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“I see the pain in their eyes and it becomes recognition. It’s like being in a terrible club, a hellish club.”
That’s what Polly Tommey, producer of the film “Vaxxed” from the documentary series “Vaccine Warriors” says.
For those who are fascinated with cult associations, it is now Christmas Eve every day on streaming services. If you start from the number of documentaries on the subject, humanity seems to do nothing but get entangled in mysterious groups. And in two of these documentary series, “The Family: Power, Politics and Fundamentalism in America” (Netflix) and “The Vaccine Warriors” (SVT Play), you really fill up.
The first represents the secret Christian society The Fellowship. An almost homoerotic male companionship with Jesus as the lowest common denominator and, if you want to believe in “The Family”, with the lust for power and misogyny on the unofficial agenda. The influential movement has its roots in the United States but is found throughout the world.
In the documentary, defector Jeff Sharlet wants to reveal how the branches of the movement sprout from the bottom up. Through dramatized clips, he talks about his own experiences of being part of the movement’s recruiting base. He himself was part of a group of selected Christian youth who lived in collectives and “did things together” (praising Jesus, playing sports, and tormenting each other with a derailed peer education).
They were urged to live celibately and to see themselves as a chosen elite. The women were there to take care of the men and the girlfriends were branded as whores. It was no accident that they also cleaned with the rich and powerful. The influence of scholarships reaches the highest power.
The national prayer breakfast, in which the American president traditionally participates, is an invention of the fraternity and an expression of its ambitions for power. According to the documentary, the prayer breakfast is part of a larger plan, as well as Donald Trump’s presidency. His capricious character traits were seen as signs of “selection” and thus he came up as a candidate for the movement.
In “The Vaccine Warriors” appears the gender distribution in reverse. The vaccine appears to be a substance that helps women to stand up, especially personally affected mothers whose children have been “injured by vaccines.”
Polly, her with the quote about the club from hell, is a mother. The belief that the MPR vaccine made her son autistic has led her to now be one of the most prominent voices in the anti-wax movement. In Sweden, he has his counterpart in a profiled vaccine critic. With a similar personal commitment in the backpack, he has relied on conspiracy theories not only about the vaccination program, but also about a “new world order” where an elite tries to exterminate parts of the population, and claimed that the Holocaust did not happen. to the extent that we have learned. .
In the well done the documentary series reveals not only her, but also the likely driving force behind these movements. The exaltation: From being a random single mom struggling at home with a sick child, to being someone who gets upset and angry at many on anti-wax social media. And above all, the community, which is perhaps more important than Jesus and the vaccine.
In times of isolation from the crown, Markus Krunegård’s lines “human warmth, please come closer” acquire a new relevance. The importance of belonging, being part of a herd. Whether the herd is a biologically or single-purpose family, a working community or a “club from hell” seems secondary.
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