I SPEAK OF NOSTRADAMUS!
by Nick Turner
Ok, certain things always bother the hell out of me. It is when people make decisions to think something or other is stupid based on a quick judgment of said something. Take ID4 for instance the Will Smith, and Jeff Goldblum vs. The Aliens movie. It was an action film, and did a good job at being just that. People like to say that it was "too easy" that they just plugged in a laptop and uploaded a virus. Also if you know anything about computers it would be safe to assume that the aliens were on a different operating system. WELL, the fact that Area 51 supposedly HAD this ship for around 50 years, and the top scientists in the world got to tinker and toy with it, I am sure that they figured out how to make the system be compatible to our current technology or something to that effect. However I am seriously getting off the topic of what I wanted to say in the first place.
Basically, you have to look at something from many angles. If you don’t you make a quick judgment and people hate you for that. Case in point comes with Nostradamus or Michel de Nostradame if you’re nasty. He apparently could foresee the future, according to certain comparisons with his predictions vs. actual events in the past several hundred years. There are several films on his predictions and I suggest that you watch one, and be amazed. Well there is a slight problem with his predictions that make some people jump to the rash decision that he is a bloody fool. The problems that ensue are particularly based on his predictions from oh say the 1950’s and on. Most of the predictions in the past were about major things like wars, the antichrists like Hitler (Hister as Nostradamus referred to him), and so on. Well things started getting choppy in the late 20th century and I think I know why.
There are possible vantage points to take on this, without saying it’s horse something or other. All of his future predictions like vampires, 100 years of war, and what not could be in the farther future, those predictions might be wrongly translated for he spoke in metaphor sometimes, and also that he was viewing the way our society exists today. Now to elaborate on that last one, I am referring to the state of our society with films, television, and other media. First off to believe any of his prediction power in the first place is to take a step into trusting that that ability is a possibility. Second what makes us exclude certain possibilities that Nostradamus was possibly getting visions of feature films, or the weirdest thing of all to think about, his very own documentaries and movies. There are a lot of films made today and several documentaries/films about the man himself. These intense dreams and stunning visions that Nostradamus was peering into could have gone from Napoleon, man in space, and then Wes Craven presents Dracula 2000. Given the visualization of films it is an awkward yet plausible possibility.
The man was on with a lot of things, so I think it is not smart to say, "Ah it’s all bullshit," or to run and build a bomb shelter and buy 2,000 AA batteries because of how scary some of his future predictions were. You can instead just sit back relax, and say, "I wonder what Nostradamus thought of that film?" as you walk out of a theater. Even though it entertained you, it probably freaked him out intensely; he pissed himself, and swore that he would not add the prediction of Cats and Dogs to his works because it was too dark of a future to ever talk about. So for the most part Nostradamus was right, ID4 was actiony gold, and I would like to sum this all up with a little quote, "fuck the nay-sayers cause they don't mean a thing 'cause this is what style we bring!"