2:32:59 Welcome back to the Alex Jones Show. I'm your guest host, Jason Alsace and we were talking about the power of the arts to really in many ways be predictive and i've got several examples that I thought of during the break that I wanted to mention where I would say almost prophetic examples of artists who were able to sense the zeitgeist, right? The spirit of the time and to see where things were going. And I think that artists have that unique ability through their creative abilities to see where the society is going. My button came undone. I'm not trying to show my cleavage here so...I apologize to everybody
2:33:42 I know, I just tempted everybody with lust. Please don't lust it was just my button came undone everybody relax. Take a shower cold shower calm down. Notice from the underground this is an amazing work from Dostoevsky that believe it or not I think he wrote in the late 1800s this book actually predicts maybe early well I don't see the date but it was definitely late 1800's and in his essay he notes that The future would be one that is symbolized by this figure who's sort of a clerk in a station, and he's this really nasty individual. He has a really nasty heart but in a lot of ways he publicly as kind of a normal citizen. And the point of the novel at one point or excuse me, the short story eventually gets to this point where it says that
2:34:38 the man reflected on how the wicked operate from the pleasure that they get from evil. And this shows the Enlightenment idea that individuals can be morally neutral or something like this, it's just really not true And that if all man needed was education to solve his problems, if his problem wasn't in his own heart then he said we would never have the evil genius. So this guy is reflecting as he thinks about people in history who were notorious tyrants and talks about how Cleopatra I think he says liked to torture her mistresses she got pleasure out of torture
2:35:15 And he says this sadistic or the evil genius character, he says proves that evil is something more than just a lack of education. That there's actual virtue and vice going on here and then goes on to say that in fact I could even project that the future will be like a machine. The evil men of the future will be like a machine that operate in a program, machine-like way." There's a really famous page where the guy basically predicts a technocratic future where people are basically like robots again that's in the late 1800s In Brothers Karamazov there is one of the most famous chapters by Dostoyevsky where he talks about what was called The Grand Inquisitor and this is an inquisitory... A theoretical way in this chapter
2:36:03 He's doing an inquisition on Jesus, right? Which is odd because why would the Inquisition if they represent the church why would they do an inquisition on Jesus. Well, The Inquisitor says that we don't need you anymore And it's very prophetic in my view of where the sort of the globalist version of the papacy with Francis and others would go. He wrote this again in the late 1800s, and is basically saying that we will erect a world system, a globalist world system around this globalist religion, and we don't need Jesus in the religion anymore. So it's an amazing prophetic prediction again not just where the 20th century Roman Catholic Church would go post Vatican II
2:36:49 But where the world religion would go, moving towards this world religion. There's another great book in fiction Ray Bradbury right his Fahrenheit 451 which is we are at that stage right now they're now saying that books need to be banned need to be censored Now We've always had people banning books but Ray Bradbury predicted a future dystopia where they would ban the reading of books You got to be a dumb mind-controlled citizen you can't be reading books Heck No And Birch, he's basing that on what real people in the Royal Society like Bertrand Russell and H.G Wells were saying you won't be reading Shakespeare in the dystopia You wont be reading the Bible, you wont have books Books will be banned and we will dumb everybody down they don't read anymore Philip K Dick predicts the internet in Ubik Now another odd novel I wouldn't have expected to be prophetic
2:37:47 which was written in the 40s, was a book by Flannery O'Connor. It's called Wise Blood and I'm going to be covering this pretty soon. She is famous Southern Catholic writer. Southern Gothic is the genre and that novel was one of her few short novels she only wrote two. She predicted the rise of the new atheists pretty wild. This weird sort of oddball character named Hazel decides to create his own cult, however the cult that he creates is the Church of Jesus without Jesus so religion without any of the supernatural trappings or the real meaning of the religion really just a tool of other interests, tool of geopolitics, a tool of individuals who are just self-serving in the case of the novel this character right but far before we had this public campaign
2:38:37 of the new atheists. you have this really odd prophetic prediction of the new atheists in this novel. And many, many more examples of the arts being predictive and I'll be covering those on my channel if you want to go to my YouTube channel Jay Dyer and subscribe we're going to be getting into these. We just covered some really curious elements in recent podcasts like covering noir films from the wine all the weird occultic esoteric elements that a lot of the 40's and 50's films that nobody has even thought about it decades So we're really digging up old school stuff, but Courtney are you there? I want to get back to any of the examples that you can think of like where you've seen in your own life. You know like it doesn't have to be predictive elements but like when you were in the entertainment industry or anything is any stories that stuck out to you things that were really weird or people trying to make sure you didn't get a job because of your views or anything like that