Like a lot of people out there, I’m going to miss the magnificent weirdo that was David Bowie. While the rest of us listen to our favorite Bowie songs on repeat, the not-so-good folks at Infowars — conspiracy theory central — are actually celebrating the musician and cultural icon’s death.
In a post titled DAVID BOWIE: A NON-APPRECIATION, Darrell Y. Hamamoto suggests that Bowie, who died of cancer, was himself a symptom of “civilizational cancer.”
After several paragraphs of mostly incoherent throat-clearing, which sort of suggest (among other things) that Bowie was responsible not only for Gary Glitter’s fashion sense but also his sexual abuse and exploitation of children, Hamamoto presents us with his thesis, declaring that Bowie’s
death is the capstone on the pyramid of necrotic Anglo-American mass culture spanning a half-century of civilizational cancer away so fantastic and unreal that leads one to suspect that “Bowie” (Born David Robert Jones) sprang from the twisted, fervid minds of social psychologists residing at the Tavistock Institute.
That was all one sentence.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, the Tavistock Institute is a nearly 70-year-old British think-tank that does work in psychology and the social sciences; it’s a favorite bugbear of assorted conspiracy theorists, who blame it for, among other things, the brainwashing of American prisoners of war in Korea, the CIA’s MK Ultra program, and The Beatles.
Anyway, Hamamoto is pretty stoked by the news of Bowie’s passing, declaring that
the Death of David Bowie might presage a new era of spiritual regeneration that is the precondition of civilizational health and advancement.
Skimming through the more than one thousand comments left on Hamamoto’s post so far, it appears that there are not a lot of Bowie fans in the house.
Someone called daf declares that
Bowie was an agent of the NWO, forging acceptance for gender identity politics re: transvestites, transgender, gays… Not to mention furtherance of the ET/ Alien meme that the NWO sought to advance. Listen to the music: is it really that good? Nah.
“The Hebrew Institute,” meanwhile, argues that
David Bowie can kiss my ass… he was a fuckin satanistic edomite who is rotting in the pit for his homosexual acts and overtones to accept that behavior not of God and he is now paying for it….may he keep rotting in the pit of hell to which he deserves AMEN.
Blahblahblah is clearly not a big fan of Bowie’s unique style:
He was a Luciferian puppet, spreading NWO agenda through music like so many others. Look at the lightning bolt on his face.
But not everyone in the comments is quite so enamored of Hamamoto’s analysis. Indeed, one longtime Infowars listener was so appalled by the post, and the responses to it, that they decided to become a former listener:
After years of being a dedicated listener, observer and supporter of this program I just cut ties with you all together. … I’ve stuck up for your articles and it’s caused me a lot of social consternation … your OPINIONS and ASSUMPTIONS in this matter are so far off base it makes me want to vomit on my computer screen. Then reading the hateful comments on this page about homosexuals and FREAKS makes me want to jump this boat and join the illuminated manipulators … The fact of the matter is that this was a talented human being with much love and talent to offer the world and the author ties this in to some “homosexual illuminati occult agenda” … [T]hat I have supported such a bigoted support base here is something I am ashamed of after all these years.
Good for you.
In case you’re not familiar with Infowars, here’s Alex Jones, the dude who runs the place. And yes, the tantrum in the video is a real one. He’s got some anger issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIkoV7RAda4
And here are a couple of videos of Bowie performing in 1972.
Yesterday, I put together a little playlist of some of my favorite Bowie songs on Spotify.
Sorry, Alex Jones; you will be remembered, if at all, as an embarrassment to humanity. Bowie will be remembered as a musical and cultural legend, albeit a far from perfect human being.
EDIT: I reworded the ending to take into account Bowie’s reported rape of underage “groupie” Laurie Maddox, which I didn’t know about when I originally wrote the piece. (I say “reported,” because I wasn’t there and he wasn’t charged much less convicted for it, but Maddox’s account is all-too-plausible; I believe her.)
Through all the hatred, this sentence stands out for me: “the Death of David Bowie might presage a new era of spiritual regeneration that is the precondition of civilizational health and advancement.” So Bowie was the only reason that the Manospherians and John Birchers haven’t taken over already, and now that he’s gone they’ll be free to conquer the world and be greeted as liberators. Logic!
Seriously, for all the ch-ch-changes Bowie went through, he was one of a kind genius. We may never see anyone like him again.
“When I complain about homosexuals, I’m always sure to tell them they can kiss my ass. I can’t figure out why they always take me up on that, but those weirdos defy explanation.”–that guy who wrote that great Onion article asking why homosexuals always sucked his dick
They’re just jealous of a man who could turn his death into art.
after Alex’s rant he should have yelled out “beef cake! BEEF CAKE!”
oh and I also used to be an Infowars listener aswell, but found out what dicks they the same way with how they attacked Clementine Ford.
Hey Infowarriors, the monsters under your bed are REAL! Just thought you should know.
You know, they said the say thing about Mozart when he died*.
(* may not be true. I haven’t done the research, because I’ve been too busy planning my vacation to see the Great Pyramid of necrotic Anglo-American mass culture in Egypt, Texas.)
I’ve been to a few seminars run by the Tavistock (they’re good on medico-legal stuff, especially involving young people and addiction issues).
Was more cheese and wine than conspiracies, but maybe they do the new world order stuff on a different night.
David Bowie’s little toe had more talent and genius and empathy than there is in the entire manosphere.
I have to say, I’m a little disappointed so far. I thought the Age of Aquarius would be more groovy and less spittle-flecked.
This is the one that’s boggling my mind. Is the lightning bolt supposed to be a Luciferian symbol, or an NWO symbol, or what? I mean, I know about pentacles and eyes and pyramids and all that stuff, but this…. I know the Grateful Dead used a skull-and-lightning-bolt motif for some of their stuff; is it related? I really wanna drag blahblahblah in here to explain this one….
Wait…this is the guy who did a Christmas song duet with Bing Crosby…right? Bing Crosby!!
I hadn’t heard about lightning being an NWO symbol either. But if butterflies can be a symbol of satanic illuminati brainwashing, I guess anything can be.
Seriously. Go look up the stuff about Boy Meets World being a vehicle for illuminatti indoctrination. It is hilarious.
I think this person is alluding to the lightning bolt-inverted pentacle combo favored by Anton Lavey.
Eww. The predominant ad showing up here is making me look at a huge herpes sore. I hate offensive click bait ads.
@ WWTH
do we all get different random ads. All I seem to get is fitness stuff, and mending gas boilers for some reason.
I’m surprised (not) that they didn’t bring up the fact that David Bowie raped an underage girl into this but, then again, most manospherians want to do that so I guess just having consensual sex with legal adults that happen to men is the bigger offense here. Or was that mentioned but not mentioned here because I don’t wanna click any links to that shit.
There isn’t a current event that Alex Jones and the other screaming idiots at Infowars can’t look at through a conspiratorial lens, is there? I keep waiting for Infowars to crumble under the tremendous weight of all that “truth” they expose.
@Alan Robertshaw
Ads for mending gas boilers? I have yet to see one of those on my Interwebz.
Sometimes I’ll see an ad for repair of hot water heaters.
LOL – I had to go to the Tavistock Centre in 1979 when I was 13 for family therapy. They were not at all weird – no experimental or ‘way out’ methods were used. And as far as I am aware Bowie had nothing to do with them ever.
Bowie didn’t do ‘gay’ or ‘transvestite’ from before 1980 – so this great talent is being judged by a short (though admittedly brilliant and highly influential) part of his career.
What a bunch of fuckwads – even if you didn’t like his music (I am a huge fan of pre ’75 only) it would be more than ridiculous to say that Bowie wasn’t brilliant. He was a true artist and innovator.
@ kat
Is that not the same thing? The ad I sometimes see is about repairing boilers/water heaters. Not sure why. Someone is keen for me to have visible abs though.
Of course already beaten them to it *unconvincing cough*.
@Pandapool
I didn’t know that Bowie raped underage girls. As far as I know, it wasn’t mentioned here.
But I did Google it and found some info. It seems that Bowie did what a lot of rock stars did at the time, which was to bed very young groupies. Not that there’s any excuse for that.
Some people say that the 1970s were a very, very different time and statutory rape was seen as no big deal. Yes — and no. Take Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary):
(Wikipedia)
What Wikipedia doesn’t say is that the girls’ mother pursued this case hard. I’ll bet that made all the difference in Yarrow being convicted.
What I did know about David Bowie was his Thin White Duke phase, during which he celebrated fascism:
http://www.muhistory.com/from-the-archive-2-mu-response-to-david-bowies-nazi-salute/
However, that phase did not last, and he later blamed it on drugs:
http://www.muhistory.com/from-the-archive-2-mu-response-to-david-bowies-nazi-salute/
@Alan Robertshaw
That was my little joke about how Great Britain and the United States are divided by their common language. In the United States, the only thing we mend are clothes. Or if you’re getting well after an illness, you might be pronounced “on the mend.”
Yeah, I’ve got great abs too. No, really.
@ kat
We also mend roads, or the pavement as you might say. Over here pavements are sidewalks. I wonder how many accidents have been caused by visiting car drivers getting that all mixed up.
‘Cars’ are a type of automobile 😉
And I say ‘cars’ when I mean ‘waggons’ or ‘carriages’, which is a bit confusing as I actually work on the railway in the UK….
Ridiculous as this is, I do like the image of Bowie singlehandedly fighting off all the right-wing wingnuts. Certainly I think he would have been proud to be described as “forging acceptance for gender identity politics re: transvestites, transgender, gays.”
http://i.imgur.com/rfbBtcY.gif
David: I like your playlist.