Did ‘Mountainhead’ Eerily Predict Boulder Terrorist Attack?
'Succession' creator's tech bro satire misses mark but makes chilling point
Satire often speaks to the state of the world. The best of the best can tease tomorrow’s headlines today.
Take Kurt Schlichter’s Kelly Turnbull series. The action-soaked series depicts a Civil War-like future for America. Some of the books’ most incendiary moments feel too close to reality, a darkly comic warning we ignore at our peril.
That’s partly the author’s point. “The Attack,” for example, shows what might happen given the nation’s porous borders under the Biden administration.
Something similar can be said about “Mountainhead.”
The HBO Max satire follows four tech bros grappling with the fallout from their innovations – and egos. A social media platform created by Venis (Cory Michael Smith) floods the digital zone with life-life A.I. videos. When someone creates a false narrative via the site’s A.I. visuals, violence ensues.
It’s a prime example of effective satire. We could see realistic A.I. videos sooner than later suggesting something demonstrably false actually happened. Imagine the impact if such a video goes viral.
Yet, in a way, “Mountainhead’s” chilling vision already came true. Except the culprit isn’t a fake A.I. clip but Fake News.
Legacy Media outlets, including CNN and The Washington Post, shared a false story over the weekend accusing Israeli forces of shooting Palestinians gathered for a food disbursement. Some “reports” said 31 people died in the melee.
Believe #hamas when they tell you who they are. https://t.co/6UcjHpaIvp
— Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) June 1, 2025
I honestly don’t know how anyone is supposed to counter this. A local Palestinian “journalist” and Hamas invent a claim of a massacre at a distribution site.
The American contractors say it’s a lie, Israelis say it’s a lie, the video says it’s a lie. Every news outlets runs… https://t.co/bYG18WpBLa pic.twitter.com/jbd06hs4Dc
— AG (@AGHamilton29) June 1, 2025
Footage later showed Hamas forces, not Israelis, killing the civilians. Too many media outlets repeated the initial Hamas narrative, again, ignoring the terror group’s history of abject lies.
Yesterday, a Palestinian sympathizer attempted to burn innocents following a Boulder, Colo. event focused on freeing hostages still held by Hamas.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, used a makeshift flame thrower to attack those at the gathering. Soliman, admitted to the U.S. during the Biden regime and now here illegally, shouted “free Palestine” and “End Zionist” during the attack. At least eight people have been hospitalized.
Was the Egyptian national inspired by the Fake News peddled by Legacy Media outlets? We don’t know as of yet. Perhaps he’s been reading a steady diet of misleading news headlines from the corrupt press in recent months.
The weekend’s anti-Isreal Fake News barrage wasn’t an isolated incident.
The shocking attack brought “Mountainhead” to mind all the same. Now, let’s see if any Hollywood studio, large or small, creates a satire showing the corrosive effect Fake News has on society.
- The Russian Collusion Hoax
- Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation
- President Biden is sharp as a tack
- The “Very Fine People” hoax
The examples are endless.