American History X

Buy This Item American History X by New Line Home Video  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 8-27-2008     Edward Norton's Academy Award nominated role as a White Supremist who sees the error of his ways while jailed for murder. Unfortunately, he leaves prison to find his brother (Edward Furlong) heading down the same path. Reader Reviews When a movie like 'American History X' is widely hailed as an "important," "cutting-edge" and of course "penetrating" look at American society you know that the Federal Government-multinational corporation machine has succeeded wonderfully in its psychological and now BIOLOGICAL campaign to manipulate human behavior. This isn't a docudrama about hate groups; this is a 90 minute long WAL*MART commercial - yet another example of corporate America, Manhattan liberals, and the Federal Government trying to intimidate anyone who rejects globalism in all its various forms with the threat of being branded a "racist." That's right, put down your flags and grab a shopping cart! The sad thing is - well, really it's more terrifying than sad - is that our poor homogenized and pasturized nation of zombies is going to devour the misinformation put forth in this film without considering for even a second the possibility that this film was tailored to make the viewer think and behave in a certain way. Is there anyone left who could even notice the gaping factual and historical inaccuracies in this film? The fact of the matter is that this film is nothing but a calculated assault on pre-Reagan/Bush era Conservatism, or more accurately: American Nationalism; or even more accurately: Nationalism of any kind. The puppet masters, folks like the media tycoons who bankrolled this films production, realize what a menacing impediment nationalism is to their desires to get even more money and exterminate human freedom wherever it exists. Films like this are just tools to win the masses over into doing the bidding of the few hundred or so people who have any power at all in this world. But since the masses are unlikely to capitulate based on the facts alone the corporate funded media plays loose with the facts and plays heavy on emotional appeals that manipulate large groups of folks into turning against, what in reality is their best interest. This film is no different; Conservatism isn't enough to offend people on its own, thus the need for cloaking it in a Swastika in order to win people over into renouncing the country their grandfathers shed blood for, and blindlessly embracing globalism instead. If the public school system was anything other than a training camp for supplying labor to big business this movie would be laughed at IN AN INSTANT for it's patently ridiculous interpretation of American Nationalism. First, American Nationalism is absolutely NOT an ideology; it is NOT a "movement" either in the sense that nationalism was a movement in Italy during the 1920's. Rather, those who identify themselves as Nationalists (Patriots) come from a diverse and often times opposed range of ideological backgrounds (Libertarians, Paleoconservatives, Neo-Marxists, Socialists). By and large these folks are nationalists in the sense that some or most wish to cease immigration (or at least bring it down to the point where it's manageable), build a protectionist economic policy, bolster state's rights, withdraw our military entirely from other parts of the world, and eliminate government funding for limitless expanses in science and technology. The vast majority of these positions are supported on either economic, social, and humanitarian grounds (especially in the case of technology). Only the fringes of American Nationalism subscribe to the fanatically "Aryan" racialism found in this film. Obviously multiculturalism is rejected, but this is done so under the recognition that individual ethnic histories are worth more than the homogenized culture of crap that is offered to folks through the mass media. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with purification of the white race or any of that nonsense. Protectionism, non-intervention, and drastically curtailing state power couldn't be more patently in conflict with Nazism. Indeed, collectivism in all its various forms is after all, patently un-American! Americans traditionally despised such repugnant levels of state and corporate intervention into the lives of individuals. This is the primary reason why both Fascism and Communism were never able to gain a foothold here. Though ethnic loyalties have sustained cultures for hundreds, sometimes thousands of years, providing billions of people with meaningful and pleasant lives, these sorts of differences are something that WAL*MART cannot - absolute WILL NOT - tolerate. The State won't tolerate it either, I mean, God forbid anything should get in the way of "progress." Just step back for a moment and ask yourself, "In what sense do the producers of this movie care about black folks, or minorities at all?" Do they have some vested interest in black/African culture? Or are they just trying to force blacks to conform to the European mold and suppress any voices from either blacks or whites that might try to stop this? It's not hard to see what's going on here and how African Americans are being pasturized and emasculated just like the rest of us. After all, aren't black folks made to feel like failures when they don't conform to corporate/Government needs by pursuing careers in the sciences and technical fields (both of which are patently European endeavors)? Isn't the entire standard of "racial equality" based on how well African Americans can conform to the corporate mold that has been laid out for them, that has been laid out for all of us, and not by some genuinely human sense of respect and compassion for one another? The truth is people who put their money behind this film don't give a dollar about whatever plight African Americans have or might continue to suffer. All they care about is acquiring more minions for their workforce. If they have to destroy a few cultures and brand a few hundred million people as "racists" then they'll do so without a second thought. Sometimes I wonder if anyone will be allowed permission to think at all in another 50 or 100 years. In as far as hate groups are a viable social option at all for youths in this country this is due almost entirely to post-modern societal and family decay (near collapse) more than it is any populist ideas of a "master race." If these types of groups (along with street gangs) ARE increasing in membership it is precisely because endless economic and technological expansions are continuously debasing individuals from traditional social structures. People have a biological need to assert a certain amount of control over their own destiny - a modern industrial society simply does not provide folks with any avenues through which they can do this. Hence their attempts at finding some purpose in (or escape from) life through fringe outlets like hate groups, gangs, drug-use, etc. It would've been invaluable if the directors of the film would've chosen to focus on that aspect of society - but then none of the handful of media tycoons who have a complete monopoly of information in this country would've financed the film. Things won't start getting better for any of us until we learn to see films like this for what they are and then spit on them accordingly.

American History X Available from Amazon Price: $9.99 Updated on 8-27-2008.

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