- The most effective propaganda comes in under the radar,
it's innocuous and appeals to our humanity and emotions. Having studied
propaganda and its effects on societies for over 50 years, I can state
unequivocally that the film Brokeback Mountain is one of the most blatant
propaganda pieces of recent times.
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- In a society that is purposely and effectively dumbed
down, the rarest and most valuable of commodities is discernment. Increasingly
crucial, discernment is an attribute of astute acumen, and vital as your
enemy uses crafty subtlety. As a people, we have lost discernment. Logic,
rational and intellectual discourse, are shunned from the public square.
Feelings, emotional sentiment and compassion are no longer tempered with
intelligent reason. Now truth is sacrificed on the altar of "tolerance.
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- To even talk rationally about a film like this will endanger
one of causing immediate knee-jerk reactions with slogans; "homophobe,
bigot, narrow minded, etc. And God forbid you dare to insinuate that there
is an agenda behind such obvious propaganda, or you will surely hear the
two words designed to end all discussion or consideration of facts.; "Conspiracy
Theory.
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- Agendas and purposes behind what we are seeing, shall
be dealt with, but first, the film.
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- Yes, I saw Brokeback Mountain, and no I didn't spend
any money to support it. An actress friend lent me her "academy consideration
DVD (a crime that in many cases now carries a stiffer penalty than murder).
First and foremost, I've yet to hear anyone mention how boring this film
is. It's tediously long and in most parts just plain dull. But let's look
at some of the propaganda aspects, shall we?
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- Indeed nature is beautiful, and its grandeur is depicted
with majesty and uplifting music, great sweeping vistas instill a sense
of awe and splendor. It is of course in this setting that the "homosexual
romance blossoms. But even more significant, this is where the men discuss
the deeper things of life, theology, meaning, etc.
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- Contrast this with the scenes of marriage. Every time
marriage is depicted in the film, it is shot in a tiny dark squalid hovel,
with screaming children and absolute pandemonium. The house is a mess,
the wife never communicates on any kind of meaningful level. Wives in fact,
are portrayed as a constant annoyance, and more irritating than understanding.
But children receive the worst treatment in this slanted rant against family.
They are usually crying, often two at a time, or smashing things, the general
feeling the film presents, is that these joyless hellions are an intrusion
into life, an encumbrance and a terrible burden.
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- Making sure it drums in its message in no uncertain terms,
the film keeps switching back and forth between the two contrasts. The
great outdoors, wild and free, close to nature, close to God, close to
hot gay sex without any negative consequences. Back inside the dark little
messy box of marriage, with horrible in-laws, demon spawn children, berating
nagging wives, endless pressures and even the loveless, passionless sex
has hanging over it the dread of producing more parasitic offspring.
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- Special note must be taken of music and lighting, how
they are carefully manipulated to accentuate these contrasts in the manner
outlined here, bringing a much deeper impact of the propaganda message.
Marvelous tools, music and light illicit emotional responses, and penetrate
the subject to effect his core values. The use of props in the juxtaposition
of images adds power to the medium. There is a scene where the Heath Ledger
character is saddled with his wife and children, struggling among the crowds
to watch the fireworks. The opening shot depicts husband and wife, each
with a child in one arm, and great square bags full of baby necessities
in the other hand. The construction of this frame is identical to the earlier
shots of the pack mules heavily laden with similar square heavy supplies.
Marriage has turned him into a beast of burden, a theme reinforced throughout.
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- Another common theme these days, is of course portrayed
in the film; that of "religious intolerance. Remember, the wilderness
loving gay fellas are close to God, out in the high places, whereas the
church folk are depicted as spouting "hellfire and brimstone. The
film also shows two horrific murders, and the connection is not lost, it
is precisely this type of religious thought that contributes to this sort
of bloody violence. The implication is, and this is the very strength of
propaganda, if you are in anyway opposed to two men "loving each other,
then you must be for brutally murdering them. Do you see the way these
things are subtly implied? Just like, if you are not for abortion, then
ipso-facto you must be for the murdering of doctors who perform them. This
is one the objects of propaganda, reduction of critical argument down into
well drummed slogans, therefore removal of discourse, then total polarization
of advocates and detractors into radical extremes. Of course this fits
perfectly with the method of those purveying propaganda, as they have chosen
Hegelian dialecticalism to divide and conquer you and I.
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- Earlier I mentioned that the homosexual sex was portrayed
as without negative consequences, some may take objection to this. You
might say, what about the violent deaths, how can you say without consequences?
Think about the film again, the violence is presented not as a result of
the sex, but rather the result of a backwards people, mindless ignorant
hicks, who's judgmental religious intolerance killed those beautiful martyrs.
See how they work it?
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- The film preaches quite a lot about sex, man's "need
for it is apparently only surpassed by his need to breath oxygen. The lies
they told about fishing demonstrate that gay sex was even more important
than food. Of course the Jake Gyllenhaal character when deprived of this
vital necessity has no other choice than to leave his wife and child and
search out Mexican male prostitutes. When even this leaves him unable to
find enough "manlove he is forced to lower his standard and carry
on an adulterous relationship with some woman he has no feelings for, all
perfectly justifiable because the evil society is hindering the two gays
total access.
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- So what about the "love, is this really a film about
love? Having spoken to a lot of women about this film, I can tell you,
they think it is. "Oh, it's a true love story. they pine. A married
woman told me, "Because it's about two men it's much more interesting,
a man and a woman would be banal. What's going on? When a woman tells me
it's about "true love, I ask her how she knows that? They don't have
much to say beyond what the film presents. When informed of the statistics
that the majority of male homosexuals are the single most promiscuous segment
of the world's population, having more anonymous sexual partners per year
than any other group, these women shut down. "Oh I,m not interested
in the real gay sex, I just like the love story, one told me. Oh, so you,re
Truthophobic, I said. You see, the facts, statistics, recorded data on
a subject are not important, in fact they are rather a stark reminder of
something we,d prefer to ignore. Truth is something we want to completely
tune out with our escapism, hence fantasy is more to be desired than the
mundane existence of reality.
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- The promotion of gay men to women has seen a real upswing
in the past 10 years or so. Every sitcom has a funny gay character, and
of course he's the funniest, least inhibited and most able to communicate
with women. Queer Eye For The Straight Guy tells women that gay men are
superior to the knuckle dragging neanderthal you have at home. When the
Queer Eye fab five went on Oprah, "normal housewives screamed and
swooned like schoolgirls cheering rockstars. But the agenda goes deeper,
the plan is to get women interested in gay porn as an addictive and isolating
tool of division. Sex In The City, shows women sitting together giggling
while watching gay porn. The biggest thrust in this wave is coming out
of Japan and targeting your preteen daughters. It's called Yaoi.
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- Yaoi is a massive multi-million dollar subculture providing
young girls with comic books and animated films depicting gay romantic
love between handsome boys, culminating in explicit hard core homosexual
pornography. The tide of this material represents a generation of girls
whose misdirected sexuality is being warped in an unnatural direction.
Traveling extensively, I warn you this epidemic is rampant throughout Europe,
Russia, Asia, and now making heavy inroads into the Americas. Parents have
no idea what their young girls have tucked under their mattresses, or hidden
in closets and computers. Scores of websites are devoted to young girls
fiction describing their fantasies of young men in popular music, tv, film,
etc, all engaged in romantic "love and gay sex.
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- Teen girls rapidly become obsessed with Yaoi and find
it an entry drug to other shows like Queer As Folk, and gay hardcore. Many
discuss openly their confusion about sex, not wanting a husband or baby,
or angst ridden with their own experimentation towards bisexuality and
lesbianism. Of course, they're all buzzing about Brokeback.
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- None are buzzing more than the critics who are falling
over themselves in trying to outdo one another in kissing this film's ass.
Sad but so predictable, as homoeroticism has been chosen as this year's
politically correct cause for film awards. Just like the year it was blacks
and everything black won everything great. Never mind that Oscar winner
Halley Barry is said to have a black and white parent, meaning she's as
much white as she is black. You see, in the brave new world of propaganda
soaked society, truth is no longer black and white. It's all gray now,
everything is blurred. Or as the popular group Blur sings ...
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- "Girls who are boys
- Who like boys to be girls
- Who do boys like they're girls
- Who do girls like they're boys
- Always should be someone you really love
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- Confused yet?
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- Good, that's what they want.
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- Dr. R. Winfield may be reached at
- drrwinfield@mail.com
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- Some of his selected lectures will be posted coming soon
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- www.AmazingLastDays.com
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