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Bluelighter
Having not read others' replies yet because I don't want them to color my response: I have said more than a few times in the last year or so when in my most intuitive states (read: tripping) that we have been Truman Show'd. And it's not just the sense that perhaps some extradimensional entity is recording and decoding my neural patterns, or that an extraterrestrial has implanted a device that allows them to see what I am seeing, read my thoughts *and even transmit responses back to me*, or that this is all a simulation and my data readout is being analyzed by our gods, one of 7.4 billion channels to tune into...aside from those hypotheticals, Humanity is LITERALLY Truman Show'ing itself with its Surveillance State, a voyeuristic culture of TV watching itself, algorithms monitoring all of our online movements and God knows what else.
The last explanation which is at least as equally plausible as any of the others is that I'm just tripping and there is some type of mental feedback loop, or that one part of my consciousness sees another part of my consciousness as something separate, hence the feeling that I'm being observed or that I'm receiving signals from something outside myself. I like to entertain all possible realities; it's a little safer to play that way when contemplating such insanities.
Edit- OK this thread was kind of going in a different direction that I was thinking initially, but to that degree I agree we live (in the 'first world') inside a 'matrix control system' as I have seen it called, and that ties in to how I mentioned humanity is Truman Showing itself through surveillance and privacy erosion, attempting to exactly engineer society's conditions in a 'white picket fence' box through specific 'sanctioned' indoctrination, social programming it could be called, a lot of it through the media, news etc.
The last explanation which is at least as equally plausible as any of the others is that I'm just tripping and there is some type of mental feedback loop, or that one part of my consciousness sees another part of my consciousness as something separate, hence the feeling that I'm being observed or that I'm receiving signals from something outside myself. I like to entertain all possible realities; it's a little safer to play that way when contemplating such insanities.
Edit- OK this thread was kind of going in a different direction that I was thinking initially, but to that degree I agree we live (in the 'first world') inside a 'matrix control system' as I have seen it called, and that ties in to how I mentioned humanity is Truman Showing itself through surveillance and privacy erosion, attempting to exactly engineer society's conditions in a 'white picket fence' box through specific 'sanctioned' indoctrination, social programming it could be called, a lot of it through the media, news etc.
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