This morning I chose to awaken and watch "The Parallax View" with Warren Betty. Watching it reminded me of my heyday of enjoying all that is conspiracy theories and intrigue into the mysterious of the world around us. That and I'm trying to get in the right mind set for a play I'm trying my damnedest to write. I decided to go back and look at some of the things that interested me about that type of stuff and see what has held up over time. Let me also stress that it's not like I ever stopped being interested in those things, but simply that my attention started to get redirected to other interests over time.
When I started reading up on Wikipedia, something of a drug for me; I decided to jump in and read about one of my favorite conspiracy films as well as one of my very favorite films in general, Oliver Stone's "JFK". The main part I went over was the critical reaction part. It's something I've briefly read about and actually watched a documentary on which was part of the 2-disc version of the film. I find it very interesting that people jumped to destroy the film based upon a first draft of the script, based upon even the concept of there being facts included with what they viewed as pure fiction. That so many reputable news groups wanted to squash the film months before release just because they seemingly wanted to. That's the funny thing is that there's never a particular reason in which CBS, Time magazine or any other group really wanted to bash it except because they could.
After "JFK" came out it was met with equally mixed reactions some calling it "an insult to intelligence" and others like Roger Ebert (my personal favorite critic) calling it the best film of 1991 and later making it #10 on his list of the ten best films of the 1990's. Since that time of it's release it's met with much more favorable feelings, but still for some just the name tends to flair up with whole idea that people want to exploit a death and sensationalize it for profit. There lays the funny thing about America; it's never exploitation if everybody tends to believe it, but if there's a question mark and someone's willing to ask about it then it's exploitation. Further more I've come to learn that those who specifically do not believe A: that something other than what we're told happened that day and/or B: that conspiracies exist within our and other governments are usually people who hold the government and politicians in a very high regard. They tend to think the world of them. They place tacky political signs in their front lawn during election season and love the our concept of voting equals power.
I personally am cynical of all that jazz so there's my biases. Sure voting equals a degree of power, but to me there's always holes. Shaded areas in which we never know about and to many just plain don't exist. First off why do we hold these people in such high regard? Because they're smarter than us? That can't be the reason because time and time again we see that politicians are far from being smarter than many general Americans. Maybe they're simply more informed on the world. Or maybe it's because they're on TV... every night. Maybe because they throw millions of dollars into shitty ad's so that you'll never truly be able to escape knowing who they are. Further more it's actually considered somewhat disgraceful to not look up to them or think that they're here to make a difference. Why would I ever think a simple group of people in suits, that ride around in jumbo jets and limos want to change the world? What cause is there for it other than their own personal gain.
Perhaps that last bit is too harsh. Maybe they do want to change the world. Maybe they think that they know what so many others don't and they can help us. Also if you're wondering what party I associate myself with it's a lost cause. I find that the democrats want too much and pay attention to things that often don't need too much attention paid to. They're giving, but wasteful and we flip the bill. I can't stand republicans because they arrive with a Holier than thou attitude and a we know better than you one to follow that up. They lie as much if not slightly more than the left and hey guess what... begin more things that we flip the bill for. So how about those independent groups? I still feel it doesn't matter. The political machine in America has been running this way for a very long time and it's not going to stop. The country isn't going to turn socialist or communist or anything like that and if you think it will then yes you are an idiot.
You're an idiot because you seem to think that such a drastic change would go unnoticed or will be brought on my socialized health care and all that. We've seem to let the whole Big Brother thing go on for as long as it-- oh wait. No I'm sorry I must apologize. You see by someone believing or even accepting the idea of Big Brother watching us, they might be considered a bit of a 'crackpot'. And yet the term is used on the news day after day, but we refuse to accept or even toy with the notion that our government does things, illegal and horrible things A: without our knowledge B: with their own interests in mind and C: with our money. Then again maybe I'm just crazy.
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