For discussion sake, let’s say there is a perceptible world about us. It has many features, some organic and some man made, ranging from the immediate first hand stuff to stuff that is separate by degree (things we’ve learned and heard about). It’s all in this spectacle of what might be called reality. Some things happen, some things are, and events of the spectacle stream through, what is commonly referred to as, time. At any point in life, an existential amalgam founds points from which all this is perceived, as well as, considered. All points of view change and the reconsideration of things is always taking place in a type of existential flux. It turns out that the reality being perceived is a function of those involved with it. Control the perceiver and reality is under control. The magnitude of this math is immense.
For eons there have been manipulators in the midst of the living here in the realm of earth. There is always, it seems, those that want more than their fair share. A classic means of securing this indulgence is to manipulate situations. Species, including human, may live, and have lived, in a preeminently harmonious balance with nature, but there are agents, and agencies, within those species that are animated by an end justifies the means spirit that is self serving, and can be vicious. It’s a good question as to whether or not human beings are actually capable of the brutal acts of inhumanity that are so casually described in the history books, and news, however, most of the characters that show up in pictures, films, and reports of stuff like medicine, politics, religion, and war, appear to be humans. Either way, there is dynamic control programming and manipulation that’s hard to miss. Control agents have no shame; zero. Minus zero if that’s possible. The nearly irreconcilable incoherence for the descriptions, explanations, instructions, and orders that are provided through legislation, news reports, and official doctrine is breath taking. It serves, however, as an intense series of examples of how effective the control of perception can be with controlling what seems to be real. War stories are rife with examples of this.
If it were possible to parachute in on any time in human history, war and conflict among people would be happening somewhere. Perhaps there is a progression of war intensity in human history. That’s a subject for another time. Right now, the galactic level collective mind manipulation overhaul event of September 11, 2001 will serve as a case in point. As the imperialistic disaster of invasion unfolded after 9-11, there was a catch phrase hit the lexicon; Support the Troops. This cheap attempt divert attention away from the agents that were ordering the tragic advance of ‘the troops’ to the fate of these same soldiers with yellow ribbon stickers and magnets that were FOR SALE at every dollar store and convenience mart all over the U.S.A. was happening at the same time these same troops were given depleted uranium ammunition to use during the battles of the occupation in Iraq. The troops themselves were exposed to the radioactive contamination that the ammo produced. So, exactly what kind of support are we talking about? Of course it doesn’t stop here. Pat Tillman is regarded as nothing short of a national hero. There’s no encouragement to drill into the story of his demise though. Tillman responded to the call of his conscience. He basically retires from the NFL to join the army. After deployment he recognizes the discrepancy between why he’s there, and what is actually happening. His inability to reconcile this difference is now affecting that same conscience to blow the whistle. Next thing you know, he’s killed by ‘friendly fire’. The super sketchy reports about the incident that left him dead won’t quit. There’s just as much reason to believe that Tillman was assassinated as not. Either way it was not so friendly ‘friendly fire’. This guy played football in Arizona. What happens the next time the Super Bowl is played there? By the way, Tillman’s image is memorialized in a bronze statue right at the stadium. The broadcast of the game uses a tribute video of the vanquished hero to further promote the nobility of the ‘defense of freedom’. This is strong story of twist, propaganda, and mind bending control. Thinking this through is a metaphysical proposition.
Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man has never seemed so poignant. “You know something is happening, but you don’t know what it is…” Thanks to generations of manipulation, by graduated agents of domination and control, what’s apparently real in the world is un-critically allowed to swirl as incoherent chaos. Many are walking around with the idea that humanity is the pinnacle of evolution while the environment all around caves in. Report after report after report comes in describing post peak resource necessities from pollution free power alternatives, to clean water shortage, and societal and environmental instability everywhere. The message has been out there for a while now that artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence. (Seems like kind of a low bar in ways.) Yet, with all the conservation rhetoric regarding shrinking resources, what is the AI case? Not only does AI’s mainframe demand more power than most any other existing systems, AI has more power demands than can be provided. It doesn’t require a brain surgeon to see that an artificial system conjuring up a detailed virtual reality is a grand perception manipulation/reality device. A bit of potential advice; stop, step back, try to clear the sense, and take another look.
You raise up your head and you ask, “Is this where it is?” / And somebody points to you and says, “It’s his” / And you say, “What’s mine?” and somebody else says, “Well, what is?” / And you say, “Oh my God, am I here all alone?” / But you know something is happening and you don’t know what it is / Do you Mr. Jones?
-Bob Dylan Ballad of a Thin Man