What better way to begin this article than with a look at the film...

They Live made in 1988 is yet another film by director John Carpenter which along with its own sci-fi artistic license, carries a 'New World Order' apocalyptic tone. 

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The basic theme of the movie is that our main character, John Nada is a generally 'down on his luck' kind of guy, homeless and in and out of work, when he suddenly comes across a small faction of civilians who at first we don't know 'could be good, could be bad' and who have manufactured several boxes of 'special' sunglasses. Confused and concerned, Nada takes a pair of the sunglasses to see what all of the fuss is about. But what he actually sees when he tries them on is pretty disturbing.

Sunglasses off...	Sunglasses on...
Sunglasses off...	Sunglasses on...
Sunglasses off...	Sunglasses on...

The hidden messages exposed by wearing the glasses in the movie, to me at least conveys a more metaphorical message of how sex in advertisements and dehumanising messages conveyed in your 'average' television shows such as sit-coms and soaps are perhaps 'in your face' every time you turn on the TV, look at a street poster or read a mainstream magazine. And by this method, this is how the global elite at the top who view us as their chattel (human resources) and drones certainly use and abuse this 'dumbing down' technique for control.

In an original interview given for the film, Carpenter described how....

"basically what our spin on the story is that all of the aliens are members of the upper class, the rich, and they are slowly exploiting the middle class and everybody is becoming poorer and everything that we think about 'buying cars' and 'having the pools and condos', all the things that everybody strives for in America, are basically created by this race of inhuman creatures that really just want to exploit us like a third world. And it is told from the point of view of the homeless so it has a kind of a theme and a message to it, but basically it is an action film"

I am not usually one for violence in movies, there is nothing more boring than watching two guys clobbering each other for ten minutes in the middle of a film. But, the famous scene in the They Live where Nada basically has to brawl it out with his close friend, just to make him take a look what he has stumbled across, seems to work, if only as a metaphorical symbol of the difficult struggle when showing the world what is going on (usually beginning with your friends and family who seldom listen), when all they need to do is 'put on the glasses' and look at the information for themselves, they would rather spend ten minutes fighting and conflicting instead.

I believe that it was Bill Hicks who once said (in commentary of the movie) "Everything makes sense if you just put on the right glasses!"

Other work from John Carpenter

Several other films from John Carpenter speak to the fact that the New World Order is a part of life, be it the police state brought to you in Escape From New York and L.A., the apocalyptic themes of The Thing and In the Mouth of Madness, the dark occultic societal underbelly presented with humour in Big Trouble in Little China and the classic theme of 'don't trust your government' promoted in Memoirs of an Invisible Man.

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Whether the writers appreciate the new world order undertones (I am sure that they do) the police state and theme of the story is becoming closer to being realised.... than some may realise!

Even the dark occultic obsessions of the elite are subtly addressed in 1996's Escape from L.A. with a story of a globally encompassing satellite EMP weapon system which is activated by a code number '666'!  Hey is just a number, it doesn't mean anything!...  John Carpenter has this NWO system imitated down to a 'T'.

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