Monday, October 21, 2013

What post?

So this is another filling-in-type, makeshift post. Ben Hur (aka, the giant, significant post that hasn't yet arrived) has not trimmed himself down yet and it would seem it is up to me. Nonetheless, there's a need to post, and I am a bit over fb-ing & tweeting. It's so anecdotal. When you're busy it's helpful but those mediums have their limitations. Do people you mean to read those fb posts read them, or just the people no one wants? How can you ever tell? - no traffic widget.  Things have been heavy in the news lately - big issues to talk about (such as, the erosion of the separation of powers [a basic democratic legal tenet] in social control order laws [pre-emptive rather than by trial] passed in Qld last week) but, just for a moment, please excuse some fleeting levity.

They say that the truth is stranger than fiction. Crypto-history (oft misunderstood and maligned), or 'pseudohistory', just kills me - slays me in the aisle. Funny, weird and occasionally, challenging. One of my favourites - one of the funniest crypto-history inspired vlog series that I have seen, is The Stuff They Don't Want You To Know. Hell-arious!!!! I often watch their podcasts when I am working out & my riotous giggling does attract some unusual visual evaluations from those nearby.

I especially love the part where the guy with the funny voice (Ben) says..."and here's where it gets ker-razee..." It's almost snort-worthy, because in reality a lot of the stuff they cover is pretty crazy from the outset. Even covering it in the first place is pretty "ker-razee" but it sure beats censorship, it's funny (as previously stated) AND, just every now and then, they raise something that is really quite substantial, but not in the best interests of the general pop-media or mainstream media to examine. For example, the segment about banning lobbying (only quite recently outlawed in little sleepy-old backwoods Queensland - one house of parliament - need I say more), and those about dodgy old PR-the hand is faster than the ball-trickster, Bernays, were so excellently researched.

I was watching this podcast on General Smedley Butler yesterday (below) and I thought for crypto-history it was pretty well argued - not particularly hilarious and on the Guffaw Suggestibility Scale I might give it, say, only a one. This one about the remote viewing program that inspired the movie Men Who Stare At Goats, should have been a 3, but fell a bit short on ludicrousness; and, more generally, the ones about aliens, illuminati, sasquatches  and time travel usually rate fairly highly with me, and, if the writers can combine all of those into one program (e.g.-a segment on aliens infiltrating the illuminati who have time travelled with a sasquatch and got voted in as PM) all the better - almost Dr Who-like - the key is definitely in the delivery of the spooky voice.

This clip's pretty self-explanatory, but basically it equates to a 1930s plot by a group of servicemen to overthrow Roosevelt, one of those implicated was the grandfather of George Bush (senior). Turn back n-o-w...