Soul Renditions

Propaganda Anonymous

Right on McNuggetz.

I have checked out the video link there.I need to look at the synchromysticism thing a bit more.

I kinda get where the dude is going, and like I said, I feel like I should just watch more of where he's going before I judge it.

As far as 'We Want Your Soul' I made this post because I think it is important to watch all 4 videos.

For one, the Adam Freeland original was a hit. And the video is a comment on the theme of consumerism within our culture.

As you see, the man starts the video waking up on a beach, and then ends the video in the same place, but something is different. He has 'grown up' in a sense. At the beginning of the video he is like a small child, all happy to be alive and does what everyone else seems to be doing. Following the voice in the song. He is attempting to live the American Dream.In one sense this video is elucidating the modern americana mythos.This video is presented in a way that would make it palpable for a station like MTV or Fuse or whatever. It's essentially a TV video.

The Ed Rush and Optical video is a bit more edgy and informative. It is a statement with a very punk rock vibe to it. They have remixed the original song and pumped up the tempo to a speed that may entertain your pulse to speed up.This track would kill at a Drum N' Bass party, and I'm sure it has.

This video is like non-fiction social science book, while the other one is like a story book. This video seems also to be more in line an activist mind state. Providing the viewer with statistics that can be measure and quantified. 

The last two videos, which is really one long one broken into two, is the most intense. It is also the most coercive in it's methods.

The creators of the video have played no part in creating the song.The original composer is no attached to the video. They are only concerned with using the song to present their video. The video itself demands the most from the viewer. Cramming as much text within the quickly moving scenes on the screen.

From the opening line it throws up a challenge to the viewer. It presents an argument at the beginning of the video, but somewhere along the line it goes from arguments to assertions and then by the end, wild leaps of prediction. If you have ever spoken with someone in the midst of a very paranoid trip they would sound like this.  

The video would easily be termed 'paranoid' (which isn't necessarily a bad thing) but the viewer should be aware of the techniques used in the presentation itself.

 My opinion on paranoia is that it is rooted in some form of Post Traumatic Stress that during certain times of stress becomes amplified and projected upon the outside world. In a paranoid state, a person can 'see' the plot quite clearly, and it doesn't look good.

 We are in a state of extremely high stress around the world, and are reminded of it daily.

This last video is not leaving any room for interpretation. It doesn't allow the viewer to come to one's own conclusion. It doesn't allude, as does the original video. 

 I have noticed a huge popularity with videos of this type on the Internet. If you peruse youtube you can watch tons of videos like this. So this material is an  Internet video. 

 There are some very interesting aspects to all these videos.There are also some dubious ones.

Lastly, what the last video presents is what Robin Ramsay terms a 'mega-conspiracy' I find conspiracies to be very interesting phenomena.

Not because I think that they explain what exactly is going on in this world, but more so in what they reveal about the people who do whole-heartedly believe in them.

There really are different shades of the 'mega-conspiracy' Christian Fundamentalists go one way with their 'mega-conspiracy'

Free Market Fundamentalists go another.

Some believe the Freemasons are evil, and therefore the images they utilize should be thrown away

Some believe that the Freemasons are just a poor knock-off of the Moors and that the images are good but being misused.

When one looks upon Conspiracy Theory through an Anthropological lens then the world becomes even more interesting.