“You are what you think” and “We is what we vision” is certainly one of the lessons that has come from almost 10-years now of hanging with the time monk(s). Predictive linguistics that some of my ‘far out’ forecasts are based on seem to have an inconvenient way of coming true shortly after they are presented as ‘fiction’ hereabouts. So much so that lots of readers have been starting to become aware of how down at the archetype level, what we ‘image/vision’ as a society does seem to have a nasty way of coming down the track.
“Hi George
Cognizant that movie titles create significant blog chatter I am therefore aware and assuming they are already contribute a significant part of the incorporation in the Web Bot program, and therefore I’m not writing to explain something redunt to your developers. For me though, not having the ‘capacity’, nor linguistic training, nor all the other innumerable aspects of the Web Bot and Cliffs, Ivans, and your expertise. Decided to do my own cross comparison of the collective psychic linguistic phenomenon simply via Movie Titles being released.
Simply using a web site which puts out lists of upcoming releases of new movies, dvds, etc. I have found that this one website’s listing of Movie titles alone are highly predictive of coming ‘world’ events. Somewhat familiar with ‘archetypes’ it is straightforward to key into the obvious ones, on the other hand it was harder to exclude (so essentially didn’t) the subtler or possible non-relevant words. What also was interesting from the website that I used was that its ‘listing order’ was particularly on the mark linguistically in describing certain aspects of ‘news events.
The easiest experiment was examining listings of Releases for August and September 2001, which not surprisingly contained numerous ‘archetype’ linguistics that clearly correspond to 9/11. I have not corresponded to your ‘Web Bot’ linguistics, but I’m assuming that they are there and marked. The most startling surprise for me ‘predictably’ was, in most cases, that the Company that put out the movie seemed significantly relevant to the ‘archetype keywords’. Example: “UNDER THE SUN” released by ‘Shadow’ on August 3 2001 and “O (Othello)” released by ‘Lions Gate’ (with ‘O’ being prevalent in a number of titles, ‘Others’, ‘Osmosis’, ‘Over’, ‘Our (Lady of Assassins) and making the assumption as referencing Osama.) Also the number ’2′ was very prevalent for Aug and Sept as well 9 (Session 9).
Key titles that stood out for me were: (Titles starting in August) Under the Sun; Original Sin’; Apocalypse Now (redux); Rush Hour 2 (signifying time of day?); Deep End; American Rhapsody; Session 9; The Others; American Pie 2 (bye bye American Pie); The Turnadot Project (as in plot?); Black Mask; Blood (referencing Vampire – blood letting); Songs from the Second Floor; Innocence; Rat Race (business, buerocracy, World Trade); American Outlaws; Happy Accidents; Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; Ghosts of Mars; Fighter; The Curse of the Jade Scorpion; Jeepers Creepers; Speedway Junky; (Titles starting September 7) – Two Can Play that Game; The Musketeer; L.I.E.; Our Lady of Assassins; Iron Ladies; Soul Survivors; Hardball; The Glass House; Kill Me Later; Tell me Something; Vampire Bloodlust; Rocky Road; Go Tigers; God, Sex, and Apple Pie; Meddigo Omega Code 2; Jabberwok (this and previous titles referencing WAR codes, strategies); Won’t Anybody Listen; Don’t Say a Word; Extreme Days; (Titles starting in October) – The Endurance; Chop Suey (aka enemies will be mincemeat?); Learning Curve; Grateful Dawgs (sound like a squadron/platoon slang to me); Training Day; and the list goes on ……!
So now fast forward to June 2009 – Events – Cirque de Solie Founder pays for trip to Moon – Movie Releases corresponding – “The Last International Playboy”; “Les Beaux Gosses” (translated ‘Hot Guy’); and of course “Moon”; Next Event – Naked Bike Ride June 14 in Brighton – corresponding releases – “Under our Skin” (translating as naked skin) “Brighton Rock” and possibly “Sex Positive (as in sexuality is a positive/good thing); so now for a big test – Iran’s Revolution and shooting of Nada Agya Soltan – does the Movie title synchronicity hold true – Movie Titles Releases – “Whatever Works” (like fixing an election); “The Proposal” (conspiracy); “The Code” (as in Clerics codes of agreement); “Guns”; “Dragon Hunters” (hunters of the Revolution protagonists); “Table for Three” (not sure about this one); but the SIGNIFICATORs are “The Stoning of Soraya M” (no question here – stoning/shooting Martyerdom for a cause its all the same); “Transformers: REVENGE of the FALLEN”; “Quiet Chaos” (interpreting that despite attempts to quell the Revolution the Chaos goes on (also attempts to quiet the family of Nada); “Cheri” (think translates as feminine ie: someone close to ones heart); “Afgan Star” (I saw one article at least that referenced National Geographic’s famous cover of the Afghanistan girl with the eyes to Nada, but also translating as Middle Eastern); “Surveillance”; “My Sisters Keeper” (Iranian Women are at the forefront of the protesting especially since Nada’s death and the term SISTER is being used as part of their Revolution cry now; “The Hurt Locker”; “Life is Hot in Cracktown” and continuing into July – “Public Enemies”; “Le Fille de Monaco”; “Soul Power”; 500 Days of Summer (the Revolution Revolts could go on a long time); “The Ugly Truth (when the truth comes out); “Streets of Blood”; and the list could go on ……
So even though I don’t have and couldn’t possibly come up with a program like the Web Bot, an ordinary gal like me can start to figure a thing or two by just watching and keeping abreast (well ahead of time) of Movie Releases. And yeah like you and Cliff and Ivan note – there’s a lot of ‘linguistic’ archetypes coming that don’t sound promising!
Experimentally friendly, [name withheld]
This is a pretty good observation, except that in a couple of the programs that process the language ‘reads’ for the web bot project, there are specific techniques to take out references to movies. But, having said that, you can take the output of that filter and see how concepts like “Impact” or “Day the Earth Stood Still” could skew emotional descriptors around a meta entity (like ‘space goat farts’ – the linguistic meta set for ‘unknown whatevers connected with space/upstairs/planets/galaxy and yada yada).
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You don’t need to limit your scope of research to movie titles, however. All you need to do is set a few Google News alerts to pick off a few of the keywords that Cliff research has come up with and you can get the ‘flavor’ of how the future ‘fills’ the expectation sets.
Just for example, there’s a whole meta layer of data that goes to an increasing number of ‘shortages’; food, water, honest leaders (LOL) and so on. Just to keep an eye on the ‘shortages are coming along in here between now and 2010, mostly in food price/availability, I’ve set a Google Alert to the word “shortage” and this morning’s update brings me word of:
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Shortage of ‘radiotherapy’ in Australia is called ‘discriminatory”
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Shortage of beds at a burn center in Islamabad (not surprise with the stepped up bombings there, is it?)
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….and the list goes on…and on….
Now, in order to develop your own ‘sense of where things are going’ you can get down to your own archetypes and without running through the whole Maslow, Jungian, or Tarot spectrum, you can ‘name that fear’ and start to watching maybe half a dozen keywords that are specifically not event-driven because that’s where the MSM plays – and why so many radio and television news directors report the same boring crap day after day, news report after news report: They listen to scanners for ‘events’ rather than looking at underlying trends (as Gerald Celente does) or the work around www.halfpasthuman.com on shifts in language.
So you can take archetypical worries (shortage versus abundance, just to use one pairing) and occasionally get a glimpse of what the big stories will be coming down the road.
On an ad hoc basis, one can take out of the ‘shortage list’ the concept of food – and compare that with a list of ‘abundance’ stories – like “Abundant rain now enough to ease water restrictions” in Winter Haven, Florida, to as least spark one simple search in the direction of water/food, rain/drought.
So when you query ‘drought’ you get a story like “Drought spurs Valley visit from DC” in the California Central Valley…which produces in more normal times, a large portion of the nation’s food.
Scrolling down the results for ‘drought’ we find that “El Nino could signal drought’s end in California, but it reads a bit like a ‘wish’n & hope’n’ story…it’s not raining yet.
Meantime, the drought is still going strong in Australia, and with droughts about, Monsanto is promoting a “Drought-tolerant seed could book corn crop.”
That reminds us to look at the US Drought Monitor (linked here) which is updated on on Thursdays, so a recheck this afternoon may be useful.
Taken in concert with the NOAA Seasonal Drought Outlook for the rest of the summer, we can expect that California (vegetables) and Texas (cattle/haying operations) will suck this year. Which, coupled with the linguistics, gives an image of this fall’s coming food price increases being driven by veggies, cows, and wild-eyed /desperate money-printing in Washington.
Back back to the reader’s point? Yep, with triple digits here in the East Texas outback, it sure is a good time to go to the movies, isn’t it?
Environmental Breakthrough!
I just had it. The greatest environmental breakthrough ever. See, here’s the deal: “Many sharks facing extinction” reports the BBC.
So here’s what we do: We get ‘em all new jobs in government! Is that a great plan, or what? Homeland Security, IRS, yeah…great plan, LOL. Hand me that barrel of ink, too, please.
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Back in the days when my6 friend Cliff’s ‘web bot project’ was known only by the moniker ‘the think tank’ we were able to piece together a really curious concept. Bear in mind that this was in the weeks following 9/11, the American 587 crash and the attack on ‘house or assemblage’ which was all a ‘done deal’ by the time Issue #6 of Peoplenomics put bytes to screens on 6 December 2001. That report ( which is available to everyone free at this link) was significant because of a couple of things. First – based on the linguistic clues available to me at that time, I was able to posit the existence of ‘action arms’ of the PowersThatBe, and secondly that whether its foundations were as a renegade directorate of Britain’s MI-6, makes very little difference. The powers at the very top of the economic food chain are orchestrating a whole new world and you’re on the verge of being deemed a ‘useless eater.” When John Perkins’ book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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