By Max Musson:
During the late 1960s a science fiction horror series was created for television in America by TV writer Larry Cohen. It was a Quinn Martin production in association with ABC Corporation and was serialised here in the UK also. It was called ‘The Invaders’ and it aimed to thrill viewers, filling them with dread at the prospect of an invasion by alien beings from outer space.
The programmes began showing an alien spacecraft approaching Earth with the narrator announcing in a grim voice:
“The Invaders … Alien beings from a dying planet.
“Their destination, the Earth — their purpose, to make it their world.
“David Vincent has seen them. For him it began one lost night on a lonely country road looking for a shortcut that he never found.
“It began with a closed deserted diner and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey.
“It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy.
“Now David Vincent knows that the invaders are here, that they have taken human form.
“Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun!”
The series is currently being re-shown here in the UK by one of the cable channels and the programmes seem rather twee by modern standards. The aspect of the programme that makes it relevant to us today however, is the fact that American and British audiences were in those days horrified by the prospect of alien beings in human form, invading and taking over our countries, and there is of course a direct parallel between the fictional invasion of earth by beings from another planet and the very real invasion of the Western world by alien beings from another continent.
If one were to paraphrase the opening narrated passages above, substituting the word ‘continent’ for ‘planet’ or ‘galaxy’, then the grim warning issued at the beginning of each programme would precisely fit our current situation.
“The Invaders … Alien beings from dying continents (continents dying because of over-population, resource depletion and the effects of global warming).
“Their destination, the West — their purpose, to make it their world.
“White nationalists have seen them. For us it began one day, long ago.
“It began with the landing of the Empire Windrush from another continent.
“It began with a realisation that the influx of invaders was a flood without end.
“Now White nationalists know that the invaders are here, that they have human form.
“Somehow we must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun!”
We are all familiar with space science fiction films where the aliens are portrayed as grotesque creatures incompatible with human life, the arrival of which we would all naturally want to combat, but in ‘The Invaders’, the aliens were not portrayed as ostensibly any different from humans and the sense of horror felt by audiences, based upon the simple fact that the invaders are alien and want to colonise our planet, illustrates starkly the way in which attitudes towards alien invaders have been altered over recent decades.
The aliens in ‘The Invaders’ are not only ostensibly humanoid, they are invariably portrayed as European in appearance.
As the series progresses we learn that the aliens are in fact not naturally of humanoid form and that they periodically need to undergo a regeneration process in order not to revert to their natural state, but one can see how such a series produced for television today would have to invent some insurmountable obstacle preventing the invaders from living harmoniously among humans, otherwise current politically correctness would make it necessary for the writers to include within the story line, human representatives offering to welcome the newcomers and integrate them into human society.
Interestingly, during the pilot episode below which I have included in this article for the amusement of those interested, there is an alien featured who plays the part of Mrs Adams a hotel owner in Kinney, a town that the aliens have targeted to take over.
Mrs Adams attempts to persuade David Vincent, the main human character, not to resist the invasion, she says of her husband who had allegedly also opposed the aliens, “Nobody wanted to hear the truth from my husband.
“If he’d thought about it he would have wondered what he was fighting for.
“What is there in this world that is so special, so worth preserving?
“You still have time. You can think about that.”
She goes on, “Don’t go, don’t fight us. You can’t stop it, it’s going to happen anyway!”
This is interesting because these are the same form of argument used by multiculturalists today in an attempt to dissuade nationalists from opposing the invasion of our lands by aliens.
“What is so special about British/European culture?” they ask.
“What is there in Britain that is so special, so worth preserving?”
“Don’t fight us, multiculturalism and multiracialism are inevitable.”
“You can’t stop it, it’s going to happen anyway!”
But just as it was right for David Vincent to fight against the alien invasion of the United States during the late 60s, and just as he was eventually able to prevent invasion by the aliens, so it is right that we fight to defend our European homelands, and have every justification in believing in our eventual victory over the invader.
Somehow we must convince a disbelieving world, not that the invasion nightmare has already begun, but that it is our duty to fight back and that our survival depends on that!
By Max Musson © 2014
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Original opening sequence:
Pilot episode:
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Michael Woodbridge
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The film Max refers to is part of a genre’ of American Sci Fi productions from in the 50’s and 60’s. A similar i956 film was ‘The Invasion of the Body Snatchers’. It was about seed pods which are able to make exact replications of individual human beings. The allegory rests upon the idea that anyone may appear normal whilst being completely brainwashed and possessed by an alien being.
Some reviewers saw in the story a commentary on the so called dangers facing America for turning a blind eye to McCarthyism, Others viewed it as an allegory for the loss of personal autonomy in the Soviet Union or communist systems in general. Danny Peary in ‘Cult Movies’ pointed out that the film had changed the original script from being anti-McCarthyite to anti-communist.
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I have often drawn such parallels when watching other sci-fi films and programmes. To me the best example is in my favourite horror film, The Thing (the second and in my opinion best remake,1982), where Dr. Blair uses a computer programme to predict how long the alien, the foreign body, would take to conquer the whole world once it has infected the first human. The results were terrifying.The computer shows the alien, the foreign body, devouring its host cells and on completion reports the following:
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“Projection: if intruder organism reaches civilized areas… entire world population infected 27,000 hours from first contact”. [1]
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Dr. Blair (in this case the parallel of a nationalist) takes the necessary steps to avoid this. But his action results in him being locked away, isolated by the rest of the group ask a crank. (Oh, the parallel!)
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In the early stages of the film he issues this warning. No one listened: “You see, what we’re talkin’ about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates ’em perfectly. When this thing attacked our dogs it tried to digest them… absorb them, and in the process shape its own cells to imitate them. This for instance. That’s not dog. It’s imitation.” (Miscegenation, anyone?)
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The Thing (1982): https://www.sockshare.com/file/990205DDB3F2854D# (scroll to 41.30 for this scene).
BritishActivism
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I am sure many here will already be familiar with another Sci-Fi ‘cult’ film that has parallels to the way many of us see the world operating – “They Live” – from 1988, by John Carpenter.
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This strange and fairly low budget film depicts a drifter who discovers that the ruling class are aliens, who are manipulating people to spend money and accept the status quo they manufacture for them as part of their wider parasitic program to deplete the worlds resources for their own ends.
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They achieve this by blending themselves into the wider population where they are hidden in plain sight by both technology to mask their appearance and by means of their control of media and advertising, etc, which within them hide relentless bombardment of subliminal messaging.
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The lead character uncovers this plotting and manipulation by stumbling upon a special pair of sunglasses, left behind by a small renegade group dedicated to exposing what is going on, but who are generally seen as a lunatic menace that cause trouble and interrupt peoples otherwise mundane lives of watching TV and scraping in a living.
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Through these glasses, he can recognise the aliens for what they are and thus witness the agenda programming for what it is. He sets off on a mission to scupper their plans, where (quite Nietzsche’an I suppose) from the outset he states something like “I am here to chew gum and kick ass….and I am all outta gum”.
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The messages in the film itself are not so hidden and subliminal. It is quite obvious as to the point being made about the way the world generally operates, but the way it is depicted shows that there is not necessarily a rightwing/leftwing monopoly upon this kind of cynicism and observation. It may be one of those “so bad that it is good” films, but I think it is probably worth a watch on a quiet rainy day.
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There have been observations made by nationalists in the past that sci-fi has probably been used to condition society in various ways, such as, for example, Star Trek, where all the races/species all work and live together under a confederation of rules (such as UN and EU) and how it is only the rogue planets and species who fight against these plans for the universe. Who knows.
PharmaPhil
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I have heard it said before that Hollywood is used to put ideas into the public arena, maybe as propaganda or conditioning, a form of NLP.
That is probably true of TV too.
As long as you are aware of it, you can counter it.
Shaun
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Pharma Phil: people give the brainwashing ability of Hollywood too much credit! It’s all been done before; the man — the genius — who invented the concept of guiding tne masses through the culture industry was a man who NONE of today’s so-called elite could compete with: Plato!
Plato understand that people mimic the actions of thier cultural (and subcultural) icons. The System wants people to be hyper-consumers? — They show leading people, through the TV, consuming the interntionalist corporation’s junk. gadgets, goods, and services.
Yes, they do pratice NLP and all that. Don’t be too impressed my friend. It’s all about catchy slogans, playing on people’s weaknesses — these people aren’t super geniuses. What we is something the plutocrates do not: the truth. They have a plethora —- a unconcious mass — who they are manipulating with their control of the TVs, but their brainwashing is only effective at a mass level.
You can deprogramm people as well. It takes 20 years, according to the academics, to brainwash a population, but it also takes 20 years to deprogram a population. Eventually, our people will reach a critical mass of awakened individuals — the liars won’t be believed forever. History changes.
PharmaPhil
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There was the “Village of the Damned” AKA “The Midwich cuckoos” which was about alien takeover as well.
PharmaPhil
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They knew how to put a hub cap to good use in those days!
Quinn Martin productions had a certain style, I was more familiar with “Ironside”.
Though the beginning showing him sleeping, makes me wonder if the conclusion was it all a dream?
If only we were so lucky!