In The Truman Show movie - in which “The Truman Show” is the name of a television series - ads for the show include the line “How’s it going to end?” This referenced the decades long run potentially coming to an end as the star - Truman - began catching on.
Many people - myself included - have been referencing the movie a lot lately because, it turns out it’s a pretty accurate depiction of our world.
Watching Truman come to the difficult realization that his life was founded on lies, and nearly everyone he trusted was in on it, (notable exception being the girl he loved) was fascinating for the viewer. Unbeknownst to us at the time, (filmed in 1998) it was also a glimpse into what we too would be experiencing in the not-too-distant future. (Now, our present.)
Everything about the world Truman lived in was fake, except of course, Truman. Discovering the fraud, naturally created a crises of both identity and in his sense of reality. (They are inextricably linked, of course.)
As we come to terms with being conned, manipulated, poisoned, and oh yeah, murdered, we are facing a collective identity crises as well. What does it mean to be an “American” when the leadership of America is “in on it?”
Many nausea-inducing questions arise when a version of reality is no longer holding because it’s being been seen through. Add to that, the “coming-to-terms-with” process tends to include “Denial” as its dance partner, so it’s anything but straight forward steps.
Like Truman, many of us are experiencing profound loss though may not have words for it. There is so much betrayal, cognitive dissonance, confusion and sadness that goes along with finding out that what you thought you knew, or trusted, is no longer the case and… well, words are going to fail. It’s a herculean task to understand where we are, let alone try to communicate cogently with each other. (How fluent are you in absurd?)
Unlike Truman, we have the great advantage of going through this transformation, together. So however awkward, attempts at communicating are essential.
With so many bubbles bursting at once, (I don’t have it me to list them) it’s hard to see where we are in any given moment. When we focus on just one, (the virus for example) it inevitably leads to another (the bio-weapon-virus) and then another (the patents and players behind it) and soon the realization (eugenics agenda) creeps in.
And that’s just one rabbit-hole.
Shall we do the financial slave-system next? Or perhaps our questionable, ever-disappearing history? Or the indoctrination program we call education? Did America ever really separate from Britain; does our system of justice serve citizens of the united states or the corporate slaves under The United States, Inc.; were Nazis actually brought here post WWII to embed into our government…and so on. (Damn, I said I wasn’t going to list anything.)
It’s all coming down anyway.
Eventually it will hit us - maybe not all of us - that we’re in a mammoth-sized slide as a civilization.
Attempting to grasp onto something (hoping it will slow the pace of the collapse) is understandable. I vote for chocolate and red wine.
For others, the attempt to slowdown the quickly dissolving world is a new scientific study that delves into microscopically small elements and cellular mitochondria-like tiny particles that... (shoot me, please.) I get it though, the desire to dig into something that can be understood must feel like a relief.
For others, it’s more big picture dot-connecting. (These days, no matter how big the frame gets, still feels that we’re missing something.) Clif High, David Icke come to mind.
For many, old paradigms continue to beckon. Familiar references (right VS left, Republicans VS Democrats, dumb VS dumber) that once made sense of the world are appealing. Returning again and again to worn-out constructs in an attempt to remake reality using out-dated means and methods. I do it too. I fall back into pointless patterns and references that no longer explain our world. Also understandable. Life itself becomes a habit and habits are hard to break.
It’s as if we’re all trying to find steady ground while the earthquake is still upending everything around us.
Perhaps one of the last things we come to terms with in the process of waking up out of this Reality-Show-World-of-Perpetually-Manufactured-Crises, is that our very real and very human emotions have been targeted and manipulated too.
In fact that was central to pulling it off. Things we care deeply about are exactly what the hidden controllers hone in on and hijack to advance their agendas. (You don’t want to kill granny, do you?) When we make decisions based on heart-felt genuine emotions, reason is not easily going to sway us. We’ve committed to the truth of our emotional experience. And highly emotional experiences are very persuasive.
For Americans, until recently, (when “they” introduced the narrative-reversal) being a good citizen meant buying into the American Dream™️. That dream encapsulated many myths that had to be swallowed as truths, along with a plethora of images about freedom and exceptionalism, absorbed as uniquely “American.” This was effective to the degree it moved people emotionally. We had to buy into the dream and see ourselves as part of it.
For decades Americans were told they were special, the envy of other nations, were spreading democracy throughout the world, a bright shining light on the hill and our people were generous, ingenious, fortified with gumption and really good at rolling up sleeves and pulling up boot-straps.
We were told what was important; (playing by the rules) the qualities we should cultivate; (hard work, achievement via higher education) the worthy goals to pursue; (climb the ladder, buy a house, save for retirement). All these were provided to us. Not surprisingly many of us followed suit with genuine intentions to be those good, hard-working rule-following upstanding citizens (who didn’t forget to vote).
We didn’t realize these directives were designed by forces in the background as narratives to entrance, induce and lure us in. Traps in the end, and methods of control and enslavement that would be used against us.
Snap.
The thing is, many of those manipulated desires are fully natural: wanting to be a good citizen and an asset to one’s community is a fine impulse, as is the desire to live free from financial worry. Education and bettering oneself - admirable. Feelings of pride and patriotism are genuine and sincere because the person feeling them is genuine and sincere.
What we didn’t know and couldn’t see were those behind-the-curtain; the dastards who took those pure impulses, merged them a with long-term marketing plan and aligned them with systems to bog us down in debt and perpetually siphon off increasing portions of our efforts and earnings, all while telling us our daily struggle was a sign of getting ahead and the price of success.
That is some impressive marketing.
Here comes my pivot:
Despite the difficulties of shedding all these lies, there is an amazing opportunity presented to us now. And this isn’t a pollyanna-ish twist; there is always good in the bad; always a gift in the challenge. Always.
The thing is we have to claim it and we can’t claim it if enough of us don’t see through the false reality. We don’t have to have all the details right either, we just have to get the larger illusion and stop feeding it. The only way out is through.
Denial is not an option (nor a long-term dance partner). Eventually coming to terms with what’s happened must lead us forward.
The American Dream™️ they sold us is a lie. That’s true. Still, very many real people ran with it and did amazing things. Because they weren’t a lie. Americans are very capable and good, and giving and hard-working - among other things. (As I’m sure is the case for the rest of the world’s people.)
We’ve also been very gullible and complacent. We handed over the reigns a long time ago. We have to own all of that too.
Absent the sinister and shadowy forces we’ve all been burdened with in our version of The Truman Show, what we do know and can place our trust in, is each other. We are quite real and able. Often, impressive.
When you consider what we’ve accomplished under attack, just imagine what humans could do - once they’ve been ditched - and we’re living free. And wouldn’t it be grand to get those hidden-controller monkeys off our backs once and for all?
They work very hard to keep us in line and under their control and guess what - even with the majority of institutions captured and a mega-megaphone from media blasting out their fear-mongering propaganda 24/7 - we’re figuring it out anyway.
Turns out, once they catch on, it’s really hard to keep humans down.
This is not a story, in the end, about how powerful this hidden force is. That’s the story they would write. This is a story about overcoming a powerful, hidden force.
This is now our story. We’re taking back the reigns. We already know way too much. I’m not suggesting they’re done - I am suggesting we reorient our roles in this story and assert ourselves as the heroes rather than the victims.
And right now, as in this moment, we’re writing the ending, even if we don’t realize it. There is still much to decide. (We’ve already got a seriously good plot, a formidable enemy and tons of obstacles to overcome.)
As we write the ending of this very long story together, The Truman Show can be helpful. Because it wasn’t merely a “heads up” about what’s coming down the pike. It was also a story of hope and of freedom. Of overcoming and persevering.
Truman faces his fear, finds his courage and ultimately walks off the set and is reunited with the girl of his dreams - the only one who tried to tell him the truth. Once he faced it - all the lies and all his fears - it wasn’t hard. The way forward became clear.
And there was no one there to stop him.
Will we free the planet and save humanity? Will we be our own heroes?
How’s it going to end?
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OMG that was just superb. You've articulated so much that I've only vaguely fumbled towards; and you've connected it all beautifully. Upgrading to paid.
Yes, I'd say we're all getting pretty "fluent in absurd." Never expected or wanted to haha.
Can't tell you how much I recognize what you're saying here:
"For others, it’s more big picture dot-connecting. (These days, no matter how big the frame gets, still feels that we’re missing something.)"
No matter how big the frame gets....exactly. I go back to words uttered many times in the years leading up to all this by a certain controversial letter of the alphabet: the picture is "bigger than you can possibly imagine."
This too:
"This is a story about overcoming a powerful, hidden force.This is now our story. We’re taking back the reigns. We already know way too much. I’m not suggesting they’re done - I am suggesting we reorient our roles in this story and assert ourselves as the heroes rather than the victims."
This is why I am increasingly wary of the "heroes" who are pointing to each other and are being held up as the "leaders" in the anti-nwo/vax/reset movement, such as it is.
We don't need more heroes. We don't need to replace the old role models with new ones. We need to be the answer ourselves.
“Will we free the planet and save humanity? Will we be our own heroes?”
Yes and yes. Thank you for starting my day off on a positive note. God bless you Kathleen 😘❤️