© Parrot-Ruet/Sygma/Corbis16 people including 3 children are shot dead, then burned with a flame thrower on December 23, 1995, on the Vercors Plateau, near Saint-Pierre-de-Cherennes in France
No other nation in recent history appears to have taken so fervently to apocalyptic prophesies as France has, reports the London Times. Then again, not many nations have a government agency specifically responsible for investigating "cults and suspicious spiritual activities." Indeed, the French agency - known as MIVILUDES - delivered a mass-suicide warning last week, apparently worried about a possible suicide frenzy come Dec. 21, 2012, the day the 5,000-year-old Mayan calendar ends. MIVILUDES contends that the Internet age, natural disasters, and economic turmoil - combined with the ancient Mayan prophecy - have inspired widespread belief in a coming Armageddon (there has been a recent migration of people to the hilltop village of Bugarach, said to be a place immune to apocalypse).
The agency's concern is not entirely outlandish: in the 1990s, 74 people belonging to a cult called the Order of the Solar Temple - 16 of them in France and eight in Quebec - died in murder-suicides to avoid an Armageddon. But cult expert Susan Palmer of Concordia University says that "MIVILUDES is creating artificial emergencies to support the state-sponsored anti-cult movement." Palmer, whose upcoming book The New Heretics of France, about the French anti-cult movement, believes MIVILUDES spends more time vilifying cults than actually researching them - "obviously trying to justify its own existence."
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MIVILUDE is the depth of thought given to "vectoring" the thinking/feeling of the public. On one hand we have a group protecting the public from the supposed threat of rampant cults and cult behaviors, while on the other we have obvious counter-intelligence programming occuring to induce the same cultish behavior. Who benefits, huh? The beneficiaries are those in power playing both sides like Clint Eastwood's character in Sergio Leone film "A Fistful of Dollars." The right-hand knows what the left-hand is doing, although it would seem "inconceivable" to most that this depth of depravity could exist.
Note, too, that concluding that MIVILUDES is delusional and seeking to "justify its own existence" does at least two things further corrupting possible clear viewing and identification of what is - in fact - going on: 1) it imparts volitional agency to governmental bureau, thereby displacing blame to a tool rather than the maker(s) of the tool; and, 2) it permits the development of a meaningless discourse as concerned but ill-informed and "vectored" discussants set about fixing it or exposing it in opposition to some equally "vectored" protectorate.
In the course of the former, an absence of critical thought can be seemingly excused because we all know "how stupid government programs, agencies, etc." can be. This is more vectoring. How long have morally defunct, non-emphathic trolls hid behind the curtain of bureaucracy (Cases in point: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Chaney, Paul Wolfowitz, etc.)? Did they start this meme or repurpose it to their ends? Regarding the later, this is seen all the time, especially in the two-party North American State.
Still, I doubt this writer is some COINTEL pro -- just an ontologically confused explicator of the day's happenings.