And it only got worse.
(This was posted before Musk bought Twitter and before the full-on invasion of Ukraine)
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026
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Freedom isn't what they are offering, they offer escapism. And because everyone is just escaping, no one is living for reality. And even the dramas and politics are an escapist distraction sometimes, even if its sold as progression.
The foundation society built is not proper foundation, it's not based on coexistence with the law of the universe. Because of this it requires constant patching and wars to maintain its reality.
I used to be an atheist and I still don't trust organized religion is true religion, but the teachings of the ancients and of Jesus were the teachings of coexisting with natural law of the universe. Even organized religion manipulated the message for control of society.
We are the working cattle, we are an asset to the farm. The farmer is the nations. The farmer is offering service to be used by the wealthy for whatever they want. They purchase the farm (nation) and utilize the working cattle (citizens) to fullfil an ideology or agenda that is not in coexistence with natural law of the universe, but instead the animalistic urges of a uncontrolled human greed.
Humanity is owned. We actively funded and worked our entire lives for people that don't care about our species. And I say that on higher level than most think. I think anyone with good intentions specifically gets manipulated and the only thing allowed is loyalty to those that own humanity or complete obliviousness to reality to the point one just consumes and works for the owners.
My thoughts is that this is going to get worse as modern tech, ai, surveillance, profiling, etc advances. It's like there's a nuclear arms race to get this infrastructure in place. Like the first nation to build a nation of complete algorithmic constant automated profiling in order to maintain complete loyalty to the "owners" wins the arms race and then other nations will buy the tech. And like I said earlier the people that use the nations as a service will then own the future and path of humanity completely even if they are still offering us the illusion of choice and freedom. Our choices will be made by the algorithms to pin point our psychology specifically so that we fall in line with a life path that isn't authentically ours. This isn't even knew, it's been being done on an analog and primitively digital level for a very long time and is probably why we are where we are now as society.
There are a lot of causes to fight for, but I think what I've said above is the main foundation of that allows the bad to happen.
I think that a method of control is to distract people by egging people on to join the fight of these different causes, instead of fighting the foundation that allows the growth of the bad. This separates and divides people and make it easier for the "owners" to control society away from fixing the true cause.
I think there's something else to say about this. When one truly understands this it equalizes people, like the military guy is the same as the homeless guy, the politician is the same as the blue color dad. Because we are all just assets for someone to abuse. Based off all the social drama in the past it's clear this is an unwanted understanding and anything will be done to convince people to emotionally react to manufactured drama created to divide us.
Our news media is owned by the Owners, Indy media and social media sees the news media and gets caught in the drama, and then you have people thinking they are fighting for good because an independent outlet gave them the info, but it's born from the same manufactured drama that is artificially marketed and created to sow division to keep us from understanding all that I said above.
Another debate is that if people understood this they wouldn't work. They would just be lazy. But that's just another false idea used to manipulate people to stay abused for the growth of someone else's artificial unatural agenda that exists against the laws of the universe. People don't want to work for something that has no connection from the universe to there soul. I'm not saying people wouldn't work in warehouses anymore or anything like that either. In a way the idea is kind of like we are purposely cut off from a connection to the true power of God/universe so that we will seek it from the artificial Owners. Now that I say it, thats the same idea as gnosticism and Jesus' original teachings and the gospels they buried. That's why they invented priests to "communicate" to "God" for us, to cut us off from the natural source.
Exchange Jesus for Gaia, Ana, Landscape and I'm entirely with you. Although I'm still puzzled as to who are the owners - who keeps the electric fence and shiny distractions in place? The term egregore comes to mind, out of control mindforms. I don't know. What is your way of handling this?
My way of handling this, lol...
I'm barely a part of normal society anymore. I just watch all that's happening and think too much about it. I'm probably going to end up dead or homeless. I think generally this is what happens to people that live for truth. And I think it's one of the reasons for the homeless epidemic, it's not just junkies out there. It's like a genocide forcing those that don't have complete loyalty out to the fringes. I don't fit the mass marketed lifestyles they seem to manipulate and consolidate people into, so I'm not allowed to participate until I submit. But submitting feels like its giving in to the worst of sins which effect humanity negatively.
I kind of think USA at least, is too far gone.
That's probably not what you wanted to hear.
I wasn't hoping you had a perfect recipe to cope, I was just curious. Because I do seem to see things in a very similar way you do. Decent people forced into homelessness, submit or die, the slow genocide. I've collected the pieces of this throughout my life and putting them together gives an image just like yours. And yes, I'm also at the fringes and at this point my lifestyle is rather close to homelessness. I'm with one foot in society and with one foot out, and expecting stuff to turn real nasty any moment. When fuel and food run out at least some people, if not most, will be at each other's throats. I'm too smol to survive conflict for long, I put my hope in hiding and gardening. I'm fully aware it's not a guarantee to sail smoothly in the years to come, just that growing food is better than destroying stuff imo. That said, it's a personal preference. I don't blame anyone wanting to go full Luigi ...
Cluster B people
Good point. It's like people with cluster b personality reached a critical mass and are now in control.
Completely agree with everything you said