In looking back over what could conceivably turn out to be both the best and the worst year I have experienced in the past four decades of my life, I can only express what happened in 2020 (and continuing into 2021) as something straight out of the Matrix.
If you have seen the Matrix then you know that it depicts a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly trapped inside a simulated reality, the Matrix, which Artificial Intelligence machines have created to distract humans from the truth of their existence.
The protagonist of the story, Neo, is told by Morpheus (the leader of the underground freedom fighters) that he has actually been living in an illusion generated by a massive computer called the Matrix. The Matrix has enslaved all humanity without their knowledge, allowing them to live a convincing simulated life while AI machines grow and harvest people to use as an energy source. Eerie stuff, and I mean creepy eerie.
I probably would never have chosen to watch the Matrix movie on my own accord, but in the face of the incredible gaslighting from the mass media as of late, coupled with the declassification of information revealing illicit and clandestine US government black operations previously unknown to me, I decided I needed to understand what the term “red-pilling” actually meant.
As it turns out, after revealing the truth to Neo, Morpheus offers him the choice between a red pill or a blue pill. If he chooses the blue pill, he can simply go back to living in an artificial world and life returns to “normal”. But if he chooses the red pill, he will come to know things as they really are in the real world. By choosing the red pill, Morpheus explains, by crossing from unseeing to seeing, Neo could never be able to return to the false reality, regardless of how much more comfortable the delusion might seem.
One of the things we have witnessed in the year 2020 is that the most crucial function of a corrupt mass media is to provide cover for the deep state operations and to help engineer the outcome of a rigged election. Doing so maintains a thin veneer of legitimacy for the criminal ruling class.
Once a person has been “red-pilled,” awakened to the reality of the way things actually are, once you have seen the nakedness of the orthodox mass media “narrative” and the nature of the current Constitutional crisis, you can never “unsee” it.
In a lot of ways, this past year of my own awakening has been non-stop agony. Washington DC has declared war on the American people. Our society has been hijacked by forces of evil within the US government by organized crime cartels using media tools of deception to pacify and manipulate the public. The shocking level of criminality and corruption I have witnessed is global in scale, sickening in scope, and multi-generational in development.
Frankly, it has shaken me to my core. I have reeled under the horrific crimes committed and the resultant betrayal of trust inherent in these atrocities. I have looked perverse evil in the face and felt its terrible death grip. I have never been so aware of the vast darkness of the enmity, the raging hatred of God in the world, as I have been this year.
Either I have been utterly naive or living in an alternate reality like the Matrix.
I suspect that like myself many people have lived without the truth that the mass media is controlled, coordinated, and corrupt, essentially a “mafia media” being used to cover for the organized criminality by a longstanding gangster government. The main stream media uses gaslighting, propaganda, and mind control techniques to socially engineer public opinion. Never has that been more evident than in the covid-19 ruse where Anthony Fauci was foisted upon the American public as the “voice of the health expert.”
Have we forgotten that a free and independent press is meaningless if our press isn’t actually free from outside influence? Independence is critical because it ensures that we get unbiased information to make informed opinions. Otherwise, freedom of the press just gives others the freedom to control what we think and do.
And that’s what’s happening now.
In 1983, 50 companies dominated US media. By the 1990’s, that number had shrank to 9. In 2012, it was whittled down to 6 (as I referenced in the last blog post, called the Big 6). However, in 2019, after the $71.3 billion Disney/Fox merger, than number shriveled to 5.
Let that sink into your consciousness.
FIVE (5) media corporations give us most of the news and information we use to form opinions about people and events unfolding around us.
Do you understand the significance of this media concentration?
It means a handful of corporations influence the way we see our world. Hello, Matrix. We have a birds eye view of how effective the “media narrative” has been in shaping public thought and opinion by simply looking at how the covid narrative has been disseminated through the media, the “health experts” of government choice have been paraded into our living rooms night after night, the death tolls have scrolled endlessly across screens with the purpose of inciting paralyzing fear, through censorship of dissenting medical opinions and therapeutic treatments, all aimed at controlling the media narrative. Why? Because he who controls the narrative controls the people.
And then, there are the elites who own the media:
Billionaire Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post (he also owns 75% of Amazon, which recently acquired Whole Foods).
Billionaire Mortimer Zuckerman owns US News & World Report and The New York Daily News.
Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong owns the Los Angeles Times.
Billionaire Warren Buffet has a controlling interest in Berkshire Hathaway, which owns 70 daily newspapers in the US.
Billionaire Rupert Murdock has a controlling interest in News Corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.
Billionaire John Henry is the physical owner of the Boston Globe. And this is just the print media, not including television studios, news rooms, movie studios, social media companies, and the like.
Decades of media brainwashing and social conditioning have led much of the public to mistrust their own judgement, and to disbelieve the evidence of their own eyes and ears. The weaponization of mass media against the very citizens it was meant to protect creates deep social division and mutual distrust. The classic divide-and-conquer strategy being used against the American public seeks to drive wedges and divisions amongst us so that we fight against ourselves in order to distract us from the real issue of government seizing illegitimate authority and engaging in criminal activity, media gaslighting and the fascist attempt of criminal government/corporate intent to overthrow the Constitution, the rule of law, and to subvert the freedom upon which this country was founded.
So we see that the media industry is highly concentrated, centralized even, and overwhelmingly allied to one predetermined social narrative. The approved media narrative is this:
- You should defer to their authority on all issues
- You should not seek out alternative source data for yourself (lest you be derisively labeled a “conspiracy theorist” or a “racist” or a “domestic terrorist”)
- You should never question evidence for #OrangeManBad
Can it really be true that they are just one coordinated narrative under so many seemingly independent brands? Already the media’s collusion and deceit has captured the souls of many of our compatriots into a web of lies and hatred.
You decide. Is the mass media offering journalism or propaganda?
I am not painting all journalists with a broad brush. Most of them are just regular Americans making a living to support their families just like the rest of us.
However, since Obama legalized the Mockingbird media by amending the Smith-Mundt Act in 2012, media corporations are effectively just paid contractors in a propaganda operation on behalf of a criminal shadow government. Journalists are all working from the same talking points, a “news” drop at 4 am delivered to private email addresses.
The idea of a large organization controlling the minds and thoughts of individuals, pushing them towards a specific ideology and certain life choices, may be a new idea to you. Maybe it sounds a bit like science fiction or a conspiracy theory found in books and movies. However, for some, it is certainly not a new or surprising discovery that corporations, organizations, and politicians manipulate public opinion in order to fit certain agendas. These are, in their turn, manipulated by even bigger and more powerful organizations, such as the government itself.
I am wide awake now. 2020 changed me. The world does not operate the way I thought it did. The politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, have completely sold the American people out. Our State Legislature has sold us down the river and are mostly engaged in mere unipolar political theatre. The Supreme Court has become corrupted and has abdicated its role of seeking true justice. The companies I once shopped with are now colluding against me, against everything that I believe is true and right and beautiful.
If I had to distill down the multiple lessons I have learned from 2020, I think this Mark Twain quote might sum it up pretty well: “It’s easier to fool people. . .than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Years of media, political, and corporate propaganda has dumbed down society so that we are easily controlled by fear and deceit.
But, you know, it’s all good. I get it. I’m just reminded how much human beings don’t really like to be duped, to be played, to be fooled, to be lied to. It insults our intelligence and sense of well-being and wounds our pride and it’s just so dang humbling. But, in reality, we know that humility is always a good thing and I trust it will work good in this situation.
So, what will it be for you? Red pill or blue pill?