“It’s just a bit of fun, isn’t it? Playing make-believe and pretending to be someone else. With costumes, scenery, make-up and adopting a different persona, people are convinced of what they see. Suspending reality for a moment or a short time to be immersed in the fakery, your own brain playing along and helping to create and sustain the illusion.”

Taken from my article Deceivers, Or Just Entertainment?, which looked at it more from the audience point of view, of how we play our role willingly for the most part. Although as I thought that, I remembered two film references of forced viewing being part of a re-conditioning ritual. A Clockwork Orange and Addams Family Values. Even more so for the second one, as it was Disney films Wednesday was made to watch, to friendly her up and make her get into the ‘spirit of things’.

But for this, I have been wondering on the type of person and mentality that wants and likes to pretend to be something else. We used to call them con artists and charlatans I thought, ones who set out to deliberately convince you of something for their own personal gain, and usually a loss to you. And for this exchange, they get attention and adulation as well as apparently lots of money. And you lose your time, and sometimes your own aspirations and wants, as you are so focused on idolising something that doesn’t really exist. In life and business, there is much to look out for, but as we are an opportunistic species, I understand how it happens, and as it has in some capacity served us well, I can’t say it is entirely a bad thing. What does seem to have become a bad thing however, is where it is now the prevailing attitude in many, to trick and deceive as a matter of course, in many industries. Where they are so used to pretending to be the authority on things, or matters of health or justice, on education or knowledge, that it’s almost as if they themselves have forgotten it’s a ruse. And shocked they are when it is pointed out to them, because they ended up believing their own bullshit I guess, with many playing along to make it so, like in the film A Beautiful Mind.

Like in the circus though, when you have the performing animals and people, they aren’t always there in an entirely voluntary capacity. And from some of the things you notice in the celebrity world that gets portrayed in the media, occasionally there is a moment here and there, where it all slips. The glitz and glamour suddenly lose their sparkle and you see a glimpse of a circus monkey, being wheeled out on their trike, to wow the audience and keep those tickets selling and then take bow. Because if someone was talented enough to enthral the masses as they say, then someone else might just realise what an advantage that may pose. Being wholeheartedly convincing when putting on an act, a play, a ruse to deceive the viewers instinct and senses, maybe that’s why they call laws ‘acts’ as well, because it is all part of the bigger stage show and set, and one we allow ourselves to be conned by…

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That phrase that has been touted now and again by the forum of disaster. About owning things, and how you will be happy when you have unburdened yourself of material possessions and wealth. And as I mentioned in my article about Ownership, it’s a strange mental game that has occurred. Because it starts to get people familiar with the idea, so it’s not such a shock later on, or now as the case may be. With asset stripping of countries deemed a problem, compulsory purchase orders by the government, banks being able to freeze your accounts and lock you out of society altogether.

But it seems more like they are doing everything they can to make it look like it’s not them, it’s your fellow man and citizen taking things from you. Because well, it didn’t really ‘belong’ to you, did it? A mental adjustment being forced through of possession and rights, legal framework and psychological pressure. On both sides, one being told it’s not yours and to give it up, and the others being told it’s not theirs really, you can do what you like.

Why would anyone want to be part of the property game when a tenant can just take your house? Precisely. And how can people afford their property taxes on what they already own outright? They can’t and that’s the point. Every action, law and Bill they pass, appears to be a slow Tightening The Screw, so they can wear people and their wealth down. So, while they want you to own nothing and be happy, it seems they want to own you and be even happier.

However, how stable is our current ‘ownership’ status we think we enjoy for them to take away? They already have rights to take your house, to stop you getting a job, they can have the final say over your children – although that is not the same type of ownership as property, but to them it appears it is. They can revoke your passport, incarcerate you and ultimately already have ownership over your life, it’s just that we seem to have been afforded some luxuries along with that. And now they don’t want us to have them anymore, so it’s a slow creep towards scaling that back, taking not only what you have, but wanting to change your mindset too. So, you believe it’s a good thing, and it means no responsibility for anything, if you don’t own anything, then you have nothing to lose. That sounds like a free mind doesn’t it, able to think freely and not be burdened by ‘stuff and things’. While the people who would like you to think like that, show you how much they have, and use while hoarding the rest. Because in some busted up way, because they borrow against everything, and it’s all tied up in pretend finances, maybe they believe they actually don’t own anything, because in my mind, they don’t. They have convinced people they do, throwing astronomical numbers around like they exist, or are tangible and can be paid into the bank over the counter. Making it seem as though they have so much, they don’t need it all, it’s all about the idea, the plan, and however much ‘money’ they need, they can have it.

It seems their ultimate want though, is ownership over the future, over your thoughts and how you can fit into their plan. Of 15-minute zones, medical check-up and interventions, monitoring by way of implanted chip internally, top up, log ins and systematic integration with their weird technological nightmare we see talked about. Virtual reality experiences instead of real ones, people grown in pods and having nothing to do with the human body until after they are ‘born’. Synthetic meat and chemically altered and enhanced plants and food to wean you off the natural stuff. It’s all quite sinister and unsettling, how there seems to be a desperate need to stop people being people, to get in between them, alter them and change the way we are, how we live and how we will live. So we best get on and start deciding for ourselves, because it does look as though time might be running out…

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