Controlling the Narrative

(VLOG posted at the end for those who prefer to watch and listen rather than read.)

And right now, they are the individuals you aren't considering as being the bad guys. . .

The worst among us hiding in plain sight are master manipulators. They will do any and everything in their power to twist our words and actions into a negative light (and most often behind closed doors). It's how they control us, by controlling groupthink via planting seeds of ideas into the heads of respective group members, concealed behind tainted intentions, that make us perceive certain people, actions, or events in a very specific light; whilst building up those they wish to build up—those who will inflate their triumph via worshiping their every move—and breaking down those who they deem as a threat to said triumph (or who they see no social worth in, who are then used as no more than pawns to be profited from) by preying on their insecurities and meticulously controlling the way the given group perceives the individual and their actions, as well as the intentions behind those actions.

But the fact of the matter is, in this selfish, elitist, meritocracy we've arrogantly created, those who most understand the game we live are perpetually (and often clandestinely) degrading others as a means of claiming they themselves have more worth than any and every one they can claim it over. (While the rest of us unconsciously mimic there example...) Which, if I may, is why everyone is so damn afraid of simply being their natural inborn selves—despite, pretending to be these "tough", "mentally secure" "Alpha's", who, of course, never act "childishly" and have no flaws... Because—at least unconsciously—we are all petrified to be the footstool for someone else's pursuit of triumph. All the while, we have full grown adults—claiming to be the wisest and most "valuable", most "knowledgeable", most "loving" and most "giving" sages on the planet—embodying the childish traits of adolescence such as pettiness, selfishness, duplicity and superficiality... Lying to get ahead of others... Selfishly hording resources for the sole benefit of self... Jealously degrading those peers we are silently envious of, or who seek to attain something that we failed at attaining because we conformed to the Game of Triumph upon recognizing the daunting nature of fighting against it and they—yet—haven't...

Must I continue...? Ergo, we are surrounded by children lost in the Dark—all pretending to be the mostest biggest, mostest growed-up child on the block... Whilst elusively trying to lower everyone else to their level—particularly those people they are most jealous of for being able to hang onto such a Light for as long as they have.

Everything in this life is about perception. Thus, if one controls perception, one controls the narrative. Which is why young Sandra—who is, let's say, not your stereotypical model, who isn't the most socially outgoing, and who often fights against the constructs of conformity and unanimity—is "weird", yet, Socially Savvy George—who does the same thing Sandra does, but in his own unique way, whilst actively conforming to unanimity of group social norms—is "cool" and "popular"... Because everything—the way we think, the way we feel, and the way we act—is about the way we perceive a given person, action or event. So, when these people with the strongest voices and opinions whisper ignorance in our ear, we so easily embody those whispers: "Did you see Jackie wouldn't get up and walk with Patrick to the store—she's so selfish;" or, "Did you hear how negative Tara is—what a pessimist;" or, "Chelsea's emotions are all over the place—she is totally Bi-polar;" or, "Did you see Cian miss that stop sign—he's a horrible driver;" or, "Did you see Mack didn't say 'please' (and/or 'thank you')—he's so ungrateful and inconsiderate."

Do you see what I mean? Yet, every single one of these situations are unimaginably subjective... Because how do we know that Jackie doesn't walk with others to the store the other 80% of the time? Have we watched her every move every minute of every day? (If this is something we do, should we be seriously reconsidering our life?) Or even if she generally doesn't walk to the store with others, whose to say she doesn't share her blessings selflessly in other ways? Who's to say Chelsea's emotions aren't only in a knot when she is with us? Who's to say we aren't the negative one's, and Tara the "pessimist" is not the pessimist at all, and is in-fact the realist? And the point I am trying to make is, you can be sure the worst among us are only directing our attention to the things that paint the negative and socially degrading picture that they want to paint, not the picture of Truth. And this is why these judgments are so ignorant—because the concealed intentions are deeply skewed, and they are designed to maliciously degrade the way we view an individual, which coincided subliminally inflates the rank of the aggressor and all those observers the aggressor has invited to be "above" the given victim.

You see, what happens is there is this unsung ranking system within this game of triumph we live, in which we are all (at least unconsciously) constantly weighing ourselves against others on a 24/7 basis. And being that everyone in the world is perpetually being bullied—duplicitously trolled, nitpicked & nagged, facetiously mocked, and generally socially degraded—we, of course, don't want that; we want to be accepted and loved and appreciated. Thus, simply because this is the status quo we've been given, and because everyone is doing it, we absorb those whispers from those voices that most everyone listens too—the most "popular" opinions, from the "coolest", or most "liked", people (or simply the most socially aggressive and dominant)—and then we rank ourselves with our (often unconscious) shinny new levels of superiority over the souls being degraded.

This underground social war—this popularity contest—that is in-fact perpetual and utterly despicable; in which, the Game is won by being the most deceptive, superficial and "in-group" individual—who, if I may, has sacrificed all sense of genuineness to become exactly that—by becoming that individual perpetually judging and degrading others, and thus, perpetuating the perpetual circles of negativity. Whilst often subliminally & skillfully passing it off as "jokes" and "playful banter". Just like everyone else... Monkey-see, monkey-do.

The truth is, when the bad guys are controlling the narrative—when they are creating "truth", and we are self-fulfilling it ourselves—we live in a world where our vices are so deeply seeded and unconscious, that the massive majority of our population doesn't have the slightest idea how ignorantly prejudicial, for example, even the best among us are in their own subjective ways and to varying extremes. This prejudice I mention time and again that comes without skin color, nationality, religion or age—it is simply prejudice, we all embody it in our own subjective ways because it is simply that over-prevalent, it is in-fact ignorant, and it is not getting enough attention. As the propagated masses—completely blinded by their willing state of slumber, and at the sight of every other conformer's wretched example—drool over who can best victimize themselves as being the "most" prejudiced against soul on the planet, whilst acting like sweet little fairies that don't embody the same ignorance and prejudice in their own subjective ways, and sometimes times, in even worse ways. Because that is what humans are bread to do within the game of triumph... No, we don't lift each other up (other than, perhaps, facetiously, meretriciously and duplicitously, and/or out of selfish intent), we instead perpetually put others down out of selfish seeking's of self-preservation, and as a means of claiming ourselves as more worthy of life and luxury than they...

This is how the worst among us control the narrative. By manipulating "truth" insofar they themselves are both victimized and sanctified, whilst any and all threats to their thrones—or the souls deemed as having no social worth—are demonized and vilified.

But then what happens?

You see, once enough of these negative nitpicks stack up against us—and most often unbeknownst to us, save through our intuitions—the people whom surround us start to unconsciously view us as inferior to them—less intelligent, less canny, less wise, less witty, weak- or closed-minded, lazy, a loser, a selfish mooch, an inconsiderate snob, an entitled rich girl, or whatever the given nitpick does to degrade our social worth—and it reflects through the way they treat us; then, being reciprocated by the way we treat them in return... Both of us self-fulfilling the prophecy by one of us seeking to see what we've been primed to see by the ignorant whispers in our ears or mouth; and the other, feeling those thoughts engulfing them through their intuitions, and being controlled by the insecurity being fed to them through those feelings, they themselves start to act in a way that fulfills the prophecy just the same.

The sad truth being, if you are a target, you are damned no matter what you do. If you accept drinks offered from others, you are a "mooch". If you deny drinks from someone, you are "homophobic." If you offer drinks to the wrong someone, you are a "suck-up" to the enemy. If you call out people for being negative, you are a "pessimist". If you have unexplained mood swings, you are "bipolar". If you completely by chance luck out to be born into great wealth, you are "entitled". If you get in trouble with the law (no matter the offence), you are a "degenerate" and/or a "criminal" and/or a "low-life". If you are homeless or enjoy being alone, you are a "loner" who hasn't been accepted by society, and clearly something must be wrong with you. If you don't shower everyday, you are "dirty" and/or "lazy" and/or "weird". If you are emotional and you drink a lot, it is because you are a "weak alcoholic", not because their are elements in your life that are causing your emotions to run out of wack...

Are you getting the picture? You become anything that degrades the way a given group perceives you—regardless of truth.

This is what we do. These titles are perpetually being thrown at us and we are perpetually throwing them at others, because we're locked in this war of every man for them self. The easiest targets being the good people, who've got things going on in their lives (like everyone else), but they just haven't the slightest comprehension of life, nor this game of triumph we live. Which is why we perpetually see these very individuals constantly facilitating the same people who are perpetually degrading them (and others) behind their own backs... Which coincided shows others in the given group that they are submitting to the given social leader's dominance, giving others a reason to embody the "Alpha's" ignorant, intolerant & prejudicial judgments.

Do you see what I'm getting at? Controlling the narrative—in an utterly deceptive and self-serving way, and without the slightest care for who gets tossed in the fallout. Whilst, right now, they are the individuals you aren't considering as being the bad guys... Including yourself... Now, sit on that for a moment, would yah...

But an important point to make being, the people who have fallen the hardest, and in the most obvious ways, aren't the problem. As what's done is done, the pains have been inflicted, and the only thing we can do moving forward in such a case, is to try to correct our past transgressions—by not making these people feel lonely, unaccepted and abandoned, and for no good reason, whilst leaving them feeling as if they must prove how powerful they in fact are in whatever sinister way they can concoct—in order to prevent such incidences from recurring in the future, and to attempt to return the childhood that was stolen from them by this world owned by Darkness. No, it's the people who have made them Fall by bullying and prejudicing against them—by clandestinely embodying outright pettiness, hypocrisy and narcissism, a clear statement of our status quo—to the extent they surrender to the pains that haunt them and commit a heinous crime against themselves or others. But, because each and every one of us have contributed to creating the environments that harbor the pains within these individuals through submitting, thus, through condoning, facilitating and contributing to ignorant prejudice, judgement and outright bullying—thus, to the game of triumph—we, of course, don't want to admit that we ourselves have become the ignorant bullies in more ways than we care to acknowledge, and it is we that are harboring the environments that cause others to want to hurt us and our peers.

But the fact of the matter is, until we stop letting the Darkness control the narrative, and thus, our thoughts and actions; until we shift our focus away from the most pained souls making the worst choices in this world as being the root of the problem onto the people and environments who've molded those individuals (we, the people surrounding them): "truth" will continue to be a figment of the worst among us's imaginations; we will continue to shun and degrade the wrong people, the people who have already been shunned and degraded to the point of wanting to lash out on our society in order to cause heinous crimes; the true criminals will continue to get away with murder; and we will continue to Fall as a society.