Politics is mostly sock puppet theater for entertainment and distraction while real policymakers operate undisturbed from the background. Knowing just this one simple thing, unlocks a new perception of how the world works.
The finger puppets play different roles, often opposing each other, are played by the same hand, pretending to be different roles. Without opposed characters, there’s no emotional charge. Without emotional charge, the audience’s attention isn’t captured. And without attention captured, no money is invested and no action taken by the general populace, who’d otherwise simply be going about their own lives, minding their own Business. So the “show must go on” and the audience must be kept entertained. When people think they are seeing “politics” on TV or Internet, they are actually watching a scripted movie that’s posing as “democracy”. Whether you vote for candidate 1 or 2, you’re voting for the same hand that feeds them.
I understand that most people will reject what I say here, and that’s fine with me. I have nothing to gain from your agreement or disagreement, I’m just doing my job of reflecting my understanding reality as accurately as I can.
If most people knew this, it would be “game over”, resulting in a great awakening. After that, people could gradually return to a perception of reality instead of seeing through several layers of the veil.
How can you know this is true? Well, pay attention! Children are spellbound by the puppet play. The colors, noise, varying voices, drama, action, extreme emotions, polarization and cognitive dissonance are tools the puppet master must deploy to keep the show going.
Younger and less mature children are more likely to get immersed, forgetting everything outside of their entertainment program. If you think about it, most adults still behave like children in this regard. This isn’t “bad” or “wrong”. It’s fun to get immersed. Older children require more sophisticated entertainment to stay enchanted. If they’re not mesmerized, attention drifts. It may drift to the person behind the curtain and the roles that person is projecting.
“C’mon, can’t you see? It’s all the same person!”. The other children know this at some level, but have chosen to forget so that the show is more fun. They don’t want their party spoiled and reinforce each other’s belief that it’s “real”.
Once an adult becomes disillusioned with politics their interest moves to other topics entirely, or to the puppet-masters behind the curtain. Are there influential people that have no puppet master? Yeah – but they don’t show up on stage every day.
“The show must go on”, so looking behind the curtain is strongly dissuaded. Just the fact that it’s so strongly suppressed is proof enough that it’s real. People who look behind the curtain are rapidly maligned as “conspiracy theorists”, a word of negative connotation, linked to mental illness, schizophrenia, low education or stupidity. In reality, the “conspiracy theorist” is just the kid who is aware of the puppeteer behind the curtain and not enjoying the show. These critical thinkers are less gullible but the downside could be that they’re not enjoying the circus as much as others.
Here’s how to know that politics is sock puppet theater:
1. Look at those politicians, pundits and political “influencers” who loudly oppose each other, to an almost cartoonish level. Carnevalists know that strong polarization draws attention. Then look into their past, whether they “used to be friends” or even still meet in private. Contrast public appearance with private behavior. I won’t name specific names because I don’t want lawsuits. Look more closely and you find so many examples of this that you enter disillusion. Disillusion is good, you’re getting in touch with reality.
2. Look at so-called “problems” that are never resolved. Endless-problems. Why is it so much more common in politics than in people’s private lives? Because sock puppet theater cannot survive if problems are solved. Solving problems makes “politics” near-meaningless or at least chunked-down in size.
3. Look for shifts of politicians positions to a more radical or strange position than their previously held, more moderate views. Moderate views don’t create dissonance and therefore don’t attract attention. People keep thinking about something because they can’t reconcile it with common sense. This is why you have so many fixed, inflexible ideologies in politics that ignore the more fluid realities of everyday life. Sock puppet theater requires stereotypical extremes, otherwise the show gets boring and people turn their attention to reality. In real life people are not that fixated and polarized, unless they were hypnotically conditioned. Meanwhile, normal people, especially in the USA, are conditioned in a way that their views have become stereotypical. By ONE opinion they have, you can predict all their other opinions.
4. Notice how, when certain characters in the play are no longer around, the problem they were raging on about, also disappears.
5. Notice how the “news cycle” hypes a certain “problem” for a day or a week, as needed. And then, when things get quiet, it hypes the next big thing, while making no more mention of the previous thing that was supposedly extremely important. This is not how reality works, it’s how theater works.
I’ll leave it to you to point out examples of these principles.
