Punishment Park(1971) Analysis: America Is A Psychopathic Cult. For The Believers Of America, A Retard Is A Psychopath’s Servant

(April 30, 2024 ● Oslin Pierrette)

This film has taught me what a retard is now, or more so fully clarified what I already knew. A chauvinist of absurdity, also high levels of systematic incompetence. To them this is reality, and in this film, this is America. 

A retard is a psychopath’s servant. Psychopaths are people with no heart, no soul, they have no empathy towards humanity, their construct doesn’t reach anything outside themselves. You also see extreme desires of control & power over others. Sometimes you tend to see this sadistic element within their construct. I was not blessed to bare a soul, and all you other humans do. If I can’t have one, no one can. I will enforce my vitriolic vindictive despair onto humanity, under the guise of whatever I can get my hand on to enact it onto you. People who have the ability to bare a soul, and devolve into serving this world of absurd empty nothingness are more than just fools, they are retards. No one wins, diminishing their own gift that is their soul, giving it up, and acquiescing with evil, whether they are aware of it or not. I hate these people. And that’s what the film was about a lot. This acclimated group of society that has truly conformed to this absurd cult called America. They have strongly bought into the idea, so anybody who they see out of line and doesn’t want to conform to their disorienting absurdity ideology full of dissonance, they see as crazy, even though conforming to this cult idea called America is crazy. 

I get it, you have been marketed this American Dream. You did the things to buy in, and were afforded the socioeconomic class of luxurious comfort. You simply fulfilled your role, and got this comfort from America, so you see this as a functioning system. So anyone you don’t see abide by it you look at as crazy, because through your understanding, why don’t you conform to the system. This is where they don’t understand privilege, they don’t see life outside their own life or community. Maybe thoughts of why don’t homeless people just get a job, why do they accept homelessness, just lazy, they are at fault for their own demise or poverty. You speak to these people and it’s like huh? You don’t see outside, you don’t see the terror I face everyday, you don’t see the reasons for my suffering, the inescapable poverty, just the casual destruction of people like me. Why can’t you see? Maybe if you acted right, and aligned to the system, maybe all you people wouldn’t be so poor and homeless. That’s why I can’t stand you people. You young kids nowadays are trouble making radicals that are trying to destroy this great country that we built. This radicalism you speak of has been inevitably bred from such harsh corruption against humanity. You got it all wrong, we aren’t denied access to better because of our attitudes. We have a disgruntled attitude towards society because we were denied a standardly decent way of living, many born in this inescapable hellscape. If you don’t understand hunger, then you can’t understand the plight and suffering of the people within poverty. You won’t understand their attitudes and their disgruntled hatred for the system. When you’re not understanding their pain, not even sympathizing it, then you’re not connected to these people. When you think like that, that’s when these people are just some others, some delinquents that need some sense knocked into them so they can get enforced into society, into our great system of America. Once you can’t see someone as a person like you, what happens to them wouldn’t phase you, you may even encourage it. Give that person 20+ years, they deserve all that time. Those cops need to be rough on them, they don’t act right. But say the same pain happens to someone from their neighborhood or community who gets attacked. Now the empathetic reactions come, and it’s probably not because they care for the person that got hurt, but the idea of their comfort got bruised up a bit. These people are foundationed on an ambiguous nothingness, or a facade of something that seems grand to them, but truly is a nothingness. 

This film was a trial for a group of people, and the sentencing was a multiyear imprisonment, or you can do 3 days in Punishment Park. Of course people wanted to test their luck at Punishment Park. 3 gruesome days seem more feasible than a multiyear imprisonment, especially 10+ years, an unfathomable amount of time. They’re placed in a desert, and they have to make it 53 miles to the American flag to get their freedom. Seems difficultly easy enough. But there’s one catch, you have to go through our multi divisional defense team made up of like cops and national guards. They are allowed to use force, but only when needed, and the their guns are only there for precautionary reasons, wink wink*. They have I believe a 2 hour head start to get across this 53 mile super hot dry desert. So many walk to their chaotic demise full of dehydration, extreme thirst, hunger, excruciating agony & pain. What a sadistic punishment that involves inevitable gruesome death. How do they justify this, and there’s no way how. You just have to understand it’s the doings of a psychopath. The dark part about it, these same people are what stand as our law & order, those people constructed it. Lifeless callous law & order. 

Couple days ago, I went to court with someone, because they needed my help. When we were speaking to the public attorney, I could tell I was speaking to someone where life wasn’t present. They were just strictly court of law. They seemingly had no connection to life. You could see how they could operate in a callous manner with that lifelessness. They’re doing a job, well-being doesn’t haven’t to be acknowledged while doing it, that’s just their empty construct. 

Simultaneously when they were trying to get to the flag, they were showing people having their day in sadism court basically. The people on trial are hearing their charges and explaining their reasonings and if they were loyal to America. With all them speaking you just heard clear thoughts of people with this beautiful connection to life.

Like someone was there for skipping the draft for the army. And it’s simple, I can’t be a part of the destruction of war, I don’t believe in this destruction that America enacts on other countries. The Vietnam war is the most unnecessary brutal war ever, America is fighting for the biggest nothing in history, and these people are trying to pose it as we’re fighting for our country, this what citizens would want their tax dollars spent on. When truly we would never ask for that. This idea of America you’re trying to pedal is a facade, the people within the lines of America are living a nightmare, this isn’t the dream many were promised if we complied with the system. We deal in illusions, and I’m not following these lies anymore. America is evil, I don’t want to align let alone fight for it. Then you have others breaking down the clear injustices of society. If you don’t have food, shelter, an opportunity to get out of that state of poverty. If you are hungry, and denied the mechanisms to naturally sustain a life within the system, like working to feed yourself. Then of course at some point, people are going to stop being orderly and force their ways to being fed, revolt and defy the rules of the system. Maybe act in the ways of criminality, because you were pushed to your limits, and need to eat someway somehow.

Another person, where she had a song where it had call to actions of rebellions to the state in the songs. She speaks so beautifully clearly about how this world has an abundance for all, but we are littered with poverty and hunger. How did we get here? Then another where he says, he doesn’t want to work within this system. He doesn’t want to waste his life away to nothingness, he wants to do what he wants, engage in more enjoyable things. Especially where people make extremely low fractions of what they deserve, while the nefarious bosses make fortunes off workers backs. And these people who are defying the system are being labeled as crazy, schizophrenic, lazy, terrible disobedient citizens of society. And it’s like can’t you hear and see these simple answers. What cult or world of absurdity are you deluded into where you can’t understand and connect to simple truths. These people are cancer incarnate humanoids. Their construct is so filthy. So detached from the reality of truth and humanity. How can you be so brainwashed into this perpetually destructive world and construct. People like this, don’t even understand they’re building their own prisons to be entrapped within. They are so beholden to this evil parasitical structure they feel so empowered by, that they don’t understand evil has no loyalty, this construct headed by the psychopaths have no loyalty. So when they flip, when you are no longer needed for this idea of America, you will be simply discarded in the most callous manner. And that’s what the middle class, and even lower high class is seeing today. They are being abandoned by the system that used to coddle them with comfort and higher levels of status and protection. Now that they don’t see those luxuries, they too are beginning to panic. You were fooled by the deceiver that you allowed to deceive others, and you don’t like that it’s happening to you know, too late. That’s the game. 

The part about the movie that was a very strong visual. Is when a couple of survivors that made it to the end, that weren’t murdered by corrupt police like the others in callous cold blood. The way they were murdered it was just so casual like a day on the job. And you see their pompous reasonings for it. They should’ve complied, they had it coming for them, the reason we were gonna obliterate all you, is because we lost two cops that were chasing you down, that were probably also going to obliterate you, but that’s because you’re no good thugs. They feel no wrongs for their actions, they may get a sadistic glee from their murders. These people should be nowhere near justice, they don’t know such things, they only know destruction.

One quote I loved was if you have hate in your heart, then you are in no way in the space to be administering or giving out punishment. But the survivors who made it finally made it to the flags, and what they are met by, a line of defense of police and national guards. And they say to put their hands up.

Then even in their unarmed defenseless circumstance, they were gunned down in such callous cold blood. One young kid, who probably shouldn’t have been wielding a gun anyways seems remorseful about his actions, a very rare sighting. It’s hard for him to accept what he has done. But his partner is trying to get him to understand that isn’t true, when it’s just definitely true he’s a murderer. The camera man is seeing all these unjust acts of filthy evil cruelty. And these police guys are just responding with pompous arrogance like these people deserve their pain. Once you are able to ‘other’ people and disconnect from their feelings and plight, you can create a monstrous world of destruction & evil. We see that with how openly genocidal the world is. That ending was tragic, you earned your way to make it out, and all you see is that you hit the glass ceiling, seeing you were always supposed to stay within. This is our game, and we openly rigged it. You will always lose to the system. This is our law & order. 

Amazingly great movie. I understand it’s a fictional representation, but made with very real dark & beautiful elements within it. It was an amazing microcosm of the brutal, destructive, unjust, absurd, sadistic, chaos we live within today. A very smart movie that speaks to beautiful & very bleak truths.

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