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"True Crime" and it's Consequences (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Thorngraff_Ironbeard@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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All my mom watches is all of those Murder shows on cable like Forensic Files and the like. She's been watching this since I can remember and long before I ever heard the term "true crime". I legit think shows like this are why so many gen-x and boomers are terrified of the world. They all open talking about how the small town that the case happened in was using almost identical language each time, " here in x we don't lock our doors, everybody knows everybody, things don't happen like this in x, we stop and help people on theroad ". And as a person who grew up in a small town I'm like what? Everyone there is the most paranoid castle doctrine ass motherfucker I've ever met. They don't know their neighbors and they treat anyone who they don't know as threats. Then the show goes at lengths to show you how kind, pretty, full of life, etc the victim is so they can then go into detail about how they were brutalized.

I don't know where I'm going with this rant it's just something that's been on my mind for a while.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Listening to The Game was something else. They should it all on vinyl. I'd buy it. Easily the best Tru Annon series. Absolutely heart wrenching stuff but as someone who's worked at 'Organic' stores and has dealt with hippies and new age creeps a lot, it really explained a lot.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They should it all on vinyl. I'd buy it.

Didn't realize I wanted this til you said it, but yeah this would be nice.

as someone who's worked at 'Organic' stores and has dealt with hippies and new age creeps a lot, it really explained a lot.

I actually forgot that it was created by new age addiction recovery cultists. Need to relisten to the series.

If you're interested in weird far right new age cults, I strongly recommend the QAA episode on the I AM Activity (167) and the Nonsense Bazaar episodes on the same (if you're willing to put up with some [not far right] new age hippies for a few hours). Blew my mind to find out the degree to which modern new age movements were influenced by esoteric fascists. The entire twin flame concept even.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'll for sure give that a listen. I am bey8nd fascinated by the compromising of the hippies, mk ultra, new age stuff linked to fascism, the fact that most of DC hardcore had secret service dads all that shit. When I'm old i may be able to piece enough together to write a book, 20th century cointerculture being absolutely full of weirdos and ops (as in operatives, not the newfangled slang for opponents). It's a borderline obsession. Fucking Leonard Nimoy went to Synanon and did a The Game several times. The tendrils of this high weirdness are everywhere. I used to be a discordian and Robert Anton Wilson guy, I get where the tech bros came from. I don't have a tinfoil hat but I do have a sleuthy fedora and trenchcoat metaphorically, I hate hats and wear either a double breasted peacoat or a tattered jean jacket. There's no puzzle but a lot of pieces with this.