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I just got turned onto to this guy Charlie Brooker, an English TV show host, media critic and misanthrope. His show is called “Screenswipe” on Britain’s Channel 4, but you can only see it on You Tube in parts, unless you live in da UK. Or have other devious sources for attaining cool TV shows. Check it out its as funny as the Burmese Government.

Two highlights below. One a short piece attacking advertising, the second a selection of Best bits from Screenswipe, that goes 30 mins. Now, this is watch Media Watch should be like!

My grammar is not so hot. Even that sentence sounds a bit off? Having studied some famous authors recently, I was relieved to find out their grammar, spelling, etc., was not so hot either. I did read a book on grammar, to try and rectify the situation. It didn’t help much. My ideas spew forth with little regard given to the correct placement of commas or the relationships of participles to adverbs in a sentence or whatever. That shit bores me. I’ll continue to try and improve myself in this area, but this blog will have grammar and spelling mistakes, etc. So, live with it. Its unedited by anyone else. Maybe, one day I’ll get someone to edit it. But until that day, you’ll just have to put up with it. What Idea Fix lacks in grammatical and linguistic detail and correctness, it makes up for in original thought, cheeky humour, interesting content and iconoclastic opinion.

This Olympic torch rally is good for a laugh. It is supposed to represent the peace and unity of Nations but instead in 2008, with the Chinese joke of an Olympics, is signifying the mutual hate of nations. Japanese right wingers are attacking the torch for their own reasons at present. See here. The absolute lie of peaceful international harmony is revealed by this simple torch, with its Ancient Greek Origins, that seems to be spreading division and animosity in its wake.

May it continue its happy journey…

Just saw Tropfest films first movie, September and I don’t want to sound like Bobby Galinsky but this film was so boring, so dull, so pedestrian… I just don’t know what to say.

But I’ll give it a go, anyway…

First, September. The title - it sucks. It’s also a copy of Woody Allen’s film of the same name. So its unoriginal.

Second, the story is paper thin. Here it is. 1968 WA - Boy is friends with Aboriginal boy. Father employs Aboriginal Father. Government brings in equal pay for Aborigines in 1968 (Yes the political correct message, government public service announcement part- OMG!). Minor conflict. Aboriginal Boy runs away to join a boxing troop. The End. Producer John Polson said this was the best script out of 30. What the fuck were the other 29 like? I dare to think. The story is mind numbingly tedious, no one would want to see this tale… and no one did. I wondered why films like Romulus and Black Balloon get praised so much in Australia. Compared to September they truly are masterpieces.

Third, Mise en scene. Endless shots of the Australian out back as a character. How often have you seen this in Australian movies? 100, 200 times? Its not interesting. Its dull. Have a zombie or car chase or nuclear accident happen and the outback could be interesting. But dull shots of the outback is a decidedly Australian cinematic trope, we should loose. Its so, so cliche.

Fourth, the cast. They collectively have the personality of a postage stamp. The young Aboriginal boy is best. His father’s character is a racist portrayal of an Aboriginal Uncle Tom that you can do nothing with accept wince. The white boy’s Dad gives a walking dead performance Romero would be proud of. And the young male lead is a prat and plays a cowardly character.

Fifth, the direction. Peter Carstairs direction is uninspired, awful and insipid. His tale would put dogs to sleep in Vets without the injection. His shorts (a DVD extra) are mildly better, because they last under ten minutes each.

Sixth, I can’t go on, I’m sorry.

You get the idea, surely. Don’t believe me? You just find out for yourself.

The DVD extras are good for a laugh. Learn filmmaking tips from John Polson, Tropfest creator like “Filmmaking is like driving a bus”. You heard it here first, just get a bus drivers manual and go make your next movie, hey presto.

Please, why would Tropfest make this concrete slab of mediocrity?

Polson in the extras complains about making films ‘the Hollywood way’. You mean good? You mean make films people might want to see? He’s probably referencing genre.

Who is this guy Polson anyway? Who gives a shit if he’s Nicole Kidman’s friend or cleans her pool. Apart from running Tropfest what does this turkey do? Siam Sunset, I think I saw it - Shit. His other films look worse. He’s acted in some second rate Australian and US fodder, so what? This is the guru of the future of Australian cinema? Will research him and do a post on Mr Tropfest John Polson, later.

Oh by the way at the local DVD library there was one measly copy of September and 9 copies of Gabriel by Shane Abess, done the genre way. That should speak for itself.

“Science Does not Think”, so said Heidegger. And I am with him.

Scientists do not think. They formulate, scheme, experiment, control, create and destroy. They do all this without any consideration of the consequences or ethics of their actions. Heidegger wanted to put philosophy back on its thrown as the Queen of the sciences and the head of all other disciplines, where it should be, we might add! But, alas he was ignored.

Now we have CERN, the Large Hedron Collidor (LHC) in Switzerland. A gigantic particle accelerator that aims to give physicists answers to questions like what happened at the beginning of the Universe with the Big Bang? (Hello people…Its called the Big Bang, should we really try and understand that through experiment?!) Or other questions like: Are there any other dimensions beyond our own? What is dark matter? And many other fascinating questions of theoretical physicists.

The only problem is it could destroy the World. Not just Switzerland, or Europe or even the Earth but our whole surrounding Sun and planets.

Small problem that one.

How?

Well, the LHC could open a mini black hole that could swallow the Earth, it could release a thing called a strangelet that would act like Vonnegut’s famous Ice Nine and multiply and destroy all surrounding matter. Or other side effects involving major changes to matter and atoms.

Now, apparently it’s very unlikely for this to happen. One scientist said its like winning Lotto three times in a row. Is this the same scientist that said the chances of Life existing on Earth are like winning Lotto every week for a year? Well, the odds are something like that for life existing on Earth. There’s no reason to think that the odds that will snuff us out will be equally long.

The Problem is Science simply will not Think. It will not think that if even the possibility of damaging human beings and Being itself in our galaxy is possible through this infernal machine, it should not go ahead. Who gives a fuck if we find out more about sub atomic particles? Science has given us great material and medical things, but it hasn’t provided one iota of real value or meaning to human existence. If anything it has removed and made impotent any attempt to give human existence meaning.

What knowledge does it give me to know I’m made of atoms and particles or whatever? How does that help any human being live their life? It doesn’t.

Now, probably CERN concerns are unfounded. But the slightest possibility, of what it has the potential to unleash, is a good enough reason to stop it. It’s like some scary 70’s sci fi flick I grew up on.

As Ballard, says “ Its not a good idea to write about the future”. We know… because there may not be one.

CERN flicks the switch and start bashing together things (like gold particles -Alchemy?) at speeds unseen since the time of the Big Bang around October. To be safe move all plans forward to the four or five months left.

Of course, nothing will probably happen…

It will either be a great discovery for unthinking science or human kinds greatest folly? I’m buying lottery tickets. If I win three times in a row. I’m taken the next plane to CERN to stop them…

See story here and here.

See picture below. Its not from some new science fiction movie. That SOB is real. Looks like like an abyss to me. Thus spoke Nietzsche, “When you look into an abyss… remember it also looks back”.

I think I owe Idea Fix another post on the 911 conspiracy but let’s ignore the window dressing for a moment and get to the heart of the matter. The War on Terror is fake. It is orchestrated by the US and her (select) allies as a ‘Strategy of Tension’.

The notion of a Strategy of Tension is a post ww2 Italian fascist concept of such groups as the Ordine Nouovo (New Order) and Avanguardia Nazionale (National Vanguard) who had links with the CIA and other anti-communist groups. The basic thesis is: to set off bombs or commit terrorist acts and blame others for your actions in an attempt to bring legitimacy and a sense of being under attack to your cause. A series of bombings and assassinations occurred in Italy in the 70’s and 80’s (known as the ‘years of lead’) followed by sensational trials. The purpose of the bombings in Italy then and worldwide now… is to bring in a more authoritarian right-wing government or institute a situation for a fascist revolutionary ‘moment’.

This also feeds into ideas of the State Of Emergency developed by Schmitt best represented in our age by the colour coded warning system in the US.

It seems fairly obvious that something like a Strategy of Tension has been adopted by major covert groups in the West to bring about its own Neo-conservative fascist agenda. This can take many forms, from deliberate covert organisation of your own terrorist attacks against yourself to allowing already motivated Arab or Muslim groups to succeed in their aims, rather than foil them.

It’s clear that a major terrorist attack in the States before the US election would change the political land scape in favor of McCain. Whether this card is played remains to be seen. Maybe, Hillary will still get up. Or maybe true democracy might interfere with Obama? Who knows…? Does it even matter? If Obama was against the agenda and tried to reveal anything like this, he wouldn’t last to the end of the week. Bang, bang.

Regardless, to me it is clear that the war on terror is a fake. Most Muslim and Arab citizens of the West are peace loving God fearing do goody peasants. I can wager that given just a small group of three or four people you could pull off major attacks in any Capital city world wide… and no one need kill themselves in the attack either. Give any motivated intelligent person a week or two’s planning and trains and trams are easy targets for Strategy of Tension actions. You can even get idiots of your choice to do it for you and don’t even tell them what they are really doing…like the conspiracy theory behind the London Bombings (more on that in another post).

Just because Palestinians are so frustrated by their Israeli masters that they choose to blow themselves up, this does not mean suicide bombing is as popular in the Arab world as the West makes out…

Have you heard the rumours or read the online stories of taxi drivers and general motorists in Iraq being pulled over by US military groups and held for twenty minutes away from their vehicles. Then apologised to and set free. One suspicious Iraqi looked in his car boot and found a bomb! Placed there he presumed by the US. Most probably drive on and boom. How many suicide bombers have been involuntary stooges of the US’s Strategy of Tension in Iraq? Who knows? See here and here and here for reports.

Why would the US do this? As explained above, Strategy of Tension. A quagmire, nightmare and dystopia in Iraq is what the US wants at least temporarily. Endless military spending and endless need for vigilance, tension and emergency.

They say there is a coming US financial crash. maybe, but not a real one. If China and Saudi Arabia dared to really withdraw their money from America. America could just renege on its debts? Who the hell is going to make the US pay up? Really, they are the Bank, people… like in a game of poker at a casino. The House never loses.

The tensions rise, fear, emergency, crisis, spectacle, disinformation, lies, truth…they all combine in a political and violence symphony of the highest order. They are bringing about the ‘moment’, mentioned above… some in high places have been waiting for this ‘moment’ for some time.

This moment is coming. Our question at Idea Fix, why fight the indubitability of the ‘moment’? But lets think and act on how can we make any new historically disclosed ‘moment’ as Transcendental, Authentic and Ontological as possible? For we are tense with fear at the moment, that this ‘moment’ will be no solution at all.

Richard Wolstencroft Idea Fix, repeat.

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Age Journalist Larissa Dubecki wrote an Op Ed on the Sam Leach Hitler painting, complaining of all the left wing psycho dictator’s who are pop culture heroes and how Hitler is not! Just like our post Mass Murderer Restaurant art of Feb 21 (see below) and our Sam Leach post of March 1. Has she been reading Idea Fix to get some inspiration?

See here her Age Op ed piece

As noted below contrary to Dubecki’s piece Hitler is a pop culture phenomenon in some cultures and countries, see the wiki link. The reason Hitler is not more of a pop culture figure, apart from the obvious? The Jewish community are very sensitive about his image and Hitler is Verboten. Of course as Freud would say, whenever you repress or censor something, it gives the object of repression or censorship a forbidden allure that is generally undeserved. What do you all think?

PS Anyone know how to imbed links on this fucking WordPress site?

Kevin Rudd apologised today to the Aborigines of Australia, I thought he didn’t go far enough. He should have apologised on behalf of the British Crown for invading this country in the first place and taking it from the Aborigines by force and guile. He should have apologised for one of the world’s only completely successful genocide’s of Tasmanian aborigines.

He could have then apologised for building cities and penal colonies and establishing western culture here in the South perhaps. Why not apologise also for the poetry of Henry Lawson or Banjo Paterson that came from this? Or Waltzing Matilda, the Eureka Stockade or Ned Kelly? He could have probably apologised for the British Empire itself. He could have also by default apologised for the middle ages and the Roman Empire for founding Britain and instilling it with its character, virtues, vices and culture. Hell, why not apologise for the entire course of Western History? Or the invention of Science and its theories of Evolution and Progress or for Western Culture itself?

Why not? For it will mean as much as his apology today. Nothing. Tokenistic bullshit to make idiots grin.

As a Transcendental Fascist, I would act more decisively and actually give the Aborigines back part of their land. Say the Northern Territory? To be ruled as a Sovereign Aboriginal State. Until the Aboriginals have at least part of their own country returned to them as a Sovereign entity under their own rule, this is just window dressing. The maintenance of an originary population’s relationship with its land is an important facet of Transcendental Fascism. While Australia, America and other colonial countries can’t turn back the pages of History and should not, they can in the present restore at least partly some of the original Volk’s relationship with its Soil. The same can be said in many other similar colonial situations that cause discord around the globe.

But I’m afraid these few words are all our Aboriginal comrades are going to get. A Flowery speech of less than two minutes in Parliament and then back to business as usual.

Sorry for fucking up your entire world. Here’s some words, a little cash for some who deserve it and some more for people who pay lip service to our bullshit, forget about what you had. Forget about your primary relationship with the Being of this land. We are the good Cop, to Howard’s bad cop. We are Sorry. Western History has run over you, we are so deeply Sorry about it, but lets face facts, it has. It has consumed you, as it has so many cultures, hey, as it is consuming them now! Really… we truly are very, very sorry about it all. Now go away,we have a mining deal to organise…

Calling on one of the main themes of fascism, Palingenesis - Time magazine this week features Republican front runner John McCain looking malevolent and being called The Phoenix. The notion of palingenetic renewal is an essential tenet and core myth of fascism i.e. a state of social decadence and decline can be overcome through national or now international rebirth, rising like a Phoenix from the flames and saving society and Western Civilization. Of course I’ve called the US election for Hillary already but with a huge American recession on the way things can change. Any side deals with the Clinton’s could be on hold for the war dog John McCain. McCain will give us the golden jewel of middle eastern insanity - War with Iran. A morsel that will sit tasty on the lips of the Neo Cons and fans of war and destruction everywhere. Hillary would go for some bombing of nuclear facilities but all out WW3 type ground war with Iran- that McCain only can deliver. I bet the ‘conspiracy’ is debating which way to go. If its not HC… it’ll be J McC. I still think he’s too much of a nutter to win. But today who knows…