Was the Netflix movie 'White Noise' predictive programming?
Last August, a film was released depicting a train wreck and a toxic release in Ohio. This is exciting for those who believe that this kind of coincidence is a clue to a grand plan.
Accidents will happen
They only hit and run
You used to be a victim now you're not the only one
— Elvis
THE 1979 FILM The China Syndrome had its theatrical release just 12 days before the meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in central Pennsylvania. The movie was an eerie account of what might happen — in advance. And it did.
The movie’s release was met with backlash from the nuclear power industry, who claimed it was "sheer fiction" and a "character assassination of an entire industry."
Then one night less than two weeks later, a valve stuck open in the nuclear plant’s radioactive secondary loop, charged-up cooling water evaporated and came heading for New York, and then to top it off, the reactor core overheated and melted onto the floor of the containment building. It was an actual nuclear meltdown.
The technical details of the Three Mile Island meltdown were not the same as in the film, but the film was technically solid. The incident in the movie was not nearly as bad; the fictional plant was brought under control before it could melt down (that’s good PR for the nuclear industry, not character assassination). The film addressed serious issues about the safety of nuclear power in a responsible way, including a coverup of the incident by the local television station.
Yes, it’s strange alignment of events, and some might see it as spooky — until you remember we live in a holographic universe. The whole is contained in the the parts. The parts are contained in the whole.
White Noise: Not Just a Train Wreck in Ohio
In August 2022, the film White Noise premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Three months later it premiered at the Philadelphia Film Festival.
Based on a 1985 book, the film depicts the events surrounding the derailment of a train in Ohio, with one tanker car full of a mystery chemical that makes people sick. The town is evacuated for a while.
Qualitatively, White Noise is right down there. I must have watched something half-stoned deep in the duodenum of Netflix one foggy night that was worse, probably featuring jealous cheerleaders, pills and a car accident. But I can’t remember.
White Noise is not a movie that was widely watched, or cared about, and it has no discernible plot or message. It is not going to prepare anyone for anything except maybe switching to Showtime.
In addition to a train wreck and toxic release, the film offers rival professors of “Elvis Studies” and “Hitler Studies” (one black, one white, who casually wear their graduation robes in the lunchroom as if that’s what professors just do). They give a dramatic dueling professors lecture that holds students transfixed.
White Noise Ends Happily — That is Deceptive
In White Noise, There are precocious, smart ass teenagers, a tanker truck driver swilling Jack Daniels who drives into a train, a magical flying amphibious station wagon to rival Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and a married woman (the female lead) who has sex with a scientist to get a continuing supply of an anxiety drug because she obsesses over death. (Now, that part has potential.)
Their lives are so simple, you would think they were Buddhist monks.
The movie culminates with a surreal dance scene in the supermarket (featuring all the employees and members of the family around whom the scenario centers) at the end of the flick when everything is back to normal. It’s kind of like the director was wishing he was David Lynch, but not trying too hard.
But there is no depiction of the agony that is being experienced in East Palestine; no sick and dying animals; no mention of a cleanup, or of lasting medical effects or of baby graveyards; in fact, no people in the movie get seriously ill; life goes on and their homes are safe and all is well.
Technically, the film mentions the derailment of one tanker car. It was not 37 cars, and none were set on fire instead of transferring the chemicals properly. The movie ends happily. East Palestine has an uphill run. For a while. A long while.
East Palestine may ultimately meet the fate of Times Beach, Missouri, which was decommissioned (leveled, disappeared, discorporated, zip code revoked) for a comparable (much smaller) event. That is, the town was eliminated from the map, leveled and covered over: that is dioxin. That was not in White Noise.
Predictive Programming? Are ‘They’ Telling us Something?
There are media reports that residents of East Palestine, Ohio were hired as extras, and this is being taken is significant of something else.
Many people are of the view that the “deep state” is messing with us by allegedly doing these things — putting out uncanny movies right before things happen. Others “would not rule out anything.” After three years of fake virus, it’s possible.
However, to say that someone might coordinate the release of a movie about the dangers of nuclear power to an actual meltdown (in the case of China Syndrome) to me seems petty, and impossible to coordinate by planning.
Likewise with a toxic train crash.
Why would anyone need the movie? Who the heck cares? So we could have this conversation now? So we could theorize and marvel over how they “make this happen”? Why, so we can feel even more powerless?
Do we think that the nuclear industry — smug, over-confident assholes though they are — wants one of its power plants to melt down? That’s not good for business, their image or trust in their horrid technology. Three Mile Island nearly stopped the American nuclear industry in its tracks. Only a few plants have been built in the 44 years since the incident and a good few are being decommissioned.
The implication of saying that The China Syndrome was planned in preparation for the meltdown is saying that the meltdown was done intentionally and by desire, coordinated with the release of a movie — not that it was an act of extreme negligence, poor engineering, hubris, stupidity, bad decisions and equipment failure, which are all typical of the nuclear power industry.
The profit motive behind such accidents is cutting corners, not destroying the plant and creating a centuries-long cleanup.
An Act of War?
Regarding dioxin from a train spill, this is being perceived by some as an intentional act of war on civilians, potentially on the vaccine-resistant Amish. That is perceptive, on one level.
Hmmm, how about this. The federal government, meaning the Bureau of Land Management and the National Forest Service, has sprayed plenty of Agent Orange (and therefore dioxin) on people, from Oregon to Vietnam. It is a chemical weapon (and when it was banned in Vietnam, it came home to the Pacific Northwest, where one of its components, 2,4-D, is still used). You can also buy 2,4-D at Tractor Supply, Agway and Winn Dixie.
The federal government and every other government sprays Roundup on food and roads and therefore on people. People voluntarily spray it on their lawns and in their gardens, laughing at the dangers. Dioxin spews from trash incinerators, coast-to-coast and in many countries.
This can all be counted as acts of war against civilians. We don’t get movies telling us about those things in advance; sometimes they come out years later.
Every train rolling around is an accident waiting to happen; Love Canal on wheels.
One last matter with “predictive programming.” There are thousands of series’ on Netflix, Showtime, Hulu, Amazon, and the Close & Play Phonograph Network. They are rife with doom and gloom, betrayal, death, despair, disaster and stuff burning. OK, is that ALL going to come true? Geez, I hope not — especially Black Mirror.
Such fine programs give me agita and are why the only things I can stand to watch on television are South Park and a 48-part chemistry lecture series, on repeat.
The Principle of Synchronicity
I am an astrologer, which people may find curious, given that I am a hard-science, prosecuting journalist. Astrology is based on the principle of synchronicity. It’s about acausal (without apparent cause) meaningful coincidence. So are other things.
If you are thinking of an eagle, there is no way to plan for an actual eagle to fly over you right then. You say the word vegan and 10 seconds later pass a car with a “Go Vegan” bumper sticker. Ohh that’s weird.
This and much else happens every day. You know, you’re standing by the phone (back when you could do so) thinking of Uncle Tony and it rings — and it’s him. And not only that, you were both thinking of ravioli!
These things are “in the Rta” (ऋत) — the coordinating intelligence of the universe — and this can be reflected many ways. We will not learn to trust existence by being suspicious of it. Questioning what we see is helpful — as is being observant — though good old curiosity is the most sincere motive, and least likely to deceive.
We know there is a war against humanity. But we don’t need magical clues to see that. We can stick to what is apparent, documented and right in front of us.
*PS — There is a meek possibility that some time in the future, White Noise will be seen as a kitsch cult favorite, and be read like a tarot spread for its astute social commentary. It is melodramatic, nauseatingly over-acted in a comic book way, and the supermarket dance extravaganza has some crazy styling, emphasizing the all-white package, “no frills” generic brand that was big in the 1980s. I doubt it, though. We shall see.
Much appreciated. As (I think) you implied, there's enough bad shit going down and we don't need to make woo-woos about it. The dreadfulness of the way it's being "handled" ought to be the only story here.
Seeing as Don DeLillo wrote White Noise in the 80’s, and as postmodern fiction it playfully wrestled with the bucolic, idyllic middle class life as one that could end up void of meaning...the “toxic airborne event” in the book could have been anything that jostled people in a comfy college town and made them think of mortality. It was symbolic. It could have been an earthquake or a Godzilla. Most importantly, it was something in the air that may or may not kill your earlier than you would have died.
So the fact that this book sat for 35+ years before celebrated indie director Noah Baumbach got the ok to make it into a film from his $ backers says to me that it was just Hollywood and there is no deep state involved in this one. Synchronicity? Sure. But planned? I have lots of bridges for sale. Venmo me.