Alex Jones Gives His "Final Thoughts"

Alex Jones in "Waking Life"

I've heard these "if I die tomorrow" type speeches from a number of "fringe" and alternative history folks. It can be easily construed as bubbling-over paranoia or a martyr complex; drama for the sake of drama. I often feel that way when I hear it from people like David Icke and Jordan Maxwell.

On the other hand, you have folks like Bill Cooper and Andrew Breitbart (and I'm definitely throwing Breitbart into this) who basically predicted their own early death and then shortly thereafter died. Were these self-fulfilling prophecies? Or was it something else?

Alex Jones has just posted a weirdly-themed video called "If This Is My Last Message...", with the subtitle "FINAL THOUGHTS FROM ALEX JONES" (caps theirs). This isn't the first time Jones has given the "I could be offed any day" speech -- and I've often thought of the martyr/drama queen thing when listening to it -- but I'll be honest, I think this video is bizarre.

I alwys feel that regardless of the intent or "real" danger to the person in question, tempting fate like this is always a horrible idea. Jones is overweight (not an ad hominem attack, just being honest), pushing 40, and seems to be always angry; which is a recipe for a heart attack. He reminds me a lot of Breitbart in this sense.

Now, some people -- I think including Jones -- believe that Breitbart was assassinated. But the sad truth is: it's just as plausible that he died of what the medical examiner declared, a heart attack. He was not a zen person, and neither is Jones. Contrast the intense anger of Jones and Breitbart to someone like Robert Anton Wilson, who, despite many health complications, lived to be 74. Wilson was no less a "conspiracy theorist" than Jones, but famously embraced positive thinking and optimism.

Quoth Wilson: “...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.”

Chill: Icke

Icke as well takes a far more calm/positive point-of-view. While even more "extreme" in his thinking than Jones, his approach is infused with a sort of "if you feel hate, you will get hate; if you feel hostility, you will attract more hostility" philosophy. Icke also struggles with health issues -- specifically crippling arthritis -- but he's made it to 60 already.

Tenebroust from "The Stench Of Truth" also has an often angry, vein-popping presentation -- but at least he balances it with a very chill radio interview show. The key is moderation. And with a seething broadcast every day, I just don't see that with Jones.

Alex Jones, with his continual bluster and seething rants + physical attributes, just seems like a health time-bomb, cardiac arrest waiting to happen. I'm not saying because I dislike the man, because I don't. I'm just saying that there's a constant morbidity that hangs over him, and this latest video creeped me the fuck out.

All this is not to invalidate the fact that people who "speak out" in this society do get harassed, threatened, and sometimes "offed." Also: I am not advising that people do not get angry about things, or express that anger in a public forum. But I feel the more one focuses on morbidity ("if I die, you'll know who did it"), the more one tends to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy.

But at any rate -- and regardless of the circumstances -- if God forbid Jones does drop dead, he will be considered "assassinated" and a martyr. What's creepy is that I got the impression from Bill Cooper's recordings, and Breitbart's rants, and now Jones that this might be exactly what they want -- the culmination of a career, and achieving a sort of immortality.

I just watch the "Let This Be Your Final Battleground" episode of Star Trek last night. I can't help but see the character of Lokai in Jones and others. I cannot help but see the dead planet Cheron as their domain. I think Jones occasionally has some really good points, and has brought to light a lot of important stories. But I also feel like he is almost drowning in the paranoia -- reaching what Wilson calls "Chapel Perilous." And you can see it in spades in this video, especially towards the end.

Several months ago, I stopped following another "fringe" pundit/blogger because of picking up that similar degree of hostility; as much as I was intrigued by this person's theories, the neverending negativity ended up fatiguing me. Not sure why I kept up with Jones, though I think a lot of it has to do with just having a "podcast" type thing (radio and YouTube) I can listen to. I also have a tendency to be very angry all the time -- angry about injustices, very distrustful and hypervigilant. If anything, the Jones video makes me -- the same age as him -- reevaluate my approach to life.

I can't fight injustice if my heart explodes.