Hunger Games and the New World Order: A High-Tech Police State Ruled by a Powerful Elite Who Seek to Keep the Masses in Poverty and Subjugation

“The Hunger Games”: A Glimpse at the Future?

April 5, 2012

Vigilant Citizen - The hit movie “The Hunger Games” takes place in a dystopian future where the poor and wretched masses live under the high-tech tyranny of a wealthy elite. Is the movie depicting the kind of society the elite is trying to establish for the New World Order? We’ll look at characteristics of the world presented in “The Hunger Games” and how they relate to plans for a New World Order.

Pushed by a gigantic marketing campaign, The Hunger Games did not take long to become a world-wide sensation, especially among teenagers and young adults. Sometimes referred to as the new Twilight, The Hunger Games has similar components to the previous book-to-movie craze (i.e. a young girl torn between two guys) but takes place in a very different context.

Set in a dystopian future (why is the future always “dystopian”?), The Hunger Games paints a rather grim picture of the world of tomorrow, whether it be from a social, economical or political point of view. In short, it is a big-brotherish nightmare where a rich elite thrives on the backs of a starving population. Meanwhile, the perversity and voyeurism of mass media is taken to absurd levels and is used by the government as a glue to keep its unjust social order intact.

Is The Hunger Games giving teenagers a glimpse of a not-too-distant future? It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see the elite are trying to take the world in that direction. Is the author Suzanne Collins communicating a strong anti-NWO message to the youth by showing its dangers, or is she getting the youth used to the idea?

Let’s look at the fictional, yet possible, future world of The Hunger Games.

Note: This article is about the movie and not the book series. The movie has been formatted in a different way and conveys a slightly different message.

The NWO for Teenagers

The Hunger Games takes place in a context that is strikingly on-par with descriptions of the New World Order (NWO) as planned by today’s global elite. One of the main characteristics of the New World Order is the dissolving of regular nation-states to form a single world government to be ruled by a central power. In The Hunger Games, this concept is fully represented as the action takes place in Panem, a totalitarian nation that encompasses the entire North-American territory. The United States and Canada have therefore merged into a single entity, a step that many predict that will happen before the full-on creation of the NWO.

In Panem, the concepts of democracy and freedom have disappeared from America to be replaced by a high-tech dictatorship based on surveillance, monitoring, mass-media indoctrination, police oppression, and a radical division of social classes.

The vast majority of the citizens of Panem live in third-world country conditions and are constantly subjected to poverty, famine and sickness. These difficult living conditions are apparently the result of a devastating event that engendered the complete economic collapse of North America. In District 12, home of the hero Katniss Everdeen, the locals live in conditions similar to the pre-industrial era where families of coal miners lived in makeshift shacks and eat rodents as meals.

While the masses look as if they are living in the 1800s, they are nevertheless subjugated to the high-tech rule of the Capitol, which uses technology to monitor, control and indoctrinate the masses. Surveillance cameras, RFID chips, and 3D holograms are abundantly used by the government to manipulate the will of a weak and uneducated population (although there are signs of solidarity and rebelliousness among the peasants). To preserve the fragile social order, the Capitol relies on a massive police force that is always ready to repress any kind of uprising. The workers are often rounded up in civilian camps where they are shown state-sponsored propaganda videos.

Panem is therefore a high-tech police state ruled by a powerful elite that seeks to keep the masses in poverty and subjugation.

As we’ve seen in previous articles on this site, all of these concepts are also thoroughly represented in other forms of media, as there appears to be a conscious effort to normalize the ideas of a high-tech police state as the only normal evolution of the current political system.

Living in sharp contrast to the proletariat, the elite in The Hunger Games inhabit the glistening Capitol city and indulge in all sorts of extravagances and fashion trends. This upper-echelon of society perceives the rest of the population as an inferior race to be ridiculed, tamed and controlled. All valuable resources have been vacuumed from the people living in the districts to profit the Capitol, creating a clear and insurmountable divide between Regular People and The Elite.

The concept of an opulent elite ruling over the dumbed-down and impoverished masses (thus making them easily manageable) is an important aspect of the New World Order, and it is clearly depicted in The Hunger Games. The government’s reliance on high-tech surveillance and mass media to keep the population in check is something we are already seeing. If we keep going in that direction, the world of The Hunger Games will soon become reality.

There is another concept important to the occult elite that is at the heart of The Hunger Games: Blood sacrifices to strike fear and gain power.

Blood Sacrifices for the Elite

The government of Panem created The Hunger Games in order to remind the masses of the “great treason” they have committed by engaging in a rebellion. As punishment for their insubordination, the twelve districts of Panem must offer to the Capitol one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to be part of The Hunger Games. The teenagers must fight to the death in an outdoor arena in a Roman Gladiator-like event that is televised across the nation.

The rules of the Games reflect the elite’s contempt and total lack of respect for the masses. The name of the Games itself is a reminder of the state of perpetual starvation the lower class is purposely kept in by the rulers in order to better control them.

The boys and girls that are selected to take part in The Hunger Games are called “tributes”, a term that usually describes a payment rendered by a vassal to his lord and, thus, even reflects the servitude of the masses to its rulers. “Tributes” for The Hunger Games become the property of the state and are revoked of all their rights.

Since time immemorial, blood sacrifices were considered to be the highest form of “tribute” to gods and, on an occult level, were said to wield the most potent power to be tapped by rulers and sorcerers. The same way ancient Carthaginians sacrificed infants to the god Moloch, inhabitants of Panem sacrifice their children to the Capitol.  

The Hunger Games are therefore a modern version of these ancient rituals that the masses had to participate in to avoid the wrath of their superiors. The entire nation of Panem is forced to watch the sacrificial ritual that takes place in the Capitol, stirring up fear, anger and blood lust within them, amplifying the power of the ritual. We’ve seen in previous articles that the deaths of specific people (Whitney Houston, Heath Ledger, Amy Winehouse) become such a media event that they are, in fact, mega-rituals that entire nations participate in. The Hunger Games reflect this concept of highly publicized mega-rituals.

In The Hunger Games, the ritualistic death of young people chosen from the masses is sold as a sporting event, a nation-wide celebration that is packaged as a reality show. Not only do the poor people participate in these demeaning events, they even cheer for their favorites. Why do they accept all of this? One of the reasons is that mass media can get people to accept anything … if it is entertaining.

Appealing to the Basest Instincts

The games are broadcast to the nation in the form of a reality-show, complete with TV hosts who analyze the action, interview the tributes and judge their performance. The tributes are so indoctrinated in this culture that they readily accept the rules of the game and, in turn, are fully willing to start killing to win the Games. The masses also actively participate in the event, cheering for their district’s representatives, even though the entire event celebrates the sacrifice of their own.

This reflects a sad but true fact concerning mass media: Any kind of message can reach people if it manages to capture their attention. There are two things that automatically, almost irresistibly, grab our attention: Blood and sex, the remnants of our primal instincts. The sheer violence of the event grabs the attention of the masses, who forget that the Games serve as a reminder of the peoples’ servitude to its elite.

This concept is already well-known and fully exploited in today’s mass media, as elite-sponsored messages are constantly sold to consumers as being “entertainment.” The Hunger Games, therefore, aptly portray the role of media in the manipulation of public opinion. Will the movie help young people realize this fact?

At one point in The Hunger Games, the death of a little girl shocked the people to a point that it brought a brief moment of lucidity and solidarity as the kill highlighted the atrocity of the Games. The live broadcasting of the death lead to a violent uprising in her district as the locals realized that they were willing participants in something terrible. The uprising was quickly quelled, however, by the ever-present police force of the state.

Furthermore, in order to prevent further social trouble, the producers of the show introduced a new element to the show: Love between Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, the girl and the boy from District 12. By introducing love (and, by extension, sex) into the show, the producers managed to quell the masses and brought them back to their usual state of silent stupor.

This part of the movie reflects how mass media is used by the powers that be today. The worldwide reach of The Hunger Games series itself proves that stories which cleverly feature the ingredients of sex and violence are bound to get people hooked. And even though The Hunger Games seems to be denouncing the perversity of violence in mass media, it sure brings more of it into movie theaters.

Desensitizing to a New Type of Violence

While there is no shortage of violence in Hollywood, The Hunger Games movie crosses a boundary that is rarely seen in movies: Violence by minors and towards minors. In this PG-13 movie we see kids aged between 12 and 18 violently stabbing, slashing, strangling, shooting and breaking the necks of other children – scenes that are seldom seen in Hollywood movies. While it is surely a way for the movie to grab the attention of the movie’s target audience (which happens to be teenagers aged 12 to 18), The Hunger Games brings to the forefront a new form of violence that was previously deemed too disturbing to portray in movies. But in the particular kill-or-be-killed scenario of The Hunger Games, the viewers easily go beyond this psychological barrier and find themselves yelling stuff at the movie, like “Come on, Katniss, take your bow and shoot that vicious little f**cker in the head!”

In Conclusion

The Hunger Games is set in world that is exactly what is described to be the New World Order: A rich and powerful elite, an exploited and dumbed-down mass of people, the dissolving of democracies into police state entities, high-tech surveillance, mass media used for propaganda, and a whole lot of blood rituals.

There is indeed nothing optimistic in the dystopian future described in The Hunger Games. Even human dignity is revoked as the masses are forced to watch their own children killing each other as if they were caged animals. That being said, there is little to no difference between movie goers who watch the movie The Hunger Games and the masses in the movie who witness the cruelty of the Games. Both are willing participants in an event that portrays the sacrifice of their own under the amused eye of the elite. Furthermore, one can argue that the movie accomplishes the same functions as the Games in the movie: Distracting the masses with blood and sex while reminding them of the elite’s power.

Is The Hunger Games attempting to warn an apathetic youth of the danger of allowing the current system to devolve into a totalitarian nightmare? Or is it simply programming them to perceive the coming of a New World Order as an inevitability? That question is up for debate. But reading what is being said in the mass media about The Hunger Games, it seems there is an even more important question up for debate: Are you Team Peeta or Team Gale?

Comments:

"If you were to read the books you would see that The Hunger Games are a brilliant piece of rebelious and revolutionary narrative. Far from desensitizing kids and teens to the horrors of elitism and violence, the books actually raise extremely important issues about power, voyeurism, mind control, and thinking for yourself. I wish you could have mentioned how desperately needed the type of dialogue this movie inspires is in this day and age. For real - the themes dealt with here are leagues deeper than most of Hollywood's drivel. If a viewer honestly can't see any deeper meaning behind the narrative here, chances are they probably have trouble finding deeper meaning in any place in life. Seriously - the type of person who could sit in a theater for two hours WATCHING AN ALLEGORICAL MOVIE ABOUT ELITISM AND THE POWER TO DEFINE REALITY and somehow never engage in critical thought or examination (yes, teenagers are capable of this) probably is conditioned by all kinds of things in life. Anyone could read 1984 and never get much of a deeper meaning out of it - it's all about individual culpability to think." - Jacob, April 2012, “The Hunger Games”: A Glimpse at the Future?

"I think it's an uplifting story about how to overcome the NWO. If you haven't read the other two books than the first movie is certainly a bleak, dystopian, violent world. But that's just setting the stage for the revolution that takes place later. It doesn't contain blatant symbolism like some other pop culture media. It's just a story that should serve as a warning much like 1984 or Animal Farm. I though the movie, and the books especially, we're a brilliant statement against the NWO. The studio that produced it doesn't care what message it contains because it's gonna make them a boat load of cash and most people who see it don't get the message because they are too stupid or blind. If anything they are blatantly shoving the answer and key to destroying the NWO right into our faces and laughing at us." - Sledgehammer, April 2012, “The Hunger Games”: A Glimpse at the Future?

"The books are strongly AGAINST the elite (the capitol) and they make this VERY clear. The movie, on the other hand, did not, so I can see where you are coming from. Perhaps Hollywood took out some of those important points to fit their agenda or maybe it was just because it was viewed and not written, but who knows. But please, read the books, and not just the first one because they are better understood when read as a whole. They are, again, completely opposed to the NWO/elite and are brilliantly written." - Jackie, April 2012, “The Hunger Games”: A Glimpse at the Future?

"I am very glad this article came up. VC hit the nail on the head with this one. Those that are making comments about the movie not reflecting the book are missing the point of this article, and I feel are choosing to ignore the elements/agenda this movie is displaying because they've read the books and feel so connected to the story and characters. If VC did an article on Twilight it would be the same type of reaction. Are you really going to eat a piece of candy that has been dropped in the gutter because it was washed off and placed back in its wrapper? I saw commercials for the movie, I saw this big campaign for the movie well before it came it out, and I decided let me check this out for myself, so I read the synopsis (with major spoilers) for all three books and I came to the same conclusion this article came to. Now, how is that? The elite are counting on using peoples' emotions to get them so wrapped up in a small part of the puzzle that they don't notice the bigger picture. For those of you who have the read books and are so wrapped up in them, how it's such a good story, how you love the characters, how this is supposed to be about hope in the end, let me ask you: Who ended being the 'real' bad guys in the story in the end, in the third book? You don't have to answer that because its a rhetorical question, but think about that, and then ask yourself, 'Isn't that disturbing?' I'm not going to ignore the dystopian setting and the child sacrifice just because in the end there's some semblance of hope. Wake up." - secret ninja, April 2012, “The Hunger Games”: A Glimpse at the Future?