Alex Jones Wordsmith

Or, The Modern Homer: An Info Warrior Across the Third Dimension

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Introduction

Now I’ve been here 22 years. I don’t get into Aliens, metaphysical, religion, any of that. Now I’ve studied the elite and I’ve also communicated with a lot the top people, and if you want to know, i will actually break down right now, the best knowledge of what’s happening on the planet. ~Alex Jones

So for the past several months I’ve been low level obsessed with The Alex Jones Prison Planet Metal Project and it’s three albums: Crush the Parasites

Super Heavy Galactic Stuff

and Cursed to Hell

Briefly summarized the artist took some of Jones more... colourful rants and sampled them to make truly brutal metal. Metal so brutal in fact that it is hard to think of another band that could match the project in terms of raw lyrical force.

That Alex Jones inspired this type of third party effort is not unusual. A quick survey of YouTube will reveal remixes, dubs, mashups and “best of” compilations with millions of views and and comments praising Jones as “one of a kind” and a “national treasure”.

What I will argue in this piece is that Alex Jones is not “one of a kind” but is in fact one of a very old kind, namely that Alex Jones and his INFOWars is the latest iteration of one of the oldest art forms in western civilization: Epic Poetry. Through comparison with classical epic Poems and Poets such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Spencer’s Faerie Queen, and Milton’s Paradise Lost, I will show how Jones’s INFOWars matches their achievement and at once takes the genre of epic poetry back to its roots by reintroducing the genre into the oral tradition, and as a popular medium, while also redefining the genre through new conventions. As Dante took epic poetry out of the realm of third person, physical reality and centred his Divine Comedy on his first person spiritual journey so does Jones redefine the genre by centering it on a second person quest for truth, virtue, and political as well a spiritual liberation.

I’m here! I’m alive! My heart’s big. It’s got hot blood flowing through it fast. I got a life force! This is a human! This is what we look like. This is what we act like. This is what everybody was like before us. This is what I am: I’m a throwback. I’m a pioneer. I’m an explorer. I’ve got the fire of human liberty. I’m setting fires everywhere, and humans are turning on everywhere.