It has been a wild year thus far, but that is only following the program.
Synchromysticism is a term that denotes seeing the connection between various popculture productions (films, music, painting, newspaper articles, celebrities, etc.) with current & future events and the symbols that bind them together. Some of the analysis works, and when it does, it points out that the mind which is engaged in the creation of ART has sometype of prophetic quality that the waking consciousness does not. For instance, comic book savant Jack Kirby predicted 9/11 and the capture of Saddam Hussein many years before those things occured.
Recent talks on the internets are pointing to the rise of a deadly archetype germane to the discussion, the Joker. As Curtis Gale Weeks says in Dreaming5GW
“I had written in the Twit that TDK could “accelerate” the GG process, on the basis of a few very subtle hints — mostly meaning at the time that more than one reviewer commented on how the ideas, images, etc., of the movie, and particularly the Joker, stayed in their minds after the viewing. Essentially I wonder if the Joker, as epitome, may really become an icon for GG for those so inclined, even those not quite on that side of the fence. The movie could serve as a kind of primary memetic hub, via which disparate individuals and groups are inspired toward global guerrillaism of one type or another….”
So the Dark Knight is bringing into public memetic creation, a single person capable of tremendous damage. This is not too hard to put into the synchromystic framework, a movie predicting reality, look what neocon creator Leo Strauss did with TV shows.
The Joker as a non-traditional avatar of chaos is a logical step in the post-911 public mind. This lineage of thought, however conscious, seems to be there. Look at the buildings in both pics.
So what is next? Jokers are not mindless terrorists who fly planes into buildings because of some belief system. They only make chaos for chaos’ sake. The US is certainly in a great state of weakness. Bin Laden (if he still exists) is happy with the oil prices , the Dow is dropping and with it the greenback. (But hey, at least you got your i-phone!). Other than Bush’s illegitimate presidency, could some large ‘practical’ joke be played on a National scale soon?
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