Jesus Camp
It was an eye opening experience that was downright terrifying to watch. This camp of evangelical christians was borderline child abuse, it pushed kids to believe they were children of sin and they need to repent otherwise it will bring unholyness down upon their family. It was sickening how they treated the young kids. It was like watching the process of becoming a marine, when the recruits first get there the drill instructors break them down to nothing. In the Jesus camp they did that very same thing the only difference is that the marines volunteered to that when the kids do not really have a choice if their parents pushed them into to that. For the viewer it is like what was stated before, “...nobody wants to experience real nature.” The movie was so very truthful it hurt to watch in a sense, and if the class had not watched it they would have been numb to the idea that Jesus camps do exist in this country, and would have carried on their everyday lives like nothing is wrong. That is were the problem lies is that having all this information yet, deciding not to take a deeper look and just be satisfied with the information provided to us by bias sources.
Lee Atwater
The Lee Atwater story. Harvey LeRoy “Lee” Atwater was a consultant and strategist for the Republican party. Lee worked his way up to the positions he got by starting small with his very own high school helping to be a campaign manager for the high school presidency. After that he started to take flight making his way up the latter from assisting state positions to helping with presidential races. Yet, during this time Lee learned how to work the system and get people to play into his hand, he rejected the normal way to go about winning. His goal was to win at any cost, this led to a very slippery slope of false rumors and among other reputation damaging remarks that would circulate to a bloodthirsty groups of reporters waiting for their next victim to be pushed into to the water by Lee. During his time with the republican party he became the villain you love to hate he was working the system in a way that has never truly been done before. A revolutionary one might say, but he was playing with fire. He used taboo as his greatest weapon and used it like a spark on the dry serengeti. Then Lee came down with cancer and it lead to his demise within less than three years. During this time he wrote to all of the people he believed he had hurt during his tenure. He also searched for meaning in his life and asked for bible and other holy readings. He created another side to himself that was apologetic to what actions he had taken in the past, but after his passing the bible was still covered in plastic wrap. He created a fantasy of reality to make himself look good till the day he died. Crichton said, “ One way to measure the prevalence of fantasy is to not the number of people who died because they haven’t the least knowledge of how nature really is.” This quote in this sense is not talking about the actual death but it is trying to get across when Lee died how many people did he get to believe that his illness made him a changed man. It is aimed at the premise that if they believe his apologies at the end they truly did not understand his true nature.
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