#mass control

Dystopia in real life - If John Carpenter directed the COVID-19 pandemic in the Balkans - it would literally look like this.

Some perhaps not so far distant future, watching with amazing clarity while picking up their radio communications or civil broadcasts (television). The drama unfolds, this life is not unlike our own and surprisingly similar; bipedal with two arms and two legs, and engaging in a life we might remark as simply a cultural difference to what we know.  They have beliefs and ideas we can relate to; religion, politics, love of music, art, and literature.  They have cast systems much like our own, both professional and political.  They have social hierarchies similar to ours with the more affluent reaping the majority of benefits and the fruits of the working casts that toil in a life that is destined to die in that labor with little to show for their effort.  They, the oppulant, rationalize that it is their birthright, similar to the plutarchs of Earth.  Various casts in academia or the arts, close but never as reaching as the unearned or inherited self-righteous and over privileged plutarchs reach or treasures, truly say and believe that theirs is a labor of love and to die in research or performance is not a waste of their life, but the fulfillment of their dreams. Meanwhile, those far below simply work as great cogs in the industrial machines; easily replaced, never missed, certainly never recorded or documented, and never achieving or actualizing a percentage of their dreams.

Social and economic disparity is not dissimilar to our own.  The wealthy invoke the religion of the masses that they themselves do not believe in; malignantly believable attempts to ingratiate and seduce those that work without end, all the while promising untold riches in an afterlife that they themselves know or at least believe doesn't exist.  This, the great illusion that keeps the unclean masses from living their lives for today, a well known even on earth method to keep the precarious balance of control, always works because even the lesser of us will succumb to a dream or false hope for more.  It’s no just human nature, but the nature of all life; sentience or self awareness not required.

We call them barbaric and unjust while the same drama unfolds daily on Earth, because they are not us and so we feel self-righteous to judge.  Various political parties arise on their world, much as on ours, with claims of seeking equality, but it's all a well intended and orchestrated illusion; just smoke and mirrors that serves as a similar opiate to the masses as religion. In practice, it's just another type of mass control and it works effectively and efficiently the more unaware and superstitious the populace and so while education is praised, in policy it isn’t practiced and often shunned, “belief is the evidence of that unseen,” becomes a catchphrase of the gullible and easily influenced, while demanding proof is discouraged amongt the masses.  Political parties also arise to further that agenda, and also to condemn one another just as on Earth, to keep the masses fighting amongst the masses... just as on Earth, so too in heaven.  The hypocrisy of the sacredness of life is an obvious platitude and illusion when it comes to healthcare and feeding those in need; it’s important because ancient religious texts of both their world and ours demanded it in a time when infant mortality was high.  In a world where the majority of resources go those they least require them, this hoarding of assets is yet another means of mass control.

War on their world, just as ours, is not just needed for negotiation but as a silent form of ethnic cleansing, just as much as it is a diversion and of course another control.  The true leaders of Earth realize a problem and quickly begin to edit the footage for fear of compromise in vain, for there will always be hackers and bootleggers.  World History proves that wars are rarely about opposing ideologies, resources, or which side upon which to crack the egg as much as it is a means to separate and segregate those with the least of means and to dispose of them;  they wrap those heroes in a flag of nationalism before they head to the front lines then silently ignore their passing and the grief of the survivors when the hero returns draped in that same flag.  On Earth as in the heavens.  The questioning the validity or need for such war is quickly and balefully reversed on the questioner as an insult to the flag and for those that died for a now meaningless piece of cloth;  absolutely it meant something in the wars of independence, but quickly lost its meaning when it was realized as yet another means of control and a diversionary tactic.  While the more scholarly and observant see this species, their history, and the progression of corruption to no different than us, such beliefs are cast into that ineffable and often mocked realm of the conspiracy theorist.  The truth would undermine the intricate web of lies and controls, and so the first step is to ridicule and when that fails, ostracize or shun, make them an enemy of the state, then finally imprison or execute and claim it an accident.  On Earth as it is in the heavens.

Overall, they are no more vile and uncaring than we are, no more advanced, and similarly they never attempted to harness that which makes even the lesser of us greater than those species that preceded us, or those we keep in private prisons for our entertainment; you’d call them zoos.  Their world, like ours, is consumed in the passive flames of the self-righteous; burning in effigy, consuming without end or direction, without pity, without sign of an end.  The fire can not be extinguished because doing so would require those with the most to exercise true altruism to those with the least; to lift up their equal brother or sister in the inheritance of the birthright of all sentient creatures:  to dream and to be able to seek a means to make those dreams a reality.

For forty years, it is an ominous spectacle and true to the more deviant natures in humankind, bets are made on the winners and losers.  In 40 years as we observe, as our technology improves and the ability to observe and listen more closely, we watch in perverse enraptured as the last of them spit out its last breath of life into the void of an uncaring, unforgiving universe.  No redemption, no avenging angel, just a world consumed in war of dominance and become an irradiated hell of their own making.  The self entitled privileged few are the last to die, but all the wealth in the universe can't save them from themselves.  While some do escape to other worlds, casting their seed to the winds and to the void as paupers they once fed upon, they similarly meet that quiet and pitiable paupers end.  Those whose sweat and blood they fed on in endless anthropophagy no longer exist for them to feed upon or serve them, and left to their own devices, all their plots and plans bring them no further than the systems edge; to freeze and sleep, to dream in the deserved hell they created for their brothers.

Here on Earth, we laugh and scorn them.  We revel in their folly, but no lesson is learned; it was for the uncaring and unlearned masses just entertainment.   Bloggers Blog, political analysts spin lies on what is seen.  All the while as we watched the Fermi’s proposed great-filter in action, nature, entropy, the elements play out its drama, the same games continue to play out.  “It won’t happen here because we are human and they were stupid aliens,” some blissfully and deliberately unaware will say.  Sixty years later, when the last survivors of the great failed experiment of sentience on Earth meets a similar end, there is no one left to laugh.  As in the heavens, so too on Earth.

Somewhere, far away, another observer remarks the spectacle.  All the while watching, cataloging, and scorning by yet another species not so dissimilar to us.  They too, blogging while paying tribute to their own false gods and false flags, and nationalistic dreams and zeal; the gods of their plutocratic overlords silently snicker knowingly.  So in the heavens, so too on our Earth.  No lessen is learned from those that seek fulfillment and riches only in the moment at the cost of the future.

While we are amused by the foibles and spectacle of the Kardashians or the Trumps, its just anesthetization and a type of control.  All the while, a very real truth is screamed at us from the universe every moment, but no one pays heed or listens.  Life is indeed sacred.  Sentient life more-so.  The miracle of our existence is indeed profound and could be called sacred.  To diminish it to a djinn that blinked us into existence insults the very struggle it took us to become what we are.  Magic and the supernatural thinking diminishes the blood of those that died to make our world.  Magic is not fun or being edgy, magic and the supernatural is a control and those believe in it are were never in control of it;  they volunteered to be slaves to it and accepted a bondage that was tens of thousands of years in the making.  So it is with most controls of the powerful, but none is more obvious because it is the most widely accepted.

"Mass control"