Why we might now need to disconnect…
There’s a funny video circulating around the internet of the Trump/ Zelenskyy meeting in the Whitehouse except it has been manipulated with AI and Zelenskyy punches Trump in the face. We laugh, of course. It relieves the tension from what was the second most disturbing news footage I’ve seen this year so far. The most disturbing one was the footage of Musk hanging around the oval office directing the media, with his kid on his shoulders like he was waiting in line for a ride at Disney. If there was ever a more chilling image sent to the world, this is it. America can be bought. Musk was parading around like a tourist who’d bought the most expensive VIP ticket ever. He literally bought the presidency. America sold out, Tesla’s stock price doubled over night…and he now has your tax dollars.
If there was a blueprint for taking over the world, it would start with controlling the media. You use it to convince the world that the existing world order is corrupt and evil and then you insert a new power to control the population.. and erase those that don’t comply. We’ve been here before, Germany in 1933. The next stage of the game is to ban protest..
But it gets worse. By the end of the decade AI will be so sophisticated that you won’t be able to tell anymore what is real and what isn’t. The funny ‘Zelenskyy punch’ video won’t be funny any more because it no longer provides an alternative humourous version of something we know DID happen. At this point we stop laughing because we think it’s real. It will be possible to manufacture any situation to be 100% convincing. The only evidence we will then have to go on is trusting the source… either enough first hand account or enough faith in whatever media outlet is broadcasting the information to believe it’s true.
There is little faith already in either, and we are also seeing an increased resistance from many people to accept established facts preferring to rely on their own belief systems.
So, what to do?… Plenty are fighting online and we’ve seen Tesla’s stock price fall like a stone since its massive hike, due to falling sales, a protest toward its sociopathic founder. I think it’s important that people write and share their views, as I am doing here. But maybe an equally valid response is to do nothing…Intransigence might just get us out of this mess, ignoring it all might do too. As a prisoner to the regime, your only weapon is old fashioned resistance and the fact they can’t take your mind.
‘The Orphan Epoch’ was an album title that was rattling around my brain for some time way before these current events. I pictured my own adult children bewildered by the media and I came up with this idea of a disaffected youth in stereotypical raised hoodie, an indifferent expression and hidden eyes, walking through a vapid landscape. They had chosen, to walk alone, to refuse to accept binary choice, to ignore the narrative and define their own reality.