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ALIEN abduction, cloning, genetic engineering, ghosts, mutants and a
de facto Nazi agenda comprise the vast, surreal and often macabre backdrop
to the hit TV series, "The X-Files." Supported by an international audience
of untold millions, the paranormal adventures of mythical FBI agents
Fox Mulder (played with resolute understatement by David Duchovney)
and Dana Scully (the enigmatic redhead Gillian Anderson) are broadcast
to the four corners of the world in over a dozen languages. From Australia
to Sweden, from Germany to South Africa, "The X-Files" faithful know
that "the truth is out there."
The truth -- at least, according to the producers of the show -- is
open-ended and offers no real closure for the viewer. Several possible
explanations are most often offered for each scenario. ("X-Files" creator
Chris Carter claims his two biggest influences in formulating the theme
of the show were the Watergate Hearings and the 1970s hit TV series,
"The Nightstalker.")
Exactly why is "The X-Files" so loved, to the point of fanaticism by
people the world over, many may wonder? Is it because the show is filled
with both tension and absurd laughs? (For example, Jeopardy host Alex
Trebek and Gov. Jesse Ventura once appeared as "Men in Black" in the
hysterical episode, "Jose Chung's from outer space."
Or is it the lure of the tears (Scully's cancer) and genuine fears?
Or is there something more?
Good alien, bad alien
The central mythology of "The X-Files" revolves around this theme: Aliens
are colonizing the earth -- or at least attempting to -- with the help
of an insider transnational elite of rich, white men that runs both
inside of, and parallel to, the United Nations.
These aliens are no "little green men," however. They are true monsters,
who will gestate inside all of the earth's human population if left
unchecked. The leader of the conspiracy to betray the people of the
earth to this diabolical fate is the enigmatic Cigarette Smoking Man,
or "CSM," played by William B. Davis.
In perhaps his definitive role, "Memoirs of a Cigarette Smoking Man,"
Davis assumed the role of the "Anti-Forrest Gump." Having assassinated
both Martin Luther King, Jr. and President Kennedy for the CIA, the
CSM tells us, "Life is like a box of chocolates, a perfunctory gift
no one ever asks for."
The "Cancer Man," as Mulder calls him, assures everyone within earshot
that "the Buffalo Bills will never win a Super Bowl in my lifetime."
The CSM also fixed the outcome of the 1980 U.S. men's Olympic hockey
gold medal over the Russians, and even orchestrated the recruitment
of Saddam Hussein into the CIA.
"His real name is Frankie Rodriquez; we found him in a comedy club in
New Jersey doing Arab impersonations," the Cigarette Smoking Man says.
Saddam is carted out at the leisure of Bill and Hillary "when things
get hot with Monica" -- to distract the public.
On a far more serious note, however, the mind-boggling success of "The
X-Files" may rest in its ability to speak openly about the role of the
U.S. government and the U.N. since the end of World War II. The paradigm
shift in the way the post-Judeo-Christian Western world interprets reality
is central to understanding "The X-Files" -- both within the series
itself, and its effect upon its global viewership.
Using alien colonization as a metaphor to communicate a higher message,
"The X-Files" cuts to the bone on three major issues: first, the direction
in which Western and global civilization is heading; secondly, who or
what is leading us to this destiny and why; and thirdly, why "We the
People" seem so weak, confused and unable to turn our own destiny back
toward sanity and normalcy.
To be sure, the show is "politically correct" to a fault. Abortion,
Clinton, Janet Reno and evolution are "in." Pro-lifers, Biblical Christianity,
"bonehead conspiracy theories" and the militias are "out."
"It took mankind 3,000 years to go from building the Pyramids to the
Magna Carta. Almost another 700 years to the Emancipation Proclamation
of Abraham Lincoln.
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Then
only another 140 years to walk right back into the slavery of pyramid
building in the modern new world order," says Nina Morrison, an "X-Files"
fan and former CIA pilot in Indochina for the infamous CIA-front company
Air America. "It may well take mankind another 3,000 years to get our
freedom back. The 'X-Files' clearly spells this out for any thinking
viewer."
In
a landmark episode, "The Master Plan," the Cigarette Smoking Man engages
in a face-to-face verbal showdown with one of the alien colonists. This
alien, however, is a rebel who claims he "no longer believes in the
master plan" of colonization. In fact, this truly humane alien has engaged
in a one-man cosmic conspiracy of sorts. He travels the highways and
byways of America performing Christ-like miracles.
For example, when a disturbed and disgruntled man goes on a shooting
rampage at a fast food restaurant, the alien heals all of the wounded,
including the shooter -- who has been gunned down by a police SWAT team.
The incident makes the TV news: "It must have been the Good Lord Himself,"
says the repentant shooter of the alien who healed him. Not surprisingly,
the "Insider Elite" are furious with the alien rebel.
"I'm not impressed by your miracles or your trickery," the Cigarette
Smoking Man tells the alien rebel after he is captured. "Who do you
think you are, God?"
"What you're afraid of is that the people will think that I am God,"
replies the alien.
"The people no longer believe in God. Science is their religion. No
greater explanation exists for them," the Cigarette Smoking Man replies.
"The people believe in authority. We make them happy and they give us
authority."
"The authority to take away their freedom under the guise of democracy,"
counters the alien.
"The people no longer believe in God but they still fear Him -- because
they are afraid of freedom," the Cigarette Smoking Man then replies.
"If you can appease a man's conscience you can take away his freedom.
But men can never be free, because they are weak, corrupt, worthless
and restless."
"Who are you to mete out justice to the people?" the alien then asks
his captor. "All that you want is to be one of the commandants, to be
a part of it. You may have the means, but you have no right."
"The work [the colonization and gestation of all humans] must proceed,"
the Cigarette Smoking Man says.
"At what cost to them?" the alien counters.
"That is inconsequential. The outcome is inevitable," the Cigarette
Smoking Man replies.
"No. It is their love that makes them better than you. Better than us,"
the alien rebel counters once again. "But you will never see the outcome.
Your plans will not succeed. You are dying of lung cancer."
Truth stranger than fiction
Meanwhile, as countless millions of minds are diverted into chasing
at the shadows of "The X-Files," the real life "X-Files" mostly go unnoticed
-- ignored by a mercenary press which has become a hammer for the transnational
elite. The real losers are, of course, the Taco Bell-eating, Super Bowl-watching,
900-number-dialing public that has become too dumbed-down by our failed
public education system to understand their march back to the Pyramids.
But can the public take all of the blame? What about those who do genuinely
seek the truth in our confusing, post-Cold War world? Is it really out
there? After all, what is the difference between the "Ministry of Truth,"
in the novel "1984," and the influence of Ted Turner, Bill Gates, Rupert
Murdoch and Michael Eisner -- who today control the agenda of the global
media complex?
The real-life "X-Files" reads like a never-ending nightmare tale of
a bogeyman piloting an endless chain of railroad cars. We the People
must wait at the railroad crossing while the train roars by, each boxcar
visible, the door opened as we helplessly gaze at the stuff of nightmares
inside. ...
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