This podcast is a 57-minute discussion with Joshua Oppenheimer, the director of the documentary The Act of Killing. Joshua describes in vivid detail what it was like to interview boastful mass murderers and film reenactments by the perpetrators of a blatant genocide.
Indonesia is the largest nation that you do not know about. It is the most populous Islamic nation as well. However, it does not fit our Arabic template of an Islamic nation. We have not gotten the news of the Indonesian genocide, in the form of a movie like Defiance, Schindler’s List, The Killing Fields, or Rambo 2008 for the very chilling reason that it was done on behalf of Western business interests.
Joshua is not a very effective speaker but he is keenly insightful. His discussion touches on the following concepts: ‘the psychological structure of being haunted’, ‘an encoded threat’, ‘a gang three-million strong’, and living in ‘the morale vacuum’ of a multicultural gangster state.
"Indonesia is the largest nation that you do not know about."
The POTUS spent years of his childhood there.
"We have not gotten the news of the Indonesian genocide, in the form of a movie like Defiance, Schindler’s List, The Killing Fields, or Rambo 2008 for the very chilling reason that it was done on behalf of Western business interests."
See The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) starring Mel Gibson. True that most who Americans who saw the film probably thought it was entirely fictional and had no idea that the massacres depicted at the end actually happened. You have to blame the carnival barkers who control the national megaphone (and those who control them) for that. No one knows about the Holodomor for the same reason.
Thank you so much for the info. I do recall something in Soldier of Fortune magazine maybe 20 years ago, about Australian troops in East Timor. It might be a skewed memory. But it is what came to mind when you mentioned the Gibson movie. I will check it out.