorifying the world of the senses and physicality. For many of these, the idea of giving one’s life for combatting a menacing foe or overthrowing a tyrant would have seemed like the greatest honour.