Skyfall, Spyfall, And The Ouroboros Of Fantasy And Reality

Does anybody else find it strange that the U.S. military/government is currently embroiled in a spy scandal the same week James Bond spy thriller "Skyfall" is #1 at the box-office?

Is there any connection between these two narratives -- one real, one fictional?

We have the "Bond Girls" -- beautiful, at times treacherous:



And the "Bond Girls" are sort of like the "draw" for the movies, aren't they? They're like the "Godzillas" of the movie series. Like when you turn on a Godzilla movie, you're really tuning in for the monsters, not the exposition. The Bond Women are like the Monsters -- Distractors from the core elements of the plot.

What comes first in these queer intersections of the real and the unreal? Does the movie come first, and then reporters shape the narrative of real-life events to mirror the movie -- as to market the news?

Or is it all more a strange precognitive thing on the part of our fantasy-makers...no, to call it "precognitive" sounds too fanciful, too wacky. Is it like-energy attracting like-energy...the idea of the world outside ourselves as a mirror of our own lives?

Fantasy weaving into reality -- here's another example:

The Drudge Report, one of the most popular news sites in the world, links to an article called "Talk Host Calls For Second American Revolution":

The link to that news story takes you to (surprise!) Infowars.com, whose marquee headliner story is:



...and we are now back to a movie narrative, that of "The Matrix." (Click here for the story about how a bunch of Georgia GOP lawmakers recently discussed theories similar to that of Jones in a closed-door session that was conveniently videotaped). Another headline on Infowars today is this one:

A "storyline" that has been "predicted" months ago in a comic book:

Now let's go to another item on the same Infowars marquee:

This of course refers to the recent Hurricane Sandy. Which was eerily prefigured by last month's "Batman" comic:



...the widespread lack of power and "third world conditions" left in the storm's wake echoed in the NBC show "Revolution," heavily promoted this Fall:

And on, and on. What comes first here, the chicken or the egg? I subscribe to no hard-and-fast theories; if I had to guess, I'd say it's an omelet of many theories -- or perhaps something too weird to even fully comprehend. But it sure is interesting. I could just go on and on with examples, each leading into each...