War of the Worlds 2025

 

The latest adaptation of HG Wells' seminal work, the original alien invasion story, is one of the most interesting. Despite appearing a hundred and twenty-seven years later, it is fairly faithful to the original novel. The principle difference is that the film is set in the present day and so technology is a factor. The aliens are focused on data mining and conduct cyberwarfare against humanity. The main character is played by "Ice Cube", most famous for being a rapper; and in the movie he is an electronic intelligence gatherer. He spends most days, at least when aliens are not invading, watching people on CCTV going about their daily lives. The prologue scene as a standalone is very interesting for anybody concerned about the emergence of the Big Brother state. From his office Will Radford, Cube's character, can not only watch everybody anywhere and at anytime, he can read a label that each person on the camera has beside their image. This label gives details about them and how much of a security threat they are. This scenario is largely science fictional, but we do know the government does expend a vast amount of energy and resources to spy on its own citizens. We know they watch us at all times, they eavesdrop on our private conversations, they have both people and artificially intelligent systems to predict our behaviour. The true scale of the operations is classified, but it wouldn't surprise me if they are as capable as that portrayed in the film. At quiet times Radford monitors his own children, which, as a father myself, I suppose I would do in his position. Source: www.imdb.com/title/tt13186306.

Interestingly at the same time I have started watching a video series on YouTube called The Hidden Hand Behind UFO's. I'm only on part three, but I've a feeling it is stumbling along towards the rather unoriginal backslapper conclusion that "UFO's are a psyop, man!" The related point though is that part two is all about HG Wells. Wells was more than just a novelist; he was a political visionary who was involved in many of the same think tanks as Aldous Huxley and George Orwell (who tried to expose them). He wrote non-fiction books as well, ones that advocate for a new kind of society built on ideas such as globalism, communism, transhumanism, psychological control, depopulation and manufactured warfare. The change from our current society to the new one would have to be revolutionary and imposed from the top down; and, if necessary, against the will of the population. It's interesting therefore that he was the first thinker to develop the idea of hostile extraterrestrials invading and occupying our planet; an idea that has not only led to Wells remaining a household name several generations later, but has also inspired other stories such as the film Independence Day. If you combine the quest for a "great reset" of whatever description plus the threat of evil aliens you could come up with a very toxic and sinister mixture. We'll see where the series goes; and whether real life immitates art, both this one and HG Wells' original story. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkZqRjX21no.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/01/space-force-and-deep-state.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/07/big-spammer-is-watching-you-3-tripod.html.