August 19, 2023

by Doug “Uncola” Lynn:

In the film industry, there is a marketing strategy called “counterprogramming” whereupon two opposite types of movies are released on the same weekend. The idea is to appeal to separate demographics and, ultimately, drive more people to the theaters.

This occurred last month when two summer blockbusters were released on the same day, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer”.  The former is a film about the iconic children’s doll and the latter is about the inventor of the atomic bomb.

Interestingly, the release of the films began a social phenomenon called “Barbenheimer” where many film-goers would see both shows as a double feature.

Subsequently, while visiting relatives earlier this month, some of them asked if I would consider going to both films just for kicks, or, at the very least, if I would tag along to see “Oppenheimer” only.  The ladies were planning to see “Barbie” all dressed up in their pink summer outfits and they feigned dramatic sighs as I declined their offer. 

I told them I had read that “Barbie” was a man-hating film indoctrinating young girls with bogus ideas and said I would need to research “Oppenheimer” to see if it contained any “revisionist history” – especially before investing three hours of my time.  Of course, I was labeled a “Duggie Downer” amid a slurry of groans and giggles.

After a call from a relative, I had traveled to the region of my birth to get a box with my name on it. My relative and siblings were moving their aging parent into a nursing home and I was to receive some photos, letters, and memorabilia that were handed down through my father’s side of the family.

My great-grandfather fought in the Civil War and I was pleasantly surprised to find an 1862 Confederate $100 bill in the box.  In trying to discern its value, I was also surprised to learn that these are sold online for as little as $20 today.  “That’s probably why it was still in the box”, I thought to myself.

Additionally, I discovered a photo of my father I had not seen before. He was a child and wearing a wide-brimmed hat while holding a pitchfork outside of an old barn. The picture had his name written on the back with no date but I figured it would have been taken in the 1920s.

There were personal letters in the box, too, and I enjoyed reading them very much – and not just in relation to family history, but… history. 

One letter was sent from Italy in 1943 and signed by my dad. It began with “Hi Folks” and mentioned how he missed their fried chicken dinners.  He told them his plane was grounded and he would “enjoy sitting around the front room stove and bat the bull again”. He also said he had sent them a telegram the other day to let them know he was “still alive even if he didn’t write”.     

I found another letter addressed to my dad and written by his long-lost WW II Air Corps friend. It was typed as a memorandum on modern Air Force letterhead with his name and officer’s rank at the top.  The postmark on the envelope was stamped in 2005 and the return label showed an address in Hawaii. The man claimed he was on a B-29 during WW II and made missions from the “China, Burma, India theatre”, before being transferred to the Mariana Islands.  He then wrote: “…we dropped the big bomb on Hiroshima from there and also on Nagasaki and the war was over.”

After a brief online search, I could not find the letter writer’s name listed as a crew member on those historical “big bomb” missions, so I don’t know if he was actually involved in the delivery of the infamous Fat Man and Little Boy or not.  Regardless, surviving those particular theaters of war, he likely had more of an intimate perspective on the outcome of Oppenheimer’s explosive inventions than the 2023 film I had just declined to see.

The irony did not escape me and I found myself comparing the not-so-distant past with the New Normal®.

For a moment, like Barbie in The Land of Make-Believe, I wished I could escape the digital age of ubiquitous surveillance and fake elections; woke A.I.; bioengineered viruses designed for depopulation and tyranny; and the murderous Direct Energy Weapons (DEW) that some say recently targeted Hawaii to sell global climate controls.

Obviously, it’s not easy navigating the multifarious phenomena and conspiracies today.  Furthermore, I began to wonder if only technology has “advanced” as the insane world cycles forward just as it always has.

Eight decades ago, mushroom clouds blossomed over Japan. Some people had to die in order to stop a war and save lives. 

The irony.

It’s no different today.

The global financial elite are concerned for their survival amid overpopulation and planet Earth’s dwindling resources – so stories are sold.

Social, cultural, and civilizational phenomena are released like blockbuster movies on big opening weekends; and the corporate media serves as the “theaters”… ever projecting.

In my quiet moments, I sometimes envy people from history because they still had their dreams – visions of America the Good, Home of the Brave, Land of the Free.

I suppose my envy could be compared to desiring the blue pill in The Matrix. Ignorance is bliss. But history is a dream and the phenomena are the same as they ever were.  It’s just that an increasing number of people are waking up today and we can’t go back now: 

Health officials are waiting to hear whether a “small number” of people in Northern Ireland have tested positive for the new variant of Covid-19.

Eris is a descendant of Omicron and has been in the news amid a rise in Covid cases, especially in England.

– Source:  BBC, August 7, 2023 – “Covid-19: Tests to show whether Eris variant is in NI”

One of the latest Covid variant phenomena is named “Eris”, after the Greek goddess of strife and discord – merely another manifestation of the hubris of The Dreamweavers.  

If one stares through the static in the silence, they may hear Don Pardo in their head:  “Is it an ever-accelerating zoonotic virus… or a lab-escaped bioweapon?!”

Counterprogramming at its finest. All demographics covered.

Yet hope still remains: Songs like “Rich Men From North of Richmond” by newly famous  Chris Lunsford of Oliver Anthony Music, and country singer Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” have topped the musical charts this summer – even as the proverbial “go woke go broke” curtain closes on Bud Light.

Chants of “Let’s go Brandon!” are shouted around the nation and I saw a cut-out sticker of Joe Biden at the gas pump the other day, pointing to the dollar amount saying “I DID THAT!”:

In spite of the never-ending deceptive bullsh*t an awakening has taken place. Even so, when I run the historical, societal, and predictive mathematical sequences through to their completion, the results are not promising. The demographics are not there. At least not yet… and the show is almost over.

As a kid during the summers, I would lie on a grassy hill, chew on a blade of grass, and watch the clouds cross the sky as giant lumbering mastodons. I contemplated my future. But never in my wildest imaginations did I envision carrying in my pocket a hand-held computing and communication device, telephone, phone book, calendar, calculator, interactive world map, clock, flashlight, A to Z encyclopedia set, dictionary, thesaurus, music player, camera, video recorder, image and audio editors, photo album, Rolodex, television, movie theater, video game arcade, magnifying glass, menus for most of the world’s restaurants, daily newspapers, banks, portals to investment firms and trading houses, stock market tickers, precious metals market evaluators, taxi requesters, and a global shopping mall.

Smartphones have become too smart and too many folks today are too deceived. Moreover, in modernity, the comprehensive “convenience” is too hard for most to overcome.

U.S. states are now exploring digital identity initiatives.  These programs are being sold under the guise of “convenience”, but conservatives will likely buy them as a means to “secure elections”.  Of course, they won’t be promoted as such but, like Covid and climate lockdowns, digital identity applications are being developed to supplement CBDCs.  Digital debt makes the world turn… and slavery is rooted in economics.

Stated more plainly: The same moneychangers who greedily ran up unstainable global debt are now deviously planning to assign you a social credit score in accordance with their new reset.

And unfortunately… like at the box office… make-believe usually outsells historical drama during most theatrical runs – even if the recorded dramatic historical phenomena are mostly accurate.

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