This is not a review of the film
Zeitgeist—there are more than enough reviews (debunkings, addendums, etc)—instead, this is a brief examination of the film’s ideas and theories utilizing the
Bloody Socks Rule as a litmus. Although no new or original information is proffered by the director, Peter Joseph, because this film is slickly produced and smoothly edited it's much easier to watch than its progenitors.
It’s not unfair to compare the opening act with a barker filling the theater. The director sets the stage describing the building blocks early religious leaders utilized to construct the christian faith. Anyone who wants to itemize Mr. Joseph's erroneous statements should understand that none of his details matter. It's completely irrelevant if it is all supposition or 100% true. It doesn’t matter if various traits and plot arcs of the Egyptian god Horus (or his predecessors) were used to create the christ-myth. The only important thing is the foundational themes which interweave the whole film.
Theme #1 - The most powerful puppet-masters have amazing prescient abilities.
Theme #2 - To maintain their power, these super-apex men encourage their puppets to war.
Theme #3 - They successfully pass their secret batons from generation-to-generation and have done so for centuries.
The film in three sentences: Fifteen hundred years ago, the most powerful super-apex men were the priests who constructed christianity. They sent their puppets off to kill in the crusades and burned witches for centuries just so they could drink from golden chalices. Today, the most powerful super-apex men are politicians and bankers who work hand-in-hand to manipulate the US into its large wars and then keep them in those wars for as long as possible because the war-machine is profitable.
I don’t think anyone will contest that
Zeitgeist was scripted as propaganda in order to appeal to non-religious, non-wealthy, skeptical, disaffected, Americans.
This is where the
Bloody Socks Rule comes in (recap: focus on one valid piece of evidence).
I call
Zeitgeist’s bloody socks ‘The Unseen Unproof’.
The film suggests hundreds of American political and military people either passively conspired to sacrifice or actively finger-on-the-trigger murdered thousands of our own citizens on 11 September 2001. Even though it could only be possible if we were all
Borg, the film implies that unknown and unseen explosive experts were allowed to rig three WTC buildings for demolition all through the night of 10 Sep 2011—because just hitting them with plane-loads of people wouldn’t bring them down and wouldn’t be sufficient to sway public opinion to go to war. And, the missing passenger plane debris at the Pentagon as well as the unseen debris at the crash site in Pennsylvania means the missing planes (AA77 and UA93) didn’t crash. There must have been missiles.
The film doesn’t say anything about Area 51, but where else would you hide two planes and 100+ passengers?
One of the things that amazes me about conspiracy nuts...they imbue ‘authority figures’ with more intelligence, capabilities, and cleverness than your average idiot. In my experience everyone is an average idiot. They don’t seem to understand that everyone: Presidents, fighter pilots, WTC architects, ground-zero clean-up crews, policemen, firemen, receptionists, bankers, Osama, suicide-terrorists -
all - are all just a bunch of overgrown kindergartners playing at adult games.
Greedy? You bet. Prone to making mistakes? Every day. Capable of keeping a secret? Never.
also:
Another first. Played with a ParView GPS on the cart. Not only does it maintain score(s); indicate yardage to: pin, front/back of green, hazards and other golf carts; act like a golf OnStar to notify the course marshall if assistance is needed; and track playing pace...it also permits pre-ordering as you near the clubhouse, so your food will be ready when you hit the 19th hole. What's not to love?
