The Big One

How does one know when they’ve found the biggest conspiracy on Earth?

It is when one realizes that everything is a conspiracy.

It is when one remembers that we are all collectively precipitating a reality based on our simplest of creative whims, every single second that we are consciously existing, and the fresh reality that we have been projecting is clearly designed to benefit someone else, and not us.

We Are Collectively Making This Whole Thing

I remembered this, and looking at what we had created, it struck me that we are willfully making a world which suits exactly none of us-- the many billions of creators on the planet, and instead of making a well-functioning world for ourselves, we are constantly and willfully making a mess.

What Were We Thinking?

I looked around to figure out what we must have been thinking as we built this place. We were apparently thinking, for example, that it would be normal and acceptable to sit in our automobiles at dozens of traffic lights for five minutes at a time and that it’s worth the wait because the job which requires the running car pays for same car so that we can get to work to pay a lifetime of rent on rooms that sit empty all day while we’re at work.

We must have been thinking that this arrangement was so perfect that it would be worth devoting this time and a lot of value to a mining industry to gather fuel so that our cars could go back and forth, but we must have collectively agreed that such an oil mining industry should be called ’National Defense’, so that we can sleep at night.

We teach our children how to set up these mining operations as well, ensuring a future of abundant fuel for the cars.

We've Considered Our Health

We obviously have collectively chosen to precipitate a society in which medicine is mostly a big business, and through that industry we are deciding to be subliminally mortified by the persistent marketing schemes whispering through the world’s attention sphere, an ad campaign selling the idea of life and joy being administered through the tip of a needle by a qualified professional, and a pill industry designed to help us forget that this is all being done wrong.

We then lazily chose an entertainment industry to give us our imaginations, to tell us which futures are an option, and when we imagined that future, we imagined someone else’s idea, apparently. Collectively we imagined the choices we’d made for living a future life at all, and inexplicably we’ve chosen dystopia and death as the ultimate outcome.

We Created a Central Government

We invented a thing called ‘Authority’ but only so that we could delegate it to the most greedy, and we decided to stick with that.

We Have a Powerful God!

We’ve all agreed on a god— that much is clear, and the talisman that every devotee wishes to carry so to be closer to their god— money — holds the symbols of our willful enchantment. We’ve accepted that existence is a terrible idea unless there’s plenty of cash around, and that of course, there’s never enough cash around. We’ve decided that we are cool with this arrangement.

So much power we have given this abstract god called money, that it alone ultimately decides on who our mates will be, or if we’ll have mates at all, and even then there will be contracts to sign— more spells— but we shan’t call it sorcery because we have agreed that such mass-hypnosis is another conspiracy theory, a fairy tale flirting with our modern civilized society, and we have cars to pay for and no time for enchantments or mortal spells on our populations of drivers.

We’ve made a curious world though, where money suggests out loud that we not talk about such things as money’s power over the mind, as such conspiracies are not polite conversation.

Meanwhile, burning everything and blowing things up is expensive, and it’s how we’ve always kept the lights on; fire and explosions!

There are numerous subtle forces at work throughout nature which could be harnessed for energy, but nothing is more satisfying than a fiery explosion, billowing smoke and loud, reassuring sounds to really get some work done. We have all therefore decided that science is useful when it comes to discovering new and innovative ways to burn and blow things up, and then magically turning fire into electricity, piping it through high-voltage cables throughout the land, and considering the danger involved in such technologies, we have brilliantly put it all up on poles out of reach, and erected these power poles everywhere.

Conclusion and Solution

So we’ve made a world, but seriously, look at it. The moment that we see the absurdity of how we’ve set this all up, we need to physically laugh out loud, and then we will need to imagine something nice for a change, because we’ve been doing it wrong.

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