… designed to distract us from something even crazier?
Like, what? World War III? Aliens unveiling themselves in the public square (news anchor desks, burger drive-throughs, daycare centers?) Your pocket being picked? What??
Dick Russell gives one of the more intelligible tours of the confounding events of the last few days and weeks, specifically the connection (?) between drone storms, UAP propulsion, China, and the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck with a dead man in it in front of a Trump hotel. It’s like a bad thriller plotted by AI, at once ominous and nonsensical, enough to make even a dedicated conspiracy theorist tune out—which may be the point.
Myself, I have a sense of unreality about it all. So far, it’s just one more scream on a screen—maybe even an MK-Ultra-esque entertainment to make our heads spin till our eyeballs bleed and we’re usefully dazed and ductile. So far, I haven’t, personally, seen a drone. I haven’t had contact with a “visitor,” as my friend Whitley Strieber calls them. I don’t doubt that Whitley has had the experiences he and at least hundreds of thousands of others have described. I have not had them myself. In fact, I’m a little jealous. (I should count my blessings: these encounters are reported to be quite traumatic.) My temperament is such that whatever I have not encountered personally remains emotionally neutral and hypothetical to me (unless kittens are involved). I’m not a believer in things I haven’t seen, or a disbeliever either. Anything (almost) is possible. But I’ll believe it when I see it, not before.
Are our lives really about to change in unimaginable ways? That keeps being threatened, or promised, or teased, to the point that we have a colossal case of cultural blue balls. (Even the election of Donald Trump has so far proven something of an anticlimax, both for those who dreaded and those who yearned.) Is the first nuke about to land, or the first UAP with strangely configured beings in it? Is Epstein’s list going to be published any minute now, or the JFK files in full? Will RFK Jr. really be able to uncouple the corporations from the regulatory agencies, bring regenerative agriculture to the vast, remotely cultivated and harvested, genetically engineered monocrop corn and soybean fields, and get beaten-down Americans off their asses to exercise obesity away? Wanna bet?
I suspect that some part of us longs for, as another part of us dreads, an electrifying change, a new eon, an evolutionary leap (as at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey, or conversely, off a cliff). But it feels likelier that things are going to go on much as they have been, while slowly getting worse.
Maybe that’s the very best we can hope for.
Wow! I think you said everything that I would have liked to have said. Thank you for that. When I come down the offramp of I-75 here in Ooltewah, Tennessee from driving all day, as soon as I make the right turn onto Lee Highway, to my right, and to my left are faster-poo-"food???" chained establishments, all with droves of automobiles sitting in nice long queues, waiting to get their highly processed corporate poisons, with Chick-Fil-A having literally the longest lines I have ever seen in my life. All I can think of is how can people be so brainwashed, so fantastically programmed, so easily transformed into zombified sheep?
But then, after reading your observational opinion piece, I see that you're right. Nothing is going to change. (laughing and crying uncontrollably)