The theme in recent blockbuster movies and bestselling books has really got me thinking…
How do I know that I’m not being tricked into believing that I am an average human when, in reality, I have powers beyond comprehension but because of the wool over my eyes, I have been unable to harness it.
Of course, anybody reading this will know that I’m not secretly powerful or famous, but turn it around. Suppose that you are the one with blinders, who only sees what others allow them to see and that if you could look at the world as a whole, the real world, you would find that you were super-human.
Now hiding a fact that big from anybody would be difficult but would it even be concievable that one could fool a diety-esque individual into believing that they have the same inablilities as the average human?
A conspiracy of that type would be massive. Every moment of the “person’s” day would have to be rigorously planned out, but it seems to me that it could be done.
My question is this: Given unlimited resources, funds, manpower, etc. wouldn’t there still be telltale signs to the individual being conspired against that the world was not quite right? If you say no, I pose a second question: How do you know that you are not subject to a similar conspiracy?
In Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex, the author pointed out that Ma & Pa Kent must have had a hard time explaining to young Clark that most people couldn’t see through things, and that things had opaque surfaces…
When I was small, I actually had a fear of the opposite situation - that I was actually quite stupid and incompetent, but that my parents had somehow arranged for everyone to act as though I was smart so that I’d never notice.
The other night I saw Willard Scott on a late-night talk show, plugging his new book. He said he was considering changing his name to Hillary Potter to boost his book sales.
I think there’s a grain of truth to this. I suspect that many many people have abilities and tendencies suppressed because they are …inconvenient… to the rest of the world. Now, granted, some of these tendencies may be along the lines of ‘stalking the innocent’, but a lot more are just things that don’t fit into the boxes that we’ve made of our lives.
It’s like that movie of Jim Carrey…was it the truman show? i don’t remember…
In any case, he suposedly started noticing that people are reacting weird to whatever he did…He made loud noise in a market to show his best friend that people didn’t react to him, which was strange…
But if he’d been in this bubble world since infancy, nothing should strike him as odd about the people’s behavior… well of course, there was the lamp-projector thing that fell out of the sky…
Exactly. That’s what makes it difficult to prove one side or the other. Think about it: How do you prove that there’s a large-scale conspiracy against you? Conversely, how do you prove that there isn’t? Any argument offered can be countered given unlimited resources and manpower.
Well all i can say if i’m owned by some Tv Show and they watch my every move:
"Oh how i pity those poor suckers to have been condemned to watch such a dull person "
lol that network would be bankrupt in no time…hehehe
mambozzy You’re right. Any argument given could have a counter argument. But what if you have all these abilites well hidden within you, and the only reason you don’t realize them is because no one showed you how…or you saw how others are around you and just wanted to be like them.
It still all sounds like mumbo-jumbo, but i do believe in something. Children are stereotyped as having a very wild imagination. I disagree. They do have a big one, granted, but i think they see/sense things that are out there that we lost contact with…
