A MODERN DAY “DEEP THROAT”: A REVIEW OF COLLAPSE

By

Cleo E. Brown 
 
 
 
 

      In Collapse, Michael Ruppert, who is a former UCLA College Student; a former Los Angeles Police Officer; and a CIA employee, offers his explanation of, in a March 2009 Interview, why The United States’ Economy and, ultimately, The Government “collapsed.”  Often interesting but, for the most part, far too willing to offer simplistic explanations of highly complex concepts, Collapse is an extremely confused attack against the misuses and abuses of natural and man-made resources (Oil, Energy, Electricity, Transportation, Food) by the World. 

Perhaps, if he had been less pro-Saddam Hussein and anti-Obama, as well as less intent upon passing himself off as a modern day “Deep Throat” who emerges from the shadows, Mr. Ruppert would have been more convincing.  For, not only are his statements an obvious attack against the misuses of resources in a modern technological world, they are also a subtle attack against the idealism of Barrack Obama’s Administration whom, Ruppert who is a Republican, sees as misguided. 

I object to Ruppert’s analysis of the economic policies of Barrack Obama since Ruppert lacks the courage to explicitly state that which he is suggesting about President Obama. I also object to his depiction of Saddam Hussein as a martyr and as a saint although “weapons of mass destruction” were never found in Iraq.

      Chain smoking, using four letter words repeatedly, suggesting that we all urinate on the soil, and crying at various points during the interview Collapse is a gloomy view of an out-of-control world which Mr. Ruppert, despite his analysis, maintains will continue.  I suggest that if Mr. Ruppert is accurate in his forecast about the world that the world will certainly end. This documentary is,however,  useful to students of apocalyptic theory who examine when, why, and how the world will end . 

On a scale of from one to twelve roses I give to Collapse a seven. (2 stars)