Writing on the Wall

I have just been very entertained.

Allen, my new Taiwanese-Canadian web-friend asked me to go look at the film Zeitgeist (Z)

So I did the unthinkable and threw myself into a conspiracy theory film. And I have to say it was really good fun, I was thoroughly gripped and entertained throughout, and learned some very interesting things, although verifying them is entirely another matter.

So I want to do a sort of film review of this web film. It is a film that attempts a global vision, and that is distributed on a global media, and so is probably worth debating as a form of emerging global public debate.

It is interesting how constructing myths these days so often takes the form of debunking other myths. Z takes this form, part I attacking Christianity, Part II attacking the official account of 9-11, part three turning explanatory and discussing the history and power of the federal reserve and of the banking elite that are standing behind it. The synthesis is that these banking groups have been triggering wars for profit for donkey’s years, that they are happily dumbing down the American public, and that they hope to produce a world government, totalitarian in its application of accounting standards.

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Intelligent design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Intelligent Design debate is dogged by some serious problems. One of the main problems is that each side is arguing from differing terms of reference: Scientists form a belief in the primacy in the Scientific method, and the Religious from the primacy in belief. I personally think that the former is better for producing knowledge, and the better more effective in producing happiness, although I remain agnostic in my personal beliefs.

But I do think Intelligent Design is fundamentally flawed, but it is so within its own terms of reference. If we go with the idea, for the sake of discussion, that there is a God, who is interested in creating a Universe. [S]He is, by most religious accounts, an infinite being, with no constraints of time and space to worry about.

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