Overflowing of Useless Information and the End of Reality

By Chris Barr

We are being berated with Jackson Pollack-type spattered ideas, dripping from site after site, online person after online person.  We are being inundated with ‘information’ to discombobulate our ability to focus on any given idea, before we are sideswiped onto another screen warning us of the global collapse of the eco-system, then slammed into the brick wall of unilateral, inverted, paradoxical sexual ideology, only to be pulled into the current war and who we are being now, programmed to hate, for reasons the news media loves to pepper us with at two-minute increments, or so. 

The internet flow of traffic would have lost its driver’s license years ago on actual city streets and country highways.  There are barely any stop signs, but there are boatloads of de-platforming and canceling individuals for possessing so-called scary ideas.  The Internet is where great ideas go to die, and sadly it was never always this way.  The Internet was initially meant to connect people.  Who knew, it did that exactly, just not for the intended purpose.  Instead, what we ended up getting was this massive gladiatorial digital battle arena, where all our insecurities, all our self-loathing, and all our narcissism could blow off every ounce of steam our modern, distracted brains would permit.   

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As long as we have internet platforms where the shroud of anonymity protects the willfully ignorant from Real world – physical – consequences, we shall all remain hostage to the lunacy of narcissistic myopic meta-avatars.  Truth, within the chaos of the internet, can never be allowed to spread its wings for all of us to ‘truly’ examine.  Language, the delivery device itself, will always expose its blind spots, and allow ignorance to exploit its potential, resulting in its own undoing, within the system of the digital machine.

All this technology is telling us that - we will become faster if we allow it to integrate within our lives and within our minds.  There has been no real-world study or peer-reviewed study, that ever showed that technology has, as a whole, helped human beings become better than the state they were before the technological revolution.  Sure, in many fields of technology, humans made progress, but there always seems to be that nasty cost factor that rears its ugly head.  Technology has become so heavy on the Tree of Life that the branches that hold it up are cracking and breaking. 

Speaking of branches, an olive branch, shall we, technology I suppose dates back to the first ever tool formed by early hominids to gain access to bone marrow.  In Eastern Africa, our early ancestors, hunters and gatherers, would hide, and wait it out while a lion would kill its prey and then eat its fill.  Our early ancestors stayed still and waited for the hyenas to come along and eat the remaining flesh off the carcass.  They would wait to see if the coast was clear and then run up to the skeletal remains of the animal and dig out its bone marrow to feed on.  Humans at that point in our long-storied history were low on the food chain, by no means near the bottom, but low.  Then came fire, which changed everything, probably the largest technological leap ever made by any Earth animal.  Fire skyrocketed humans to the top of the food chain, nothing could stop them and to this day, fire has become the greatest Promethean gift humans could ever have.  Fire allows humans to control everything moving and breathing on this planet, then it controlled the skies.  Fire lit up the world, and we have never looked back.

Today, we have all been boxed into digital cages on the internet where all our passions, desires, and hostilities exist.  Our very souls have been outsourced to fantasy, a battle, and life that only exists outside of the world we were all born into.  We have become simulations in this simulacra of our former selves, we have become incarnations of our own hopes and dreams.  The prison of our minds belongs to corporations and governments that have successfully placed digital shackles around us, to rob us of what truly is possible outside of this symbiotic illusion.

What is real and what is fake?  Can we truly, authentically, tell the difference anymore?

People in the world outside of their computer and cell phone screens will continue passively to stumble their way through this complicated life, while their online confident surrogates continue to flex their digitally-programmed gaming muscles at anyone who doesn’t have an opportunity to challenge them face-to-face in the air we all breathe, for a real debate of ideas, exercising actual free-speech, without the interference from the ruling party of power-craving elitists.

We are now all scrambling to make sense of a world that is rife with semiotic chaos.  Everywhere we look now the signals are mixing and reassigning themselves to opposing ideologies.  We are living in - the upside-down, and for the most part, it’s all being orchestrated on purpose.  We question everyone around us to such a degree these days, that ourselves are all that’s left to question.  So, we end up doing that too.  We begin to betray our own instincts, seeing them as foreign invaders, corrupting us from the inside out.

This parade of sound-bite chaos is available to any of us when we ‘flip’ through our phones.  Turning your brain to misinfortaining mush as you stare into the screen, closing off the real world outside your actual window.  The sounds click and bang securing your ears to the device, your eyes barely blinking as you look deeper into the simulated reality of the disordered world presented to you.

Training videos – lose the weight, don’t lose the weight, eat this – don’t eat that. 

UFOs are real according to our always reliable government, conspiracy theory.  

Cures for Cancer remedies – just drink this slug daily, cured.  Big Pharma plant.  

Group A is trying to kill Group B for not conforming to Group A’s stupid ideology.  

Couples playing tricks on each other ‘I tripped my wife with the Dog’ went viral.  

Climate Change is the new virus sent from the elites to kill us but it’s all our fault.  

Your car is trying to kill you. Is it the gas-guzzling or the lithium batteries, or both?  

Globalists plan to poison the meat supply while they produce 3D-printed ‘meat’. 

OnlyFans models are being replaced by AI influencers, bot models vs. the ‘real’ thing. 

PIZZAGATE is good for you – if you are part of the club.  Order your pizza tonight. 

Satan is everywhere – vitamins are bad for you – Woke Hollywood has shut down.  

Men are women and women are men, men can be women but women can’t….

We are allowing governments from all over the world to unite in our capture.  They are getting away with it because we are hypnotized by the discombobulation of reality itself hosted by them, these power structures that only wish to manipulate it all.  They mean to control all our physical property and the very sustenance we all require to survive, food and water.  Conspiracy theories?

This is the time we should all be having meaningful conversations without the fear of being offended.  In bars and taverns, they say we shouldn’t be talking about politics and religion and when you add alcohol they may be right but either/or we should be talking. The consequences of not challenging ourselves and the way we look at our community, our city, our country, and our world, leaves us empty and marooned as we look upon each other as the enemy against our ideology.  If we are afraid to talk about anything, in fear of opposing ‘information’ itself then – we won’t.  We should be talking to each other but the composers of this symphony of silence have created a room where people, with opinions, should remain castrated.  The internet is where they want us to go destroy each other.  We have become T.S. Eliot’s ‘Hollow Men’, we have become tired and lonely, and we have allowed these globalists to capture our fears and use them to rebuild a world in their image, an image that you and I are not invited to.

 

Steal your mind back from those that only wish to manipulate and control it.

 

Sound of Freedom, Human Trafficking and Protecting our Children

Based on a true story.

“God’s children are not for sale!!”

Sound of Freedom is a powerful and important film bringing awareness to the horrific child sex trafficking network where millions of children are snatched up yearly to feed its global revenue requirements of $150 Billion.  Yes – you read that correctly.  It’s a business, one on a scale that should pause us all, but…

Question?

Why are the legacy media networks trashing this movie about exposing sex trafficking and child slavery?

Why is this so-called fair-and-balanced mainstream media interested in associating the film with bullshit ‘Qanon adjacent’ conspiracy theories?

Why wouldn’t this governmental and corporate-sponsored media be interested in spreading awareness of this kidnapping cabal of profiteering madmen?

Why is this film being smeared about the drinking of human blood and its anti-transgender message when neither of these subjects is brought up or appear in any shape or form throughout the films running time?

Has truth become abstract in this ideological ‘smart’ 1^st world?  Is there a full-on propaganda campaign against reason and logic in this post-human existence?

 

Sound of Freedom is based on the true story of Tim Ballard’s journey into darkness. Human trafficking exists and this film provides a sliver of insight into the global network that appears to operate in-and-around the purview of what we might call law, human decency, freedom, and moral compass.     

The film follows a passionate man hellbent on putting any and all ‘Pedos’ behind bars but considers the victims and must go on a seemingly sacrificial operation to save a little girl.

The film must be experienced so there is no real need to go deeper into the plot other than what was mentioned above.

Question?

How is there divisiveness when wanting to prevent or save children from predatoral sexual servitude?

Why wouldn’t we all agree on this international tragic crime, despite our ideologies or political leanings?

Aren’t we all on the side of protecting children?

Why has it become a controversy to protect and save children from sex trafficking?

CNN says the film is propaganda Qanon promoting ideology, so does the NewYorkTimes.  Rolling Stone magazine says ‘Sound of Freedom’ Is a Superhero Movie for Dads with Brainworms.  Others have printed - if you type the words “sound of freedom” into Twitter (decent people who wish to live good, happy lives should under no circumstances actually do this).  This is where we are in our social media-driven society.  Journalism is a mass media arm for the globalists and their One World Governmental agenda.  As cruel and repulsed as we view the sexual enslavement of children, there are many that live on the top floors and are flown in massive jets pontificating about ‘climate change’ that do not.

After 20th-century Fox was bought up by Disney they sat on releasing Sound of Freedom, why?  Disney celebrates - children?  Sound of Freedom is about protecting all our children. Why wouldn’t Disney release the film?  They ditched it and it got picked up by Angel and finally released after five years.

Make your own judgment.   Check: PIZZAGATE 

The entertainment media complex chose to ignore it for the most part because their bosses, bosses, bosses ordered them to discredit the film because its subject, not pointing any real fingers, but might be hitting too close to home, in however perverted pedo minds work.

 

There’s one thing about adults fighting amongst themselves but children should have nothing to do with our divisive narcissistic bullshit.  They are not equipped with our neurotic, often illogical, sometimes hedonistic, and selfish ways at their young and innocent age.  They have no armor to defend themselves. 

This film pissed me off just watching it.  It was so well filmed and made its point so emotionally succinctly that it hit my nerve endings, as it should have, which is what the film was aiming to do.

Sound of Freedom is a great film and I hope that everyone goes and sees it.  It’s worth feeling a little bit uncomfortable to at least glimpse into the filmed version of a reality that’s happening all over the world.

Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Multiverse and Getting out of Your Own Way

By Christopher Barr │POSTED ON Christmas Eve, 2021

 "You're flying out to darkness to fight a ghost."

 - Otto Octavious 

The level of wokeness – identity politics – and SJW shit that wasn’t present in this movie is its own post-logic miracle. This movie was about people – all people – whomever you may be – to come and enjoy an action-adventure film without being torpedoed with – confabulating ideologies forced into a mosaic of fabricated far-leftist multiculturalism.

Spider-Man: No Way Home was about growing up and leaving yourself out of the outcome if that outcome for the group is better off without you in it. The truth is we don’t always get our way – we don’t always get what we want – we are often left out – we are often left alone. The flipside is – we – grow. We learn to navigate, we learn to assign meaning, within ourselves, to what is meaningful about the relationships and the world that is all around us.

The Spider-Boy becomes a Spider-Man.

Spoilers ahead……..

To proceed forward assume your spider senses are tingling.

Matt Murdock – Daredevil.  This was exciting to see that Charlie Cox’s Netflix Daredevil character was loved enough by fans that Marvel saw fit to put him into the MCU movies.  He will add a great deal of, and much needed, maturity to upcoming MCU movies.

No Way Home juggled all the previous Spider-verse villains seamlessly and then comes Andrew’s Amazing Spider-Man and then Tobey’s Spider-Man to add icing on the cake that I haven’t seen at the movies in a long time, nostalgically speaking.  There are still a lot of questions, but this was a calculated but convoluted movie with many moving parts, even for complex subject matter that surrounds the Multiverse and String-Theory. 

Speaking of - Question: Does the other Peter’s, Tobey and Andrew, in their respective universes have all their loved ones who know they are Spider-man, forget them as well?

Electro – Jamie Foxx got to not be so blue.  His Electro thankfully stayed true to the comic book character and was electricity yellow whenever he blasted lightning from his hands.

Green Goblin – William Defoe killed it in every scene.  Spoiler friendly spoiler hahahahaha.  He didn’t skip a beat from 2002’s Spider-Man and still looks great.

Dr. Ock - Alfred Molina was great once again as the multi-tentacled villain.  He's always been the voice of reason as long as he is in control of his cybernetic technology and not the other way around. 

So much spectacle, so much fan service, so much awesomeness.  Spider-Man: No Way Home was a fun movie to watch from start to finish – and that’s it, that’s all I have to say, but…. It turns out it isn’t – there’s a little more.  The movie is so much more than its moving mechanical tentacles… I mean parts.   

Post-Logic Miracle: A Marvel movie inspiring not only its main character but its audience to grow up and assume responsibility is – for a lack of a better word – inspiring.  We learn to step aside and get out of our own way if necessary for the greater good.  This film turns out to be philosophically utilitarian in the end with no wokeness insight.

"The problem is you trying to live two different lives.  The longer you do it the more dangerous it becomes."

 - Dr. Strange

Dr. Strange performed a spell, by Peter’s request, to magically disappear anyone’s memory of Peter Parker being Spider-Man through a sort of magical Mandela Effect – which at this point the whole world knows who Spider-Man’s identity is.

I do think that Strange’s eagerness to help Peter with this spell despite its dire consequences may have less to do with this movie and more to do with the Dr. Strange upcoming sequel.  Some questions – I guess we wait and see.

Spider-Man: No Way Home was the best Marvel movie I’ve seen in years.  It was respectful of what came before it.  It didn’t come off selfish or even jealous of the earlier Spider-Man movies.  Instead, it chose to celebrate them with actual class.  The film had real stakes where Peter had to make choices with consequences, some with unfortunate outcomes.  The No Way Home in the title could certainly be toward the villains and Andrew and Toby's Spider-Men, but No Way Home is really about how the MCU's Spider-Man was never going backward where he could seek comfort at his home.

This movie showed that Tom Holland's Peter Parker wasn't actually Spider-Man until the end of this film.  By the end, when he puts on the new suit that he made, and after taking full responsibility for his previous actions, only then do we truly see our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

  

 

The Matrix: Resurrections and Caught Up in a Meta-Loop of Destruction

By Christopher Barr │POSTED ON Christmas Eve, 2021

---If we don’t know what is real we are often unable to resist what isn’t.---

Tabula Rosa – is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content, and therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception.  The mind isn’t born with a hardwired possession of certain knowledge.

Some spoilers ahead……………

Like a mosquito at a nudist colony, I’m trying to figure out where to begin with this fourth installment of The Matrix franchise.  Which by the way, this movie cynically criticizes throughout the first half of its long-running time.

The Matrix: Resurrections is about choice, destiny, identity, and trans-formation.  The movie explores qualifying memory recall and whether free will is an illusion and destiny always being part of our programming.  Then - we are able to escape that programming through, I guess through some form of free will, hence these strange repeating loops and inconsistencies this movie softly investigates.  I would argue – not well.

Is reality-based in memory nothing but fiction?

Thomas Anderson (AKA Neo) in this version of the Matrix is a video game creator and designer of The Matrix game for a company called Deus Machina.  Which is a game that mirrors the content, characters, and plot of The Matrix 1999 film, which of course is unknown to the millions of gamers that reside in this seventh version of the Matrix from which they perceive reality.  I know what you’re thinking – a loop within a loop within a loop within a loop then a meta-loop, and so on.

Thomas goes to therapy to try and resolve the psychotic and suicidal issues he has been experiencing for some time now.  He believes he doesn’t belong in his current reality; he believes somethings wrong or off with this place, “like a splinter in his mind” that he just can’t put his finger on.  So, he keeps taking his blue pills to help from going ‘crazy’.  A word, it turns out, he isn’t permissible to say in his therapy session.

Thomas meets up with Tiffany (AKA Trinity) in a café called Simulatte.  They start to get the feels and begin to remember moments of their ‘true’ past.  Thomas through therapy and Tiffany through dreams.  Thomas is then brought over to the real world, which has survived 60 years since the last time he was there, by red pilling it and then planning to get Trinity out of the Matrix.  That’s pretty well it, no saving the world, bin there dun dat, just get Trinity out.

Big shocker, in the end, Trinity becomes the One and saves Neo and then takes down the patriarchy afterward.  This hasn’t been a common theme permeating cinema and culture in the last five years, has it?

---If we are unable to distinguish the difference between what is real and what isn’t we are doomed to be trapped in fantasy.---

Reason it appears, is unable to break out from its own loop.  No matter what these characters do, they seem to remain caught in this Matrix loop, indefinitely.  In our, outside of this movie, world we are not able to change on the level that our imaginary and emotional perceptions tend to believe.  We have thoughtful stories and internal narratives that persuade our minds into going along with this line of thinking, often in a quite convincing way, but to quote the actual Morpheus, “There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.”

The truth is most of our lives are lived internally within the neuro-synaptic confines of our minds.  We perceive the world outside our braincase, we feel it affect our nerves and gather sensory data through our many available inputs, we then form a narrative and live that story as if it were as real as apple pie.

Echoes of the past ripple up to this point in time only to help us forget.

The fight scenes were sloppy, unlike the choreographed artistry of the original.  The action scenes for the most part was generic and in some cases crappy for what you’d expect from a Matrix film.  The Merovingian from Reloaded makes an appearance in one such crappy action scene yelling out barely coherent indictments against Neo.  I won’t go into detail, but it was just a sad sight to behold.  How did that make it into final picture I will never know?

All the far……….far left, neon hair dye and non-binary, diversity couldn’t swoop in and virtue-signal this movie from being a cardboard simulacra shadow of its former self.  The wokeness in this movie is plastered throughout, unfortunately, which ultimately bogs down the story and drenches it in identity politics.  To be fair, the reason it is bad isn’t hinged on its wokeness – it’s just bad filmmaking from screenplay to picture lock to final test screening.

There were a few moments that were -actually- okay.  The movie dived a little into Predictive programming and the meta-message about exploiting nostalgic IPs for the sole purpose of a money grab but Neo and Trinity are the real focus here.  Everyone and I mean every other character in this movie are forgettable, ‘Who was forgettable?’ ‘Exactly.’

Other than that, there was no real innovation and only rudimentary cookie cut-out philosophy that was even beneath entry-level Philosophy 101.  The Matrix: Resurrections did make a profound statement despite itself; the audiences of today can’t handle the discourse and depth of The Matrix 1999.

Resurrections is more on par with Revolutions, the third Matrix movie.  It’s lighter and more dumbed-down to suit how the studio likely thinks what contemporary audiences, with many bubble-wrapped and willing participants in victimhood culture, would be prepared to sit through.  Are we the problem here?  This current system?  Social media?  Why do we resist the Red Pill?  Is the choice an illusion or was the red pill always decided?  Sadly, these days I don’t see much of that going around.

Why are we all so easily offended in our first-world technocracy?  We have become hyper-sensitive to any comment, opinion, or view that conflicts with our own perspective.  We often become agitated at the slightest bend in our narrative, that story that we believe defines us.

We are alone in the fastest and most expansive time that human beings on this planet have experienced.  We have technological advances and scientific discoveries developing at a rapid pace.  We have endless conflicts with governments and their often-absurd policies, and the daily threat of impending doom by some unknown, faceless enemy.

We have difference in every direction, constantly reminding us of how small we are, among all this chaos.  We have health warnings, passive-aggressive violence, and system failure seemingly lurking around every corner of our lives.  We have numerous multi-cultures of people, that believe in other gods and live by dissimilar traditions than the ones we are accustomed to. 

We do have control but the problem with it is it isn’t real, it’s manufactured.  Our control mainly comes in the form of some technology or what we choose to buy.  The problem with this control we all share is, our control isn’t really ours, it belongs to the corporations that deceived us into thinking it’s ours.   

 

---If reality alludes us, we will inevitably fall prey to illusions presented to us.---

 

GODZILLA vs. KONG and Suspending your Disbelief

Some spoilers ahead.

Godzilla Vs. Kong was a monstrous movie extravaganza with two mighty Titans destroying cities while trying to destroy each other.  Despite its convoluted narrative, GVK was a fun movie to behold.  It had all the explosions, carnage, and silly one-liners we have all come to expect from American blockbuster movies in the 21st century.  It also had an incredibly twisted, and ridiculously hard-to-believe plot.  Not that we should expect great story writing and well-thought-out plot points but here, you are required to suspend your disbelief a lot further than usual.

 GVK starts off with King Kong on Skull Island in some sort of outlandish dome to hide him from Godzilla, who basically swims around a lot, but would kill Kong if he should sense him or something like that.  Anyway, turns out they (the one-dimensional humans) need Kong to go to the Hollow Earth to find an energy source to help power a massive Godzilla-sized robot to kill any monsters that attack people.  I’m not making this up.

The Hollow Earth is a massive cavity in the center of our Earth where Kong, Godzilla, and several other gigantic creatures originate.  The inner core, the outer core, that we all learned in science class is thrown out with all the other logic this movie wanted nothing to do with.  But that's.... okay.

On the way to the Hollow Earth, lol, Kong and Godzilla battle it out on a U.S. military Aircraft carriers at sea, this is why we are watching this movie in the first place.  We want to see these two mammoth creatures go toe-to-toe in the ring, and I got to say, they delivered.  The fight was quite a match to behold in all its competent CGI deliciousness.

Godzilla eventually makes his way to Hong Kong wreaking havoc while Kong makes his way to the Hollow Earth to acquire the energy source.  Sorry, I’m laughing as I write this. Lol.  Kong and Godzilla eventually have it out in Hong Kong, knocking skyscrapers over like they were in a pinball machine.  Then, big shocker, like no one saw this coming, after they damn near kill each other, they join forces to destroy the evil human-made Godzilla robot and save humanity, not from Kong or Godzilla but by humanity????????  What the fuck!  The moral here is nature wins and humans lose – I guess.  I’m not really sure.  But that's...... okay.

Now don’t get me wrong, I might be a little over critical....... 

Good suspension of disbelief is Marty going back in time or John Wick shooting up a bar and killing a hundred trained killers.  Bad suspension of disbelief is Vin Diesel driving a sports car off the hundredth floor of a skyscraper and smashing through another skyscraper and surviving.

..........With that aside, this movie was silly but more importantly, this movie was fun.  Despite all the curve-ball mental-gymnastics, you might be required to perform, at the end of the day, this movie is a good time.

 

 

 

 

PREDATOR: Advanced Technology and Surviving Progress

By Christopher Barr │POSTED ON JANUARY 15, 2020

"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman - a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling, and halting."  - Friedrich Nietzsche

Predator is a 1987 science fiction action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger about an elite U.S. military rescue team that is given a mission to extract soldiers out of a Central American jungle.  The Army Special Forces team's mission is to quietly get the U.S. soldiers, who are believed to be held captive at an insurgent guerrilla camp, and quietly get back out again, undetected.  The problem here is they end up encountering an alien in the jungle hunting them all down.

Dutch's team find the men they are there to rescue skinned alive and strung up in the trees, they also attack the guerrilla camp and kill all the insurgents.  They soon discover that they are being hunted just as the team they were there to rescue.  This Predator starts to kill them one by one and blending back into the jungle along the way.  

Paralleling our own brutal nature during war, the film mirrors the Predator's cloaking technology to the Army Special Forces camouflage clothing and face paint, the Predator's skill, and silence during its kills and Dutch's teams skill and silence during the camp attack before they encounter the alien.  They are all cut from the same killing cloth, it's just that the Predator's technology is far more advanced.  

"If it bleeds.. we can kill it."

Watching the guerrilla insurgents kill their tied up prisoners allows us as a viewer, to feel justified in killing these predators during the camp attack, just as the Predator gets its justification from Dutch's team not only trying to kill it but thinking they can.  The arrogance wrapped in these justifications is littered throughout the film. The men face an enemy far more skilled then they are, just as their enemies faced the same.  Power begets power, war begets war, violence begets violence.  The film is about the egotistical lunacy of war, it is about the circle of war and the inevitable death that is tethered to war. 

"This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine."  - William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

When Mac and Dillon go after the Predator it isn't just to avenge Blain or settle a score, it was also - subconsciously of course - to prove that humans are everything that we bluster about ourselves to be, that we hold dominion over this planet.  Mac and Dillon are like the Titanic hubristically sailing the Atlantic thinking they are unsinkable, they underestimate their enemy.  Once the Predator closes in its likely they might want to die just so they don't have to live in a world that they were wrong about.  These are the extremes the human mind will go to avoid damaging the ego and ultimately avoiding cognitive dissonance.  

I'm reminded of a scene in Maximum Overdrive when the discombobulated posturing waitress storms out of the diner screaming at the machines turning on them that, "We made you!".   She is then riddled to death with bullets by a machine, shutting down her 'idea of the world' to the stark reality of our overall lack of power. 

The Predator's arrogance of power is a reflection of our own, except he is as advanced as his technology.  He is from a civilization I imagine, that has achieved what we are desperately thriving to achieve, which is complete technological mastery.  The argument could be made that the Predator is bored with his technology, he could very well be bored with his existence, which is why he keeps going off on these safaris to excite himself.  He hunts down the greatest warriors any given world has to offer knowing that he's better, more advanced, and skilled than any of them.  

Herein lies the problem with progress and the ego, we, like the Predator, still have this hunter mentality but we are consumed by our technology.  This technology is a crutch that massages our egos into believing that we are invincible.  We are like Tony Stark posturing in this way, in that we avoid acknowledging our weaknesses and are only interested in our so-called strengths, which are only there with the help of our technology.  You see the problem with this line of ego-centric thinking?  The Predator's world has turned him into a god while Tony Stark played god a couple of times in the MCU, especially in Avengers: Age of Ultron. 

"Get to the copppaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!"    

The Predator is us in the future, bored, lonely, and angry.  We have given our knowledge and our humanity over to our technology.  We once advanced our minds through science, psychology, and philosophy where our knowledge was fought for.  Now our knowledge is a commodification existing within computer data and is bought and sold.  Tony Stark didn't build the Iron Man suit, his technology did, his A.I. operating system J.A.R.V.I.S did.  The Predator inherited technology without much knowledge to go along with it.  

"You are one...ugly..motha..fucka.."

Dutch, in the end, has to rely on his wits and doesn't have to rely on humankind's technology to save the day.  He uses his ancestor's archaic methods that have helped them survive long before the invention of the bullet.  Dutch uses the land to beat this predator while the Predator continues to rely solely on his technology.  Dutch makes a wooden bow and set traps but he does this knowing that he alone couldn't beat the Predator.  Here's the difference between someone picking up a gun and shooting someone with it and what Dutch does to defeat the Predator.  Dutch takes responsibility for his weapons, he makes and understands what they do.  There's certainly a large part of him that would rather not do this, but he has to in order to survive.

For all his testosterone and machismo, Predator is not about the big muscles, and the cheesy one-liners and might-is-right.  It is truly about the survival of the fittest, not by strength but rather by the intellect.  This film gets little to no credit for how smart it is, how intelligent its main character is.  The cleverest part of the movie is the last act, just Dutch vs the Predator, but most people generally remember all the bro-mancing, the cool, cunning kills by the Predator and 'I ain't got time to bleed' moments, but that was all camouflage.  This film is about the dangers of technology when put in the hands of people that don't understand, respect, or deserve to have them.  In our society, many of us take personal credit for technological advancements like we were right there along with the inventors themselves.  Much like we take personal credit for when our favorite team scores in the play-offs, like we hit the ball or slapped the puck.  If the truth be told, if any of us got dropped in the jungle with none of our technology to help us survive, we'd be fucked.

Predator is about using our technology responsibly as we move forward.  The alien was not using it responsibly, it used it for a sport to stave off boredom by collecting trophies.  In the end, Dutch became Nietzsche's Superman by seeing the iceberg before it hits and sinks the ship, before falling back into the safe and secure notion of ego domination.  While Dutch prepares to defend himself by setting up traps, the Predator polishes skulls.  The Predator isn't worried in the least, he's just concerned with his trophies to show off his dominance to whatever fucked up culture he's from.  He's concerned with his things, much like we are in our culture, objects that represent our so-called worth to our tribe here on Earth.  The most worrisome part of this film, technologically speaking, is the very end when Dutch defeats the Predator by dropping a massive log on its head.  Here we see that the Predator doesn't play fair, he again uses his technology, symbolizing the peak of his civilization, to kill Dutch even after he's been checkmated.  The dilemma here is this isn't two five graders pushing each other over who won the match, this is a massive atomic bomb level weapon that the Predator sets off in spite of his loss after Dutch showed mercy.

"This confrontation is the first test of courage on the inner way, a test sufficient to frighten off most people, for the meeting with ourselves belongs to the more unpleasant thing that can be avoided so long as we can project everything negative into the environment.  But if we are able to see our own shadow and can bear knowing about it, then a small part of the problem has already been solved: we have at least brought up the personal unconscious.  The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form.  It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalized into harmlessness.  This problem is exceedingly difficult, because it not only challenges the whole man, but reminds him at the same time of his helplessness and ineffectuality." - Carl Jung  

When Dutch looks at the bleeding Predator dying under the massive log he curiously asks it, "What the hell are you?", mimicry being part of the Predator's defense programming, it repeats Dutch's exact words back to him, when it sees Dutch from its point of view, Dutch likely looks just as monstrous to the Predator as the Predator looks to Dutch, the creature then initiates his primary weapon on his left forearm console.  Through this action, the Predator essentially answers Dutch's question by showing him who the hell he is.  This is the biggest threat we face as a society where we live in an arms race and are not certain if the poor loser won't set off all their nuclear arsenal as they go down. "If we don't live, no one will fuck it all." Red buttons pushed all over the world sending the remaining members of us all back to the hunter-gather times only to start this lunacy all over again.

STALKER.... and Traversing The ZONE to Enter the Room

By Christopher Barr │POSTED ON JANUARY 14, 2020


Stalker is a 1979 film beautifully shot and lit to perfection by Soviet film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky.  The film tells the story of three men that desire to change their lives, they also are willing to risk their lives to change them.  

Side Note: Stalker in this film is not the creepy man following women around in the middle of the night.  Here a Stalker is a professional guide into the Zone.

The sepia look of the film lasted until the three men of the film, the Stalker, the Professor and the Writer broke through the Zone border and just evaded detection before the Gulag-type guards fired upon them.  They escaped because the guards wouldn't dare follow them into The Zone. 

THE ZONE

In the near future a meteor, or some object, hit the earth creating a phenomena the government and the people ended up calling the Zone.  This place eventually become restricted to the public.  Many people traveled into the Zone never to return, so many years later it has become isolated.  The Zone is said to be a product of a Super Civilization.

Because of its isolation and mystery it has become mythologized among the people.  They believe if you enter it and navigate your way to a place called the Room, you will have all your desires met.

The trio of men travel along in a little train car, just big enough to barely fit the three of them.  Their faces coast along as the camera stays with them, long enough for us to hear the clunk of the steel wheels almost turn hypnotically musical while they roll along the tracks.  They then stop where color fills the landscape and we now know, they are in the Zone.

Stalker asks many questions about who we are, who do we think we are, who are we actually?  We have uncovered mostly everything, now we live in a world with no telepathy, no ghosts, no fly saucers.  They not only don't exist, they can't exist in this modern world.  There is no Bermuda Triangle, what there is, are laws, laws that restrict and focus us to the will of the Owners of this world.  In the Middle Ages life was a bit more interesting because every house has its goblin and every church had God.  Today, with most rocks uncovered, it's left most people... bored, bored with life, bored with death, bored with other people and ultimately bored with themselves. 

Are we searching for meaning in a meaningless world?

If everyone admires an antique until it is proven to be a fake, what really changes?  The so-called antique doesn't change at all.  What we found beautiful shouldn't change but yet it has all changed because we changed it.  We create our reality.......

How am I to know I don't want what I want or that I really don't want what I don't want?  How do I discern the difference of what I want or don't want when I want to be healthy and in shape but I also want to eat cake and candy?  I don't want to be over weight and out of shape but I also don't want to eat vegetables late at night when I'm watching TV. 

I love that Stalker resists interpretation, at points you can see a prophetic allegorical film with themes that would echo Chernobyl seven years later.  Stalker points out that we live in a world of laws that are unbreakable to the point of an omnipresent incarceration.  The film is a bizarre journey into the unknown, it's about not quite appreciating what we already have in our own lives, and that these three men are willing to give all that up to get to the Zone.

The Buddha, like the Stalker, was willing to give up his wife and child in order to go on a one way pilgrimage in search of enlightenment, never to return, never to allow himself to go backwards.

The Zone is a maze of death traps where former traps disappear and new ones appear.  The Zone is a place that you construct based on the state of your mind.  It doesn't reward the good and punish the bad.  It's the unhappy that it seeks.

What if we could know it all, would it matter?  In a subjective reality where the reality of facts and truth are solely based on what attention you pay them, what would it matter to know or not know?

The film challenges us to reassess our own beliefs and convictions, it reminds us that despite living in a predominately secular time that Bronze Age religious mythology and the idea of God looms over most of us.  The film wants us to believe, not because it's all real but because it might be necessary.  The Stalker is a believer and is naive and idealistic about his beliefs, he requires the faith of others to fuel and justify his own faith.  When his two companions, Writer and Professor decide not to go in the room and make their wish, this infuriates Stalker.  He wants to believe in the ontological existence of God and when they don't go into the room this further confirms to him that faith and the belief in a higher power is becoming extinct.

Can we live in a world without faith?  Can we live in a world where people no longer believe in anything?  Where do we go in a world that is no longer made up of myths and superstitions?  Since the dawn of civilization we have never known such a place.  There have been secular peaks and valleys along the way but never has the world experienced such a non-religious time that we live in today.  

We create our own fear.  The real point of going to the Zone and entering the room is the realization that you never needed it in the first place.  There are no quick fixes in this life, no matter how much faith you believe you possess.