#Apocalypto almost movie

The greater truth hits us in the face, if we have eyes to see, and it is this: If we continue to devolve away from the Commandments, the Law of God, and the teachings of Jesus Christ who set the prisoners free, we fall back into mankindвЂ™s default pagan position: the Jungle of nihilism, the sheer will to power, a world of predator and prey where human beings are meat for the taking and for, potentially, the slaughter. But most importantly-and Jones doesnвЂ™t quite get this, I fear- itвЂ™s about a lot more than the politics of tyranny. Gibson again sets the tyrannical power of the state against the family and the rag-tag bands, itвЂ™s what we witnessed inВ The PatriotВ andВ BraveheartВ but the message is driven home even more authoritatively in Apocalypto. The plot revolves around brutal Aztec warrior armies being sent on missions to capture and enslave neighboring tribes and bring them back to be used as fodder for human sacrifice and slavery. Set in Mesoamerica just before Spanish contact, the film illustrates the decline of the Maya civilization. The radio ranter Alex Jones, in his review wrote this much that is true: The movie, Apocalypto, is absolutely brutal from start to finish and very hard to watch (warning about appropriateness for young children). It is obvious to me Gibson is no sadist, but a teacher in this instance with film as his medium.

#Apocalypto almost movie

When the movie ApocalyptoВ first came out, I wrote: One must choose, Mel Gibson is either a sadist or he is a keen and compelling observer of the times with a prophetic eye on our choices for the future. вЂњWhite men did not start slavery, but they ended it, not through revolt but through legislationвЂќ (from the same notes). There is another truth that historians have noted. But unless we reform, forgive and let the past be the past (after all, who of us ordinary people are slave owners today?) it will be an endless вЂњeye for an eye until the whole world is blindвЂќ. And вЂњeditingвЂќ history is a very current form of social engineering. Those who profit from conflict, whether in academia or вЂњsimplyвЂќ the internationalist ideologues and bankers (because it increases their capacity to enforce pernicious forms of вЂњorderвЂќ) have left much out of the history books. Joseph Cinque, ringleader of the mutiny on the slave shipВ La AmistadВ after being exonerated by the US Supreme Court returned to Africa and became a slave trader.вЂќ There were also freed slaves in America who went on to own slaves in their own right. These were black men owning black men and women. Africans had been trading and owning slaves for millennia. There are many bloodstained black hands in the history of slavery too.

вЂ¦LetвЂ™s be clear about this, slavery is not a black and white issue. Remember Spartacus? He led the famous (white) slave revolt against the ancient Romans who enslaved almost anyone.

вЂњSlaves have been resisting capture and revolting against their masters for millennia and slavery continued. In my files I found this quote from a source I forget, What matters is what we all learn from hard history. Who suffered more? Who suffered less? The question is a marvelous futility. It breaks the heart to contemplate any of it. Slavery was once considered вЂњnormalвЂќ booty, the spoils taken from war and conquered peoples. (Google or search books for subjects like EnglandвЂ™s Irish Slaves / indentured servitude, debtors prisons, etc.). If nations and peoples cannotВ opt outВ at any time of a so-called New World Order once they have been persuaded, bribed, betrayed or tricked into it, then we certainlyВ doВ have a new form of servitude on the horizon.ДЄlmost all peoplesВ were involved (for millennia) in one way or another in forms of slavery ranging from very harsh shackled servitude, of and within many peoples, to indentured вЂњservitudeвЂќ and debtors prisons, etc. But since many warn of globalismвЂ™s (Read: the New World OrderвЂ™s) new forms of вЂserfdomвЂ™ or вЂenslavementвЂ™ and human sacrifice (e.g., abortion, euthanasia, eugenics, usury and debt bondage), I think the subject cannot be avoided precisely because we do not want the world, not any peoples, to revert to anything near the global вЂњplantation,вЂќ whether of the вЂњhardвЂќ or вЂњsoftвЂќ variety of bondage. Slavery, alas, was / is as old as the world in almost all culturesвЂ¦It is almost a subject too painful to think about.