Civilization: A New Era of Pretending

When I was a child I spent a lot of time either pretending or  becoming involved in pretend activity - games, toys, TV Shows, playing at this or playing at that, etc.

I was happy...in fact, a large measure of a child’s happiness comes from all the pretending and the child’s pretend view of the world, which is reinforced by the surrounding adults.

When I was a child I pretended...and I knew I was pretending.

I knew I wasn’t really a ‘knight’ or a ‘soldier’ and I knew the cartoons I watched on TV weren’t real...in fact I knew all the shows I watched on TV were also pretend.

But, as an awakening teenager, I never suspected that as an adult,  I would be expected to accept a whole other level of 'pretending.'

It started with the history classes, then continued with the science classes, etc.

Only later, as an adult, did I find out that I had in fact graduated from the infantile pretending of childhood to the adult pretending of a citizen.

Pretend.

We as adults continue to pretend our way through a sort of continuing childhood as a ‘citizen’ of society.

The ‘pretend’ seems to have always been part of society to one extent to another, but ultimately it has become endemic.


Here are the reasons why:

We are involved in a PRETEND War on Terror triggered by a PRETEND terrorist attack carried out by agencies PRETENDING to safeguard our national security serving a government PRETENDING to be sovereign.

We live under PRETEND rights under a PRETEND President and a Congress that PRETENDS to be govern though it has been blackmailed by the NSA into compliance with the President.

We have a PRETEND national health care plan which offers PRETEND care through a medical industry that PRETENDS to cure us.

We have a PRETEND immigration plan, a PRETEND immigration law and a PRETEND border patrol...while the gates have been flung open to illegal immigration.
 
We have PRETEND elections carried out by PRETEND (electronic) voting machines, choosing PRETEND candidates working for either special interests or intelligence agencies, who PRETEND to represent the American people and pass laws PRETENDING to be in our best interest.

We are in a PRETEND economic recovery, propelled by PRETEND dollars, empowered by a PRETEND electronic debt realized through a PRETEND government agency called the Federal Reserve and creating a lot of government-sponsored PRETEND white collar jobs.

We live in a society full of PRETEND rights, overseen by PRETEND policemen (Homeland Security) and backed up by PRETEND national security laws and receiving cooperation from PRETEND happy citizens.

We have PRETEND environmentalism, which shuts down food production and our economy, but accomplishes the incineration of our forests.

We have a PRETEND army that is supposed to win a PRETEND war with a PRETEND fight called the F-35 and a horde of PRETEND warriors.

We live day-to-day under a condition of PRETEND normality, under a PRETEND economy, watching PRETEND TV shows and listening to PRETEND news and reacting to PRETEND emergencies.

America, land of the free?

Let me open the curtain for you so you can get a sneak peek at reality:

America has been under a ‘state of emergency’ and bankruptcy since 1933...

Ok...

...enough reality.

Go back to pretending.

It’s always been a lot more fun than what’s real anyway.

We Entered the Matrix in the 1990's

Before the year 1990 every decade seemed to have a flavor all its own.

The 1950’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s seemed to have their own distinctive fashions, music and lingo.

Something happened, though, near the turn of the century during the mid-1990’s.

We entered the matrix.

As I awaited the new eccentricities of the new ‘oughts’ decade... something happened:

…absolutely nothing.

The culture that had been implanted in the 1990’s pretty much stayed the same right through the new decade (which is now almost over).

As a careful watcher of fads, fashions and decade culture, for the first time I saw absolutely no change in the music, the clothing or the language.

Decade culture, in other words, had come to a grinding halt.

I waited patiently for the changed to come. I waited ten years. Haircuts seemed to go crew with long sideburn for a while, then that went away.

The clothing was the worse. The exact same baggy clothing of the 1990’s.

Music was no different: the exact same obnoxious hip hop of the 1990’s. In fact, hip hop seems to have become an eternal fixture.

Now we are finished with the first decade of the New Millenium with no noticeable change in pop culture.

Did we finally enter the Matrix?

I asked around.

I asked young people and old people. I asked culture experts.

I found nothing.

They agreed with me that the new decade had brought absolutely nothing new.
Pop culture seemed to have come to a jarring halt.

Then I though about it for a while.

If a ‘new world order’ is being built, then it would have to come with a world culture.

You can’t create a world culture if the culture is changing every 10 years, much less expand on it.

So they froze it.

The New World Order culture was created in the 1990’s and frozen in time to be carried into eternity.

Welcome to the Matrix.

Welcome to the culture of the New World Order.