Tag: Good vs Evil

Signs of Evil: Socio-Spiritual Sabotage by Pervasive Veiled Attacks {Poeticised Transcript} | Old Drafts

The first of a few unfinished old drafts I didn’t care to complete, which I’ll be dumping on the site since they’re close enough. This one relates to the previous post about systematic covert persecution, a.k.a. zersetzung and gangstalking.

“Chosen Ones”: a new genre of video that seems to proliferate on YouTube in a semi-automated manner (i.e. AI-based). From the few I’ve seen, Chosen Ones videos promote a form of ‘messiah complex’ to individuals who feel indirectly persecuted by society at large, and who tend towards a spiritualistic or neo-religious outlook.

Since “the Messiah” – a.k.a. Jesus – is an archetypal representation of a persecuted man, who was of course of good spirit, the correlations in this Chosen Ones narrative are not totally unwarranted. However, they are exaggerated and emphasised in an implicitly aggrandising way, as if to engender a kind of reverse-narcissism, and which also serves to undermine the validity of its themes (as will be mentioned below). Nevertheless, this exaggeration may serve useful as an inspirational device, given that one doesn’t identify with its messianic complex and doesn’t adopt its implicit flatteries.

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There’s Something About Movies (2-Part Special Edition): Embedded-Archetype Recycling in the Hollywoodverse

An uncut, feature-length discussion about the movie medium; packed with bonus content—and LOTS of movies.

There’s Something About Movies: Special Edition (packed with bonus features!)

PART 1
Embedded-Archetype Recycling

Introduction

More so than any other medium, the motion picture – also known as film, cinema, and most commonly, movies – has the capacity to convey ideas and themes whilst bypassing the viewer’s awareness of having done so; meaning that even the reception of the content generally remains unperceived, i.e. let alone its affect and techniques thereof. This principle can be observed by the substratum of archetypal themes from which movie* narratives are constructed upon; by the industrial recycling of these archetypes, evident in movies that are differentiated by time and genre; and by the common obliviousness to embedded elements and the pervasiveness of this practice.

*Although most of this article concerns movies, the discussion generally applies to television fiction too, particularly since it has become more cinematic in recent years. Movie narratives, however, are the primary form of embedded-archetype recycling.

I have termed the principle behind this practice ‘embedded-archetype recycling’, where “archetype” refers to a type of character or theme that is ancient, or at least pre-modern (hence being adapted into modern form); where “embedded” refers to the concealment of the archetypes within the overt narrative; and where “recycling” refers to the institutional practice of reapplying these archetypes to the narratives of “new” movies (hence, archetypes pervade the medium irrespective of era divergences and genre differences between movies).

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