"The Hunger Games": A Glimpse at the New World Order? - The Vigilant Citizen The hit movie "The ...

1. "The Hunger Games": A Glimpse at the New World Order? The Vigilant Citizen
"The Hunger Games": A Glimpse at the New World Order? - The 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 worldwide 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 antiNWO message to the youth by showing its dangers or is it 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

2. The Hunger Games takes place in a context that is strikingly on-par with descriptions of the New
World Order 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.
The President of Panem addressing the Nation.
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 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
makeshift in 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 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 inhabits the glistening
Capitol city and indulges 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

3. 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 and, 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, however: Blood sacrifices to strike fear and
gain power.
Blood Sacrifices for the Elite
Katniss is selected as tribute of her district.
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 it.
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 mass to its rulers. 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 megarituals.

4. "Tributes" for The Hunger Games become the property of the state and are revoked of all their
rights.
In The Hunger Games, the ritualistic death of young people chosen from the mass 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 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 people's
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 that 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

5. of it into movie theatres.
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 the 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 a 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 others 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 that 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 it 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 it 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?