‘No Pressure’: Fascistic New Video Red-Lines the Eco-Insanity Meter
Before clicking on the above video, take the warning of the Sad Hill blog to heart: “Do NOT watch this video if you wish to avoid portrayals of extreme violence, genocide, child murders, demonic practice and terrorism — all in the name of environmentalism.”
That disclaimer out of the way, we’ll get to the insane video at the top of the post in just a moment, but first, some background.
In a recent edition of City Journal, Fred Siegel explored how the radical environmentalism of the early 1970s created a new breed of “Progressives Against Progress,” as he put it:
In 1972, Sir John Maddox, editor of the British journal Nature, noted that though it had once been usual to see maniacs wearing sandwich boards that proclaimed the imminent end of the Earth, they had been replaced by a growing number of frenzied activists and politicized scientists making precisely the same claim. In the years since then, liberalism has seen recurring waves of such end-of-days hysteria. These waves have shared not only a common pattern but often the same cast of characters. Strangely, the promised despoliations are most likely to be presented as imminent when Republicans are in the White House. In each case, liberals have argued that the threat of catastrophe can be averted only through drastic actions in which the ordinary political mechanisms of democracy are suspended and power is turned over to a body of experts and supermen.
Paradoxically, today’s environmental fascists can use the power of the free market against itself, taking advantage of the freedom brought by powerful advances in computer video and computer illustration over the last decade to produce messages preaching the very opposite of freedom and individuality.
Last September, shortly before the “Hide the Decline” story broke, doing to the left’s global cooling/warming/climate change/global climate disruption fantasies what RatherGate did for Dan Rather’s reputation, we noted a series of ads designed to “raise awareness” of “global warming.” Instead they raised awareness of how desperate the eco-left have been to escalate their rhetoric.
First, there was MasterCard’s ad, originally spotted by James Lileks, in which a credit card company helps a thoughtless father see the error of his consumerist ways by buying doubleplusgood enviro-themed consumer goods, thanks to the prodding of his benighted young son:
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Then there was this 9/11-themed ad:
Here we go again — the latest 9/11-mocking botched ad campaign, this time from the Brazilian division of DDB Worldwide (whose initials stand for the agency’s founders, Doyle, Dane, and Bernbach), the ad agency employed — possibly for the last time — by the World Wildlife Fund:
Click the image to enlarge to full size to see the ad’s “Fire make sea gods angry” caption, to borrow from an Iowahawk riff from a few years ago. It reads:
“The tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11. The planet is brutally powerful. Respect it. Preserve it.”
You can watch an accompanying video version of the ad here, which the WWF attempted to have squelched from YouTube. And we rounded-up several other 9/11-themed ads to promote anti-smoking, Starbucks, and even Spanish socialist politics around that time as well. And then in November of last year came this infamous YouTube clip:
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Back then I wrote:
As I noted in last week’s “Hide The Decline” edition of my Silicon Graffiti video blog, in what turned out to be, in retrospect, the run-up to ClimateGate, the left seemed to be dramatically escalating the craziness of their global warming-themed PSAs and advertisements. By the fall of this year, it reached the point where the WWF was comparing global warming to a whole fleet of terrorist-controlled planes attacking the World Trade Center. Which was followed by this ad from Plane Stupid, the British anti-aviation group, which, in what was clearly another 9/11-inspired ad, featured photorealistic digital animation of polar bears falling from the sky, hitting skyscrapers, leaving blood trails on the sides of those buildings, and ultimately flattening parked cars.
Short of replacing the bears with humans falling from the sky for the complete 9/11 experience, once you’ve reached this level of hysteria, where else do you go to ramp up the hysteria?
Well, last Super Bowl had Audi’s Green Police ad, which was actually kind of fun for those of us who aren’t Gaia Worshipers, as it reminded people of the eco-left’s lust to control the lives of others:
….But England’s Green Police takes their capital punishment seriously. Unlike a recent American Express advertisement, they’re not content to merely demolish hydroelectric dams; they’ve blowing up, Scanners-style, people who’ve committed doubleplusungood oldenvirothink.
Which brings us to the video at the top of the post, which we’ll discuss right after the page break.
The entire Leftist establishment in this country is just a few steps away from fascism. John Kerry says we voters are too dense to understand the wonderful things he does for us. Barack Obama concurs and states that the way things are done in Washington – i.e. that messy democracy stuff where those who disagree get to block what he wants to do – makes the country ungovernable. How many steps is it to conclude that these people (us) are simply ineducable and unsalvagable and the only way to make progress is to get rid of them? It didn’t take Lenin or Stalin long to figure it out. There are likely a lot of folks on the Left today who silently agree. They call us “stupid” and “racist” and it justifies the next step. And now, the next card is turned over… a “humorous” film about doing away with those who can’t be converted. Who first said “Many a truth is said in jest?”
It wasn’t enough to have those that refused to conform be carted away, put to sleep, or simply vanish. No their blood, their guts had to splatter onto their classmates, coworkers, and friends. Note the constant reaction shots of people covered in gore screaming.
But all those people are that went along with the program. This ad envisions a regime that splatters blood on their /supporters./
But hey, it must wonderfully focus their mind the next time someone asks them “no pressure”.
Good insight.
It is not enough to remove the opposition. The Regime must terrorize the supporters, to encourage movement discipline and to numb the supporters to the additional “adjustments” to come.
Thanks for posting PJM!
Just added the list of 10:10 Global sponsors, which includes SONY, to the site:
http://sadhillnews.com/2010/10/01/eco-terrorism-1010global-org-no-pressure-ad-campaign-made-possible-by-sony-and-others
Wow, just wow. Stunning.
But the hardcore green left does really think like this. To them, people notjoining in the cult of climate are evildoers and deserve no better.
I think the greenies are insane and the ad is completeey tasteless. But it reminds me of some of the old Monty Python skits in which characters get blown up for no reason at all, and blood and guts get spattered on everyone. It’s like cartoon violence. Maybe it’s just the difference in the British and American senses of humour/ humor?
In cartoon violence you are not supposed to identify with the cause behind the violence or with any cause at all. This is the essential difference.
Jim,
Did you HEAR any laugh-track here? NOPE.
Are they a comedy group? NOPE.
Are they trying to use comedy alone in making their point? NOPE.
Just HOW MUCH COERCION is suggested in this clip?
Think about THAT, Jim, before you suggest this is British “dry” (or “Python”) humor.
See post #14 below.
The creators of this “film” had no intention of making it a “joke.”
The ad missed one beat. The butten should have been labeled “Reset”.
I found the school teacher putting kids on the spot for daring to question conventional wisdom just a disgusting as the exploding bodies.
Did you notice her cute, hippie-dippie, heart necklace?
If the eco-freaks really, truly believe the earth is better without humans, then they should set an example and commit mass suicide a la Jim Jones.
IOW: Change is good–YOU die first!
Remember the gunman at the Discovery Channel?
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2010/09/discovery-channel-gunman-just-wanted.html
Oops, meant to leave more after the link. We should also connect this video to the mindset of the guy who shot up the Discovery Channel, and the Left’s pro-abortion agenda. Abortion advocates view the unborn baby as a parasite, causing great harm to the woman’s body, it’s mother’s body. Similarly, these global warming alarmists, most Liberals/Democrats see humanity causing great harm to “Mother Earth”, therefore we need selective abortions to fix the problem. How do you think they will decide whose life is worthy of life? This video gives us some deadly insight, those who agree will live, those who do not are not worthy of life.
I am someone who is pretty certain of the scientific consensus on the dangers of fossil fuels–namely, reduced agricultural output and decreased standard of living over decades. I read a number of rather hardcore, but down-to-earth science/policy blogs on the subject, and I have never seen anything like this. I am appalled. All the blogs I frequent are appalled. Whoever made this needs to get the bug out of their ass and chill.
Climate change/global warming is a boring policy debate. It is important for our continued prosperity and comfort to avoid as much reckless geo-engineering in the form of giga-emission of CO2 as we can.
The problem is not worthy of this level of hysteria. LIKEWISE, the solution–imposing a slowly increasing fee on fossil fuel production and returning it to the people equally so that the market can direct non-fossil energy investment most efficiently–is not worthy of the level of hysteria some on the right react to it with. We can fix this, and it will end up better for everyone (except maybe some coal, oil, and gas folks, but only in the short term).
Anderlan,
“I am someone who is pretty certain of the scientific consensus on the dangers of fossil fuels–namely, reduced agricultural output…”
You’re wrong. It’s well known, even to schoolchildren, that both warmth and CO2-rich air *promote* plant growth.
The “reduced agricultural output” comes from horses, mules, oxen, and humans being much less productive per acre than diesel-powered tractors and combines.
Anderlan, at this moment, there is no alternative to fossil fuels. Want to kill about a billion Chinese? How about a billion Indians, or half of South America, all of Africa, and about half of the rest of Asia, and then Europe?
The food you eat, depends on *CHEAP* fossil fuels. To plant, to fertilize, to harvest, to transport, and to process. This is doubly true in places like China, or India, where the population depends on both massively cheap, imported food (using cheap oil) and domestically produced food (using cheap oil). That’s not to mention clothes, medicine, housing, not even including consumer goods.
You’re living in a fantasy. You can’t store wind power, which is terribly inefficient, even compared to coal. You can’t store solar, either. Nukes are very efficient, but Greens don’t like them. At any rate, you can’t run a harvester on batteries. Or trucks. Or make fertilizer out of electricity. Hydro is also efficient, but Greens hate dams.
You want a free lunch. There is none. You can have that non-carbon adding world you want. Just kill about 3/4 of the current human population have the rest live like Medieval peasants. You’ll have to fight them though. Poor villagers in India want a motorcycle, instead of a bicycle. Slightly better off urbanites want a car. You’re going to step in with force to tell them to live a life of poverty, in the mud?
Every gearhead loves electric motors. Very torquey, low end power. But, no way to store even **close** to gasoline power-weight efficiency, electrical energy as chemical energy. It’s not just the energy inefficiency, either, but power to weight.
MAYBE there is a way to fix that — but it would require massive mining of rare earths which Greens stopped in the West so that China has the only real mines left. At any rate it is not decades but longer than that, away. Chemical engineers since the first batteries in the 1800′s have been searching for ways to make more efficient storage, and no one has ever found it.
The other fun with wind power is it’s so unpredictable that you need some sort of instant reaction secondary power that is both able to take the entire load, and spin up at will. Basically, if you don’t have a hydro-electric dam handy, then you need to keep gas turbines in hot idle. You end up burning gas to keep unused turbine generators spinning for when the wind stops.
The combination of wasted fuel, double construction, and the poor efficiency of surge generators ends up making wind power not much better than a well built coal plant. The only difference is the turbines give people the big warm fuzzies that they get when they think they’re being environmentally friendly.
I get it. So humans in the WEST only (Cause the east doesn’t give a shitola) are single handedly going to change the weather and reduce CO2 and other emissions (how about methane from termites and cows while we are at it) and what “Force China and India to do the same or they will DIE”. Yeah, that should all work out just fine. Idiotic at best. Go read some more and screw your head back on straight.
Anderlan is just spouting the Green NAZI brainwashing he has been bombarded with without any questions or logic at all and completely failed to engage his intellect.
Anderlan,
“Except maybe some coal, oil, and gas folks.”
Also known as businessmen who are entitled to make a living producing products still very much in demand by the American people. You want exactly the same totalitarian control as the folks who shot that video; you just object to their heavy-handed methods and that they dropped the mask.
The whole thing is beyond stupid – it is totally irrational. What kind of brains, even totalitarian, could believe that this tribute to gory reprisal would attract viewers, potential supporters and donors, to it’s their cause? Who could be so lacking in analysis and common sense that they could not perceive that it was bound to self-destruct?
It starts off with teacher who appears to be a comically goofy environmentalist but then plunges into gore which demonstrates that she is a true believer in the cause. It hooks you and then shoots you in the face. Some propagandists!
It serves the conservative cause well in providing a perfect demonstration of the danger of extreme socialist believers – a lasting example that will haunt them forever.
It servesit serves as an important warning to unprincipled propagandist and lie mongers: with the fast response and, and the clear record of the internet with its army of truth seekers, it is no longer possible to hide from your perfidy, or avoid the consequences.
Last week J Street; this week 10:10. Who’s next?
Quote from the film makers: “We ‘killed’ five people to make No Pressure – a mere blip compared to the 300,000 real people who now die each year from climate change.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/sep/30/10-10-no-pressure-film
This is how the film is excused in the Guardian by its makers, which is the final giveaway. They evidently see the murders as self-defence against the supposed enablers of an imaginary danger. I think that the parallels with Hitler’s murder of those he pervertly deemed “enemies” is more than marginal. This is simply Nazism in the real sense of the word.
It is like in Dostoievski’s “The daemons”, who so well depictsseveral decades before, the psychology of the revolutionaries. “We must be ready to kill 100 million people bescuase otherwise the system xcould kill 500 million people”. And the crowd cheers. Nobody questions where this 500 million people figure come from or what would happen if 100 million are not enough”. Nobody tells that the only thing sure is that Verkhovensy (the leader of the nihilist ring) is ready and willing to kill 100 million people.
Exactly.
You’ve put it much better than me.
The important thing is to make sure that this video gets spread around to as many people as possible. Tell your freinds, and relatives to watch the video and keep putting it where it can be seen. Don’t let it disapear. They have let the mask slip in the making of this video, don’t let them hide their true faces any more.
This video really is a sick fantasy. I am sure that the 10:10 crowd wanted the video to go viral but not in this way (or they would not have taken it off their website). They thought that they were being clever. What they obviously did not realize is that they were actually shining a white hot spotlight on their own polluted souls. Which is a good thing because they will be forced to confront that part of themselves that thinks that its ok to engage in the summary execution of even the children who disagree with them. When I saw the classroom scene I kept thinking of Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
LOL!
I love your latest moniker, Rachel. I agree…
This video truly shines a truth shaft of light on the dark evil lurking in the shadows. I’m still gobsmacked by the sheer blatant nuttery of this video.
I mean, this is scary, and this is what we are REALLY dealing with, folks.
I thought the video was meant to make fun of the “no pressure, everyone’s opinion is equally valid” politically correct society, until I saw the credits. If it had been, it would have been brilliant.
This video is a subtle threat to people who are standing in the way of the global warming agenda. You may not believe it but they really want this video to go viral. They want to silence the people who do not believe in global warming, and they will start by intimidating those who sit on the fence about the issue, or who have no opinion about the issue. They understand the value of intimidation.
In the 1970s, in the 1980s, in the 1990s, I would have conversations with Greens who wished, longed, dreamt, willed, and worked for the day when a true Green party would be in power. I said the same thing every time: that Environmentalism compares the human race to vermin and disease. The 20th century was filled with parties, ideologies, and governments which compared some part of the human race to vermin. The Greens compare all humanity to vermin. We know exactly how a Green government would rule: through mass murder.
Repeatedly drawing attention to the mother and father of Enivronmentalism, Nazism and Communism, and how richly the Greens have drawn from their progenitors has been rewarded in the past with vilification. Perhaps now Greens can be called by their true names, but I doubt it. The world will continue on its foolish course until billions are dead. Fools can learn no other way, and if Communism is a model, they never learn.
I can’t believe 10:10 took the video down. Why? It’s not is if Ivestia, Pravda, or Der Sturmer–the similar publications of similar ideologies–harmed those ideologies. Instead they drew in millions of supporters who worked to make the ideology concrete. The same would happen here. In ten year’s time, this video will be revived and laughed at: “Remember when (some people–wink wink–thought this wasn’t funny)?” This video will be remade, with the non-Green victims changed into rats or pigs, to make Newkirk’s metaphor real.
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The quickest method to cut the carbon consumption of America by 10%, would be for Al Gore, Hollywood, entertainers, and politicians to take and adhere to vows of poverty.
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I’m an atheist–I don’t believe in Gaia.
Shocking … and not so shocking.
This video is meant to threaten people into submission. 1) It targets children in school. They are sure that kids will see this video. The way they deal with the kids who do not join in the movement is meant to intimidate kids into at least going along with their agenda. 2) They target people work in corporations. You may say, they can’t intimidate adults with this stuff, I would say that you are partially correct. They want to plant the seeds of submission into the heads of adults, this video is a way to do that. 3) For jocks who are only concerned with sports, they may have a harder time intimidating them but they still make the attempt. 4) They specifically target actors who only give lip service to the environmental agenda. Blowing up Gillian Anderson is sending a message to the actors who speak green, but then go on to live in a wasteful, anti-environmental way. They are telling them to get in line or else. The greens have probably learned the lessons from the Radical muslim terrorists. The terrorists kill people who speak out against them, Theo Van Gogh, his partner who now lives under constant protection, Salmun Rushdie and so on. The greens don’t actually have to kill people to silence them the way the radical muslims do, they just pretend to kill them on screen. They are beginning to step up their game.
I wander, about all the children in the classroom being white (ok, only one black)good looking children.
Looks to me strange because PC class are supposed to be mix race, white, blacks, orientals, latinos etc, and also some fats,tals, dental bridge use etc.
It is the standard in commercials, entertainment, documentary.
Is it an intentionally choise (what for) or is ir just me?
Nati you may “wander” (sic) about the ‘choise’ (sic) of predominately white people in the video but think you know that ONLY “whitey” can be RACIST right so it stands to reason that in what the left wing moonbat Green NAZIS call their brains that only ‘whitey’ can be DENIERS deserving death by demolition. OK.
remember when the ad with Tim Tebow and his mother was considered too violent?
Yes, this is typical for the eco-fascists and no doubt reflects what they would love to do to those who refuse to sign on to their agenda. Imagine this, though, in any other scenario that irritates you where it would be taken tongue-in-cheek: left-lane squatters, loud cell phone conversations in restaurants, etc. Did any of you guys grow up watching Monty Python or The Black Adder?
The ones who scream the loudest are the ones who know the least. I am not offended in any way by the producers of this agitprop. Dogs bark, Chickens cluck, Moonbat enviros tell us we are seconds away from destruction unless we turn the society over to them. Not to worry. In the event of a disaster, these folks will be the first to go and i for one will not miss them.
Are people taking this seriously?
It’s obviously meant to show how daft the LEFTIES are…
It’s NOT a REAL ad.
lmao
See the link at post #14, you TROLL.
Troll?
Oh brudda. lol
You write like a troll.
CHECK.
You ignore/violate website guidelines like a troll.
CHECK.
You repeat yourself and post excessively like a troll.
CHECK.
QUACK! You’re a 2-year-old TROLL.
This is quite the serious matter, whether or not you are still “in shock” about it or not.
I have obviously given you too much attention, TROLL.
You did make me LOL though. I cannot deny it.
And, your “multiple moniker” posts make YOU the troll, troll.
“Knitting circles”
C’mon guys, this is a total parody. lmao
There is NOTHING funny about this. This is what these people think. Liquidate those who don’t agree.
They are chomping at the bit to launch a new YEAR ZERO.
And anybody who can’t see their sick evil philosophy displayed here along with what they would truly wish to do to those who don’t agree is what is called an…..
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Actually, Sap,
I thought this was a well orchestrated launch against the eco-freaks which made me laugh my ass off because I just couldn’t believe it was genuine.
To know this was a REAL campaign by the Leftoid weirdoids still has me shocked and awed. I never thought in a kazillion years they’d go THIS far to prove how LOONY they truly have become.
Yowza
I thought the same thing at first.
Me too, Bear! I thought, “Oh crap, the GOP might have crossed the line with this one, but, it’s hilarious and HONEST just the same”.
Then, to find out this was REAL?
This wasn’t the GOP making fun of the leftoids?
Holy crap!
Eye opener!
Wow. You mean “No Pressure” was actually intended by its makers to promote environmentalism? When I first viewed the clip, I assumed it was an over-the-top parody of enviro-fascist excesses. Even then it was objectionable.
Deep Blue, there was NO WAY IN HELL this was ‘real’. This was definitely a hilarious parody of the eco-fascists ultimate ‘fantasm’.
Believe me, tree-huggers like subtle, creeping, liberty raping ‘in the dark of night’ fascism and this ain’t it. lol
Delia: Thank you for the reassurance. Unfortunately, 10:10 has published an apology for the piece on its website:
http://www.1010global.org/uk/2010/10/sorry
As you’ll note, the group is lamenting the drop-off in media coverage for its cause and was looking for attention “whilst making people laugh”.
I keep having trouble with the hard-Left sense of humor. And their other values.
Holy chit! This was ‘real’?
Wow. I’m blown away at the audacity and creepiness! Eww.
Good grief and their website has a freaky, pink smiley face icon to top it all off.
OMG!
Hmm.
You know what they say about “All publicity is GOOD publicity”…
Double ‘hmmmmmmm’ evennnnnnnnnnn
Me too!
Here is a collection of email addresses where you can complain to 10:10′s private sponsors:
pressoffice@o2.com
kyoceramita@kyoceramita.co.uk
rik.kendall@eaga.com
Lucie.speciale@eu.sony.com
So, lynch murder of the politically-incorrect by hunter teams (note assistant delivers the device to the manager on the stairsteps) using trickery and euphemism –”no pressure”, my students, my staffers, my boss (football coach), my celebrity hero (voice-over gal) –and ‘bolt-out-of-blue’ no-appeal arbitrariness is meant to produce ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ even in mere youtube viewers –camera setups are ‘you are there’ method.
–but wait, tho you who witness this scene are meant to feel vaguely an accomplice (even on a screen, the visceral is carnal and ‘we know you like it’), can’t you clear your conscience by retaliating against the buttonpusher?
No, sorry, you can’t –note there is a wire coming from the device (why not make it wireless, filmaker?), and leading somewhere to someone who has just then, in film real-time, aimed the device at the just-then identified ‘deniers’.
“…so please, potential irate ‘denier’ mobs, it is NOT us that sometime in the near future you might think that you should tar and feather. No, it’s someones else, it’s whomever is at the other end of that wire. We bottonpushers have no idea, we are just following orders.”
Yet another reason for concealed carry of firearms without restriction. You can draw, aim and fire a concealed handgun in under two seconds- less than a second if you’re well trained. If they are caught by surprise, which they no doubt would be, they’d be on the ground before they could push that button again. Maybe still alive, but nothing emptying a clip into the target won’t fix. After all, someone who can kill at the push of a button is a threat until they’re dead or permanently incapacitated.
Reminds me of what Joseph Mengele, the
Nazi doctor who conducted those evil
” experiments” used to say:
” The more we do to you, the less you believe we are doing it…”
I’m still in a state of shock that this wasn’t a parody.
The Lefty Loons have truly jumped the shark.
Holy crap!
Delia: you -are- slow. Stop posting garbahge. All the evidence you needed was in the original post. Have your denial and then emotional breakdown elsewhere. Thank you.
Judy-tard,
What is “garbahge”? Your mental midgetry is showing.
My denial was in the pure shock value over this video and the fact that it was intended to be taken SERIOUSLY by the lefty loonbats.
I took this as a hilarious and witty parody of the LOONbats and figured someone was pulling a prank or two. When you watch a video like that, it’s hard to take it seriously.
I mean, if Rob Zombie starts making your promos…you are NOT going to be taken seriously.
lol
Judy,
Give Delia a break. She figured out that she was wrong in her first set of threads. Can’t blame her for holding back, because that was a rational reaction on her part. It IS hard to believe that this is for real, and it did take confirmation thrugh the half-hearted apology from the perpetr . . .err . . .. the originators of this video that it was indeed a genuine attempt at persuasion by an environmental group.
Thank you, Don.
So many men-folk is askeered of white-knighting for me here on PJM because I swear like a mutha trucka, but, you done broke the mould!
I will never forget your kindness and hopefully I can reciprocate, darling.
Care to dance the tango for just one beautiful evening?
Only costya a nickel more, mista. I’m catchin’ a bad streak, see.
I still got a tank full of gas, baby…
Varoom
Delia, I still love you hun. Don’t let them get the best of you. You got more pluck than any ten of them.
10:10 is a terror organization, to think otherwise is missing their point. I did the only thing I could do-contacted both Sony and Kyerocea telling them I will always view them as supporters of terror.
I extend my understanding to those who felt offended or put off by the video. Nothing is all things to all individuals. However, I do not understand how some people ascribe the most vile and evil intent to the producers of the short. Horror films and films of graphic violence are abundant in society. You people must be exhausted trying to ascribe your personal take on Hollywood horror and violence and its purveyors.
Personally I found this hilarious (if inappropriate to the cause). Dark humor is a real concept. If you think it has no place in a political statement, state your case and move on. I find those claiming a high moral and or intellectual position on censorship as well as those ‘off the wall’ theorist far scarier. To not recognize the truth of this piece and proceed to critique it in such a vile and negative manner makes those writers potentially scary and dangerous.
This had “Rob Zombie” all over it (and I’m a fan of his crazy @ss horror shtick and I’ve loved horror movies going back to Vincent Price who spoke so eloquently that he made horror almost ‘classy’).
This short made me laugh too.
Take away the ‘political’ aspect and it’s funny as hell.
BTW, ESA,
I would hope you also defend cartoonists who draw the prophet “Mohammad” as much as you defend the Greenies to post Fascist zombie vids.
Just keepin’ it real.
Nice comeback, Delia. I would like to see more of the Mohammed cartoons to get a good laugh myself. Only in the name of free speech, of course.
Jarmo,
Good luck with any Leftist who will promote free speech when it comes to anti-Islam.
Where’s the humor? For something to be funny, there has to be humor. I think somebody is trying so badly to spin this due to his ideological obsession that he’d deluding himself into seeing humor where there is none. Either that, or he’s outright lying to us.
This video was not meant to be funny. Funny would have had green slime dropped on the unbelievers, or had them drop into the floor, like Doctor Evil did in Austin powers. They decided to use the symbol of the Islamic terrorist, the detonation of a bomb, with vivid gore, and shocked reactions from the other actors in the video. This is intimidation pure and simple.
Bill,
It’s also a blatant dehumanization tactic. You target and then dehumanize your subject and kill them without remorse.
The video would have been much more effective if the people subjected to seeing their comrades go “ker-splat!” would have acted as if nothing happened at all.
THAT would have been truly chilling.
On second thought, I take that back.
A great brainwashing technique is to cause someone horror and fear if they don’t ‘follow’ a strict regime.
The ‘others who followed the party line’ were meant to be horrified as part of their conditioning. Being traumatized into subservience is old-school Leftist Nazi nuttery.
Billc/33 is right –there’s no comedic element whatsoever –none. ESA/32 tries the only defense there is , the “whatsamatta, no sense o humor?” If i was ESA, i’d mention Monty Python and the Dada movement, maybe a little ‘if Dali met Goya’ –biuty in the end he’s stuck with the stuff on the screen, which lacks all irony and comedic displacement.
What are we to make of the arch minimization of the topic in the stage direction of the teacher’s and the manager’s presentations?
The “well, maybe, if you get a chance, you might want to do a little something, not too much, no pressure” is an apology by the handlers on the screen to acknowledge the presumption of suggesting the handled take some trifling measure against carbon.
Fine, classic PSA, self-deprecating, humble, at least attempting to be likeable. Only to be followed by the abrupt shocking of freshly-lulled onstage characters by the spectacular murder of the minority that had responded to the text of the no-pressure lullaby by accepting it at face-value, and hence, for unknown reasons (possibly because of other plans, maybe a sister getting married?), shrugging off committing to any demonstration.
Can anyone find in the world of entertainment, in the use of theater, a corollary to such a blunt, coarse, shallow, cartoon?
Nah –this ios new ground –look at the closing graphic –’10:10′ becomes the muzzle of a double-barreled shotgun pointed in your face. This production is a promise that you are being watched, and that when the revolution comes, you’re gonna get whatever we think you deserve.
These producers like what Winston Smith faced, Winston Smith was right where an interchangeable disposable, zero-intrinsic-value homo-sapiens-sapiens unit is supposed to be.
Of course they are today suddenly apologizing. Winston Churchill had Nazis about right: he said, paraphrased, always they are either at your throat or at your feet.
When evil is more common than good, Houston, we have a problem,
Iowahawk pointed out a truly sobering fact: scores of people were involved in making this thing(and British taxpayers footed the bill for it). Did any of the actors, producers, set designers, camera people say, or even think, “OMG, I am participating in something truly morally repulsive?”
Doesn’t look like it. In fact, according to the Guardian, the little boy who was “blown up” says he didn’t mind “dying” because it was for a good cause. The adults in his life have done a good job brainwashing him into thinking it’s OK – in fact, it’s kinda cool and edgy- to kill people who disagree with the conventional environmentalist “wisdom.”
I think you bring out one of the more disturbing bits (along with Iowahawk of course). The kid didn’t think there was anything wrong with this! Absolutely nothing to complain about since it was all for a “Good Cause.”
Seriously you could just re-dub this video and make it any other message and it’d be just as messed up.
“Anyone not going to drink Pepsi today? Anyone? You three? You sure? That’s okay, no pressure.” BOOM!
Heck at least with that message it’s a bit more fantasy since Pepsi doesn’t have ways of forcing you to do anything. GOVERNMENTS DO! That is why this isn’t funny, or “edgy” or anything else they might want to portray it. It is just wrong.
Yes! Unleash the Downfall parody teams on this video immediately.
I love it.
&magically there’s not 1 mention of Human Over-Population THE #1 ECO-PROBLEM on the planet. But than that wouldn’t be Politically Correct would it?/The Brits are such goody-goody A-HOLES!!!
We can expect more of this… for a very simple reason. The AGW crowd is losing. Cognitive dissonance has taken over; the crowd will become ever more shrill and bizarre as time goes on. Check out social psychologist Leon Festinger’s half century old book, “When Prophecy Fails.” It tracks a doomsday cult, which when confronted with successive disconfirmations of the predicted apocolypse, became more convinced than ever that it was right and proceeded to proselytize yet more aggressively. After all nothing is going right for AGW. The international process is dead. Mother Nature refuses to warm her planet as predicted. The InterAcademy Council has pounced on the IPCC for major reforms. The Royal Society has moved toward moderation of its previously alarmist stance on the science. AGW has entered pop culture and become subject to ridicule.
I wonder what’s next from these loons. I can’t wait.
Stop wondering, we got a foretaste when James Lee took the Discovery Channel offices hostage last month. They’re going to start literally killing people. I am certain that there are right now groups of frantic eco-warriors working out how to introduce cholera into the water supply or sarin into the air.
I have been certain of this since I read Erlich’s Population Bomb in the early seventies – things are not going to work out for these people, they are not going to get the keys to power and control over every aspect of life on Earth, and they are going to take direct action. For the sake of the planet. And, of course, the squirrels.
The horrifying thing is, it wouldn’t be any different if we gave in and turned the planet over to them. If they held legimate power there’d still be millions of deaths, either from the inevitable starvation and disease resulting from their Malthusian dogma, or through death camps and mass graves through direct population reduction measures.
This is not just a struggle for freedom and liberty. It is a life and death fight. Until you understand that? Well…don’t expect to ‘win’ your freedom and liberty. Don’t expect smaller government. Don’t expect fiscal restraint. Don’t expect economic recovery. Don’t expect anything…except to be gathered up into camps and enslaved.
I’m naming my next dildo after you.
TMI?
!!!!! I AM EMAILING SONY, KYOCERA, O2, AS WELL AS OTHER COMPANIES THAT SUPPORT THE 10:10 PROJECT, (NAMES ARE AVAILABLE ON THE 10:10 WEBSITE) THE FOLLOWING EMAIL:
“Due to (COMPANY)’s support of the 10:10 project… and its violence-threatening and utterly disgusting publicity campaign, I will never purchase another product or service from your company, ever.
Furthermore, if I am threatened with physical injury by any individual from the 10:10 Project OR (COMPANY) for my environmental, or any other viewpoint, that threat will be met with legally appropriate (and if necessary, deadly) force.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDXQsnkuBCM
http://www.1010global.org/us/business/learn
Warning! Attention all Eco Nuts. If you mess with me I will take you out. You may take me out, but I will take some you before you get me! That is a promise! I hope you are willing to die for your cause!
The red laser beam beats the red-button if you are quick and steady enough.
I can shoot the freckle off of a face…
Just sayin’ (and aimin’)
I didn’t think it was possible, but someone has outdone “Itchy and Scratchy”.
It’s just this time it’s not funny, and very very ominous.
Excuse me, sir. Would you like to join the National Socialist Workers Party? No Pressure. No, no, no, these gentlemen in the brown shirts are just out for a nice afternoon stroll.
I wonder if Staples can sue them for stealing the Easy button? That is if Staples is not one of the capitulating companies.
There’s a good explanation of the making of the video
http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/10/1010-movement-all-skeptical-kids-and.html
Marie, are you trying to show us one of those nasty French Films? If so, put me down for three. LOL
And of course, they were certain to only blow up white people, while portraying the non-whites in the group as being decidedly on the side of the righteous. Because that’s how it always is in Left wing narratives.
Marie Claude: Thank you for providing that link.
The blogger there makes an excellent point. He notes that while reasonable adults are not (yet!) afraid of being murdered by environmentalists armed with magic boxes (boxes which know exactly who to target), children who see the video might become very frightened that they will be killed if they don’t believe in AGW. He thinks this ad was primarily aimed at kids, which makes it all the more despicable and evil.
Religious teachers used to frighten children with hair-raising descriptions of the torments of hell(see Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.”) How is this any better? Actually, it’s far worse, since the goal of the enviros is not saving souls, but eliminating dissent.
There seems to be no accounting for the gulf between the people who made this, and those of us who are sceptical of AGW (along with other ‘urban myths’).
We tell them over and over that they are fanatical, fascistic, gullible groupthinkers, and they confirm it with this.
They appear not to see that’s not ok.
They understand they’ve pissed a lot of people off, but not that they’ve shown what nasty assholes they are.
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/10/bill-gates-life.html Heres what Bill Gates wants to do to us for the Global Warming farce. Isn’t that nice he thinks so highly of the humans and animals!
Well written, Mr. Driscoll. I would add this comment from Iowahawk: “And somehow, throughout this entire process, not one of the hundreds of people involved seemed to have questioned the wisdom of an advertising message advocating the violent, sudden death of people who disagree with it.”
That lack of wisdom arises from utter moral bankruptcy.
Retort here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDdkzjfUnJQ&feature=player_embedded
It´s sad that todays proceeding movies straying the movies had in days. Though it´s fun to person ultra exalted tech effects, I lose the categorize that movies were prefabricated sustain then
The saddest thing about this outrage is that, in symbolically ‘killing’ these children,
the smug socialist elite are also killing science and all opposition to their views.
They are teaching children NOT to grow up with questioning minds, NOT to become
a true scientist (a government scientist is OK – tow the line, collect the cheque/check every month).
I am ashamed to say the ‘producer’ of this garbage is British – Retard Cu*tis, may he rot in hell.
A remake has been made however, and their true colours/colors are shown for all to see.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100056810/splattergate-oh-well-we-live-and-learn
Rout the Democraps and shut the EPA, then get to seriously question the junk ‘science’ that we have all paid for and are continuing to pay for. Perhaps the impetus from the US will break the ‘you can’t touch me
I’m an expert’ attitude in the UK.
They are deleting my posts after having printed them on this blog. I find this very strange especially after the person it was addressed to answered me back. This is starting to feel like Huffington Post where I’m completely banned. If PJM has a problem with my posts please address it to me via Email, you have my address. I would be glad to dialogue with you concerning this matter.
First time to ever try doing someting like this please be patient with me. The reason the invoromentalist couldn’t remove the digusting piece of trash was so our eys would be open. In truth you can defeat evil.
Left/libtards have no sense of humor and now they’re being honest for once… what’s next? (I’m not sure I want to find out.)