reply to post by XXX777
All allegory needs a false context or "cover". In the case with John Nash, the Cold War context fit
quite nicely. Not only that, but, since John Nash was most likely ignorant of any other possible
context to explain the pattern that he was seeing, he simply assumed that the messages were related to
Cold War intrigues. Since "Beauty" represents a good cover, it seems likely that John Nash's own
determination that he was dealing with Cold War issues, as well as his mental health issues, provided
the logic behind the title "A Beautiful Mind". The fact is that Nash was considered by many to be a
"genius" (I use quotes since "genius" also has a hidden meaning, but I am being literal here) whose
work was respected enough to earn him a Nobel Prize and yet we are supposed to believe that the
pattern that he seemed to be tracking in a wide variety of publications was entirely a figment of his
imagination. Also, why didn't the film makers' make any effort to explain the pattern that Nash was
seeing? If it was as a significant part of his illness as it seemed to be, wouldn't an illustration
of his thoughts regarding the pattern be worth some consideration? Additionally, if no pattern
existed, wouldn't part of any cure include efforts to help Nash discover for himself that his thinking
was flawed, which, in my view, would have provided a wonderful scene to put into the movie?
I believe what Nash was seeing the use of certain combinations of words repeated in multiple
publications. Since the English language has such a wide variety of choices, one would assume that
the probability of certain word combinations occurring independently in the writings of different
authors to be extremely low. If Nash could prove mathematically that these combinations could not be
dismissed as coincidence, then others would certainly take notice and then the study of these
combinations could eventually reveal the truth, or at least prove the existence of some extensive
conspiracy to manipulate the media. Therefore, Nash had to be discredited or eliminated. It is
likely that Nash did have some psychological issues and these were exploited so that he could be
presented to the world as something close to a raving lunatic.
As an example of what I think Nash was seeing, we might look at how the media reported Dick Cheney's
apparent selection of himself as Bush's Vice Presidential running mate. Nearly every major American
broadcast news agency employed the word "gravitas" despite the fact that most Americans, including
myself, would need to look its meaning up in the dictionary. Rush Limbaugh picked up on this and
strung the recorded references together for his listeners. This montage included quotes from: Al Hunt,
Juan Williams, Claire Shipman, Steve Roberts, Vic Fazio, Jeff Greenfield, Jonathan Alter, former
Senator Bob Kerrey, Margaret Carlson, Mike McCurry, Sam Donaldson, Eleanor Clift, Walter Isaacson,
Mark Shields, Judy Woodruff, and Sam Donaldson. This could not be coincidence and what reporter in
their right mind would want to demonstrate even the remotest suggestion of plagiarism in their work by
using obscure language that he knew someone else had already employed for the same story? Also, if
you are at all familiar with the supposed rules of journalism, you would know that reporters are
supposed to use language that is readily understood by a majority of their listeners or readers and I
don't think "gravitas" meets this standard.
So, I will explain it this way. Most of our words have hidden meanings and the rules that establish
these hidden meanings were created thousands of years ago. An elite group that has members all over
the world helps to create stories that use these hidden meanings to transmit their messages to other
members and many times these stories also have the secondary function of manipulating the perceptions
of the uninitated (i.e. religion). These people seek cover under a multitude of organizations, but it
seems that there is no single organization that is entirely their own. As a group, I can only refer
to them as "Sophists". In order to keep this great secret, I assume that there are many people that
do the bidding of the Sophists, but are not fully informed as to why they do what they do (i.e.
priests, Freemasons, etc.). In this way, most people that are involved in these actions have the
"plausible deniablity" which prevents exposure. In the case of "gravitas" there was probably an
unwritten rule that if a particular source used a particular word, other journalists
needed to echo that word. If the source happened to be AP or Reuters, then it was probably easy to
convince the journalists to fall into line.
