Where did the transmission come from?

It's never explained who sent the signal and why.

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The message is on "OUR TV", that's the message/metaphor..it's all from/in the media!..the signal is about how the media can crush our minds and media is everywhere when we turn on our t.v sets (from soup operas to certain movies to news obviously...etc.)and we are all vulnerable to it. that's what i like so much o this movie..
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This link might answer your question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project

Doesn't Clark say something about the "filter" being down? The sounds that are usually masked are then allowed to come through.


Though it is dark . . . know your flag . . . is still there.

"Loved this movie from start to finish.
it was well done. funny at times. and scary at others
well worth the watch.

but can somone tell me where the signal came from?
what or who sent it and for what purpose was it goverment. alien. who i must know.

and do you think brainwashing like this is around?"


In my opinion, it's supposed to be a metaphor for "spin" or "propaganda" or "messaging," whatever you'd prefer to call it... or as Stephen Colbert famously called it, "truthiness."

As they said in the movie:

"It's a trick. Change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change."

I believe this is the underlying point of the the movie... at least in regard to the signal.

It's the crap put out to 'urge' us to think about things the way someone else wants us to.

Look at the word "liberal." The GOP and its talk radio spielmeisters have spent 20 years turning it into a dirty word.

For example, here's a link to a memo Newt Gingrich prepared for members of GOPAC (a Republican political action committee) entitled (I'm not making this up) "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control"

Here's the link:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4443.htm


The point of this is to divide us, to turn us against one another, to make us fight amongst ourselves, to make us hate and mistrust each other, to make us view our neighbors as enemies and in turn place our trust in our "leaders." In short, the point is to make us trust "the signal" above all else.

Change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change.

Your neighbor is no longer your "neighbor," he is your enemy, trying to destroy the country and make it weak and take away your job, and reach into your pocket and steal your money.

The answer is:

Listen to me. Do you hear that? Listen. It's past the noise in your head. That is the natural world. That has been here a long time before us. It's going to be here a long time after we're gone. That is real. And that is what we focus on.

Recognize that your neighbor is NOT out to steal your job or money, he has no interest in destroying or weakening the country...

He doesn't hate the country, he loves it just like you. Just because you may have different views on what's best for the country, it doesn't mean one of you has sinister motives. It merely means you have different opinions.

I used the GOP as an example, but that was merely because of the existence of that GOPAC memo as an example.

ALL politicians, political parties, corporations, and pretty much most groups that require the support of the population engage in it to some extent.

Another more glaringly obvious example would have been Hitler's anti-jewish propaganda... To create fear and hate in the population, Hitler constantly attached sinister imagery and language to Jews... He equated them with rats, suggested they were dirty and conniving and only looked out for eahc other and were working together to tear down Germany and rob its citizens.

This "enemy in our midst" rhetoric provoked fear and paranoia and allowed Hitler to convince the people that he, and he alone held the keys to salvation. It allowed him to point at any detractors or critics and say "aha!! They're merely Jewish sympathizers! They're in on it too!"

Or, as Hitler's Reich Marshall, Hermann Goering put it:

"The people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce (your opposition) for lack of patriotism and
for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every
country."


The answer is to filter out that noise and look past it for the truth. It's easy be to suckered in by it. It's effective precisely because it plays upon our worst fears and our deepest insecurities and can thus be hard to resist. To resist it leaves us feeling vulnerable and weakened... but in reality, it's giving into it that leaves you weakened.

Allowing yourself to be ruled by your fear leaves you vulnerable to control by those who would manipulate those fears.

As hard as it is, you have to filter it out and look past it and try to recognize things for what they are.

It was Yourmom.

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