Perhaps these people might listen to the Ugandans themselves? Nah. What would Ugandans featured in the film know about the suffering of Ugandans featured in the film?
[…] one woman “made the comparison of selling Osama Bin Laden paraphernalia post 9/11 – likely to be highly offensive to many Americans, however well-intentioned the campaign behind it.”
Apparently South Sudan and Uganda are sitting on piles of fossil fuels (oil and natural gas). I, for one, think the people who made this video about Kony are being viewed as “useful idiots” by the people who are hoping to laugh all the way to the proverbial bank.
Oh, and in answer to why this particular video has gone viral: celebrity endorsements. That should tell you everything.
The astute Charlie Brooker exposes the creepy, messianic background of the creators of the film…
Now we’re talkin…
(funny you should use the word “creepy”)…
NBCSanDiego.com is reporting that Jason Russell, one of the co-founders of Invisible Children, makers of last week’s viral Kony 2012 video, was detained in Pacific Beach, Calif., on Thursday, after he was found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of something, according to Lt. Andra Brown, who said Russell was acting very strange.
I just heard about this on Facebook. I guess he wasn’t wasn’t invisible.
Wow. I may have my tinfoil hat on here, but something about this whole thing just doesn’t sit right with me.
So the ideators were after some quick cash by exploiting the public’s gullibility (or guilt or whatever)? I wasn’t too far off the mark.
But I do agree with you Autolykos. Celebrity endorsement or not there’s something very strange with the whole affair.
A giant shocker:
US sends troops to Uganda to combat LRA.
6 months later: lazy thinkers proclaim ‘it is all about oil’.
Gee thank god there is oil (and other natural resources) in the world. Otherwise gazillions of democrats, and apparently some libertarians, wouldn’t have an instant, ready-made explanation for every war and troop deployment out there, but would, if they wished to know what they were about, actually have to invest time and effort into studying them and comprehend concepts that are beyond the level of 6 year olds. Thank god the oil keeps it simple!
Here’s a suggestion, if you only found out about the Uganda deployment from a youtube video, months after it had begun, then being self-satisfied you have it all cleverly figured out (as the image maker is) just makes you look stupid.
Marko, why you gotta be a buzz kill? Can’t we have fun with pictures people reblog on Tumblr?
Just caught this one from LRC…
I realize this is kind of old news now, but I thought this one from the Daily Bell was a nice overview, and deserved to be included in the comprehensive collection of resources this thread has become…
We track dominant social themes here at the Daily Bell, and the spectacular implosion of the “Stop Kony 2012” campaign is a further example of how these memes are disintegrating under the pressure of what we call the Internet Reformation.
We commented on this in this past week, in “Kony 2012 Debunking Shows How Far Alternative Media Has Come.” But we wrote that article before the spectacular implosion of the “artistic creator” of the video, who apparently had a nervous breakdown due to the reception of the video and was sent to a psychiatric facility.
I am not one to rejoice at this sort of thing. In fact, it is a personal and familial tragedy for the person involved, obviously. On the other hand, the video itself was fairly despicable, in my view, and obviously and evidently the intention was to create a power elite meme.
This is not idle speculation. Alternative media reports may have firmly fixed the producers of the video, “Invisible Children,” within the larger framework of the State Department and its infamous AYM sponsorship.
The “youth movements” that the power elite has assiduously cultivated over the past decade or more are responsible for destabilizing numerous countries around the world now.
The Invisible Children non-profit seems to me to be firmly entrenched within this Intel paradigm. No doubt, if their funding stream is analyzed closely it will emerge that various strands of support lead back to elite foundations and personalities.
What was the meme? It was to create a groundswell of support for a kind of neo-colonialist attack on Africa. Some of what is intended has been clearly elucidated now by alternative media and some has not. […]
I should have known this existed, but I hadn’t even heard…apparently there’s footage of the filmmaker going crazy…
http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/16/jason-russell-video-naked-meltdown-kony/