There’s a huge problem when it comes to people’s conception of the leaders of the world. Generally, it’ll be whatever the annoited leader of whatever country is doing what thing. And that leader is either painted as a hero or a villain in order to fit into the hero’s journey framework that represents modern media. At this point in my life, that framework just seems a little bit silly because you’d pretty much have to analyze the world as individual frames instead of as temporal scenes in a constantly unfolding movie.

In media, we learn about the Roman Empire and how it conquered much of the world. Then, we learn about how it became incredibly corrupt and slowly collapsed. This lead to a “dark age” where everything was just really shitty because you just had a bunch of kings and knights who didn’t know what they were doing, and people suffered. After that came the renaissance where things started to get better because we had like art or whatever. After the renaissance, we had the enlightenment where we re-discovered democracy, science, and everything that we’re supposed to deify.

Out of this enlightenment came our modern-day government. But during this time, there were a handful of dalliances back into totalitarian rule that had to be squashed, and we vowed to never forget and to forge onward toward our brave new world where everything we do is carefully constructed by a team of infallable, learned individuals, but it’s okay because these individuals have our best interests at heart.

Questioning this is like questioning someone’s religion. I’ve had these discussions with people, and the above narrative is basically self-evident. If they subscribe to one side of the political spectrum, actors like Donald Trump are trying to bring back Hitlarian fascisim except that people have a hard time really drawing parallels between what’s actually going on vs what they see as going on in their minds. And if they’re on the other side, The Democrats have taken control of “our democracy” and are trying to implement socialism or communism or whatever, and we need to vote them out in order to restore our country to its founding. In the end, it’s all just lazy, retarded slop.

So, this brings us to the question of the day - if all of the narratives that we’re bombarded with on a daily basis are just shadow plays on the cave wall, then who’s really controlling the world? That question has been played out in a number of different ways - toward occultists trying to bring about profecised end times - or financialists corralling all of the world economies into buckets so that they can be traded on a shadow stock market - or whatever’s being peddled by that which passes for pirate radio nowadays.

In the end, the answer is probably all of the above to varying degrees. The reason we can’t imagine it is because these people don’t live in the same world as we do. They don’t have to worry about getting that promotion or solving some issue with their household because they have the resources to make any problem go away instantly. Their entire world is trying to figure out how to take as much influence for themselves. In this respect, the metaphor of these people being interdimensional beings kind of works. They exist in a completely different reality and only poke themselves into ours when they need something, and they use us as actors in their ever unfolding play.