The 12-minute video, credited to a collective of artists and “synchromystics” — more on them later — has been online since late July. But it began making the Twitter rounds only this week, presumably because tomorrow, Oct. 21, 2015, marks unofficial “Back to the Future” day — the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled to in 1989’s “Back to the Future Part 2.”
From the video’s first seconds, it seems like an obvious joke. It ticks off every box on the YouTube conspiracy-video checklist: the authoritative male voiceover; a preponderance of red circles and arrows; the repeated claims that things are obvious or evident when they are actually impossible.
At 4:05, the narrator even manages to sneak in the obligatory Illuminati reference: Why, he demands, does the all-seeing eye appear on a storefront in the background of one scene for a split second?
Although the video isn’t entirely sincere, it’s also not a parody or joke. (This sort of middle ground was not accounted for by Poe!) The guys behind the video do not actually think Robert Zemeckis predicted the Sept.11, 2001, attacks, as they explain in an opening slide. But they do believe that 9/11 and “Back to the Future” — and everything in the universe, really — are connected by a vast Web of unseen, mystical, esoteric ties.
This belief, dubbed “synchromysticism,” has attracted a small but devoted following online. And some of its practitioners make these things called “sync films”: an art form that explores the “conscious connective fabric that ties together all matter and energy within the universe.”
As if to prove that all things are connected, the synchromystics have also made videos implicating “Back to the Future” in everything from Roswell to JFK’s assassination. Not that they actually think Zemeckis was involved in that stuff! But spiritually, metaphysically, he might have been — if that’s the “true nature of coincidence.”
“By documenting the interconnected patterns we observe, I believe we have become fractal cartographers — mapping the invisible landscapes of a quantum and/or holographic universe,” writes synchromystic Alan Abbadessa-Green, one of the guys who worked on the 9/11 video. “Synchronicity serves as the compass; the treasure is finding the macrocosm in the microcosm and vice versa. As Above, So Below — and everything in between.”
I'm doing the trilogy tomorrow evening. Can't wait!
That doesn't even make sense...it's Lone Pine Mall. :) Damn aliens running over pine trees in their space ships.
@studerc
@Pavlov what the fuck did I just... pines are towers... watch?
@Thumperchick - From the Washington Post:
The 12-minute video, credited to a collective of artists and “synchromystics” — more on them later — has been online since late July. But it began making the Twitter rounds only this week, presumably because tomorrow, Oct. 21, 2015, marks unofficial “Back to the Future” day — the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled to in 1989’s “Back to the Future Part 2.”
From the video’s first seconds, it seems like an obvious joke. It ticks off every box on the YouTube conspiracy-video checklist: the authoritative male voiceover; a preponderance of red circles and arrows; the repeated claims that things are obvious or evident when they are actually impossible.
At 4:05, the narrator even manages to sneak in the obligatory Illuminati reference: Why, he demands, does the all-seeing eye appear on a storefront in the background of one scene for a split second?
Although the video isn’t entirely sincere, it’s also not a parody or joke. (This sort of middle ground was not accounted for by Poe!) The guys behind the video do not actually think Robert Zemeckis predicted the Sept.11, 2001, attacks, as they explain in an opening slide. But they do believe that 9/11 and “Back to the Future” — and everything in the universe, really — are connected by a vast Web of unseen, mystical, esoteric ties.
This belief, dubbed “synchromysticism,” has attracted a small but devoted following online. And some of its practitioners make these things called “sync films”: an art form that explores the “conscious connective fabric that ties together all matter and energy within the universe.”
As if to prove that all things are connected, the synchromystics have also made videos implicating “Back to the Future” in everything from Roswell to JFK’s assassination. Not that they actually think Zemeckis was involved in that stuff! But spiritually, metaphysically, he might have been — if that’s the “true nature of coincidence.”
“By documenting the interconnected patterns we observe, I believe we have become fractal cartographers — mapping the invisible landscapes of a quantum and/or holographic universe,” writes synchromystic Alan Abbadessa-Green, one of the guys who worked on the 9/11 video. “Synchronicity serves as the compass; the treasure is finding the macrocosm in the microcosm and vice versa. As Above, So Below — and everything in between.”
Meh. But, entertaining!
Fingers crossed for a "Back To The Fuku" Tonight.
@crapstick Wow, called it.
@crapstick Reading this comment is actually why I stayed up!
@crapstick I had to try so hard not to like this before the deal changed over!
So, @crapstick who will be the next president? It would be so nice to ignore the whole campaign season.
@hollboll I'm just glad i didnt screw myself out of one.
@Alien88 did you get one?
@KDemo haha. No clue. Im pretty sure its still probably ok to ignore it tho.