If we take what digital physics evidences to be true, that the reality in which we live is a probabilistic simulated virtual reality fundamentally consisting of information, we may attain to a more accurate operational model of the world in which we live. This "It from Bit" perspective explains the collapse of the wave function and the observer effect in quantum physics along with other unsolvable paradoxes of science. It also provides for the understanding of consciousness as an information system fundamental to the experience of physical and non-physical phenomenon.
Reality itself is an artefact of consciousness working upon it through the effect of its choices, by degree determining the level of order and disorder in the arrangement of information being processed by consciousness.
Consciousness manifests reality; it more accurately reflects it as a state of its own entropy. The level of the disorder within its own system of awareness is projected outward onto the world by the quality of its choices.
We live in a probabilistic virtual reality that we and our ancestral lineage have cumulatively contributed to to bring into realisation by the choices that we make.
We have literally, all of us combined collectively, nudged into existence (through the quality of our choices in each and every moment of our exitences), the quality of our reality and the state of our world.
We are all responsible or complicit in varying degrees, by our actions and inaction, for what we are witnessing on a planetary scale - the destruction and self annihilation of our species.
We could say that no such thing is taking place whatsoever and deny the evidence before our very eyes, but it will not change one iota the inevitable death and destruction yet to unfold upon this earth until we each stop and take stock of what we have all knowingly or unknowingly and collectively, helped to manifest.
This is the aggregate of marginal gains at work over the space of millenia, in concert with the universal laws as per the Hermetic principles of Thoth. Reap as you sow; As above so below, as within so without.
Mankind has, through willful determination and their collective Intent, ignorance, impunity, abrogation and sheer arrogance, brought about the manifestation of its own demise.
When we factor into this equation the idea that running behind the common man's experience of reality, its system of existence so to speak, there is already an alternative reality system that is operational and set up to serve the ruling classes of our society, (that millenia ago was established as an umbrella system within which the reality of the masses would be nested and operate - a matrix if you will, of a false reality that the Povo have been made to live within whilst those that see themselves as elite do not), you have the basis of a far more complex and interdependent reality than most can begin to imagine.
Every disease and every device ever invented has an overt and covert purpose in shaping the false reality of the ignorant masses. We can trace the inception of this false reality to Plato, to his Noble Lie, and the metaphor of Plato's Cave.
If we combine what we know from the collective works of Plato, Machiavelli and Sun Tzu with those of Einstein, John Archibald Wheeler and David Bohm amongst others, what is described above doesn't seem as fanciful as one might initially imagine, and it provides for the necessary paradigm shift essential for understanding reality in it's present state of existence.
The ruling classes have built a seemingly unassailable position of strength and power over the masses during the course of thousands of years, in the form of a military industrial complex.
This allows them to control the reality system that the majority of our race experiences as True, whilst enabling them to maintain their place of privilege and luxury on the planet, (through keeping up the appearance of freedom on one hand, and quietly culling the population on the other). They do this by creating a kind of Potemkin Village scenario in the world and controlling what is known as the Overton Window. With this mechanism it becomes necessary only to control the narratives and maintain the appearance of normality in the world so that the imprisoned populations continue to live under the illusion of freedom.
Just as any closed system will do over time, the reality system of our world has begun to collapse, necessitating that the ruling classes usher in a New World Order under controlled circumstances. The appearance is that they have lost control of their power but nothing is further from the truth. This is a clever ruse to ensure that the masses play along with the trick they are being played.
What you believe to be true is never the truth because knowledge is power and the first rule of war for the ruling classes is that you will not have any kind of knowledge that is of any consequence. Whatsoever. However, should at any point in time the masses get any ideas above their station measures are put into place to diminish, demean, marginalise, obfuscate, refute and discredit them, ensuring that the reality system will continue to replicate the illusion of some sort of normality. The element of doubt and fear is always at hand to assist in the development of tunnel vision, but where this is ineffective other means are employed to maintain the status quo.
I say let the masses be asses! The collective is gonna collective, mainstream is gonna mainstream. There are many of us sovereign individual errants exiting and building, operating freely and making masterpieces of our lives by breaking the constraints on our minds and reclaiming the agency of our powers to dream and create.
Hello, by the way! Nice to see you Elliot. :)
Hard to remember at times like this but it is all an illusion, Maya when we become self realised it all disappears. From form to the Formless.