TriPPy StuFF

Anyone who watches Battlestar Galactica, I wonder if the creators themselves have delved into the works of Jordan Maxwell and Michael Talbot (with CyLon projection), or, at the very least, studied material on the Sumerians, Annunaki and Nibiru. Cylons, after all, were supposedly descended from a “reptilian race” in the original version. In any case, it is fascinating stuff.

Now I understand why such large world questions or issues are addressed in sci fi and fantasy. The links and development of politics and ideologies are so complex, so intricate and so far-out, that one must dress it up in a shiny silver suit and claim, “It’s just entertainment” so that it doesn’t make too many waves. That, and they must cater to the cultural whims and fancies of Comicon peoples.

This one, here, I find interesting in the first 5 minutes — kind of like Zeitgeist, I found only the first 1/3 of it brain tingling. Speaking of Zeitgeist, the narrator’s voice sounds very similar. And if it’s the same, it would explain how the narrator makes a giant leap in logic in the last 1/3 or so connecting the Annunaki and Nibiru to the Bohemian Club — a link I don’t think is completely illogical, but it wasn’t done very well.

Here is a lecture by Jordan Maxwell. Many people might outright call him a nutcase, and there are certainly a lot of ideas that are either beyond me or I don’t think he processed enough yet (like explaining this war between male and female, or how he has yet to delve into other religious texts of reference as deeply as he has the Bible, and the yeti, etc.) but I suppose his greatest selling point is that he is not a salesman. He’s not trying to charm the audience, he’s not trying to convert anyone to any one point of view or religion. In fact, he’s quite anti-religion if you get right down to it.

As trippy as his ideas are, he comes off as an academic in a true sense of the word. He’s not trying to inculcate the ideas that strengthen the foundation of an academic institution. It’s like, “Here are some facts, and this is what I make of them.” He’s also in love with words and symbology, so he goes off on little tangents when he gets excited. Kinda like me.

It’s a bit long, but overall, it is pretty worth it. And it kind of gets you interested more into Michael Cremo and Zacharia Sitchin.

Most unfortunately, Jordan Maxwell is kind of in hiding at the moment. Apparently his wife left him, the government is tapping his phonelines and he’s getting death threats in the mail. At least, the last I heard.

Also, there's this bitter Jordan Maxwell debunKer trying to "expose" Jordan Maxwell as a "liar." While yes, I'm sure there are some holes to Maxwell's theories and he does get a little carried away with Western etymologies, the debunker is missing the point of the larger picture. It's the ideas and the way in which these ideas connect on a material and spiritual and concrete level. There's an overall holographic interference forming a larger picture, a larger constellation.

The thing is, I think we too soon throw out the baby with the bathwater. What I mean is so-called "feminists of color" saying nothing Freud has to say is valid because his work is oppressively patriarchal in scope, or boho, hipster queer theorists saying Fanon has nothing to teach any of us because of his blatant homophobia.

Hold up there.

What disturbs me is that inherent conviction that we must hold theorists and academics as being superhuman so that as soon as their theories don't address this identity politics or is blatantly racist in his or her case studies -- they are devoid of value. That they lack having anything to teach us.

But they aren't Gods. So why are we so utterly disheartened and disappointed when they prove in some areas to be fallible?

That's just nihilistic and lazy on our parts. Think bigger picture. Think what you CAN glean from this. Think JenGa.