The Long Con
my own theory is that the military industrial complex used the 80s as the incubator decade for what we're now living. regan/thatcher - king/queen. trashy media, music videos, action films, cartoons and computer games were used to desensitize us against all kinds of horrors. even mario is about killing when you think about it. with exposure to that 80s style of genetically modified, carefully curated aesthetic acting like drugs on the eyes of kids, they programmed us to think nothing of killing. and essentially be turned on by it. no doubt the taste for blood lies deep within us and goes back before history began. they know this and exploited it, sensationalized it and made it into mindless fun.
it's on record that the CIA had influential authors like hemingway on their payroll - using them as propaganda agents. and that's just the basic level. knowing that these are the types of things they get up to, and that'sjust the literary world, you begin to realize that if they wanted, they could basically tend the strings of reality whichever way they chose. and maybe everything we look back at with dewey eyed nostalgia about our childhoods now, could have been a control construct designed to covertly shape us into whatever form they chose at an age where we would have no chance of percieving, let alone defending ourselves against it.
there's a book i don't remember the name of written about running colonies in s.e asia from back in the day. one thing that stuck out in it basically said it takes 2 generations of control to make a people forget who they are. their names, their language, their culture can all be wiped away. 2 generations. it listed the methods which resembled the brainwashing techniques of the military and cults. all pretty standard manipulation stuff, and all totally usable on a mass scale. rearranging language was a big part of it. creating a sense of subtle unrest by rearranging words in a way that is lingually recognisable/understandable, but unsettling. not unlike gaslighting.
what i'm getting at is that i believe there's been seeds of ideological subversion/demoralization sown into the our reality which have shaped us into a people who no longer believe in anything, and essentially feel hopeless. we're being mass managed on a global scale. and the things which used to give us a sense of connection like religion (not saying i want to go back) were slowly but surely dismantled to the point where we're left with little other than a sense of total detatchment from it all.
i'm struggling to get all the ideas together to make this coherent, but hopefully you get the point. i think the nudges and winks are partly crabs in the bucket and partly very well designed control techniques that don't allow us to reach our potential anymore. and yeah this is a gnat's chuff away from the 'hey let's all move to a big house in the country, drop acid and fuck' cult leader mentality. but it feels real to me god damn it.
think i posted this in the dematerialization thread: