Brainwashed America: Awakening from the illusions is generally in stages.

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Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix. (By Caitlin Johnstone)

Commenter: Eric Schechter (LeftyMathProf)

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I've said most of this before, but Caitlin Johnstone says it better. Here's one line of hers that I particularly liked, that I hadn't said before:

"... since it’s all narrative, anything is possible."

And here are a couple of things CJ doesn't say, that I think also deserve mention:

In the film "The Matrix," Neo's awakening is all at once. But in our real world, awakening from the illusions is generally in stages. People may be awakened on one issue and not on other issues -- and unfortunately they may then believe they are fully awakened, and they may stop looking further. They may form different and separate organizations, each devoted to one issue, without ever seeing how all the issues are connected.

And so they accept most of the mainstream narrative, and only object to some little elements in it. They see some little object -- this war, or that politician, or this corrupt law, or the absence of that reform law -- as the source of the problem, and they think "if only we could fix this, then things could get back to normal." And for "normal" they have accepted the mainstream narrative, the middle-class lifestyle that is depicted in light family dramas on every television channel. They don't see that all our problems are inherent in that very notion of "normal" life -- e.g., in our economic system, which is based on not sharing. We can't "solve our problems and get back to normal." What we need to do, instead, is expose the craziness that is inherent in our notion of normal, and begin a new and completely different world. But it's hard to imagine that different world, hard to talk about it, hard to figure out how we'll get there. Let's see what's on tv instead.

• 12:02 p.m., Wednesday Aug. 22 2018