Given the proliferation in recent years of ufo/paranormal/dreamtime imagery in the media (VW's "Reverse Engineered From UFO's" ad comes glaringly to mind), do you feel that this is actually changing or affecting the phenomenon itself? Is the mass-media consciousness causing the UFO phenomenon to change the way it interfaces with us?
 
 

Every week, "The X-Files" reminds us that "The Truth is Out There".  Every week, our favorite big-dicked, porno-luvvin' FBI Stud looks so sincere as he seeks "The Truth" with his sexy red-head FBI Babe at his side. 

"The Truth" is sexy!   "The Truth" is hip!   "The Truth" drives a new Bug!  "The Truth" has an iMac!

A few weekends ago, I went to see "The Matrix", with great anticipation.  I had heard that the storyline rocked, and the effects were stunning.  With "Sci-Fi Kewlness Receptors" on "tweak", I settled into my seat, only to be assaulted by what turned out to be just another "guns-n-kung-fu + boy NEEEEEDS girl" vehicle for Hollywood $$$$.  That, and another turn of the screw in the "preparation" of humans for the Possibly-Not-Quite-So-Nice "Truth" we all keep clamoring for. 

Do we really want the "Truth"?  Really?

I went to see The Matrix with another set of antennae out:  those of my oneironaut.  Those who have read my adventures  entitled "Off To See The Elves" (begun a full two and a half years ago), will recall that on my first "official" expedition, I was introduced to something that called itself (or was called by whatever Voice/Logos was present at the time) "The Matrix".  My overwhelming impressions were that the matrix is a sort of "storage bin", a place where time/space based "items" are catalogued and stored in a place that exists outside of this particular time/space continuum.  I wanted to see how this "impression" of my "matrix" jived with the one Hollywood came up with.  I also wanted to see if my rather uncomfortable discoveries about what is possibly the real nature of "going into the light" (and the feelings of being devoured by unfeeling non-carbon-based lifeforms while IN said light) would make the switch to the big screen.

Unfortunately, they do.

Not to spoil the movie for ya'll, but the basic plot of "The Matrix" is that humans (that's US, folks) are really nothing more than basically veal calves stuck in tiny crates, being tended and milked by machines for our energy to power their world.  We are given a "holodeck" projection to live in, and none of us knows.  Those who do figure it out are flushed, literally.   In the movie, the machines (machines "we" built) rule what's left of earth, and keep us all in our unknowing cattle-state through the Mass Hypno-steria of "The Matrix", our collective holodeck-like, computer-programmed existence. 
 

The overall impression I was left with is this:  we humans have been tricked from the outset about the true nature of reality and "our world", and it's movies like "The Matrix" in which our captors/masters/what-the-fuck-evers-they-are are slowly "letting the veil down" so that we humans are not all quite so shocked when we finally look over and really see who's in the next little crate, "when that which is hidden is finally revealed".  The film "Dark City" was a similar (slightly less successful) attempt at the same.  I suppose the first film to really open my eyes to this sickening situation being a real possibility was John Carpenter's "They Live".  And, of course, last summer's "Long Episode on The Big Screen" of the "X-Files" slipped right on in without the need for lube.

Other oneironauts have documented other-world places that are peopled with beings that "tend" the human while there and do everything in their seductive power to keep said human there, so that their energy may be tapped and utilized.  During the one of the last Expeditions I made, I felt as though I were being pulled into a "great light", and once there, made contact with decidedly NON-carbon based lifeforms which began to (literally) drain the very life essence out of me.

"The Matrix" is just the latest in a long string of movies and other media that are "preparing" us lowly little veal calves to finally meet our butchers face to face.  I know that sounds rather fatalistic and bitter, but think about it this way:

Anybody ever raise tropical fish?  (work with me here, dammit...)  If you have, you have also probably toyed with raising live brine shrimp to feed them.  In order to collect the feathery little critters to scoop them up into a net for your fishies, you hold a small flashlight at the end of the tank.  Them being phototropic little buggers, the unsuspecting  brine shrimps have no choice but to "go into the light", only to be nabbed by the aquarist and offered up to the community tank as a snack.   Why do all religions stress "going into the Light", and especially the New Age ones?  Maybe this little brine shrimp doesn't wanna get snapped up into the net, eh? 

If every thing you've ever been fed about this world, about US as a species, about "God", and about REALITY is all just a smokescreen for the TRUTH, then the TRUTH must not really be all that pleasant. 

I've had the feeling for a long time that perhaps the ultimate statement of the human situation would be one last brand new "Far Side" cartoon from Gary Larson. 

Picture this:  Fat, pimply, many-tentacled alien 7th grader with nerd glasses (complete with masking tape on nose bridge) runs to take his science-fair project (our Globe, encased in glass like an Ant Farm) to school, only to drop said "ant farm" on school steps, requiring the many-tentacled stamping of pesky escaped ants...

I figured this piece would end up sounding rather nihilistic, but I really wonder if we can stop this.  I really wonder if it is possible, in light of all that's transpiring every day on this crazy Ant Farm of ours...

I have (over the past week) been receiving e-mail updates of various "fringe" news that's not getting generally widely reported.  One is that there are CIA-engineered visions of Princess Diana being seen regularly reuniting lost children with parents in Kosovo.  This news blurb goes on to say that this is simply another stage in the "preparation" by the "New World Order" to prepare us to worship Diana, New Goddess.  Those who don't worship Di will disappear or be killed.  (So where do the Merovingians fit into this?) And don't forget those pesky Reptilians!  Why George Bush, Clinton, Nixon...all of 'em Big Lizards, every fuckin' one...not only that, but Big Lizards with a penchant for Mind Kontrol and anal sex! And of course, Bill Clinton aimed HAARP at Oklahoma to stir up the tornadoes that killed an equal number of Americkans as died in NATO's "bus" mistake.  Then NATO bombs the Chinese embassy (also  "by mistake"--Ooops!  Sorry!) and a comparable number of people die in a bus crash in Louisiana.  Paybacks are hell.  Especially engineered paybacks, engineered to bring a world to the brink of a totally fake world war so that "The Announcement" can finally be made to draw all us poor, lost little humans into "The Light".  This is what is being profligated on the "fringe" news fronts. 

With all this crazy bullshit, would it be so hard to envision humans as livestock that got out of hand?  Yeah, the gods got pissed at Prometheus for giving humans fire.  They always tell you in 4-H not to get too attached to that calf you been fattenin' up all year, boy, 'cause it's gonna end up as steak.  I wonder if Prometheus just made the mistake of getting attached to his "calves".

Do we REALLY want "The Truth"?????

I do.  I feel like a "Bruce Willis" sorta psychic warrior right now.  Strap on the ammo and let's bash some Reptile brainpans.  Get a big can of Raid for them Insectoid SuckerBeasts.  Look deep into the eyes of every "human" you meet and if you see a Lizard or a Bug down in there, pull the fuckin' trigger, bay-bay...you alien bastards  have buggered  my species without a reach-around for the last time! 

But, see?  I'm just feeding back their tripe to them, as they fed it to me.  One big freakin' feedback loop of lies as far as "the I" can see. 

Don't tell me "god" loves me.  I love a good steak, too.