How Do You Explain Reality to a Newbie?

There's a lot to catch up on

Team Reality (or as I like to call it, the Army of Life) has a problem. Reality has become so insane that telling the truth sounds crazy. I had two experiences recently that made this clear to me.

The Conversation

A few days ago, I got into a text-conversation with two very intelligent guys that I’ve known since we were kids. We don’t get together that often, but when we do, we can speak freely because we have 30+ year of shit-talking under our belts. One of these guys is a libertarian, but doesn’t pay much attention to culture. The other is more of a left-leaning centrist.

As the conversation progressed, I realized there was almost no way for me to talk about anything that’s happening in the world right now without bringing up the bug-eating, currency-programming, social-credit-establishing, censoring, propagandizing, COVID-frauding, deathvaxxing, election-rigging, media-controlling, gender-destroying, debt-ridden, warmongering, biomedical/NGO/ruling class movement that seems to be the driving force behind virtually every current policy.

As I tried to tell these guys about the WEF’s Great Reset and the FII’s “New Global Order” conference (if you aren’t familiar with that, here’s a brief summary I wrote), and about how COVID policies paved the way for technocratic rule in the name of climate change, I realized that it must all sound like the ravings of a lunatic.

Satirical Twitter

Two days ago, when Elon Musk liberated Twitter (at least temporarily), there was an outpouring of people proclaiming all sorts of things that had been suppressed for the last few years. Then, there was the account of “Dr. Claire Foster PhD,” who does such an excellent job of satirizing the Army of Death that most people think her crazy posts are sincere. She took the opposite approach, and pretended that a free Twitter would mean that HER truth would now be lost.

While Dr. Foster’s tweet was humorous, it illustrates the way mainstream discourse has been utterly separated from reality. Some people believe all these things, and many people never thought to question them.

It’s worth noting that Dr. Foster’s reverse-psychology occasionally breaks the spell with incredible power. Her pinned tweet, “Not a single person regrets taking the covid vaccine,” has over 16,000 comments, many of which are from regular people sharing horror stories of the way they were personally harmed by the shots.

So, where do we start?

I’ve seen a lot of dismissive comments from self-identified members of Team Reality along the lines of, “if the sheeple haven’t been paying attention, they’re getting what they deserve.” I strongly disagree. In fact, I strongly dislike the term “sheep” or “sheeple.” I prefer “the Lost.”

According to behavioral psychology, there are six fundamental tactics of persuasion: reciprocation, consistency, social validation, liking, authority, and scarcity. I’ve written previously about how these were used to promote the COVID shots, and why they were so effective. But, as Dr. Foster’s tweet makes clear, we aren’t dealing with a one-time marketing campaign; we’re dealing with a deliberate and sophisticated distortion of our entire culture.

The image at the top of this post is from the scene in “The Matrix” where Morpheus shows Neo a video to explain how his entire existence was a lie. Neo had trouble accepting it, but since he’d already been physically removed from the Matrix, he didn’t have much choice. (Also, Morpheus used all six tactics of persuasion, but that’s a topic for another post.)

Unfortunately, the Lost are still “plugged in,” and showing them information doesn’t do much. I’ve tried showing Ed Dowd’s excess-mortality charts to people, and they just ignore it. From a psychological standpoint, this makes perfect sense: cognitive dissonance is stressful, so anything that creates cognitive dissonance is simply dismissed, in order to avoid the stress.

But, not only is it immoral to leave the Lost to suffer, there aren’t enough of us to survive without them. If you’re still reading this, you are almost certainly a member of the Army of Life. Each of us has a way to stand up to the Army of Death and its propaganda. Dr. Foster uses satire. Others use charisma, leadership ability, communication skills, and a myriad of other talents.

I will be giving serious thought to how I can help the Lost open their eyes. I urge you to do the same. You may not realize this, but you have an innate set of abilities - your nature - that uniquely position you to have a positive impact on this world. Dig deep within yourself. Identify your nature (I describe a meditation-only approach here). And think about how you can use it to build the Army of Life. The Matrix isn’t a movie anymore. The fate of the world really does rest in the balance.