Takeshi's 9.11

[David Blair]

I don't know if I can keep this on topic, not having seen the show, but I 
will contribute a bit.

I arrived in Tokyo about a week after the sarin attacks, and it rather blew 
my mind to find that the last issue [before the attack] of the Aum 
Shinrikyo magazine [Vajrayana Sacca] was devoted to The Jews.... with its 
deep nods to the right [the Protocols] and the left [Palestine], as well as 
its implicit recognition of the enduing fantasy that the Japanese are the 
Lost Tribes [whom Aum must kill], it seemed to crystallize [without 
explicating] the moment.

9/11 was a conspiracy, and half of America still believes it was directed 
by hidden players... they say Saddam, but you don't have to scratch the 
nearly transparent surface to see the various layers of underpainting. Just 
speaking of The Jews, everything that was in and around the Aum issue is 
rather foregrounded in this not quite hidden picture.

Abstractly, I'm not surprised by your friend or how the show handled the 
Moore movie... after all, 3/20 came first. Concretely, your description is 
mind-boggling. I guess I still subscribe to the literary myth that the US 
and Japan are crazy mirrors of each other [that's both ways].


David