Wes Anderson' - Asteroid City

Asteroid city is a film about a play with scenes that are about the same play broadcast as a TV program with the camera pulled back and forth to reveal the stage setting and/or audience, from back in the day. A play within a play as it were, but mediated by differrent technologies.

The play is a rough pastiche of the Roswell UFO incident and the subsequent military panic and narrative control. It's many other things too but the basic themes are UFO/Aliens/Technology and the effects these have on the (gifted) children and their parents.

It's not complimentary about the adults who are largely motivated by their childrens scientific achievements while neglecting their emotional needs. The children too are distant and robotic in manner.

Most people wont like this movie but I did as Wes Anderson could have made this a silent movie and the visual perfection would keep me going. I hope Wes reads this post as every review I watched concluded differently.

Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem

Through unconnected coincidence I watched Derek Jacobi for the first time last week in two productions and in both roles he has a stammer.

I wrote about the I Claudius as I watched it but Derek Jacobi's second role as Alan Turing explaining Gödel's incompleteness theorem is masterful. The explanation is more important (logically) than Einstein's E=MC2 but its beauty is also its elegance. 

Well worth listening to a few times because it dethrones mathematics and thus measurement. Goodbye empiricism.

Ancient Aliens Theory Challenges The God Squad AND The Evolutionary Fundamentalists

I rarely use block capitals. If you watch only one Ancient Aliens show it's this latest one uploaded today. The implications are important.

Update: The video was deleted so I've replaced it with the very first episode.

The Smithsonian Syndrome - Nephilim Neurosis

I'm hugely sceptical of the scientific establishment's inability to challenge the orthodoxy and rewrite history. Time and again it's a lack of backbone and curiosity that is missing within an atmosphere of bland and supine, back scratching peer review academia.