Freeman
Fly is another pundit, a softly smiling conspiracist with a shadowy,
slightly threatening air of authority, like a haunted house tour
guide, a disliked camp counselor, or an underestimated dungeon
master. He speaks from behind a pile of important books, behind him
mythic green-screened backgrounds of public-access-TV cosmoscape, a
looming stone golem, scrolling codexes of Egyptian-inspired symbols,
masonic cartoons, ancient cities and grinning people of power using
signifying gestures. Freeman's manner is blank and robotic from drugs
or mind control, broken occasionally with the prankster smile of a
withered hippie with a nasty thought. He dresses simply, with
tasteful talismans and an understated Amish/Wiccan/presidential
assassin vibe. He speaks in a wandering, illustrative tone with lots
of gentle rises of emphasis and revelatory halts. His voice has a
friendly, mechanical drive that is clearly divorced from the actual
content leaving his mouth. It can sound like a live news anchor
filling an uncertain amount of time, or stuff you have to listen to
while waiting for drugs.
Freeman
has an associates degree in ancient and environmental architecture,
predicted 9/11, and performed in and documented the first ever
all-night Winter Solstice ceremony with the Mayans at the pyramids in
Tikul. This gives you an idea of the kind of amalgamation going on in
his field: the best conspiracists have room for every fringe idea in
their world views. Big pundits of conspiracy have built a forum for
every discredited vein of experience. Each refuted supernatural claim
is a plank in a brain-melting platform of paranoia and esoteric
knowledge. Freeman is for instance of the opinion that “Our space
program is run by the occult”, and that “Atlantis is on the mind
of the elite, Atlantis is Atolas the king of Atlantis, and that's the
large Hadron collider.” Perusing the videos on his YouTube account
truly shows the breadth of his content and further illustrates the
kind of mix that is being packaged together: His YouTube channel of
about 300 videos (most between one and three hours long), contains
ruminations on “Human Cloning, Robots, and the Occult”, “Owls,
ET, and Magic,” “Genetically Modified Attack Baboons”, “the
Power of Music”, “Star Wars and White Genocide”, “What
Happened at the Orlando Shooting”,”What is Wrong with Women These
Days” “Chemtrails, Morgellons, and Black Goo”, “Pope Francis
coming to America with CERN and Blood Moons”.
An
aspirant of big players David Icke and Alex Jones, Freeman advertises
his work as “where the esoteric meets the political” and is as
alarmist and prolific as his heroes (Take, for instance, Jones' movie
series of Police State 2000, Police State II: The Takeover, Police
State 3: Total Enslavement, and Police State 4: the Rise of FEMA).
Besides the YouTube channel, Mr. Fly has hundreds more hours of
documentaries, podcasts, blogs and books and the forums on his
personal site. He also makes sure to reach out to his community, the
intrepid intellectual outsiders who have built a web of discredited
thought united by a common enemy: reality. They are happy to appear
on each others' media and talk about how right they are, and have
taken a bunch of disjointed stories and hallucinations and
constructed a nearly universally known community, a media network of
connected commentators and enthusiasts consuming and reinforcing each
other in a massive plenitude, through every modern medium available.
The commentators of this platform are sources of news, philosophy,
history, political rhetoric, mental health and spiritual knowledge.
They can be any combination of critic, journalist, guru, pundit and
priest, and their theories have bled into both the paranoid far-right
and groovy gurus of transcendence and consciousness. They have
attracted an audience of both fervent believers and cynical
spectators.
However
you feel about the veracity of the individual stories, conspiracists’
all-inclusive approach draws out the common themes of the material,
which are often relevant, powerful and accessible: That truths are
being obscured from the common people, that the elites collude
together to consolidate power and information, that a more fantastic
world is obscured from view by forces that distract and control our
thinking, that our government seeks to invasively monitor our lives.
The community also holds the admirable view that new channels of
media with powerful scholarship and analysis can break open the web
of coercive disinformation around us.
