Who’s responsible for the movie that we’re forced, not just to watch, but to participate in?
You know the one I’m talking about. It’s playing everywhere. It’s on the front page of all the papers, on the radio and T.V news. We’ve all got parts in it, like it or not.
It’s called: Humans at War.
It’s been running for centuries. People can’t get enough of it. The plots simple enough: there’s two sides, they hate each other for some gin-ed-up reason, they go to battle - either verbally or physically - and the war is on.
It’s a simple storyline. The boss of a company/country keeps the peons pissed at each other - he cleverly sets it up so that one side believes (for example) that the moon is made of pasteurized cheese, the other’s convinced it’s raw cheese. It might seem trivial or far-fetched, but once the media gets on board and pumps it up with sports and Hollywood stars weighing in on it - “Taylor Swift insists it’s raw” and soon the “raw cheese” faction is accused of fire-bombing a pasteurized cheese plant. and we’re off!
Meanwhile behind the scenes, the puppeteers keep pulling the strings, making sure that both sides keep bouncing up and down, too busy to notice what’s going on. They don’t notice the Master Cameraman filming all this for tomorrow’s news consumption.
Another popular storyline, even more dramatic, pits all of humanity against nature. There’s a planetary misalignment - Venus is beginning a tiny wobble caused by too much oxygen consumption by humans. Some blame the breathing practices of meditation groups - which are proliferating - for upsetting the delicate balance between the troposphere and the ozone layer.
Two sides are pitted against each other: the “Spiritual Seekers” (called out for selfishly seeking spiritual enlightenment) and the “Spiritual Drifters,” who espouse aimlessness as a path to perfection. We needn’t mention the extremist fringe group, the “Anti-Milky-wayers,” who accuse the Milky-Way Cartel (who make the candy bars) of disturbing the vibrational frequency of the Milky Way by pursuing profit off of its name.
Bottom line: the plot lines are full of potholes, faulty assumptions, misinformation at best, malformation at worst.
Human beings are not naturally war-like, nor are they destined to be pitted against each other - they have to be convinced (propagandized) that their livelihoods are dependent on whether the moon is fresh or raw cheese. And you can be sure that farting cows and methane gas would become part of that face-off.
The question is why do we keep seeing the same dumb movie? Maybe it’s time we wake up to the trite storyline, demand a new movie.
It would be called Wonderland.
About a new vista in the evolution of human beings. Where we inhabit a land bordered by Wonder - meaning we could go anywhere and everywhere, NO LIMITS!
It could be coming to a theater near you. You could be in it.