Living in Narratives - Why It's Dangerous

Narratives Create a Pseudo Reality - Un-Reality

Preface: I had originally written this piece three years ago but it’s still pretty relevant now (maybe even more so!), so I decided to post it again almost unedited.

Original Article: As I was saying countless times, many people in the West (especially young, and so-called 'educated' and 'progressive' ones) live in artificially created narratives pushed down on them by large media outlets, and not in reality. Moreover, each year the difference between those narratives and reality becomes bigger and bigger, and here is a danger. When you're out of touch with reality, it would eventually find ways to remind you of its existence, sometimes very painful ones.

The main narratives pushed down on us are for example COVID narrative, BLM narrative, Jihadism and immigration narrative, Israel-Palestine narrative, Brexit narrative, transgender narrative, and, ofc, Trump narrative. I dived deep into each of them before as well. For now I wanted to analyze how we ended up living in this twisted un-reality, why is it so dangerous, and how we can 'walk out of the Matrix'.

Originally, both logical and scientific approach to understanding reality is first to gather facts, data, and then to make theories based on facts. So, first we make observations, collect facts, and then form theories based on them. This is how it should be. However, it's not what's going on in modern Western world now. In the West now, it's exactly other way around. First, certain influential figures, like politicians and corporate elites, form certain narratives based on their BELIEFS AND FEELINGS, and only AFTER, when they already made up their mind, they start to cherry pick facts to suit their agenda, and to dismiss, diminish and sometimes even blatantly ignore all the facts which don't support their narrative.

It's easy to see how fast they come out of touch with reality in this way. Instead of forming their theories based on facts, they form them based on their beliefs and feelings, and then start to manipulate facts to suit their theory, and to bend the reality to their agenda. It would have been even not that harmful if it was only their delusion. But they start to push their delusion on everyone else using mainstream media and social media channels, hence manipulating public opinion and brainwashing billions of people into believing their false narratives. There is real, real, real and terrible danger.

Why is it so dangerous? Let us be honest, majority of people are gullible and prone to trust everything which comes from 'respectable sources' (and to mistrust everything which comes from 'not that respectable sources'), and too lazy to be bothered even with basic fact check of what they had read on media. So, majority of people are pretty easy to be manipulated and brainwashed. I'm almost sure that if CNN and BBC told people to eat their own poop in order to 'protect others from COVID', many people would actually start not only to eat their own poop but also to pressure others into doing the same. They would easily sacrifice their personal disgust and discomfort for the 'common good' as they are doing now as well, and wouldn't even bother to Google any research which is actually saying that eating one's poop helps to ward COVID off. No, they'd believe blindly what media and couple of corrupt 'experts' would tell them! Unbelievable.

Yeah, my belief in human capacity for critical thinking and indeed their ability to think at all is pretty low at this point, seeing how blindly majority of Westerners swallowed twisted and false narratives of a recent. So, when you have gullible population too lazy to fact check and filter the information which is coming down on them from media sources, then misleading media narratives become very, very dangerous. Because they CAN actually really MAKE millions of people believe any bullshit, including that eating one's poop wards COVID off.

However, when you live too long in imaginary reality created for you by media, and when you fight too long the windmills media told you to fight (Trump, 'right wing terrorism', 'white supremacy', etc.), you're ignoring the real dangers and challenges, and they would eventually destroy everything you love without you even noticing it, living in your illusive media world. Jihadism and mass Muslim immigration along with COVID lockdowns are great examples here. Media and global elites were ignoring the danger of Jihadism and immigrant-based crime in EU for way too long so now it became glaring. Mass bombings and explosions in Sweden in immigrant neighborhoods, barbarian beheading of Samuel Paty in France, fast criminalization of London thanks also to growing Muslim population are already impossible to ignore even for global hard Left. However, they are still unwilling to admit that they were wrong, that their immigration policies were harsh mistake and that their cherished multiculturalism had failed. No, they still try to deflect and diminish the problem (their techniques of doing so I'd describe later as well). And this is also very dangerous because if this problem wouldn't be addressed immediately, it would become even worse, and would threaten to drown the whole Europe in blast of drug, gang and Jihadist immigrant-based crime.

COVID devastating lockdowns are another good example. We were told to fight the windmill of a virus with low mortality rate at all costs overlooking all the damage that our 'fight against the virus' is doing to us. However, already now after one year of devastating lockdown, European economy is on the brink of collapse, same as population's mental health. Economic collapse would bring huge waves of bankruptcies which in turn would eventually lead to poverty and crime. Mental health crisis would lead to new wave of depressions, suicides, domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse which would intersperse with poverty and crime just well, one exacerbating the other. Incompetent and devastating lockdowns would soon enough bring the whole world on the brink of catastrophe which no virus, not even the one with higher mortality rate than COVID, ever could. Noting this, it's extremely important to recognize and disprove false media narratives instead of blindly obeying any shit which governments and media are telling you. Because one year more of this shit, and damage done to us would be irreparable.

P.S. After four years of this shit, damage done to us both by COVID scam and trans ‘gender affirming care’ scam and fake Cold War 2.0 are already very grievous, and it would take generations to repair the damage done.