When you watch John Carpenter’s movie They Live through the eyes of a Targeted Individual (TI), you see similarities between your experiences and that of the protagonist.
The scene in the bookstore where the alien realizes Nada (Roddy Piper) can see them could have been taken from my life, or the life of many people who are TIs, if only the drama in the situation is removed so that only the heads that deliberately turn to look at the TI after one perp (perpetrator of covert warfare) says out loud something that brings attention to their presence remain.
The select heads in a crowd that deliberately turn your way as you walk by, the difficulty of proving the truth to “others” while avoiding sounding outlandish or mad that Nada or the fake church group faces. How their TV broadcasts are ridiculed by those who have sold out, or how the broadcasts are blocked reflects the censorship, disruption of communications, destruction of electronic equipment, intense shadow banning, ring fencing, and such that TIs are put under on social media to thwart any chance of their situation from getting out to the general public.
Our struggle to both get it out and survive makes of us virtual “canaries in the coal mine”. This isn't about us, but about everybody.
I do not believe in aliens on earth, inasmuch as the story of such aliens rotates around alphabet agencies. It is implausible to me that aliens always know how to find their way to the front door of alphabet agencies and other characters connected to these institutions, rather than to many of us ordinary folk all over this world. Suffice to say I believe the only reason the story of aliens has found its way into modern discourse on who runs the show in the dominant culture is by the top layers trying to shift blame for unbelievably inhumane human conduct away from human hands onto an extraterrestrial life form. That makes the evil alien as well as gives the impression that it’s intractable.
I don’t think Carpenter meant to imply that aliens are in control. He uses aliens as the allegorical equivalent of the ruling elites. And there is no better time than now, if we take the depth of the depravity exposed in the Epstein files into account, to understand that we are not lorded over by aliens but by humans, who happen to be totally stultified homo sapiens sapiens, the least among us.
This movie was definitely talking about our world today, a world we can now readily recognize as such because so many of its secrets have been exposed thanks to such movies and more, a world that however has been like this for quite a while and isn’t a recent manifestation that's gradually been built up to over the years as the embedded YouTube video suggests.
This is what makes this movie a must watch (or re-watch) if you want to understand fully the experience that many are going through as we speak, an experience that we are all facing, especially the difficulty and frustration faced by TIs trying to get the word out in societies where going to the police to report that you are a victim of covert warfare can get you sectioned.
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