I need to watch the film, obviously-- but can anyone explain the title? What chosen memories are being referred to ? Our history? Our language? Our oppression?
All memory is selective and floats like a dinghy on the ocean of our amnesia. But isn't it odd that the filmmaker quotes Machiavelli as inspiration for his social justice stance?https://thephilanthropist.ca/2017/09/150-profiles-guy-rodgers/
I've learned some Anglos feel resentful of the francophone majority under our right wing premier Legault.
If we can't vote him out we can always leave, you know, rather than hang around as a defeated minority in Quebec. Compared to people in western Canada we're pretty cosmopolitan. We still dress better than Torontonians. We have the English language as our passport to a better world.
But here's the twist, at least for me: back in the 1950s and 60s thousands of Anglo Quebecers had their memories erased by a Scottish American psychiatrist. Their children often grew up without two functioning parents because one parent had been “depatterned” - a polite term for brainwashing A thousand of these psychically orphaned children are now suing McGill University, CIA and Canadian government for damages committed 70 years ago.
Somehow Guy Rex Rodgers and the crew of “What We Choose to Remember” forgot that critical moment when a hallowed Anglo institution fed vulnerable members of its own community to the military-industrial complex as fodder for medical experiments classified as Torture.
I mean, look at the guy, whose name is also Guy. Guy “Rex.” In case you didnt notice, Guy Rex is holding up a flag and explaining what it means: Diversity and Inclusion. He's not even from here but he's telling us who we are and how to live happily ever after. By choosing what to remember in the wake of the biggest assault on a population's memory in the history of medical science. Until Covid, that is.
I have questions about this film which I sense is an attempt to get another generation of vulnerable children of immigrants all riled up about the French, framed as the new oppressors in the endless merry-go-round of identity politics that keeps us all at one another's throats instead of rising up and overthrowing our rulers.
Does this film deal with the global impact of the British Conquest of Quebec in 1763 that went on to include all of North America and a large swath of the globe by 1939 ? Does it delve into that 250+ year history of Anglo colonialism that set the stage for counter-movements aiming to reinstall French in one small corner of Canada?
Are the French really aggressors, is what I'm asking?
An overview of the history of Canada and Quebec should include successive British invasions, with mind control and the counter-culture as outgrowths of the Anglo- American empire. The British Empire and MKULTRA define the twentieth century - and the world knows it.
But the filmmaker has totally overlooked the forest for the trees.
The MKULTRA program at McGill was no isolated incident - contrary to CBC's attempts to persuade us that Dr Cameron was some eccentric renegade who went too far in his zeal to cure schizophrenia.
In Montreal alone there were thousands of victims. McGill used to electroshock 10,000 patients per year -- many of whom came in those waves of immigrants the film claims to champion.
McGill was a major center for a post war Anglo-American venture into mind control- following Allen Dulles' proclamation that the battlefield of the future was the human mind.
Despite being 100% French, Premier Maurice Duplessis was a firm collaborator, due to his desire to sit at the table with Anglo-American military and political leadership -- which is why he offered them 100,000 Quebec children as guineapigs for the "unconventional weapons" being developed to rule the world.
We could add Leonard Cohen to the list of counter culture figures who advanced the British agenda.
Outside Canada our beleaguered and trampled "Anglo community" is becoming world renowned - not because English is under threat (who would believe that?) but for having been used as guinea pigs in the largest psychiatry experiment ever performed on a human population.
In all the books on MKULTRA, and the recent stream of documentaries, Montreal (English Montreal) is prominently featured as the scene of medical crimes against humanity.
These experiments were about erasing memory, both personal and collective . So "What We Choose to Remember" is indeed an ironic title since Dr Cameron's patients were given no choice whatsoever in what they were permitted to remember.
It's no different today, is it?
Elizabeth Nickson (Welcome to Absurdistan) posted today:
"From military and hospital laboratories all over the US and Canada, psychiatrists ran experiments and devised actions to set community groups against each other, deliberately destroying civic peace. The environmental movement was created in these labs and seminar rooms, as was second wave feminism. All of it was anti-human, meant to draw down the population, and ensure that the rest were docile to the point of submission. Operation Paperclip, Operation Bluebird, Operation Mockingbird, MKUltra were and continue to be real, heavily funded, and weaponized against us."
I'm not Canadian ( growing up in the northeast US, we all assumed that Canada was just an extension of New York. LOL),
Disclaimer: the following is just my own opinion/ hunch... the bogus narrative about the Anglo struggle for equality, yada, yada, yada...appears to be nothing more than a pro forma smokescreen to satisfy the censors. The BIGGER story is, of course Dr Ewen Cameron's sick mind control experiments on unwitting Canadians,minorities and many Jewish immigrants from Europe.
Or is the political agenda really the main point and the mind control angle just click bait? Idk.
What new information does the film present about the activities of that whack job "doctor" which dozens of prior exposes of McGill University and Cameron have not already covered?
Hollywood used to be insanely transparent and unapologetic about revealing the plans of the NWO ( "predictive conditioning") but in recent years, they changed their tune. Now, any producer who wants to document "sensitive material" must first agree to bury the problematic message under a thick layer of bullshit politics snd make sure that the audience thinks it's watching an authentic social commentary with a few added segments of entertainment or "secret reveals" (that aren't secret anymore ) for sex appeal.
Any producer who
does not agree to dumb down a potentially explosive message well enough, ( explosive to the Elite) risks having his master stolen and locked away in a secret archive forever.
This is exactly what happened to the filmed masters of the epic 6 week long Harlem Music Festival of 1969 . Remember that one?
Me neither.
But, golly gee- FIFTY YEARS LATER, in 2022 Disney suddenly releases the footage in an AMAZING 2 1/2 hour documentary called "Summer of Soul".
But woven between the great music segments and interviews with the performers you see elaborate fake footage and endless biased commentary portraying American Blacks as a bunch of violent , hopeless loser criminals.
How did they get that way? Well, the film tells us- over and over- they did it to THEMSELVES, duhhhh.
All very nice... except that conclusion doesn't jive if you look closely at the AUDIENCE and mentally compare that crowd to the drugs, sex and rock n roll crowd rolling in the mud at the SAME TIME in Woodstock.
Here is a link to the hidden message which producer Amir Thomson cleverly managed to convey very clearly- IF you know how to understand it.
https://youtu.be/Fch6eTRZmVU?si=rueniJX5Tp8_Qa9q
Is there a similar message hidden in the film about Canada?