Caitlin, absolutely. Everything that matters? All lies.
So we need to take that to its inevitable conclusion.
The belief that we cannot leave unless we do it together is none other than one of those lies. We learned it while we were operating under the delusion of all the other lies we were drowned in.
But it's not like we have been sane, intelligent, capable people who were given a shit bag of bad information. The lies haven't just perverted our perspectives, our outlooks. They have perverted our internal processes as well. In fact, most of all. The damage, in turn, perverted our vision itself, corrupting everything we thought we saw.
I challenge you to get to the root of your belief that, "The only way we're getting off the set of the Truman Show is if we can all succeed in waking each other up from the lies which built it."
It's just not true.
It has not been my experience, not in the least. Nor has it been the experience of those who freed themselves from captivity and slavery of all kinds. I recommend Chapter 10 of Frederick Douglass' autobiography. Or the recounting of any woman who was stuck for years in an abusive relationship but finally managed to free herself and then walk out the door.
We each are the only one it takes. And it always happens in those two steps.
Our liberation comes well ahead of our emancipation. And the liberation requires only one will:
I will be able to escape.
I will be able to walk off the set.
I will be able to turn to everyone there and say goodbye.
And then we just walk out that door.
It doesn't matter if anyone follows or not. Each of them has to do exactly the same.
It's the kind of door that we go through alone, or we never get through at all.
The *only* place from which we can succeed in waking others up from the lies which built the prison set is from *outside that door*.
Most of us still have to get along with other people even just to subsist economically, to say nothing of having a social life, which seems to be a necessity for most humans.
Starry, there's a difference between interdependence and codependence. And there's a difference between physical/socio-economic interdependence and psychological dependence of the kinds that we should have grown out of as we became adults.
With those distinctions in mind, try reconsidering what I said. I'm not talking about hermitage or even long-term solitude. I am talking about willingness to be alone if necessary to reject all attempts to entrap us and keep us stuck on the mind-fuck set.
I think human beings are inevitably collective or communitarian, so the question is not whether people are going to be individualistic or communitarian, but what kind of communities they're going to have. The intellectual side of this necessity is embodied in languages, which to a large extent determine not only what we think but what we _can_ think. As Nietzsche said, "God is in the grammar."
I agree, we're totally wired for connection and communion (in the non-religious sense). "Whether people are going to be individualistic or communitarian" is not a question of mine. But connection does not imply codependence, nor does communion imply incapacity for solitude or independent thought. Yes, language constricts what we can think *to the extent that we think with language*. Which, all told, is the minority case except for people who do nothing much but sit and run stories through their heads. Great example: what's going through your head while playing a video game?
I think that you and Caitlin are both correct. First you need to convince yourself it's all a lie, and that the one who's lying to you is also you. I think, imho, that this involves giving other people the benefit of the doubt that they also want what you want, but just aren't 'there' yet. That's the liberation when you know you're playing a role in a play but you start to go off-script. You start responding to other people from a real place of connecting with them and encouraging them--not challenging them in a better-than-thou way.
If you walk out the door alone, where do you go? Into a cave in the woods? You're still going to be with other people.
In my episode on Questioning the Greater Reset, I address this question of whether you can change the system by dropping out or only truly drop out by changing the system. But nothing is more powerful, I suspect, than an actor who know she's acting and can rewrite the ending.
I wouldn't normally belabor a point but your unwillingness to share being right with Caitlin, and insisting instead that you must be right while she is wrong, emboldens me. There should be a Latin term for the rhetorical device of telling someone to go buy a book and read Ch. 10, instead of just telling them whatever of it proves your point. I did read something of Douglass recently, though, that talked about the woman who taught him to read and the community of people who stood up for him and protected him among whites. And he definitely didn't use his liberation to walk away from slavery and leave everyone else enslaved.
So when you answered Starry that there's a difference between interdependence and codependence, are you saying that we're psychologically enslaved while you're free? What indicates to you that we're not as free-thinking as you if we get along with other people and engage with them rather than disengaging? I think the Bodhisattvas have it right, and the Three Musketeers--not one without all.
So let me get this straight, dude. You're convinced your sister passed away because of the vaccine and that is the truth and you are the final arbiter on what is truth versus what is fiction? Do I have that right, bubs?
I think there is a strong possibility you are lying to yourself and others by claiming the vaccine killed your sister and it's a witting lie if it's a lie.
Unlike you where good guessing is your pattern I guess? Who's not guessing? You and your curated experts? Everyone else is guessing? That appears to be your implication and no that's not guessing, that's deduction.
Sorry, not gonna take more time to deal with every brain fart you come up with. Just cuz it strikes you doesn't mean it's worth saying, cos. I'm not hear to vet your WAGs, that's your job. And you keep wanting to measure dicks. Mine's on the small side, you win.
Im not saying shit...Im posting an article about a JEWISH doctors reporting about adverse effects from the vaccines on CHILDREN...you then for some odd reason brought Hitler into the discussion...so is Hitler in your room right now...or just your head
How can they control the world rich if they kill themselves with the vaccines? You'll have to find another scapegoat once they accomplish their mission of self-annihilation.
". . . even if you know it's all lies, you're still stuck in a world full of humans whose behavior is driven by lies." Exactly. I experience this stuckness pretty much every day.
How are you so sure you're not part of the lying? There's witting lying and unwitting lying. Even those who point out it's all lies lie to themselves and others be it witting or unwitting. The CIA for example, or the FSB for that matter or any intelligence service, realizes it's all lies and they accept it and choose to live in that reality and perpetuate it. They know it's all lies and they embrace it and wittingly contribute to the lying. Even if our reality as such is not a simulation set in motion by some force outside the simulation, it certainly is a simulation by forces within the simulation.
None of us is "sure." Simply because we're all liars caught in our own heads of fuzzy wonder. We're all swimmers stroking hard to keep from going under. We're all winners, wishing that we held a lucky number. Having a human brain within a socioeconomic system that actively separates us from the rest of the biosphere almost guarantees the possibility of self-delusion. I'm no surer than you are, despite observing this insanity for too many years. Anyone who claims they're sure is probably an unreliable source.
OMG. I hope you don't mind if I quote you. Please let me know. I ask permission to include your quote in the book I'm writing about the very thing Caitlin has so eloquently covered herein. Please.
Yeah, I struggle with the ol' Blame and Shame Game, too.
Your comment is excellent and spot on. Here's a small piece of the book I have in process. I have hundreds of pages to edit and coalesce:
Two clusters of easily found data strongly suggest that we’ve been witnessing our revolution occurring IRL for some time now and—because we’re living in exponential times—our myriad individual responses to what’s coming largely have gone unnoticed by the corporate fascists who own virtually the entire planet, since they hold the vast Hoi Polloi in complete contempt.
The first cluster has to do with our species’ pernicious religiosity, a stultifying patriarchal relic thousands of years old. (Note that this is not about our species’ spirituality, which has long been coopted by the wealthy.) Pew surveys in 2018 and 2019 reveal that the percentage of US adults who now describe themselves as Christian is 65%, down from 77% in a 2009 survey. The percentage of US adults who report their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular,” is now 26%, up from 17% in 2009. And the percentage of those who identify as Christians who attend church services at least once a week has declined steadily to 27% in 2020. This tells me that peeps are reclaiming their critical thinking skills and their spirituality, since religiosity and poisonous pedagogy are feedback loops that have worked for millennia and overcoming them takes a great deal of effort.
The second cluster has to do with the current crop of neoliberal sycophants infesting our government, war criminals to a one. As of this July 4th, Congress has a 16% approval rating, Biden has a 39% approval rating and Harris has a 40% approval rating. The majority of us stand in opposition to the corruption we are enduring. When you look at the numbers of followers of the more successful social media activists—Jimmy Dore in the US and Russell Brand in the UK—it is clear that millions of us are reclaiming our critical thinking skills and engaging in social media activism, independent journalism, and lifestyle changes that increase our ability to survive the neoliberal dystopia we're enduring. More of us are using the internet to self-educate, network, and generate income.
This is our quiet rebellion, using our critical thinking skills and our resourcefulness to strategize and increase the likelihood we will survive what is looming on the horizon. Meanwhile, the truth tellers continue to tell truths, millions of us are listening (Russell Brand has almost six million followers and Jimmy Dore has just over a million), and no one knows when the spark will flare that will light the tinder we’ve become.
I would think people who "knew it was all lies" would manifest less confidence about their beliefs and their ability to deal with the world. They would exhibit what the majority would almost certainly deem paranoia. Doublethink is a useful tool but when it runs into hard physical fact it usually has to be abandoned, at least temporarily. Yet when I look around I see people -- grownups -- who believe in all kinds of fanciful things, like the content of the _New York Times_.
Thank you for writing this. I have been looking into what happened to "Denazification" after WWII only to find that tens of thousands of former SS officers and high ranking military were just taken on by the US, France, Britain and Germany. I found out about the MKUltra program and the Project 4.1 and similar operations, where the government of the US just took regular folks and tested drugs and radioactive material on them without their knowledge. Giving nuclear material per injection to people who came to the emergency room, to pregnant women, to children in their breakfast serial. All without their knowledge or consent. And those are just examples that we know of from the US. I am sure there were similar stuff going on in other countries, that we just have not heard about yet. Then of course came the 11th of September and we were told that something that had not happened ever before happened three times on one day. If we were to actually follow the science we would see that we have been lied to but even today when we are told to follow the science what we are actually being told is to listen to the Scientists that our government wants us to hear, the others are being censored. We live in a world of lies and it sucks.
My son loved the Truman Show movie from a young age, along with Groundhog Day. I always found it fascinating that he would rather watch Truman than say a kids animated movie. Over and over he watched these two films, loving every part of them. The constructed reality that is being forced upon humanity is a lie. And occasionally the truth peaks through - only for those brave enough to see it, contemplate it and take the message on.
I taught a high school Philosophy course for 10 years and always tried to include the Truman Show in my curriculum. There are overt connections to philosophical tropes like Plato's cave, but I also saw students make connections to their own lives in ways I could not have predicted. This essay sums up beautifully why the film continues to resonate with us, and how we all wish we could walk off the set the way Truman does.
I guess 'trope' is a matter of perspective. I used this in Japanese colleges for small group discussions, and the kids grew wide-eyed when I told them afterwards that this was Plato from 2300 years ago. As it is Japan, I'd say that context affected them more than the Truman show would have ... here, like getting a fish to question the nature of water.
Cheers, Steven. One of my closest friends has taught in Japan for more than 30 years, so I’ve heard many stories related to the inability of fish to question the nature of water. Thanks for bringing that perspective to the discussion.
Dark triad personality types keep appearing in the mandelbrot set of history ... here is part of my story.
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The title hits home hard in an institutional setting. I made two mistakes in being in a tenured position at a Japanese college, (Jissen Womens, Tokyo) ... I made the mistake of being the only foreigner with tenure, and I made the mistake of having popular classes As this was an English Communication Department ... Japanese 'colleagues' were indifferent at best, but threatened at worst because none of them had near native English speaking skills, much less educated native English speakers.
I remember one nice spring day, I took the college students outside to teach English through tossing a frisbee and enjoying being outside of a textbook. A 'colleague' my own age and standing, renowned for his blind ambition, started chatting with me at the copy machine ... and though I listened passively ... the more he talked, the more enraged he became that I would dare teach English in a non-Japanese way. His red-faced rant ended with the demand that unless I learn to teach like Japanese college teachers (as if he knew how all Japanese teachers teach), I should return to America. After all, at that point, I had only spent 35 consecutive years building a career in Japan. This fits the textbook definition of 'Academic Harassment', even by Japanese standards. But as far as foreigners in Japan are concerned, neither Japanese labor law nor even work contracts, are worth the paper it is written on.
At a weekly Department meeting, I asked the teachers to pitch in and help out with a department wide event in which the students would be on stage, giving presentations in front of peers and guests invited from the local community. I explained that I was exhausted with overtime, handling all of the English presentation skills for the individuals and teams involved ... and had just finished a Saturday evening volunteer workshop with students and the chairman of another department at our school, Social Welfare. He, and another teacher grew livid that I would dare offer my English communication skills to another department without their permission. But the ambitious 'colleague' opined that if it were up to him, I would not have the freedom to use my English for volunteerism, or anything, on weekends ... without first asking for permission from my 'colleagues'. I had no idea what they did on their weekends, and neither did I think to ask and monitor them. They are all adults (or so I assumed) with families of their own.
Shortly after that meeting, I called for a meeting with the Dean of the college and asked if my work contract .... tenure until age 70 if desired, was the same as my Japanese colleagues. He assured me it was and that I had the same rights and responsibilities as the other department members. I relayed the message to the Department Chairwoman, upon which she replied that I was also under the obligations and responsibilities of a 2nd contract applicable only to the English Department. I asked to see that contract, and was told I did not have the right to see it. On complaining to the Dean about this obviously blunt manipulation, his response was a no-response by saying I just have to try harder.
I got along well with another colleague -- married female Japanese, graduate of Tokyo University, and also popular among the students ... and also not on good terms with the school. One day after a department meeting, she visited my office for a short lunch chat, mostly complaints about the school, and suddenly asked me if I believed in god. Puzzled, I answered no, not a personal separate god in the traditional sense of the word, but more like the god of Spinoza, Emerson, Jung, and Einstein ... 'god' as a metaphor for nature in its entirety, compatible with the Japanese-Buddhist concept of an underlying 'ki' (energy). She then unbuttoned the top of her blouse to show me the rope scar of an attempted suicide by hanging, and shortly left the room to finish her lunch.
Devastated, I reported this to the then Chair of the Department out of worry for her. About a month or so later, she took a medical leave of absence. Two or three months after that, the Chairman of the Department announced at a meeting that our colleague had died in a car 'accident'. I was devastated. Started seeing a psychiatrist for a prescription for anti-depressants and sleeping meds. Things went downhill from there, and within a year or so at age 59, I resigned in protest from a rare tenured position for foreigners.
Now approaching 67, I am collecting a modest pension and supplementing it with a bottom rung position as the only foreign Assistant Language teacher for 8 elementary schools, 3 Jr. Highs, and a special needs school. Some of the elementary school teachers are real educators, but from Jr. High onward, they tend to become something of a cross between bureaucratic functionary and drill sergeant. There is a good reason no foreign academics of international reputation can be found working in Japanese institutions. In general, I'd say the Japanese friends I have are educated despite the educational system, not because of it.
All of this being said, I spend more time on substack or private Facebook groups, fighting a bigger fight for far greater stakes. Even mentioning the dark-triad money and power behind potentially catastrophic changes to society is enough to get my post or comment censored by Google or Facebook ... not unlike the petty behavior of the micro-managers of Japanese institutions.
Wow. Intense. I will discuss these issues with my friend who teaches in Japan (Takamatsu area). I know he has encountered some frustrations during his career, but I don’t think it has been anything like what you describe here.
That was just the tip of the iceberg, and that was about 8 years ago, so I am trying to move along in a country that does not give 2nd choices. But synchronicity strikes!
I just woke up to check my mail, and came upon a podcast that nailed the group dynamics I experienced.
With a background in biology, I realize she was off the mark in understanding mosquitos. As far as I know, only females bite and infect humans, and the genetically modified mosquitos being released are sterile males which will reduce the disease carrying population.
But everything else she says about narcissism and society applies to narcissism and the dysfunctional institution ... business, education, governance, religious, NPOs, ... just about any institution.
JMHO, but empathy-driven communities (shadow economies) are about our only chance of sustaining the species.
My wife and I often discuss possible paths to a better future, and the one that seems most realistic and reasonable is evolving into smaller communities based around caring for each other. We sometimes find ourselves ironically wishing for some sort of internet collapse so that economies could become localized and people could understand that humans will more likely help their neighbors than shoot them. We’ve been conditioned by decades of dystopian fiction and film. Most people I’ve met and dealt with in “the real world” are pretty decent once you get past the surface level differences. Systems create fear and anger. Basic human interaction often creates empathy.
Carlson is not running for office, numbskull. Nor do I defend ALL of Tucker Carlson's opinions. I think he's worth listening to and that it's stupid to hate him and try to discourage people from listening to him. I simply am not a partisan Democrat (nor a partisan Republican). Is that a bad thing?
You're not only not discouraging people from listening to Carlson you are encouraging them to listen to him. You are encouraging people to be manipulated by him considering he clearly has an agenda. You are an influencer, that is obvious and you dodge and weave like the most malevolent of politicians.
I rarely mention Tucker Carlson except in response to gratuitous attacks on him, such as Caitlin has occasionally made. She does not attack Rachel Maddow or Cenk Uyghar like she does Tucker Carlson. I wish she would call out Democrats as well as Republicans like Jimmy Dore does. Even Marjorie Taylor Green calls out Mitch McConnell. If everybody swept their own porch, the neighborhood would be clean.
Now you're showing you delusional mental health crisis. I've never seen any of her audience promoting Tucker, Cenk or for that matter Rachel. Even I don't regularly promote him; I only dispute Caitlin's gratuitous attacks, so she has no basis for going after him other than she hates his guts. I confess I once hated his guts as well, but I've outgrown that.
Well, at least in America one still gets to choose between turds that have been preselected for the "voting" public. In Russia, for example, there is no fake choice of turds. You get whatever turd has murdered its way to the top turd position.
LBJ laughing over folks believing Tonkin Gulf. Debbie Wasserman Schultz sneering under oath, that DNC™ LLC only exists to fulfill contractual obligations to CRUSH anything remotely Democratic or "our" party bragging about killing twice as many "essentials" as Trump, while fabricating a war to save their imbecile fracking Ponzi Scam... It's ALL we've ever watched US petit-bourgois, white flight suburbanite & their souless yuppie spawn pontificate unremittingly, spew didactically TOTALLY buying-into exactly what they're told they believe by AT&T, Comcast, Fox, Disney, Bezos or Israel's NYT. Like COVID up-ticks, any resulting tsunamis o' death aren't reported and DENIAL has always been our pandemic!
Somehow the big idea is that this particular stage of human development is somewhat different from the previous ones and that there is no excuse for the people to not finally awake.
Wrong. The kind of engagement demanded is unrealistic for most people, by design. People dedicate themselves to other things necessarily and do not have capacity and/or ability to do this other thing. Hence they'll always be led by a few charlatans as has been the case for ages.
An amazing piece, thank you. For years I thought there was something wrong with me. I was never driven by consumerism, never wanted to keep up with the Jones's, never followed trends, never followed celebrities, and always made my own mind up about things and people. I would periodically question the struggle to make it or make ends meet but would always dismiss my intuition. I think I have always known subconsciously that something isn't right with a society. When family time is impacted by both parents working long hours, when society has to brag about having the latest this and that, when we have a celebrity culture that makes young women feel inadequate, when we have so much hate encouraged by the media and authorities in the name of 'inclusion', when the elderly are living on the worst pensions in developed nations, when the poorest in society in a developed nation have to use food banks, when people in economically less developed countries are still starving and some without sanitation despite the billions sent in foreign aid and despite the many hundreds of charitable organisations set up to help them, you know something is not right. It hit me hard when I realised all of this, but I'm glad I see things clearly now. Some say democracy is an illusion but it is a system that has been put in place. We must now work to legitimise it and safeguard ourselves from future tyranny. We are sovereign and free. The elites may have all the money in the world but we have the potential to tap into a force that is so much stronger, community and a heart full of love and empathy. We are the 99%. We now just need to wake people up.
I was in middle school when 9/11 happened. Even at that age, I didn't understand the "they hated democracy" reasoning for 9/11. I remember as a kid, it was very common for adults to say the government lied about JFK's murder and question the official "paparazzi " narrative of Princess Diana's death.
So as a young kid, people who today would be moderates and Democrats commonly made jokes about "the Kennedy curse" and all kinds of stories about Vietnam.
I think there was more awareness in the public space that the government was primarily lying crooks.
I thought Iraq and Afghanistan would've been more of a wake-up call for millennials. That was a bipartisan hoax and now the name "Patriot Act" makes a lot more sense after J6.
The reality is I don't think many Americans trust the government but a portion of Americans just want to be "good citizens." So even if they know the government is lying or corrupt, they go along because it reduces their suffering and ensures their material comfort.
Human beings have been subjected to and used lies since the beginning of time. Deception, the most common lie is part of survival in a cruel world and developing that skill whether obtaining a mate or a new car has proven indispensable. Coupled with our capacity for denial, also indispensable, the two are woven into the fabric of relationships at every level. Let’s face it too many people throughout history were and now are incapable of recognizing or accepting their being taken advantage of by people who are adept at manipulation for their own self interest. You are correct we must pool our resources by stressing our common Americanism regardless of viewpoint or background. Trump represents a rude and unpredictable ego maniac with a mastery of self promotion while Brandon represents a polite yet slimy snake oil investor., they are both full of shit. Our government and all governments must be feared since they have pooled their resources and will lie, cheat and kill to maintain their power.
****Human beings have been subjected to and used lies since the beginning of time.****
What does this even mean? What is the beginning of time? Do you mean pre-civilization humans were also a bunch of liars? If so, where is your proof? Is there something in the archaeological record that proves pre-civilizational humans were living in a Truman Show of their own making?
Let’s not get technical and allow nuance it’s place. Yes deception is a fundamental human and animal trait key to survival. Maybe I was referring to the invention of the clock.
Call it government, financial capitalism, call it oligarchy or whatever you want it’s simply the application of domination through the use of power. Your admiration for China seems to accept the states unrestricted use of violence to achieve a collective objective. All governments should be feared and it’s the apathy and ignorance of the majority that emboldens those who would dominate them. I would rather be sick than rely on a government to provide and dominate my access to a doctor.
It's time to pull the curtain down on this charade. It's time to wake up our fellow cast members to the play we've been forced to perform. It's time... What's holding us back? Fear? Doubt? Confusion? Let's step off-stage together and those things will go away as we go on our ways.
Yes! Come January 6th 2023 and every January 6th thereafter, let's storm the Capitol building and defecate and urinate on Nancy Pelosi's desk. This is a public service address from the DOJ and more specifically the FBI and the Capitol Police. Come on down!!!
Maybe we don't ever walk off the stage we call the world as though it's tangible real estate, as if it's actual physical topography, but instead, wake ourselves up and recognize it as a reflective surface where ideas appear, as a reflection we call the world.
Maybe we don't ever leave the world because it's not a place, but is instead is the surface reflection of ideas in mind.
Maybe we address the deception we find here from a place of individual responsibility for the area of the field at large where our local signal arrives, the place we notice it arriving as what we think of as our thoughts.
Before being able to effect a shift or wobble in the collective signal that informs the global cultural mind, maybe we should familiarize ourselves with causing a ripple at our own access point, our private IP address and internal antenna settings.
I don't think we ever wake up and leave, but maybe instead we wake up and gain bandwidth by furthering our listening out to a previously unheard of and unknown horizon while simultaneously dropping further into the depths of our own heart.
There’s an open-mike night happening beyond the sounds of babel that world culture has on offer now, a place where someone can strike a clear bell tone that penetrates our current shared cultural mind like an earthquake, shaking the very ground of it and toppling what were once thought of as well built structures of deception, a quaking strong enough to wreak havoc on the very foundations of the lie from which all iterations of it are derived.
The trick might be to stay put once awake and quietly build a listening path to that universal microphone from which whatever's uttered is heard by all regardless of their comprehension or understanding. You can sound a clean tone there that bypasses the language center and and all its chaos, a pure clear heart tone that doesn't require any system of comprehension to effectively wobble the signal attachment of the temporarily deceived.
Maybe there's even a way to listen carefully and record the actual heart tones of a single beautiful mind and set them free to be amplified at the big microphone out there on the distant horizon that’s connected to the center of the universe where it exists in your own heart and set it free there for all to hear.
If some day soon you hear something that sounds like soft birdsong slowly building into a universe-spanning hurricane of vibrational music that remakes DNA in its passing, be unafraid as your vision blurs and the whole world wobbles. When you come to your senses and realize you can see auras and smell lies and taste deciect as easily as you used to be able to tell mint from cinnamon be at ease because you've been upgraded courtesy of a tone worthy of being shared into the heart of the matter, one that shifts the surface reflection of an idea in mind that appears to you as what you call the world you see.
If you learn to be still and listen, you'll hear the soft beginnings of a distant symphony of such tones that has already begun and is making its way inward to the center of the univese which has always been at home at the still point inside of you. Surrender as it approaches in awareness, relax and let it in.
What is the magic event that will open their eyes? What are the magic words that will allow them to see the real world?
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Caitlin, absolutely. Everything that matters? All lies.
So we need to take that to its inevitable conclusion.
The belief that we cannot leave unless we do it together is none other than one of those lies. We learned it while we were operating under the delusion of all the other lies we were drowned in.
But it's not like we have been sane, intelligent, capable people who were given a shit bag of bad information. The lies haven't just perverted our perspectives, our outlooks. They have perverted our internal processes as well. In fact, most of all. The damage, in turn, perverted our vision itself, corrupting everything we thought we saw.
I challenge you to get to the root of your belief that, "The only way we're getting off the set of the Truman Show is if we can all succeed in waking each other up from the lies which built it."
It's just not true.
It has not been my experience, not in the least. Nor has it been the experience of those who freed themselves from captivity and slavery of all kinds. I recommend Chapter 10 of Frederick Douglass' autobiography. Or the recounting of any woman who was stuck for years in an abusive relationship but finally managed to free herself and then walk out the door.
We each are the only one it takes. And it always happens in those two steps.
Our liberation comes well ahead of our emancipation. And the liberation requires only one will:
I will be able to escape.
I will be able to walk off the set.
I will be able to turn to everyone there and say goodbye.
And then we just walk out that door.
It doesn't matter if anyone follows or not. Each of them has to do exactly the same.
It's the kind of door that we go through alone, or we never get through at all.
The *only* place from which we can succeed in waking others up from the lies which built the prison set is from *outside that door*.
You can do it. Anyone can do it. Don't wait.
Well said!
Most of us still have to get along with other people even just to subsist economically, to say nothing of having a social life, which seems to be a necessity for most humans.
Starry, there's a difference between interdependence and codependence. And there's a difference between physical/socio-economic interdependence and psychological dependence of the kinds that we should have grown out of as we became adults.
With those distinctions in mind, try reconsidering what I said. I'm not talking about hermitage or even long-term solitude. I am talking about willingness to be alone if necessary to reject all attempts to entrap us and keep us stuck on the mind-fuck set.
I think human beings are inevitably collective or communitarian, so the question is not whether people are going to be individualistic or communitarian, but what kind of communities they're going to have. The intellectual side of this necessity is embodied in languages, which to a large extent determine not only what we think but what we _can_ think. As Nietzsche said, "God is in the grammar."
I agree, we're totally wired for connection and communion (in the non-religious sense). "Whether people are going to be individualistic or communitarian" is not a question of mine. But connection does not imply codependence, nor does communion imply incapacity for solitude or independent thought. Yes, language constricts what we can think *to the extent that we think with language*. Which, all told, is the minority case except for people who do nothing much but sit and run stories through their heads. Great example: what's going through your head while playing a video game?
Millard Filmore isn't most of us.
Dude, the only differences between you and me are cynicism and honesty.
I think that you and Caitlin are both correct. First you need to convince yourself it's all a lie, and that the one who's lying to you is also you. I think, imho, that this involves giving other people the benefit of the doubt that they also want what you want, but just aren't 'there' yet. That's the liberation when you know you're playing a role in a play but you start to go off-script. You start responding to other people from a real place of connecting with them and encouraging them--not challenging them in a better-than-thou way.
If you walk out the door alone, where do you go? Into a cave in the woods? You're still going to be with other people.
In my episode on Questioning the Greater Reset, I address this question of whether you can change the system by dropping out or only truly drop out by changing the system. But nothing is more powerful, I suspect, than an actor who know she's acting and can rewrite the ending.
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/what-is-the-greater-reset
Tereza, read that chapter by Frederick Douglass. It will answer your question.
I wouldn't normally belabor a point but your unwillingness to share being right with Caitlin, and insisting instead that you must be right while she is wrong, emboldens me. There should be a Latin term for the rhetorical device of telling someone to go buy a book and read Ch. 10, instead of just telling them whatever of it proves your point. I did read something of Douglass recently, though, that talked about the woman who taught him to read and the community of people who stood up for him and protected him among whites. And he definitely didn't use his liberation to walk away from slavery and leave everyone else enslaved.
So when you answered Starry that there's a difference between interdependence and codependence, are you saying that we're psychologically enslaved while you're free? What indicates to you that we're not as free-thinking as you if we get along with other people and engage with them rather than disengaging? I think the Bodhisattvas have it right, and the Three Musketeers--not one without all.
So let me get this straight, dude. You're convinced your sister passed away because of the vaccine and that is the truth and you are the final arbiter on what is truth versus what is fiction? Do I have that right, bubs?
I think there is a strong possibility you are lying to yourself and others by claiming the vaccine killed your sister and it's a witting lie if it's a lie.
You're on the wrong post bubba. 😄
And no, wrong on all counts. Looks like poor guessing is a pattern with you.
Unlike you where good guessing is your pattern I guess? Who's not guessing? You and your curated experts? Everyone else is guessing? That appears to be your implication and no that's not guessing, that's deduction.
Sorry, not gonna take more time to deal with every brain fart you come up with. Just cuz it strikes you doesn't mean it's worth saying, cos. I'm not hear to vet your WAGs, that's your job. And you keep wanting to measure dicks. Mine's on the small side, you win.
lying liars get caught...lying...oh and go get that 5th. booster shot cuz they obviously work....https://healthimpactnews.com/2022/israel-caught-concealing-childrens-vaccine-injuries/
So you're saying Israel is doing what Hitler couldn't accomplish — genociding the Jews?
Im not saying shit...Im posting an article about a JEWISH doctors reporting about adverse effects from the vaccines on CHILDREN...you then for some odd reason brought Hitler into the discussion...so is Hitler in your room right now...or just your head
How can they control the world rich if they kill themselves with the vaccines? You'll have to find another scapegoat once they accomplish their mission of self-annihilation.
Which I'm sure won't be difficult for you considering you have a pipeline full of scapegoats ready to roll out.
Amen!
I know you say this in good spirit, yet research what "Amen" actually means!
". . . even if you know it's all lies, you're still stuck in a world full of humans whose behavior is driven by lies." Exactly. I experience this stuckness pretty much every day.
How are you so sure you're not part of the lying? There's witting lying and unwitting lying. Even those who point out it's all lies lie to themselves and others be it witting or unwitting. The CIA for example, or the FSB for that matter or any intelligence service, realizes it's all lies and they accept it and choose to live in that reality and perpetuate it. They know it's all lies and they embrace it and wittingly contribute to the lying. Even if our reality as such is not a simulation set in motion by some force outside the simulation, it certainly is a simulation by forces within the simulation.
None of us is "sure." Simply because we're all liars caught in our own heads of fuzzy wonder. We're all swimmers stroking hard to keep from going under. We're all winners, wishing that we held a lucky number. Having a human brain within a socioeconomic system that actively separates us from the rest of the biosphere almost guarantees the possibility of self-delusion. I'm no surer than you are, despite observing this insanity for too many years. Anyone who claims they're sure is probably an unreliable source.
Agreed. Nicely put.
OMG. I hope you don't mind if I quote you. Please let me know. I ask permission to include your quote in the book I'm writing about the very thing Caitlin has so eloquently covered herein. Please.
Quote away. I'd be flattered except that I try to stay away from that type of self-adulation because it's liable to lead to self-delusion.
Yeah, I struggle with the ol' Blame and Shame Game, too.
Your comment is excellent and spot on. Here's a small piece of the book I have in process. I have hundreds of pages to edit and coalesce:
Two clusters of easily found data strongly suggest that we’ve been witnessing our revolution occurring IRL for some time now and—because we’re living in exponential times—our myriad individual responses to what’s coming largely have gone unnoticed by the corporate fascists who own virtually the entire planet, since they hold the vast Hoi Polloi in complete contempt.
The first cluster has to do with our species’ pernicious religiosity, a stultifying patriarchal relic thousands of years old. (Note that this is not about our species’ spirituality, which has long been coopted by the wealthy.) Pew surveys in 2018 and 2019 reveal that the percentage of US adults who now describe themselves as Christian is 65%, down from 77% in a 2009 survey. The percentage of US adults who report their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular,” is now 26%, up from 17% in 2009. And the percentage of those who identify as Christians who attend church services at least once a week has declined steadily to 27% in 2020. This tells me that peeps are reclaiming their critical thinking skills and their spirituality, since religiosity and poisonous pedagogy are feedback loops that have worked for millennia and overcoming them takes a great deal of effort.
The second cluster has to do with the current crop of neoliberal sycophants infesting our government, war criminals to a one. As of this July 4th, Congress has a 16% approval rating, Biden has a 39% approval rating and Harris has a 40% approval rating. The majority of us stand in opposition to the corruption we are enduring. When you look at the numbers of followers of the more successful social media activists—Jimmy Dore in the US and Russell Brand in the UK—it is clear that millions of us are reclaiming our critical thinking skills and engaging in social media activism, independent journalism, and lifestyle changes that increase our ability to survive the neoliberal dystopia we're enduring. More of us are using the internet to self-educate, network, and generate income.
This is our quiet rebellion, using our critical thinking skills and our resourcefulness to strategize and increase the likelihood we will survive what is looming on the horizon. Meanwhile, the truth tellers continue to tell truths, millions of us are listening (Russell Brand has almost six million followers and Jimmy Dore has just over a million), and no one knows when the spark will flare that will light the tinder we’ve become.
#ExtinctionRebellion
Too funny. Jimmy Dore and Russell Brand are going to lead us to the promised land as will Putin too no doubt and maybe also Xi. Get real.
Is that a Ukraine emblem, CXK? Are you all in for Ukraine? 🤣🤣🤣
I would think people who "knew it was all lies" would manifest less confidence about their beliefs and their ability to deal with the world. They would exhibit what the majority would almost certainly deem paranoia. Doublethink is a useful tool but when it runs into hard physical fact it usually has to be abandoned, at least temporarily. Yet when I look around I see people -- grownups -- who believe in all kinds of fanciful things, like the content of the _New York Times_.
The NYT has some truth in it, but truth to what end? That's the catch.
The NYT is propaganda. Propaganda often contains a salting of truth to improve its flavor. Same as pore ole Soviet Pravda, so ironically named.
Thank you for writing this. I have been looking into what happened to "Denazification" after WWII only to find that tens of thousands of former SS officers and high ranking military were just taken on by the US, France, Britain and Germany. I found out about the MKUltra program and the Project 4.1 and similar operations, where the government of the US just took regular folks and tested drugs and radioactive material on them without their knowledge. Giving nuclear material per injection to people who came to the emergency room, to pregnant women, to children in their breakfast serial. All without their knowledge or consent. And those are just examples that we know of from the US. I am sure there were similar stuff going on in other countries, that we just have not heard about yet. Then of course came the 11th of September and we were told that something that had not happened ever before happened three times on one day. If we were to actually follow the science we would see that we have been lied to but even today when we are told to follow the science what we are actually being told is to listen to the Scientists that our government wants us to hear, the others are being censored. We live in a world of lies and it sucks.
My son loved the Truman Show movie from a young age, along with Groundhog Day. I always found it fascinating that he would rather watch Truman than say a kids animated movie. Over and over he watched these two films, loving every part of them. The constructed reality that is being forced upon humanity is a lie. And occasionally the truth peaks through - only for those brave enough to see it, contemplate it and take the message on.
I taught a high school Philosophy course for 10 years and always tried to include the Truman Show in my curriculum. There are overt connections to philosophical tropes like Plato's cave, but I also saw students make connections to their own lives in ways I could not have predicted. This essay sums up beautifully why the film continues to resonate with us, and how we all wish we could walk off the set the way Truman does.
Hi Paul,
I guess 'trope' is a matter of perspective. I used this in Japanese colleges for small group discussions, and the kids grew wide-eyed when I told them afterwards that this was Plato from 2300 years ago. As it is Japan, I'd say that context affected them more than the Truman show would have ... here, like getting a fish to question the nature of water.
Cheers from Japan.
Cheers, Steven. One of my closest friends has taught in Japan for more than 30 years, so I’ve heard many stories related to the inability of fish to question the nature of water. Thanks for bringing that perspective to the discussion.
Just finished that comment to YouTube Paul ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_lC05XIpqY
Dark triad personality types keep appearing in the mandelbrot set of history ... here is part of my story.
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The title hits home hard in an institutional setting. I made two mistakes in being in a tenured position at a Japanese college, (Jissen Womens, Tokyo) ... I made the mistake of being the only foreigner with tenure, and I made the mistake of having popular classes As this was an English Communication Department ... Japanese 'colleagues' were indifferent at best, but threatened at worst because none of them had near native English speaking skills, much less educated native English speakers.
I remember one nice spring day, I took the college students outside to teach English through tossing a frisbee and enjoying being outside of a textbook. A 'colleague' my own age and standing, renowned for his blind ambition, started chatting with me at the copy machine ... and though I listened passively ... the more he talked, the more enraged he became that I would dare teach English in a non-Japanese way. His red-faced rant ended with the demand that unless I learn to teach like Japanese college teachers (as if he knew how all Japanese teachers teach), I should return to America. After all, at that point, I had only spent 35 consecutive years building a career in Japan. This fits the textbook definition of 'Academic Harassment', even by Japanese standards. But as far as foreigners in Japan are concerned, neither Japanese labor law nor even work contracts, are worth the paper it is written on.
At a weekly Department meeting, I asked the teachers to pitch in and help out with a department wide event in which the students would be on stage, giving presentations in front of peers and guests invited from the local community. I explained that I was exhausted with overtime, handling all of the English presentation skills for the individuals and teams involved ... and had just finished a Saturday evening volunteer workshop with students and the chairman of another department at our school, Social Welfare. He, and another teacher grew livid that I would dare offer my English communication skills to another department without their permission. But the ambitious 'colleague' opined that if it were up to him, I would not have the freedom to use my English for volunteerism, or anything, on weekends ... without first asking for permission from my 'colleagues'. I had no idea what they did on their weekends, and neither did I think to ask and monitor them. They are all adults (or so I assumed) with families of their own.
Shortly after that meeting, I called for a meeting with the Dean of the college and asked if my work contract .... tenure until age 70 if desired, was the same as my Japanese colleagues. He assured me it was and that I had the same rights and responsibilities as the other department members. I relayed the message to the Department Chairwoman, upon which she replied that I was also under the obligations and responsibilities of a 2nd contract applicable only to the English Department. I asked to see that contract, and was told I did not have the right to see it. On complaining to the Dean about this obviously blunt manipulation, his response was a no-response by saying I just have to try harder.
I got along well with another colleague -- married female Japanese, graduate of Tokyo University, and also popular among the students ... and also not on good terms with the school. One day after a department meeting, she visited my office for a short lunch chat, mostly complaints about the school, and suddenly asked me if I believed in god. Puzzled, I answered no, not a personal separate god in the traditional sense of the word, but more like the god of Spinoza, Emerson, Jung, and Einstein ... 'god' as a metaphor for nature in its entirety, compatible with the Japanese-Buddhist concept of an underlying 'ki' (energy). She then unbuttoned the top of her blouse to show me the rope scar of an attempted suicide by hanging, and shortly left the room to finish her lunch.
Devastated, I reported this to the then Chair of the Department out of worry for her. About a month or so later, she took a medical leave of absence. Two or three months after that, the Chairman of the Department announced at a meeting that our colleague had died in a car 'accident'. I was devastated. Started seeing a psychiatrist for a prescription for anti-depressants and sleeping meds. Things went downhill from there, and within a year or so at age 59, I resigned in protest from a rare tenured position for foreigners.
Now approaching 67, I am collecting a modest pension and supplementing it with a bottom rung position as the only foreign Assistant Language teacher for 8 elementary schools, 3 Jr. Highs, and a special needs school. Some of the elementary school teachers are real educators, but from Jr. High onward, they tend to become something of a cross between bureaucratic functionary and drill sergeant. There is a good reason no foreign academics of international reputation can be found working in Japanese institutions. In general, I'd say the Japanese friends I have are educated despite the educational system, not because of it.
All of this being said, I spend more time on substack or private Facebook groups, fighting a bigger fight for far greater stakes. Even mentioning the dark-triad money and power behind potentially catastrophic changes to society is enough to get my post or comment censored by Google or Facebook ... not unlike the petty behavior of the micro-managers of Japanese institutions.
Wow. Intense. I will discuss these issues with my friend who teaches in Japan (Takamatsu area). I know he has encountered some frustrations during his career, but I don’t think it has been anything like what you describe here.
Hi Paul,
That was just the tip of the iceberg, and that was about 8 years ago, so I am trying to move along in a country that does not give 2nd choices. But synchronicity strikes!
I just woke up to check my mail, and came upon a podcast that nailed the group dynamics I experienced.
With a background in biology, I realize she was off the mark in understanding mosquitos. As far as I know, only females bite and infect humans, and the genetically modified mosquitos being released are sterile males which will reduce the disease carrying population.
But everything else she says about narcissism and society applies to narcissism and the dysfunctional institution ... business, education, governance, religious, NPOs, ... just about any institution.
JMHO, but empathy-driven communities (shadow economies) are about our only chance of sustaining the species.
https://rumble.com/v1g4ifd-narcissism-went-global.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AmazingPolly&ep=2
Cheers Paul
My wife and I often discuss possible paths to a better future, and the one that seems most realistic and reasonable is evolving into smaller communities based around caring for each other. We sometimes find ourselves ironically wishing for some sort of internet collapse so that economies could become localized and people could understand that humans will more likely help their neighbors than shoot them. We’ve been conditioned by decades of dystopian fiction and film. Most people I’ve met and dealt with in “the real world” are pretty decent once you get past the surface level differences. Systems create fear and anger. Basic human interaction often creates empathy.
Hi Paul,
Was just finishing a mini YouTube essay-comment about Japan you might appreciate. Will be back here in about 10 minutes to post the link and comment.
Cheers from a blistering hot Tokyo (though a bit cooler now that it's past midnight).
steve
We're deceived into believing there's really such a thing as the "lesser of evils."
What is Tucker Carlson then if not effectively the "lesser of evils." The logic or illogic of your statement contradicts your defense of Carlson.
Carlson is not running for office, numbskull. Nor do I defend ALL of Tucker Carlson's opinions. I think he's worth listening to and that it's stupid to hate him and try to discourage people from listening to him. I simply am not a partisan Democrat (nor a partisan Republican). Is that a bad thing?
Repocrats & Demopublicans...two heads...one body.
You're not only not discouraging people from listening to Carlson you are encouraging them to listen to him. You are encouraging people to be manipulated by him considering he clearly has an agenda. You are an influencer, that is obvious and you dodge and weave like the most malevolent of politicians.
I rarely mention Tucker Carlson except in response to gratuitous attacks on him, such as Caitlin has occasionally made. She does not attack Rachel Maddow or Cenk Uyghar like she does Tucker Carlson. I wish she would call out Democrats as well as Republicans like Jimmy Dore does. Even Marjorie Taylor Green calls out Mitch McConnell. If everybody swept their own porch, the neighborhood would be clean.
No one from her audience is promoting Rachel or Cenk, but plenty promote Carlson as some sort of benign alternative.
Now you're showing you delusional mental health crisis. I've never seen any of her audience promoting Tucker, Cenk or for that matter Rachel. Even I don't regularly promote him; I only dispute Caitlin's gratuitous attacks, so she has no basis for going after him other than she hates his guts. I confess I once hated his guts as well, but I've outgrown that.
It's true, there is simply too much listening going on and not nearly enough doing. Keep on listening Mr. Influencer. I'm tuned out.
Thanks for making clear your own divisiveness.
Kinda like the best turd of the bunch?
For whatever reason they think they must get that turd. Doesn't occur to them they could do without.
Well, at least in America one still gets to choose between turds that have been preselected for the "voting" public. In Russia, for example, there is no fake choice of turds. You get whatever turd has murdered its way to the top turd position.
Up that laxative, bubba. Take triple, duderino.
Nah
LBJ laughing over folks believing Tonkin Gulf. Debbie Wasserman Schultz sneering under oath, that DNC™ LLC only exists to fulfill contractual obligations to CRUSH anything remotely Democratic or "our" party bragging about killing twice as many "essentials" as Trump, while fabricating a war to save their imbecile fracking Ponzi Scam... It's ALL we've ever watched US petit-bourgois, white flight suburbanite & their souless yuppie spawn pontificate unremittingly, spew didactically TOTALLY buying-into exactly what they're told they believe by AT&T, Comcast, Fox, Disney, Bezos or Israel's NYT. Like COVID up-ticks, any resulting tsunamis o' death aren't reported and DENIAL has always been our pandemic!
Somehow the big idea is that this particular stage of human development is somewhat different from the previous ones and that there is no excuse for the people to not finally awake.
Wrong. The kind of engagement demanded is unrealistic for most people, by design. People dedicate themselves to other things necessarily and do not have capacity and/or ability to do this other thing. Hence they'll always be led by a few charlatans as has been the case for ages.
An amazing piece, thank you. For years I thought there was something wrong with me. I was never driven by consumerism, never wanted to keep up with the Jones's, never followed trends, never followed celebrities, and always made my own mind up about things and people. I would periodically question the struggle to make it or make ends meet but would always dismiss my intuition. I think I have always known subconsciously that something isn't right with a society. When family time is impacted by both parents working long hours, when society has to brag about having the latest this and that, when we have a celebrity culture that makes young women feel inadequate, when we have so much hate encouraged by the media and authorities in the name of 'inclusion', when the elderly are living on the worst pensions in developed nations, when the poorest in society in a developed nation have to use food banks, when people in economically less developed countries are still starving and some without sanitation despite the billions sent in foreign aid and despite the many hundreds of charitable organisations set up to help them, you know something is not right. It hit me hard when I realised all of this, but I'm glad I see things clearly now. Some say democracy is an illusion but it is a system that has been put in place. We must now work to legitimise it and safeguard ourselves from future tyranny. We are sovereign and free. The elites may have all the money in the world but we have the potential to tap into a force that is so much stronger, community and a heart full of love and empathy. We are the 99%. We now just need to wake people up.
I am requesting permission to quote you. Please.
This is why Tucker Carlson is so important to the cause. Yes, he is evil, but he's a lesser evil.
I was in middle school when 9/11 happened. Even at that age, I didn't understand the "they hated democracy" reasoning for 9/11. I remember as a kid, it was very common for adults to say the government lied about JFK's murder and question the official "paparazzi " narrative of Princess Diana's death.
So as a young kid, people who today would be moderates and Democrats commonly made jokes about "the Kennedy curse" and all kinds of stories about Vietnam.
I think there was more awareness in the public space that the government was primarily lying crooks.
I thought Iraq and Afghanistan would've been more of a wake-up call for millennials. That was a bipartisan hoax and now the name "Patriot Act" makes a lot more sense after J6.
The reality is I don't think many Americans trust the government but a portion of Americans just want to be "good citizens." So even if they know the government is lying or corrupt, they go along because it reduces their suffering and ensures their material comfort.
Human beings have been subjected to and used lies since the beginning of time. Deception, the most common lie is part of survival in a cruel world and developing that skill whether obtaining a mate or a new car has proven indispensable. Coupled with our capacity for denial, also indispensable, the two are woven into the fabric of relationships at every level. Let’s face it too many people throughout history were and now are incapable of recognizing or accepting their being taken advantage of by people who are adept at manipulation for their own self interest. You are correct we must pool our resources by stressing our common Americanism regardless of viewpoint or background. Trump represents a rude and unpredictable ego maniac with a mastery of self promotion while Brandon represents a polite yet slimy snake oil investor., they are both full of shit. Our government and all governments must be feared since they have pooled their resources and will lie, cheat and kill to maintain their power.
****Human beings have been subjected to and used lies since the beginning of time.****
What does this even mean? What is the beginning of time? Do you mean pre-civilization humans were also a bunch of liars? If so, where is your proof? Is there something in the archaeological record that proves pre-civilizational humans were living in a Truman Show of their own making?
Let’s not get technical and allow nuance it’s place. Yes deception is a fundamental human and animal trait key to survival. Maybe I was referring to the invention of the clock.
Call it government, financial capitalism, call it oligarchy or whatever you want it’s simply the application of domination through the use of power. Your admiration for China seems to accept the states unrestricted use of violence to achieve a collective objective. All governments should be feared and it’s the apathy and ignorance of the majority that emboldens those who would dominate them. I would rather be sick than rely on a government to provide and dominate my access to a doctor.
It's time to pull the curtain down on this charade. It's time to wake up our fellow cast members to the play we've been forced to perform. It's time... What's holding us back? Fear? Doubt? Confusion? Let's step off-stage together and those things will go away as we go on our ways.
Yes! Come January 6th 2023 and every January 6th thereafter, let's storm the Capitol building and defecate and urinate on Nancy Pelosi's desk. This is a public service address from the DOJ and more specifically the FBI and the Capitol Police. Come on down!!!
Maybe we don't ever walk off the stage we call the world as though it's tangible real estate, as if it's actual physical topography, but instead, wake ourselves up and recognize it as a reflective surface where ideas appear, as a reflection we call the world.
Maybe we don't ever leave the world because it's not a place, but is instead is the surface reflection of ideas in mind.
Maybe we address the deception we find here from a place of individual responsibility for the area of the field at large where our local signal arrives, the place we notice it arriving as what we think of as our thoughts.
Before being able to effect a shift or wobble in the collective signal that informs the global cultural mind, maybe we should familiarize ourselves with causing a ripple at our own access point, our private IP address and internal antenna settings.
I don't think we ever wake up and leave, but maybe instead we wake up and gain bandwidth by furthering our listening out to a previously unheard of and unknown horizon while simultaneously dropping further into the depths of our own heart.
There’s an open-mike night happening beyond the sounds of babel that world culture has on offer now, a place where someone can strike a clear bell tone that penetrates our current shared cultural mind like an earthquake, shaking the very ground of it and toppling what were once thought of as well built structures of deception, a quaking strong enough to wreak havoc on the very foundations of the lie from which all iterations of it are derived.
The trick might be to stay put once awake and quietly build a listening path to that universal microphone from which whatever's uttered is heard by all regardless of their comprehension or understanding. You can sound a clean tone there that bypasses the language center and and all its chaos, a pure clear heart tone that doesn't require any system of comprehension to effectively wobble the signal attachment of the temporarily deceived.
Maybe there's even a way to listen carefully and record the actual heart tones of a single beautiful mind and set them free to be amplified at the big microphone out there on the distant horizon that’s connected to the center of the universe where it exists in your own heart and set it free there for all to hear.
If some day soon you hear something that sounds like soft birdsong slowly building into a universe-spanning hurricane of vibrational music that remakes DNA in its passing, be unafraid as your vision blurs and the whole world wobbles. When you come to your senses and realize you can see auras and smell lies and taste deciect as easily as you used to be able to tell mint from cinnamon be at ease because you've been upgraded courtesy of a tone worthy of being shared into the heart of the matter, one that shifts the surface reflection of an idea in mind that appears to you as what you call the world you see.
If you learn to be still and listen, you'll hear the soft beginnings of a distant symphony of such tones that has already begun and is making its way inward to the center of the univese which has always been at home at the still point inside of you. Surrender as it approaches in awareness, relax and let it in.
What is the magic event that will open their eyes? What are the magic words that will allow them to see the real world?
I spent some time with out-of-state relatives these past 2 weeks. They have almost no knowledge of world events, and limited knowledge of national events. They never watch media, and they never real about events that don't impact them direct.y. They have their own problems to worry about, and those problems consume their waking lives. In one sense, theirs is an enviable existence, unclouded by useless information that, on balance, would serve only to make them more worried and more anxious than they already are. But, as we who are here know, that kind of ignorance will likely leave them more than bewildered if/when the tragic events that are planned for us come into their lives. We here may be mentally and physically prepared, as best we can be, but those whose heads are in the sand will be hurt the most, and will suffer greater tragedies than we will.
Swallowing the products of the mass media would certainly make me "more worried and more anxious". I recommend getting better drugs.
So do I. But, as they say, you can lead a horse to water, but . . .
Two books that helps start looking at 'reality' in a different way:
• Mysticism and the New Physics, by Michael Talbot
• The Tao of Physics, by Fritjof Capra
or
Listen/watch:
Michael Talbot - Synchronicity & the Holographic Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vieGf2giQA
Fritjof Capra - Mind, Matter, and Life: Fritjof Capra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFERd65UCh8
Then we can discuss a way out of the 'lie'.
I love Caitlin's work.
I am also reading this book:
In The Great Reset: And the War for the World, the most controversial man on earth Alex Jones gives you a full analysis of The Great Reset, the global elite's international conspiracy to enslave humanity and all life on the planet.
If you really want to know what’s happening in the world, this is the one book you must read now. Alex Jones is the most censored man on the planet and you should ask yourself why that is. There is a powerful authoritarian takeover in process that is seeking to capture the entire human system and turn it into an artificial factory farm controlled system. We are in a war for the future of the world. In this book, you will hear from the world’s elites, from their own mouths, what they are planning for you and your families and you will learn what you can do to fight it.
From central bankers, corporate billionaires, and corrupted government officials, global elites have been organizing a historic war on humanity under a trans-humanist, scientific dictatorship. Alex Jones was the first major figure to expose the World Economic Forum’s agenda. He has dedicated the last 30 years of his life to studying The Great Reset, conducting tens of thousands of interviews with top-level scientists, politicians, and military officials in order to reverse engineer their secrets and help awaken humanity.
The Great Reset: And the War for the World chronicles the history of the global elites' rise to power and reveals how they’ve captured the governments of the world and financed The Great Reset to pave the way for The New World Order.
Once dubbed a conspiracy theory, but now openly promoted by the most powerful corporations and governments, The Great Reset is a planned attempt to redistribute all the world’s wealth and power into the hands of banks, corporations, billionaires, and The World Economic Forum.
If you read one book in a lifetime, this is it. In The Great Reset: And the War for the World, you will discover from the self-appointed controllers of the planet in their own words, their plan for what they call the final revolution, or The Great Reset.
The only way this corporate fascist conspiracy can succeed is if the people of the world are not aware of it. And this book lays out their sinister blueprint and how to stop it. While many great books have been written to help awaken people to this sinister agenda, no author has ever spent as much time and research on The Great Reset as Alex Jones.
The Great Reset: And the War for the World is the undisputed trailblazer for understanding what’s happening and how to stop it.
Shut up, doofus. More FBI trash.