Hi ATS,
This is the first thread I've worked on in quite some time - I'd perhaps lost my way somewhat, though, much as with the paradox of the thread title,
in a strange way I'd perhaps been on the road to a deeper sense of security in my apprehension of the world around us. Two, nay three fundamental
issues had placed my worldview - once so secure, trustworthy & dependable - now on rocky ground, teetering over the brink of a chasm, causing severe
ACROPHOBIA (n. /ˌakrəˈfəʊbɪə/ = extreme or irrational fear of heights..)
The two issues of greatest concern had been the Mandela Effect Chronicles & the Flat Earth Movement. The third, which caused me to flounder less
significantly, was the Simulation Theory - which, as you will know (if you are a card-carrying conspiracy theorist), came into wider prominence a
couple of years prior to the ascendant populism of the other two.
You could say that the Simulation Theory, and specifically the work of Dr James S. Gates (professor of physics at the University of Maryland) sowed
the seed years in advance of the flowering of the Mandela Effect Chronicles & the Flat Earth Movement. The Simulation Theory grew naturally for many
years, especially following the Matrix series, and the growth of the nascent internet connectivity that gave us YouTube & social media, the tools for
sharing information widely (even if much of that information is crudely errant in many regards). The fact is, that through the sharing of a vast
wealth of pseudo-scientific material, armchair conspiracy theorists like myself became aware of the more scientific studies, experiments & data,
theories & peer reviewed articles of one sort or another, all of this being the fertiliser which triggered the growth of a mutant strain of
rhodedendron in our back garden/yard.. Once we had played in the shade of these beloved plants through our childhood years, ducking away from the
summer heat, the growth of the shrub being woody & sturdy enough to clamber upon, perfect child-sized 'dens' of nature - they are a wonderful analogy
for the sturdy & beautiful, innocent folklore of belief in the solidity, beauty & dependability of nature, a perfect fit for our purposes, with not a
trace of cynicism or sinister tidings.. Now, the mutant strain of the Simulation Theory had pulled back the curtain, so it seemed, showing up our
innocent & childlike belief in the surety of nature's 'naturalness', making us doubt the fabric of reality, making us doubt the 'goodness' of the
physical universe.
With that sudden ripping away of the comfort & trust we had in our world, we became vulnerable to the dark occult assault upon our minds - which the
dark god had prepared for us, many a year ago, and was around halfway through at the time the Simulation Theory went 'mainstream' in the conspiracy
world. We saw evermore reasons not to trust - not only the dark illuminati which dance in the shadows & grey areas of our political & financial
establishments, but even in the soil of the Earth & the clouds in the sky.. We saw that all around us people were spinning fabrications of terror,
war & deceit, false flags & high strangeness, media manipulation & graphic satanism on our screens, with the Walking Dead ensuring that within a span
of ten years, we all would become totally desensitised to the prospect of visceral destruction of all parts of the living human form, from head to
toe, and the halfway horror of every part in between. From never having seen a human skull crushed in realistic detail - not even once before, in all
of the films & TV ever seen* - we were now accustomed to seeing it happening in brutal realism, even several times in one sitting. In ten years only,
we went from having never witnessed realistic torture of the human body & mind on our screens, again, to witnessing it in all the terror & darkness
that it can exert upon a living soul, several times in a day or week if we so choose, having been gradually become desensitised, thanks to Hostel, and
24, and especially the Saw trilogy (which of course, was then expanded to several more spinoffs & imitations). At the same time, we were made
painfully aware that within all of us rests the potential for brute evil, with the success of American Horror Story, Game of Thrones & even Westworld,
more recently.
* Except in crappy B-Movies, with all the realism of a child playing with plasticene models..
Now I'm not saying that Game of Thrones or Westworld were created by people who intended an evil effect upon the world - but they couldn't have been
made twenty years ago, partly due to the effects required, yes - but also due to the fact that a less acclimated audience would have balked at the
callous disregard for morals & the sophisticated bloodlust on display.
In tandem with this acclimatisation to visceral horror & the terror of sophisticated sadism, we began to see a blatant disregard for the will of the
people in supposedly democratic nations the world over. The Clinton saga shows just how far these dynasties are now willing & able to push the
envelope, without ANY meaningful blowback. No knock warrants, TSA violations of personhood, and Martial Law drills in the aftermath of terror (or with
strange frequency, at the very same time the terror events are actually unfolding), have demonstrated that we the people are no longer regarded as
worthy of a hearing, or of the dignity of common decency, with stories of disabled people being thrown out of their wheelchair, strip searched & left
on the floor for an hour, with nobody batting an eye. That story is concocted - but the point is, it would no longer surprise us if that happened.
And almost none of us would bother to want to do anything about it, let alone actually organise ourselves to protest in person to our political
'leaders' (figureheads).
And so, with the dark assault already well underway when we first heard of Simulation Theory as having been
evidenced by the work of Dr
James S. Gates (after many years of pop-pseudo science sources of 'received wisdom' claiming the Matrix was based on a true story) - we suddenly found
that not only is the world going to Hell in a handbasket - but
it might not actually be a real world after all. And suddenly, just like
that, a switch was flipped in the minds of millions.. "If it ain't real, why bother with [....morality, kindness, love, care for the downtrodden,
care for the sick, charitable drives, ecological protections, saving for the next generation, decency & temerity in our business relationships, etc,
etc..].."
Let's move it up a gear.. The knowledge of Simulation Theory having been validated flipped the switch that released the formerly restrained moral
drive to stay above the level of brutalised men, allowing even the cowards to mentally indulge in the sadistic glories that were then unfolding on the
TV & movie screens all around them. It was a perfectly worked play: Set off the brutality proper around the time that you know the artists will cry
out in defence of its beauty, at the very moment the quantum theorists are about to discover what YOU knew was always there beneath the subsurface
layer of Reality, at the Planck scale, the reality that Reality is not true REALITY in its most infinite form.. People will stop caring, and start
revelling - and they did! A devious & intricately conceived play, from perhaps the world's foremost playmaker..
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