Waking Up in Wonderland

And figuring out a way forward, now that we're aware of the true nature of our crazy clownworld

Waking up in a crazy clownworld circus, with vicious demons lurking in the shadows, manipulating the clowns and laying traps for the unwary …

Looking back over the past few years, it seems like our entire civilization fell down the rabbit hole¹ and landed in a crazy clownworld, where ordinary words suddenly mean the exact opposite of what they’ve always meant, and where common sense norms are unexpectedly replaced by an inflexible illogic. It feels like our society had an unprecedented psychotic break, but that’s not really what happened.

It’s not that the world was formerly sane and sober-minded and then suddenly went off the rails in 2020.² If history is any guide, our world has always been insane. Our civilization went off the rails long before any of us were born, but because we (or at least most of us) had been asleep our whole lives, we had never noticed that anything was really wrong — until recently. This says more about us than it does about our world. The world’s recent degradation is less noteworthy than the fact that dramatically more of us started noticing it, as it was happening.

Vast criminal conspiracies are hardly new. Their fingerprints are all over many of history’s biggest events. In 1963, a criminal cabal assassinated a popular sitting President and replaced him with a war-mongering psychopath — not in some Third-World banana republic (although they did many such things in those places, too), but right here in the supposedly free and independent United States of America.

And 50 years before America’s November 1963 Coup, an international bankster cabal hatched a creature on Jekyll Island that has enabled them to effectively parasitize America’s productive economy and bleed the life from it ever since. At the federal level, we’ve essentially had an occupied government ever since.³ As long as the banksters’ gravy train kept rolling, our elected officials could throw us some meaty scraps every now and then, but the banksters have always come first in America’s federal government, a fact which becomes especially salient whenever times get hard and We the People have to sacrifice our standard of living in order to keep the banksters’ gravy rich and freely flowing.

So our civilization’s criminal psychosis is really nothing new. What’s new is, the number of people recognizing how crazy the world is and asking questions about it. For this reason, the movie They Live is a much better analogy for our situation than Alice in Wonderland. Sanity is somewhat relative, like motion. The most important thing that happened recently is not that the world moved deeper into madness, but that we (or at least a growing number of us) moved pretty drastically towards sanity.

The world has always been a psychologically hazardous place (which is really odd, when you think about it). We were born and came of age in a world of deception, under the hypnotic spell of an invisible control system. Before we had the self-awareness, cognitive maturity, or life experience necessary to even understand the relevant concepts, let alone evaluate their accuracy, we were programmed to accept certain beliefs as unquestionably true and to make those beliefs the very foundation of our identity and our worldview. The programming runs so deep that most people are never even aware of it. And even for those of us who do recognize it, making any kind of meaningful changes to that programming usually requires an entire lifetime of work — and a level of unflinching honesty that few of us are able to muster, at least consistently. On top of all that, there’s the possibility of reincarnation, meaning that if you can’t escape the cycle of samsara, any progress you made in this life could get erased, along with all your conscious memories of all the lessons you learned the hard way, and you’ll have to start the whole painful process all over again at the beginning!

Now, the point of this post is not to dig into the true nature of this reality or to analyze the control system that keeps most of us in a dreamlike trance most of the time, just mindlessly running the malicious scripts with which we’ve been programmed. Trying to understand the nature of the world and its control systems can be helpful, so long as the goal is wisdom and, ultimately, victory (or escape). These are themes I have touched on in previous posts, and which I intend to explore more explicitly in the future.

Nor is it my aim to blackpill anyone. If (as I suspect) the demonic rulers of this world feed off of negative emotional energy (like the “loosh” that Robert Monroe wrote about), then “blackpilled” is probably exactly what they want us to be, and I’d like to avoid giving these demons what they want.

Instead, I’d like to examine how best to deal with the world’s craziness, without being infected by it. To borrow a phrase from the Gospel of John,⁴ I am trying to figure out how best to be in the world, but not of the world.

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