Bat Dude
Hey all, it's me again.
BEFORE MOST OF YOU RIP THIS INTO SEVERAL TINY PIECES AND THEN PROCEED TO LIGHT THEM ON FIRE, PLEASE NOTE THAT I'M NOT CLAIMING THIS IS TRUE, I'M MERELY LOOKING FOR OTHER OPINIONS
I'm a huge wrestling fan. And I have been since my childhood. Well, anyway, one of my favorites from back in the day was a wrestling company called WCW, then owned by Ted Turner. WCW had this great group called the nWo, featuring tons of popular wrestlers like "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, "Big Sexy" Kevin Nash, "The Bad Guy" Scott Hall, etc.
The first red flag is the name. The name itself represents the idea. They originally came to be when Hulk Hogan, then thought of as the ultimate "say your prayers, drink your milk, eat your vitamins" good guy, turns on his friends and joins the cooler, hipper "bad guys". He called the group "the New World Order in professional wrestling". Their main objective? To take over and dominate WCW. What does the New World Order theory claim to be the main objective? To take over and dominate the entire world.
The next red flag is the hand sign. Here is professional wrestler Sean Waltman (who, ironically, used the stage name 'Syxx' {pronounced as 'Six'} when he was a member of the nWo) flashing the nWo hand sign:
http://www.nwo4life.com/nwo/wolf-syxx.jpg
The next red flag: They used to use a sound bite that says "We are in control." This might seem like typical wrestling talk in this context, but it comes from a segment on PPV that had Eric Bischoff (then president of WCW and on-screen member of the nWo) standing behind a podium like a politician saying "We are in control." I don't know, but it has a weird vibe to it, for me, watching it now:
You can see it here at 3:45.
Another red flag is the "paid announcements" they'd run on WCW's television show "Monday Nitro". Here's a typical nWo paid announcement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni7SSeN-7Kk
The things that strike me most about it is the very "propaganda style" of the whole thing and the idea of "learn to love it. Change is inevitable." This can easily be explained by saying it's their "gimmick" but it can also be something else.
The final red flag is the fact that this all occurred in a company owned by Ted Turner. Ted has been linked to this kind of stuff.
The scary thing is that they were quite possibly the most over (wrestling term for popular) guys in the company. And this is during a time when professional wrestling was REALLY mainstream. The whole audience would do the hand sign and buy the shirts and eat this stuff up. Including me. That's why I think this is possible.
The wrestlers themselves are totally innocent. I believe that they were just given a script, and they ran with it. I don't think they have any knowledge of the subject.
Again, I'm not saying I'm right. This could VERY easily be merely the "gimmick" that the guys ran with. I was just recently reminiscing about those glory days of my childhood, but the nWo seems very strange when you look at it from the perspective of a "conspiracy theorist", doesn't it?
Any other thoughts? (Not including derogatory comments, please)
BEFORE MOST OF YOU RIP THIS INTO SEVERAL TINY PIECES AND THEN PROCEED TO LIGHT THEM ON FIRE, PLEASE NOTE THAT I'M NOT CLAIMING THIS IS TRUE, I'M MERELY LOOKING FOR OTHER OPINIONS
I'm a huge wrestling fan. And I have been since my childhood. Well, anyway, one of my favorites from back in the day was a wrestling company called WCW, then owned by Ted Turner. WCW had this great group called the nWo, featuring tons of popular wrestlers like "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, "Big Sexy" Kevin Nash, "The Bad Guy" Scott Hall, etc.
The first red flag is the name. The name itself represents the idea. They originally came to be when Hulk Hogan, then thought of as the ultimate "say your prayers, drink your milk, eat your vitamins" good guy, turns on his friends and joins the cooler, hipper "bad guys". He called the group "the New World Order in professional wrestling". Their main objective? To take over and dominate WCW. What does the New World Order theory claim to be the main objective? To take over and dominate the entire world.
The next red flag is the hand sign. Here is professional wrestler Sean Waltman (who, ironically, used the stage name 'Syxx' {pronounced as 'Six'} when he was a member of the nWo) flashing the nWo hand sign:
http://www.nwo4life.com/nwo/wolf-syxx.jpg
The next red flag: They used to use a sound bite that says "We are in control." This might seem like typical wrestling talk in this context, but it comes from a segment on PPV that had Eric Bischoff (then president of WCW and on-screen member of the nWo) standing behind a podium like a politician saying "We are in control." I don't know, but it has a weird vibe to it, for me, watching it now:
You can see it here at 3:45.
Another red flag is the "paid announcements" they'd run on WCW's television show "Monday Nitro". Here's a typical nWo paid announcement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni7SSeN-7Kk
The things that strike me most about it is the very "propaganda style" of the whole thing and the idea of "learn to love it. Change is inevitable." This can easily be explained by saying it's their "gimmick" but it can also be something else.
The final red flag is the fact that this all occurred in a company owned by Ted Turner. Ted has been linked to this kind of stuff.
The scary thing is that they were quite possibly the most over (wrestling term for popular) guys in the company. And this is during a time when professional wrestling was REALLY mainstream. The whole audience would do the hand sign and buy the shirts and eat this stuff up. Including me. That's why I think this is possible.
The wrestlers themselves are totally innocent. I believe that they were just given a script, and they ran with it. I don't think they have any knowledge of the subject.
Again, I'm not saying I'm right. This could VERY easily be merely the "gimmick" that the guys ran with. I was just recently reminiscing about those glory days of my childhood, but the nWo seems very strange when you look at it from the perspective of a "conspiracy theorist", doesn't it?
Any other thoughts? (Not including derogatory comments, please)