There is a communist conspiracy to create NPCs

"The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) is a work of art, unappreciated until more recent times. The film deals with highly political issues, but it is not woke.

Keep in mind, this is the original black&white one. The 2004 remake with Denzel Washington struck me as poop.

In the film, we see a communist version of MKUltra. While the effects may seem absurd, we should not underestimate the impact of a lesser form of brainwashing: the relentless repetition of fabrications by the mainstream media. When the media compares President Trump to Hitler, it is sending the message "kill him", over and over. Some weak-minded individuals were brainwashed into attempting to assassinate Trump during the 2024 presidential campaign. That is my take.

Let me recount my personal experience with being brainwashed. My high school history teacher started the class every day with a 5 minute story where the lesson was "don't run for the bus". 40 years later, I do take the bus sometimes because of where I live, but when I need to run for the bus an invisible force grips me and often wins. I now realize my teacher's real lesson: repetition will brainwash you.

The film mocks Senator McCarthy with a caricature. So is the film trying to say the whole Red Scare was silly hysteria? I think the intended message is only that it went too far. The director, John Frankenheimer, explained, “It really dealt with the whole idea of fanaticism, the far Right and the far Left being the same thing, and the idiocy of it.”

Interestingly, the film had severe difficulty getting greenlit for production, because Hollywood execs were worried about offending the Soviet Union, hmm. (However, they were not concerned about showing a plot to kill an American presidential candidate, hmm.) Ironically, President Kennedy himself had to reassure Hollywood that the plot was kosher. He was assassinated a year after the release of the film.

Today, we see hard evidence of infiltration of America by Communist China. Senator Dianne Feinstein's chauffeur was a Chinese spy. Representative Eric Swalwell slept with a Chinese spy. Depictions of Mao decorate the offices and rented properties of Democratic congressmen.

More personally, decades ago my white-owned contracting company lost its NASA contract due to Affirmative Action to a Mainland Chinese man who did not speak English and whose staff consisted of one person, a homosexual hiring manager who had won the title of "Mr. S&M San Francisco" one year. I heard he subsequently hired almost 100% gays for the NASA contract positions. It had been perhaps the most elite and important research group outside of private industry, gutted. This is why NASA can't have nice things anymore.

Is there a globohomo conspiracy to undermine American politics and science? Our reality reminds me of the Chinese TV show "Three-Body" (or American "3 Body Problem"), except with the Chinese being the subterfugers, trying to derail the progress of America.

The original "The Manchurian Candidate" is not food for thought - it is a frigging banquet!