Film Media life imitating Artifice?

(This was from a commentary on an Off-Guardian article on films that reflect or teach to such times - I think).

Perhaps you could think upstream - such as a madness averted - as in Midsummer Night's Dream.

You call them ‘Elites’ - but are they an elite excellence of merit of capacity in their field?

Look for what supports the 'scripted' facade rather than seeking to operate within the masking 'reality'.

There is a genre for 'virtual reality' running AS reality.

The attempt to eradicate perceived evil is the nature of the problem - along with the intent to manipulate perceptions.

Its the idea of getting rid of the negative ego or self. This is the perfect cover for the negative ego or self. 'War on' evil = we must be the good guys saving the world blah blah.

The 'virus' jumps from one mind to another because they all invest in its illusion of masking separation, and script a world to save the mask (or systemic controls and therefore those who can grab and keep such 'elite' positions.

alecto says

I only call them 'elites' because that's how they perceive themselves to be. I think they are bottom feeders who are the useful tools of puppet masters.

No personal digs here alecto, but I notice not only how we unmindfully accept 'their language and phrasing' and will CAPITALISE the negative to indicate power or priority.

Who or what really pulls the strings - for them, or indeed for all of us?

I don't ask from a sense of requiring a specific answer, but to invite living the question, so as to perhaps see how we cast out our own version of cast, scripting, props and perps.

I think they see us as bottom feeders who fight for the crumbs they allow to fall from their table, etc. Largely because the conditions for life support are under private control that can be nurtured or starved according to what gene profiles they want to experiment with and etc IE: Lording it over the living as gods. We think in a chat box. They think the system that we choose to enter and invest in as freedom, until they reveal proprietary capture and control.

(I don't say we have to think in their terms so much as we are conditioned to being structured by our own actions).

The idea of controlling life is of making it our puppet.

If as a result we find ourselves puppets under systemic controls we are mostly unaware of, then maybe somewhere in that is the harvest of what we sow, I didn't say deserve, but more in the sense of Garbage in; garbage out.

alecto says:

I don't want to make anyone or be anyone's puppet but to live my life without state interference. However when an elected government bypasses Parliament and uses a spurious public health law to take a bulldozer over our rights and liberties that is tyranny and there should only be one fitting ending for all tyrants.

Indeed.

But the undercurrent to all such appearances as have been nurtured and groomed to bring this tyranny out into an open system of control is the capture or abnegation of the living to narratives of possession and control.

Presented with 'an offer you cant refuse', how many will refuse?

Death will come to all that is temporary, but you perhaps like your avatar in 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest', are set in vendetta or competition?

To live without unlawful interference would hold the Law as the basis for meeting and resolving such issues.

But to the rich and influentially connected, their right to freedom from regulatory interference or penalty will seek to capture and control the means to break the Law so as to replace it with legal statutes that usurp it.

This has been going on for a very long time.

I understand that hate must needs find a target, and I understand that grief and grievance can be hateful. But I do not see that grievances should be the basis for setting laws as vengeance. In fact this is exactly the corruption of the Law being used against us as 'correctness', social 'justice' and cancel culture.

Vengeance is worshipped as the solver of problems. Everyone feeds the Troll in their respective sense of narrative self-gratification. Deep hate of broken premises and false profits, not only unleashed onto the living, but systemically locked in.

The reason people are willing to sell their freedom for slavery under tyranny is because the sales pitch offers them what they want to hear. But once consented to by emotional investment, the terms and conditions come into effect.

The MEANS by which to execute what you describe is a broad spectrum capture of institutions AND the public mind. Terrorism depends on community support. The current version operates through multiple 'fronts', at the back of which are those who use our own 'fallen nature' against us.

the NHS is being 'set up to fail' so as to be taken over by political quango. the politicians and process of political debate or dialogue are no less being set up to fail, and to be replaced by faceless technocratic dictate. Its all being set up to fail, in a way as to frame people in WANTING the new 'biosecurity' state, and discarding or degrading the consciousness and capacity to really question anything.

Fancy a pint of fluoridated water down the pub when it opens?

The whole thing speaks of a hate agenda, masking in a fake virtue. So I choose not to choose it, for something that is alive, and free to be itself - at a level that is not merely conditioned reaction. This means questioning my experience of 'reality' or narrative identity. Which can only happen from a point outside the script of its casting out.