WAKE UP! a Soliloquy from the movie "Waking Life"

[goodboy]

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Alex: You can't fight city hall. Death and taxes. Don't talk about politics or religion. This is all the equivalent of enemy propaganda rolling across the picket line. Lay down G.I.! Lay down G.I.! We saw it all through the 20th century, and now, in the 21st century, it's time to stand up and realize that we should not allow ourselves to be crammed into this rat maze. We should not submit to de-humanization. I don't know about you, but I'm concerned with what's happening in this world. I'm concerned with the structure. I'm concerned with the systems of control: those that control my life, and those that seek to control it even more. I want freedom, that's what I want! And that's what you should want! It's up to each and every one of us to turn loose and just suck up the greed, the hatred, the envy, and yes, the insecurities, because that is the central mode of control; Make us feel pathetic, small, so we'll willingly give up our sovereignty, our liberty, our destiny. We have got to realize that we're being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave-state. The 21st century is going to be a new century, not the century of slavery, not the century of lies and issues of no significance, and classism and statism, and all the rest of the modes of control. It's going to be the age of humankind standing up for something pure, and something right. What a bunch of garbage: liberal, democrat, conservative, republican. It's all there to control you! Two sides of the same coin. Two management teams bidding for control, the CEO job, of Slavery Inc.! The truth is out there in front of you, but they lay out this buffet of lies. I'm sick of it and I'm not going to take a bite out of it, do you got me?! Resistance is not futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we're not a bunch of under-achievers! We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter: creativity and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit. Well, that's it, that's all I got to say. The ball's in your court.

See some of Alex's work, as well as this clip from the movie "Waking Life"
Here: http://infowars.com/video/previews/promo/aj_promo_wm_high.htm

[nittygritty]

1. Excellent movie!

some serious intellectual ponderings in that flick...

[goodboy]

2. I watched it for the first time this afternoon. I found it eye-opening

I've been interested in lucid dreaming for a long time now, and I've also recently developed a huge interest in Quantum Physics/Mechanics.

You've got to see "What the bleep do we know?"

www.whatthebleep.com

[Al-CIAda]

3. MP3 audio clip-

Alex Jones in Waking Life -I want freedom!
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/alex_jones-stand_up.mp3

:nuke:

[goodboy]

5. I just bought a subscription to his website. This guy knows his shit

and he's got 8 MILLION listeners! How many does RushieContin have?

[solinvictus]

4. I've watched it several times..

I love the movie. It's got some thought provoking points on sleep, dreaming, life, and death.

[goodboy]

6. It's hypnotic isn't it? There's a move called

What the bleep do we know?

It examines the science behind consciousness, dreams, death, reality...


www.whatthebleep.com

[savannahana]

7. jolt! ,,, "Two sides of the same coin."

"...The truth is out there in front of you, but they lay out this buffet of lies. I'm sick of it and I'm not going to take a bite out of it, do you got me?!"

i won't miss this movie.

thanks, goodboy -- i think my blood's flowing again! :thumbsup:

"We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter: creativity and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit."

to Alex :toast:

[goodboy]

8. LOOK HERE!

www.infowars.com
www.prisonplanet.com

[nittygritty]

9. alex jones...

despite that sometimes some of his listeners (and he DOES pander to these wingnut callers, but no more so than than the guys from Coast to Coast radio when wingnuts call in to their show) call into his show sounding like gun-crazy-survivalist-inbred-jed-fundies, Alex Jones Show does indeed have many intelligent topics and legitimate, credible guests (as does Coast to Coast).

If i'm not mistaken, the network that carries (or one of them anyway, a big one) his show is a sort of x-tian fundie network. These fundies though, seem to distrust the gov't (and the UN - alot of UN bashing amongst them, including Alex) alot more than our Bush loving fundies. They also subscribe to whole foods (herbs, homeopathics, etc) philosophies. I'm not sure if there's a name for this category of fundies or not, but they seem a different breed. Not to say Alex subscribes to these fundies, but he doesn't discourage them either. Overall, I think he's worth listening to. I listen in and check into infowars.com from time to time, especially when I'm in the mood for a good conspiracy theory (and we all know truth IS stranger than fiction these days!)

[goodboy]

10. Is he a libertarian then

[nittygritty]

11. I don't know what his personal political party is

but if I had to guess, I'd say libertarian is a pretty good guess...

[savannahana]

12. thanks! for the fresh links...

...my bookmarks are a mess these days. haven't been to his sites for quite awhile; hit DU & a couple of blogs every day & barely scratch the surface (and need new bifocals lol)

but, as nittygritty says here (:hi: ng), alex is well worth the time, you just gotta use a lite-fundie-filter for the dissonant bits that cross your brain-grain

tuning in to the bradblog rebroadcast, (with coffee) in a few hours, and right after i plan to check out this movie! thanks again

take care, guys
have a good sunday

ana