Alright y'all,
So @daniphotography has dragged me to see most of the Marvel movies. Aside from M:tG and Warhammer 40K those have been my only exposure to pop culture for pretty much as long as those movies have been coming out. I did start collecting DC comics with the release of the New 52, so I have a little bit of familiarity with the medium, but do take what I have to say with the grain of salt that I am coming from a conspiracy/esoteric angle and not one of artistic criticism.
Also, I'm going to assume that the reader is pretty well aware of the whole pedogate phenomenon and note that pointing out moral failings in Hollywood is at this point akin to beating a dead and zombified (appropriate) horse, but I gotta say there were a lot of bummed out normies leaving that theater today and maybe stuff like what I'm about to write has a chance of reaching some of them.
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I've been meaning to write down some of my more basic esoteric or cosmological concepts which this analysis is based on, but the evil guys beat me to the punch here. I will be including sources as none of this stuff is based solely on my own interpretation, and I want to reiterate that that is a very important point: my emphatically non-exclusive knowledge is all based on Logos, which means truth or logic, and is all derived from commonly available sources. Secrets begone! Trickery begone!
Now that that's over with, allow me to define the word "inversion". An inversion in the sense I'm intending is any case of natural law being flipped or turned upside down in order to weaken and confuse. For example feminism teaches that the father, instead of being in charge of protecting and providing for the mother and their children, is really seeking to dominate and control them. This leads to the idea that women and children are safer and freer on their own, although of course they don't end up being truly on their own but rather as wards of the state which assumes the role of the displaced father figure. Socialism and/or communism in a similar sense teaches that the acquisition of property is driven not by a desire to protect and provide but by greed only, and so the state (usually) can claim a moral authority to "liberate" personal property and then everyone ends up starving.
Knowing my audience, I should probably also define the term "natural law". Natural law is knowledge of the true operation of the world as it is obtained by exercising our five senses. Our knowledge of natural law can be further extended beyond that which can be directly obtained by our five senses by forming conditional statements known as "hypotheses" and verifying them using what is known as the scientific method.
And knowing my audience, I am aware that there are a great many people who have gone over to the belief that there is no such thing as a universal truth. It is beyond the scope of this essay to dissuade these people, so I will refer to a couple videos on this topic which do a better job of that than I could:
Alright, so the obvious really yucky thing in Infinity War is that the antagonist, named Thanos, is planning to kill 50% of all intelligent life in the Universe. Thanos is obviously a reference to the Greek Thanatos meaning death. The character was created by the writer Jim Starlin who came up with the idea in college during a psychology class after serving as a US Navy photographer in Viet Nam. According to his Wikipedia entry, "Death and suicide are recurring themes in [his] work", and he also finds ways to work the character of Thanos into many different storylines. Is it any wonder that a young man tasked with photographing warzones would grow up to write some very dark stories?
So there is a concept called profiling in which you try to develop a model of how a person is likely to act and then use that model to predict their behavior. A guy comes up with a nihilistic character named Death and tries to work him into every storyline you give him, chances are good that left to his own devices that guy is going to come up with a pretty good soft sell pitch for Agenda 21. Also, Jim Starlin is a liberal who doesn't like Trump, but I'm sure you already guessed that.
To belabor the point, Agenda 21 is the end-game scenario in which 90% of the human race is murdered so that the remaining 10% can be more easily controlled. Unfortunately many well-meaning people are in favor of this kind of scenario because of pseudo-scientific theories developed in the 19th Century such as Malthusianism and Marxism which, despite being incessantly proven wrong by the historical record, are still being promoted by films such as this. Much like socialists and progressives everywhere Thanos believes there are simply too many mouths to feed. And here's the spoiler: in the end Thanos succeeds in his plan and kills 50% of the population of the entire universe.
A related theme in Infinity War is that of characters forced to sacrifice a loved one. They really hit you over the head with this one: Gamora (Gomorrah, another Starlin creation) forces Starlord to promise to kill her if she ever joins Thanos. Starlord acquiesces to this request, only to have Thanos use his powers to turn his bullets into bubbles (after shoving her head into the barrel of Starlord's gun). The Scarlet Witch (and only the Scarlet Witch) must kill Vision in order to destroy the Infinity Stone lodged in his forehead. Thanos threatens to kill Nebula unless Gamora reveals the location of the Soul Stone, and when Gamora plays dumb he replays Nebula's memory of Gamora telling her that she knows the secret, thus showing that Nebula has essentially already betrayed her sister. Then at the climax Thanos sacrifices Gamora (something he loves) to obtain the Soul Stone. And of course in the first five minutes Loki tells Thanos that he doesn't mind if he murders his own brother. I'm sure I missed a few there, so chime in if you noticed any others.
The most telling thing about all these sacrifices is that nothing comes of them, and that is what makes it an inversion. The very meaning of the word "sacrifice" is to give something up in favor of something else, and in Infinity War that only happens in the form of Thanos sacrificing his daughter to gain power. Ideas like nobility, honor, or even future gain, are almost totally absent from the themes of this movie, and that takes it from the category of tragedy and into the farce.
At this point I'm going to introduce the concept of chakras. If woo-woo disturbs you than you need read no further. Of course, there is a lot of disinformation (in my opinion) surrounding what we think of as "energy centers" and I had intended to lay some stronger foundations to discuss my ideas, but everything I have to say has been covered in the works of L/L Research. Here are the relevant excerpts.
In the terms introduced by L/L Research, the Second Chakra or Orange Ray has to do with You/Me interactions. That is to say, interactions between two people. These can be lovers, teacher and pupil, perpetrator and victim, hero and villain, doctor and patient, mother and child, yin and yang, and on and on. To put it briefly in the context of the immediately lower and higher energy centers, the First Chakra is the Self, the Second Chakra is You/Me or Self/Other, and the Third Chakra is Us/Them. In a macrocosmic sense, the First Chakra would be matter, the Second Chakra would be life, and the Third Chakra would be consciousness.
So what Infinity War attempts is to present very distorted You/Me interactions in order to weaken them. This, in conjunction with the killing of 50% (or 1/2; me vs. you) of the population casts a spell of division which I hereby break.
As a footnote, it appears that in the comic book on which this movie was based, Thanos was actually motivated to possess the stones in order to prove his love to Mistress Death! So we have a strong Second Chakra connection which got lost in translation!
That is the big point I picked up on, but it's also important to note that this version of Thanos was only able to succeed because the Avengers team was weakened, not through plot device, but through simple oversight. Hulk is unable to transform, resulting in him fighting in a Tony Stark suit in the final scene. Captain America is no longer Captain America and wears Thor's beard (maybe someone more versed in the lore can explain this one to me). Of course, Thor still keeps his hair short after his emasculation in Thor: Ragnarok. That makes me think of Starlord's obvious jealousy and mimicry of Thor in their first meeting, so again we have envious rather than complementary interactions between pairs of heroes. But here I was discussing missing heroes with no explanation. Maybe their presence could have changed the outcome?
Finally there is the upside-down roundel on War Machine's leg as he flies to Wakanda's aid. This is what I mean:
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Look for it. Is this a subtle dig at the US Armed Forces?
That's all I wanted to get off my chest. I'd really like to see a timeline of when this movie came together, and if anything was changed after Hillary failed to get elected. I did see that it was originally announced as two movies, then changed to one, then back to two.
If there are any big-time comics readers that would like to dispute my analysis, have at it. Otherwise, I think it's important to realize that even if you think this kind of symbolism is silly or coincidential, the rulers of this planet certainly take it seriously.
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