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Disclaimer
This stream of consciousness conspiracy poetics is nothing but spoiler, so if you haven’t seen the movie a million times (or even once), you read the rest at your own peril.
One more thing: whether you choose to believe what follows is entirely up to you.
The Players
In Donnie Darko, Donnie plays our resident Christ. His story [...]

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Standing on the subway at two a.m., I see two movie posters side by side and I begin to sense the unsettling nature of the current zeitgeist. Call them Signs and Signifiers of the Spectacular Times.
I first saw the poster for this movie:

And to it’s right, I saw the poster for this one:

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In the near future, true believers in Christ all over the world will mysteriously disappear from the earth. Jesus will descend from heaven and take his brides (Born-again Christians) into His kingdom…Anyone in whom the Lord Jesus Christ does not dwell will be left on this earth after the Rapture…The shocking effect about the [...]

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I used to watch Jack Van Impe with my dad late at night for sheer entertainment. A delightfully bizarre show: Jack’s asthmatic, skull-wearing-skins-and-a-blonde wig-of-a- wife, Rexella, reads some news headline from a respectable paper or magazine, speaking of increased violence here, famine there, etc. Jack then takes that news story and links it at impressive [...]

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Here’s something to ponder upon for those who identify with the frameworks of conspiracy poetics, conspiracy research and conspiracy belief (overlapping, but by no means totally identical). Certainly, at least some within the aforementioned circles give this quite a bit of thought all the time, others take it as a given: the Hegelian Dialectical [...]

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