{"id":264865,"date":"2025-05-31T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/divergence-over-convergence-in-a-new-world-order-reflecting-on-dystopian-perspectives-and-programming-for-the-youth-of-today-by-neil-hague\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T06:00:26","slug":"divergence-over-convergence-in-a-new-world-order-reflecting-on-dystopian-perspectives-and-programming-for-the-youth-of-today-by-neil-hague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=264865","title":{"rendered":"Divergence over Convergence in a New World Order \u2013 reflecting on dystopian perspectives and programming for the youth of today by Neil Hague"},"content":{"rendered":" \r\n<br><div>\n\n                                        \n\n\n<p><strong>The following article\/review was written 10 years ago:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The programming continues with another recent movie \u2018<em>Divergent\u2019<\/em>\u00a0directed by Neil Norman Burger who gave us the pseudo-documentary\u00a0<em>Interview with the Assassin<\/em>\u00a0(2002), the period drama\u00a0<em>The Illusionist<\/em>, and the 2011 thriller\u00a0<em>Limitless<\/em>. The movie is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by the American author Veronica Roth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to comment on this movie purely in relation to the \u2018dystopian themes\u2019 contained within its plot, as once again we have the classic \u2018programming\u2019 of a mainly young audience, to not only accept a future based on massive surveillance, but to \u2018expect\u2019 a possible future scenario that is becoming more obvious as Hollywood churns out these types of films. I am not saying Roth has an agenda, I doubt it, but the film has some common themes found in other \u2018best seller\u2019 novels (probably because its sells books?).<\/p><div class=\"g g-1\"><div class=\"g-single a-17\"><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"MTcsMSwxLDYw\" href=\"https:\/\/thegrownetwork.com\/fundraiser\/?oid=132&amp;affid=305\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Offgrid-Survival-Toolkit-2.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course some of the themes in\u00a0<em>Divergent<\/em>\u00a0are very much similar to the\u00a0<em>Hunger Games<\/em>\u00a0book and films, not because it\u2019s a \u2018popular narrative\u2019, but because this is an actual \u2018projected future\u2019, and agenda that could play out in this century. See my review of Catching Fire here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The graphics used on the book cover are also not too far away from the Hunger Games covers, and as those that have read Roth\u2019s books will know, that there is also a trilogy at work here \u2013\u00a0<em>Divergent, Insurgent<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<em>Allegiant<\/em>. The language is \u2018so Orwellian\u2019 and the teens that watch this type of film or read such books have no idea, despite the positive end to this novel. The fact that some one labelled \u2018insurgent\u2019 may well be a person who desires to be free from oppression never gets mentioned in the global news speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Symbolism of the Factions<\/strong><br\/>The obsession with segregation is another theme embedded in these stories and of course the education system given to us by the elite structures from its conception, have focussed on clubs, groups, \u2018houses or factions\u2019, grade bands, etc, as part of the \u2018school day\u2019. As the excellent teacher and writer John Taylor Gatto said of such subjects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cFor reasons that are both fair and foul \u2013 but mostly for fair reasons \u2013 we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that\u2019s easy to manage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>R<a href=\"https:\/\/throughancienteyes.blogspot.com\/2014\/04\/divergence-over-convergence-in-new.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>ead more: Divergence over Convergence in a New World Order \u2013 reflecting on dystopian perspectives and programming for the youth of today by Neil Hague<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n            \n        <\/div>\r\n<br>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following article\/review was written 10 years ago: The programming continues with another recent movie \u2018Divergent\u2019\u00a0directed by Neil Norman Burger who gave us the pseudo-documentary\u00a0Interview with the Assassin\u00a0(2002), the period drama\u00a0The Illusionist, and the 2011 thriller\u00a0Limitless. The movie is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by the American author Veronica Roth. 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