Guest post by Thomas Fuller
Well, with the calming passage of 24 hours, let’s take another look at the 10:10 video showing the splatterfest of gore as skeptics play the more volatile roles from the worst portions of the movie ‘Scanners.’
It’s still disgusting.
I spent four years in the Navy and have seen a lot. The film did not upset me physically or emotionally. My reaction was mental (Cue Michael Tobis: “See? Fuller’s going mental…”)
What disgusts me first is its target. The video is meant for the young. Young people get blown up by a calm and engaged teacher in the first scene, and music and sports and film figures appealing to the young are both victims and perpetrators throughout.
Our reaction is irrelevant. They are not talking to us. They are talking to our children.
What are they saying? That it’s okay to ostracize, bully and dismiss those who don’t agree that climate change is uber alles (Oops! Godwin alert, Godwin alert) and that skeptics or the children of skeptics are fair game for… whatever.
As there is no real attempt at humour in the video, there’s no point in pretending it’s a parody. It’s instructional. It’s not even aimed at helping children work towards reducing emissions. It’s about helping children take aim at those who do not.
This is worse than Orwellian, although Eric Blair would certainly understand the meaning behind this message. And I don’t want to (and internet traditions would forbid me in any case) link this to the propaganda tactics of World War II. So somewhere in between those two, there is a special place in hell reserved for those whose intent it is to legitimize the cruelty of children towards each other based on what has evidently become a religious belief. And I hope that none of the film’s makers reaches that special place ahead of their allotted timespan–but I hope they get there.
Joe Romm and Bill McKibben have already announced they are ‘Shocked! Shocked!’ that gambling is going on in their casino and that their perpetual campaign of invective and calumny has produced people who actually believe them and hate skeptics. So I guess it’s no harm, no foul. Just as it was not their fault when a disturbed environmentalist took hostages at the Discover Channel headquarters, just as when the WWF made an ad showing planes flying into New York skyscrapers, just as when a Greenpeace blogger told skeptics the world over that ‘we know where you live.’ And as Anthony Watts knows full well, they also know where you work. But none of this is the fault of those who whip up the frenzy and the furor of those stupid enough to believe their hyperbole, enough to do something vicious, cruel, stupid or illegal.
So I guess I can’t blame hysterics like Romm and McKibben, who spend their days babbling about hell and high water and related mystical miseries, for any of the troubles we’ve seen. Except for the kids who will be downloading that video tonight. Both William Golding (Lord of the Flies) and J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan) knew full well that children need no help in being cruel. But this gives them license and legitimacy. And for that, Joe and Bill, I do hold you responsible. You sent the message first–it took years for 10:10 to make it explicit.
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I’ve just finished posting my own 24-hours-later thoughts. My concluding remarks are pretty much in sync with Tom’s:
If We Are Not Free to Disagree, We Are Not Free
I don’t see this as something directed at kids, I see it as form of self expression, a fantasy of what people at 10:10, 350.org, etc. would like to do with the skeptical community – simply make us disappear with no concern, no regrets, and an unstated appreciation that we will have made a 100% cut in our carbon footprint.
That, and their complete comfort at lying to people who disagree with them.
Go and view Monty Python and the holy Grail. Look up Satire in the dictionary. Then take a course in being British (N.B. work very hard on the Irony / Sarcasm section)
Finally review the video again and posit a new opinion.
I’m not in the least surprised that the majority of Warmists who have a problem with this are American, as are the majority of Climate Realists.
It’s a cultural thing.
I too have come to similar conclusions about this video here. Using young children AND having young children blown up in front of other young children by an authority figure is really well beyond what anybody could classify as acceptable – regardless of the cause.
Interesting though was the fact that in the related videos (4th or 5th) was ‘CO2 Regulation: The Essence of Immorality’ – maybe Google takes into account the content of comments as well when working out what is related. Either that or reality itself has a bone to pick with the 10:10 crowd..
I see this disgusting film as a direct and stark warning for all normal people whatever camp they belong to, sceptics and alarmists both have a direct stake in coming down hard on on this hate product and stating clearly together that it has no place in our civilisation.
Its time to put our differences aside and fight this kind of sickness together because if we do not the consequences for all of us could be disastrous, the legitimization of cruelty and casual violence toward those thought to be different must be squashed ASAP, once children have that blood lust within them it is almost impossible to remove it.
The world saw the ugly results in the 30s and we very nearly succumbed to a dark age.
This was not comedy, this was never meant to be funny and the claim should be exposed for the lie it is. There is nothing funny about the training our our young to despise and hate the untermenschen. I urge any doubters to watch a film called ‘the eternal Jew’ it shows what goes through the mind of a film maker with a political message of hate to peddle.
Our reaction is irrelevant. They are not talking to us. They are talking to our children.
Precisely. But no pressure.
My take on it here:
http://peacelegacy.org/articles/1010s-murder-movie
They say that the video has been taken down at URL
but I still find it at URL
The organization’s name, 10:10, and their push to reduce carbon emissions by 10%, coupled with the slaughtering of a few dissenters in every scene (roughly 10%?), reminded me of the Roman disciplinary practice of decimation.
Decimation was a punishment imposed on Roman military units for failure, cowardice, or mutiny in which one in ten (10% of) soldiers were selected by lot to be slaughtered by their comrades. Only the decimated victims in 10:10′s video are chosen for this ultimate punishment by their failure to make the “right” choice. No pressure. Decimating the global population sure is one way to reduce carbon emissions by 10%…
For more on my take on this video, see my blogpost: 10:10′s Decimate the Global Population Campaign.
I am still trying to decide if the video was made to desensitize their base or alarm us. Or both. This was clearly a propaganda video made by a master of film. What is the message he is trying to send? Strange as it sounds, I wonder if the film maker didn’t intentially expose this group, all the while the lefty group-thinkers were so eager to get along that they dared not question him for fear of being exploded, socially.
jeremy of W.A
I’m half American and half English (by geography not birth.) The Holy Grail is one of my favorite movies and I have watched most Black Adders.
This piece of crap is not comparable for many reasons. It is a hate piece targeted at children.
Go and view Monty Python and the holy Grail. Look up Satire in the dictionary. Then take a course in being British (N.B. work very hard on the Irony / Sarcasm section)
Finally review the video again and posit a new opinion.
But no pressure!
You are right Thomas, this was no out-of-this-real-world sci fi film that even kids can separate from reality. Many people might think people commenting are upset is because the film upset them. Contraire. I’m old enough to see through it without damage. People are commenting and are upset with what it will do to millions or more innocent minds out there include all of the world’s children and grandchildren. It either teaches them 1) lifelong fear or worse 2) the feeling that another’s life is worth nothing that doesn’t agree with them.
Where the hell is the FBI and Interpol who have the responsibility to protect citizens and their children from such blatant filth. This is a mass-murderer maker. As I understand it this film is now being passed out privately and underground and out of the public’s scrutiny. Is it going to make it’s way into schools and colleges?
This is nothing but terror at it’s core. Plain and simple. They d–ned well better be thankful I do not have any real power over their futures and the futures of the people who caused them to feel they needed to make such a film.
P.S., if this were Monty Python, Monty Python wouldn’t be Monty Python.
Al Gore targets youth too:
The video shouldn’t be called 10:10. It could have been 7/7. A group of people decide they don’t like the opinions or way of life of another group so they do exactly what was shown in this video … they push a little red button and blow them all to pieces.
London Underground, July 7th, 2007 …… 50 dead. Countless more scarred for life.
What was the bloody difference between that and the this 10:10 video ?
Steve Goddard says This piece of crap is not comparable for many reasons. It is a hate piece targeted at children.
Well, looking at the first scene I see a number of stereotypes being developed. The goody-goody two shoes cycling girl, the ‘honest’ suggester of sensible ideas, and finally the malcontents.
As I remember my childhood at that age, the first two were of very low repute while the malcontents were generally popular.
That the malcontents were blown up was – and still is – uber cool. Hono(u)r to them.
I showed my kids the clip and all they could do was laugh.
I’m starting to suspect the script-writer was acting as a double agent
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
And parts is parts.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTzLVIc-O5E&fs=1&hl=en_US]
The last two paragraphs could easily be rewritten to point the other way; it’s the sceptics like you and Anthony who’re ‘Shocked! Shocked!’ that gambling is going on in their casino and that their perpetual campaign of invective and calumny has produced people who actually believe them and hate warmists! And given that those two paragraphs immediately follow a sentence in which you say you hope the films makers go to hell . . . . well, don’t you realize how one eyed (I’m playing nice) that makes you?
Jeremy, I know the Black Knight and David Ginola is no Black Knight.
Jeremy of W.A
I thought at first it was just over the top British humor as well. Then I read the interviews of the cast, and the producers.
Still looking for the wink, not seeing it.
You know that this particular bunch of AGW clowns have made a mistake when even Joe Romm feels obliged to trash them: “The video is beyond tasteless and should be widely condemned.”
jeremy of W.A. says:
October 1, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Go and view Monty Python
Monty Python had a different feel to it. What they did was intended to be funny. This 10:10 video is shocking and sickening. People who persist in saying it is funny to those who are shocked by it may need to do some soul searching. Even the makers of the film aren’t defending it to those who are offended by it.
Monty Python’s “Tennis Anyone? Monty Python’s “Sam Peckinpa’s Salad Days.” ” may be one of the skits you are referring to, jeremy of W.A., when comparing this horrible 10:10 video to Monty Python. But that skit was funny and obviously meant to be funny.
I think to call the 10:10 video funny may partly be due to passive aggression in some people.
This Jon Stewart segment takes a while to get going, dances around the subject, contains crude language and concepts, and is sure to rile some people up, but the parallels are there, so here it is:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-february-2-2010/story-hole—children-s-cartoons-from-hamas
I agree with the previous posters that this was aimed at children.
Indeed, listen to the comments of two of the child actors in the film, from the now youtube banned “behind the scenes” video:
One young chap of about age 10 who was blown up in the first scene says something to the effect:
“I am very up…to getting blown up…to save the world.”
Then a young teenage teen actor, says, with a smile on his blood and guts covered face:
“Hi my name is Drew Barnard and I think it is fun to explode children…for a good cause.”
!!!!!
Now I am sure what these kids are saying, are with a wink.
We all have the fascination with the blood and guts and halloween and horror. I get that.
This video is not that.
There is an extremely sinister undercurrent here.
It is pure evil….and the producers now realize their error…and now they have retracted.
Good for them. Nice to see some semblance of consciences remain.
But what about the many minds of children you USED and influenced here?
How are you going to retract that?
-Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA