This was Alex Jones once

1. Waking Life is an excellent movie that every coming of age adolescent should watch. Preferably during their first few times experimenting with a hallucinogen, but that's certainly not required.
2. Alex Jones got drunk on investigative journalism success. It is not a stretch to say that he and Michael Moore were very similar and on similar paths at one point in history (circa Waking Life, 1999-2001.). . Turns out one of them is both batshit crazy and great at mass manipulation, while the other is still righteous but struggles to get noticed.

If you didn't know this, it's important to hear. It's important to know that someone seemingly righteous right now can be revealed to be a lunatic piece of shit loser down the line.

Their message can be righteous. Power corrupts, and manipulators often barely know they're manipulating. They know they're succeeding. They're drunk on it and they stumble onward into grotesque success.

I won't give spoilers, but another classic psychonaut movie of this era is, IMO, Keanu Reeves best performance. It is also rotoscoped and trippy and about hallucinogens. Alex Jones has a similarly small role, scene here.

3. A Scanner Darkly is an S tier movie. has drugged up Robert Downy, has Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, and again Keanu's best performance. His character is addicted to a fictional addictive hallucinogen. His space cadet demeanor between bill and Ted and actual actor is blurred expertly... It's such a sleeper banger film.

Sincerely if you're like 16 to 25 and just getting into drugs... Watch both of these movies. I promise Alex Jones has nothing to do with them other than that he was actual kinda a liberal beacon at the turn of the millennium. Weird to recount.

What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me - into us - clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can't any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone's sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we'll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too.

This disjointed drunken ramble was brought to you by beer.

Go watch Waking Life, yes. But go watch A Scanner Darkly. Both have rotoscoped Alex Jones being Liberal. The latter is a better film.