Total Mindfuck!

The 21st Century has devolved into a total mindfuck.

The schism between the mediated world and, for lack of a better term, the unmediated world continues to expand.

By “mediated world” I refer to the world as it appears in media. The “unmediated world” refers to the world that we use media to escape.

In the past, we recognized that the mediated world was simply an imitation, a fantasy for our entertainment.

Today, especially since the pandemic, people believe what they see on their screens more than the evidence of their own senses.

They trust the authorities in the media even when it stretches their own credulity and contradicts their personal experience.

Now that the mediated world has diverged so so profoundly from the unmediated world, a new phenomena emerges where people eagerly sacrifice their own unmediated reality in service of a media fiction completely lacking in credibility or consistency.

Paradoxically, the less consistent or credible the media fiction, the more people are willing to sacrifice to demonstrate their devotion to it.

This is neither healthy nor sustainable, but those concepts are of no concern to these devotees, because “health” and “sustainability” only apply to the unmediated world, which they all seem to eager to abandon.

It really disturbs me to watch my liberal and progressive friends goose-stepping into a digital concentration camp, while listening to them condemn and demonize anyone who doesn’t buy into the wholly fictitious narrative being crammed down their throats by every mainstream media outlet in the country, if not world.

Totalitarianism is a curious phenomena. I now understand why Hannah Arendt found it so fascinating.

It reveals something about the human character that we’d prefer not to see.

But here we are.

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