In 1978, I actually met a man who wore a tinfoil hat. I had just graduated from GVSC and was two months into my first post-college job as a clerk at the Michigan Department of Treasury.
It was in August and this fellow wearing a flannel shirt and a fedora walked from the elevator in the Grand Rapids State Office Building and approached the front desk. I greeted him and, without further ado, he removed his hat and showed me the tinfoil lining.
He explained that he wore this headgear to keep the government’s radio waves out of his head.
I don’t recall how the office manager finally removed this gentleman from the office; but the image of this sincerely frightened old man has never left me.
Forty-four years later, I sometimes wonder why more people haven’t started wearing tinfoil hats.
Back then, it was a lunatic’s fantasy that the government would be force-feeding us lies and instructions. Now, it has become painfully obvious that this is happening to us every day, every hour, and every minute.
George Orwell is everyone’s go-to guy for a description of the world we are now living in and, in his classic book 1984, he explained, “The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what’s happening.”
It’s an unsettling feeling to read essays on substack.com that share virtually the same thoughts (though written from different viewpoints).
It’s as if we all have moments of lucidity and we feel compelled to purge our minds of these thoughts by spewing them out on the Internet. Somehow, typing these words out and sending them to the world feels like we are accomplishing something.
We are coyotes howling in the night. Starved for truth and fed poison, we hope to feast on some carrion or another wounded animal not unlike ourselves.
We can all sense it - the desperation - the inevitable trainwreck - the End.
Oh well.
Like the passengers on a jet hurtling towards the ocean while the pilot sings, “Allahu Akbar” through the intercom, what can we do?
Some might pray.
Some might tighten every muscle and think they are preparing for the crash.
It would not surprise me if a few onboard would pull out their telephones and take pictures.
PEACE
Shamanic View: Sacred geometry (shamanview.blogspot.com)
George Orwell is certainly the author of these times. And the tine foils hats (or Faraday cages) could actually be useful to shield ourselves from the epic cosmic rays which seem to be affecting us from the enhanced solar activity and a weakening of the Earth’s electromagnetic shield. No insanity necessary to understand Orwell or true science.
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