The synchronicities are piling up…
I was just going to present you with this idea, and explain how a facet of truth gets twisted by con-men, be they the many fake “priests” of religions or the snake-oil salesmen of politics or the zombies of TikTiok attention-farming, and then… before I can do this, I come across this post instead that explains how today the fake, the simulacra of the digital world, actually shapes the reality we think we experience. He mentions and experience he had that perfectly captures the average normie NPC mind and how it operates:
A couple of years ago, my wife and I went away for a weekend to Donegal (the second most beautiful county in Ireland) the following week, I mentioned this trip in passing to a man I know. His response was immediate: “No you weren’t.”
When I asked why he thought I hadn’t been drinking stout in Donegal, he explained that he had seen nothing about it on Facebook. There were no photos, no posts, no sign ins, no digital trace. Since it had not been documented online, the event itself was treated as doubtful. This is hyperreality in everyday form. Reality no longer confirms representation, representation confirms reality. What is not documented increasingly struggles to be believed.
He further explains another important aspect of this form of mass hypnosis, the endemic apathy:
The News
Hyperreality is especially visible in modern 24-hour news culture, and in the incessant podcast commentary that now attends it. Most people never encounter wars, disasters, or political decisions directly. What they encounter instead is a constant stream of commentary: expert panels, graphics, opinion threads, and moral scripts telling them how to feel about it, and which side to pick.
What circulates is not the event, but interpretations of the event.
This produces a peculiar condition: people feel intensely informed and emotionally activated, yet largely powerless. One crisis replaces another with no resolution and no memory. Reality does not conclude; it refreshes. As Jacques Ellul observed, beyond a certain point information no longer enlightens but paralyses. Hyperreality doesn’t really need censorship, because it depends on saturation to achieve its goals.
And finally he mentions his possible partial solution:
Resisting the Hyperreal
For most of us there is no clean escape from hyperreality. It is not a platform one simply logs off from, but an environment in which we now live, and any promise of total withdrawal is usually just another performance within the same system.
Resistance, therefore, may not mean exit but reorientation.
It begins with restoring confidence in lived experience. What you have seen, done, and known in time and place matters, whether it is documented or not. Reality does not require validation by platforms to be real. To trust one’s own experience again is already to weaken the spell. It also requires a refusal of compulsory commentary, a hard one I know, but not every event demands a response, a position, or a ‘performance’. Much of what passes for engagement now, actually serves the circulation of the hyperreal, rather than the truth. Silence, in this context, is not apathy but discernment.
Hyperreality feeds on speed and intensity, it loosens its grip where life slows down. Walking, manual work, sustained attention, unmediated conversation, and reading oh reading! all recalibrate the senses. They remind us what life really feels like, when it is not optimised, framed, filtered or curated. Place and time matter here too, hyperreality flattens them, rendering everywhere interchangeable, and everything temporary. Returning to the same ground, the same paths, the same people, and the same rhythms restores weight to existence. Perhaps the most difficult resistance (certainly online) is choosing depth over visibility. Doing things that will never be seen by the masses, writing articles that will never go viral, or make you money. Caring without display, working without signalling, living, actually living, without documentation, without hyperreal images. Hyperreality depends on appearance, it weakens when our attention is withdrawn from the need to ‘appear’.
Hyperreality is the sea/goldfish bowl in which we swim, it cannot simply be wished away. But it does not have the final word, wherever reality is allowed to impose itself again, through bodies, limits, memory, place, and time the simulation falters.
This, is essentially why you have not seen me comment on the Russian war for many months. Or on everyday politics at all.
It is why I am getting myself ready to play with Cowboy Action Shooting and figuring out how to survive with power even in a grid down situation.
It is why I am building a throwing bowie knife from scratch, and trying to secure and improve our family home as a priority over the next few years while I also try to maintain and improve the farm and possibly our food supply.
As for the quote I wanted you to think about (but without getting the meaning of it wrong), it was this:
“ What if I told you that there was no coincidences, but rather that everything that happens is a response to your own vibrational frequency? ”
If you take this wrong, it is deeply hurtful and offensive. Say your child died horribly, am I saying it’s your fault? No. I am not saying that. Unless you actually caused it, of course, but not in this vibrational sense.
You see if our minds and unconscious is actually modulating reality then only a very disciplined mind that FEELS its way towards what it wishes to experience can actually hope to achieve some of that experience. And it is not easy to describe how you need to operate that feeling in order to have its constructed reality come to you, but I have tested it for 13 years now, and it does work.
But there are also all the other people on the planet, whose undisciplined subconsciouses are being driven by the TV and the mass media.
So… how can you possibly win that fight?
Simple: create your own bubble of reality and reality affirming truth. Based on PHYSICAL reality. Nothing does that better than playing with your children and working on your farm and not watching the news or reading a “news” paper (they are not news, they are fear propaganda.
So… stop. Do something outside, and for all that is holy, make friends IRL.
This post was originally published on my Substack. Link here
