Originally published on CanadianPatriot.org
We suffer more in imagination than in reality
—Seneca
From apocalyptic Day After Tomorrow doomsday scenarios to predictions of imminent cyber attacks with “covid-like characteristics,” while there is no shortage of doomsday scenarios in our age, the promise of a hopeful future or prospect of revival seems almost non-existent.
But might this be by design?
Is the world as countless Hollywood, Netflix and MSM narratives suggest, a soon-to-be dystopian “hunger games” in which hoards of renegade humans struggle for survival in a Mad Max eco-nightmare, or are we the victims of predictive programming and self-fulfilling prophecies? Is it possible that while ostensibly eschewing certain narratives on a conscious level, many of us are nonetheless acting them out unconsciously? And if the future isn’t as many predictive models suggest, what could it look like?
As the Tavistock Institute’s Brigadier John Rawlings Rees once observed, winning wars is not abo…
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