The Graduate is a 1967 comedy, ranked by the inbred Hollywood circles as one of the greatest American films of all time.
Early in the film is a scene that gives a prediction — a pre-anouncement, rather — of what’s to come.
“I just wanna say one word to you,” says Mr. Maguire. “Just one word.”
“Yes, sir,” says Ben, the young graduate.
“Are you listening?”
“Yes, sir, I am.”
“Plastics”
The world has changed a lot since 1967, and none of that change was good. And it all started with a single word, spoken in that fateful graduation party.
“Exactly how do you mean?” asks the perplexed graduate.
“There is a great future in plastics,” says Mr. Maguire.
And he was right.
Their chat was quickly dismissed and forgotten. The graduate got busy with Mrs. Robinson, and the audience moved on from one distraction to another; never paying attention, never asking questions. Because if only they’d bothered to ask, it would all be rather obvious:
Humanity’s afflictions are not random. As the cliché goes, things don’t just happen on their own.
Have you noticed a trend with all challenges in the modern world? Isn’t it curious how “global” problems seem to somehow always start in the developing world before they move to the West?
Example:
As early as 1904, vacc1nation was compulsory by law in French colonies in Africa. We read and saw photos of poor and desolate populations in Africa queuing up for vacc1nes. We kept reading about the UN, the UNICEF, the WHO, and all their valiant efforts to stem the spread of disease. At the same time, we watched endless Hollywood blockbusters drilling the idea of scary v1ruses into the Western subconscious.
Well, we all know what happened next — the “crisis” migrated to the West and the Hollywood fiction became reality.
Here’s a more recent example:
A few years ago we read the news about Nigeria adopting central bank digital currencies. Fast forward a few years and the EU is now officially testing a digital Euro. [Of course, we’d need a proper “crisis” to popularize the switch, so stay tuned for some scary-sounding evil hacker taking down the banking system, seconds before its preordained collapse.]
But why stop there?
Remember what happened in Rw4nda back in 1994? It was the first instance of inexplicable crowd madness. Just about that time, Hollywood kicked off the Resident Evil franchise and popularized the zombie genre. Amazon even added a zombie apocalypse clause in their terms of service agreement.
“Such a pain, cloning Agents over a coppertop. Far more effective just to saturate a population. And, bonus, swarm mode is sick fun.”
– The Analyst, Matrix Resurrections
What I’m saying is this:
When the architects of “our democracy” want to beta test their methods, they always start in the developing countries and in Hollywood movies.
Which brings us to plastics.
The deterioration of plastic packaging and synthetic fibers results in tiny <5 mm fragments, called microplastics. And those things are everywhere — from the oceans and the soil, to water, food, and even in the air. Southeast Asia has been swimming in plastic for decades.
What happens when all this plastic enters the human body? In April this year, I wrote:
Research demonstrates that endocrine-disrupting microplastics (and phthalates) obliterate testosterone in men. Hence the lower sperm counts. When women are exposed to microplastics in cosmetics, gym clothes, and processed food, their male offspring are born with irreversibly diminished masculine markers. Any wonder everything around us is made out of plastic?
As a result, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand have some of the greatest numbers of gender dysphoria in the world, to the point where they officially recognize a 3rd gender.
So where do we go from there?
One microwave meal, one baby milk bottle, and one plastic toy at a time — all this plastic was eventually transplanted into the Western world. The architects of “our democracy” have been busy infusing our food, water, and clothes with plastics. At the same time they’ve been defiling our culture to make it look like the effects of poisoning are natural, acceptable, and good for us — so good in fact that we should flaunt them with pride. In the meantime, the crime of using wrong pronouns (misgendering) can lead to long prison sentences and big fines.
But the effects of plastic don’t stop with the health of the individual.
Look around you. Everything is made out of plastic these days.
“I'm a Barbie girl in the Barbie world,
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!”
Barbie Girl, Aqua
In many parts of the world, you can’t walk a few steps without treading on disposed face diapers, plastic water bottles, and Coke cans. But, yeah, the global controllers (who finance and govern the polluters) are supposedly losing their sleep about the environment. And mainstream mouthpieces keep telling us that we, humans, are the problem, and that it is carbon — i.e. human life — that is bad for the environment.
In other words, they do what they’ve always done. They cause the problem, and then use it to steal our wealth and undermine our freedoms. In August 2022, I wrote:
Our natural world is a fractal. The unit is inseparable from the whole. Our ecosystem thrives when its constituents thrive [ . . . ] Humans cannot be bad for the environment because humans are the environment. Human life is sacred. Our well-being is sacred.
Things were different before plastic.
We used to mend our clothes; we fixed our tools when they broke, and we passed them down to the next generation.
Stainless steel, gold, silver; everything spoke of quality, dignity, and generational continuity. Our grandfathers wore clothes made of leather, linen, cotton, and silk. Their food was home-made, naturally organic, and local. There was nothing synthetic, no plastic packaging, and no waste.
Fast forward to the 21st century; a time when everything is disposable, non-committal, and ugly. There is no quality any more and no dignity. And, of course, there is no continuity. We dispose of our ethics, traditions, and beliefs the same way we dispose of plastic junk.
“New camera. New design. Newphoria.”
That’s how Apple advertises iPhone 15. If it’s old, it is obsolete and oppressive, and we should sacrifice it in the altar (and landfill) of progress.
And the optics are bad.
Our clothes look bad, our tools look bad, our forests, ocean, and backyard look bad. And the humans consuming all this plastic don’t look any better either.
It’s no surprise that plastic has compromised our ability to think.
Case in point:
A plastic Uniball pen costs $2. A stainless-steel Parker costs $15. When the plastic pen runs out, you throw it away. When the Parker runs out, you replace the ink cartridge for $2. You can then keep the pen for a lifetime and pass it on to your son.
Which of those pens is cheaper? Which pen gives you a better deal?
The price of a Big Mac, a microwave mug cake, and a Sprite appears insignificant when compared to real food. And yet, imagine what would happen if fake food suddenly disappeared. The masses would suddenly wake from illusion — all it takes is 3 missed meals, apparently.
If it weren't for cheap plastic junk, the price of everything would be orders of magnitude higher.
Why?
Because our money is fake. From early 2020 to late 2021, US dollars in existence went from 4 trillion to 20 trillion.
Well, guess what happens when the supply of fake monopoly money doubles, triples, and quadruples.
Prices go up, right?
And yet, the masses believe that prices are going down. Our televisions are cheaper, our smartphones are cheaper, our clothes and food are cheaper.
How can that be?
It’s simple. After falsifying our money, the architects of “our democracy” started falsifying everything else: our food, water, clothes, tools, entertainment, culture, and the entire reality that the masses inhabit is now made out of plastic — in other words it’s fake.
Mass-produced plastic junk drove artisans and honest craftsmen out of business by undercutting the cost of honest materials and honest labor.
Good luck trying to replicate your grandparents’ standard of living without going bankrupt. But, hey, you can order your Chicken McNuggets with a swipe, aren’t you privileged? And when the masses invariably get sick, the pharmaceutical industry welcomes them with open arms. (By the way, the word pharmaceutical originates from the Greek word pharmaki, which means poison. Pharmakeia means sorcery.)
The joke is on us, ladies and gentlemen.
In the meantime the wealth of the masses transfers into the hands of those who direct our downfall.
Speaking of wealth, the architects of “our democracy” don’t value our currencies because they are the ones who counterfeit and print them to infinity. Instead, they own assets; they own productive farm land, they eat free-range beef, they write with silver fountain pens, they wear leather footwear, cotton jackets, and they jet-travel in style.
And nobody cares.
Stupefied with mind meds, Netflix poison, and lost in their Vision Pro La-La-Land, the masses are incapable of appreciating just how dire their collective predicament is.
The good news, however, is this: it really doesn’t matter what the masses do.
Please understand, what is happening is a religious war for the soul of the one — of the person. It’s not about the masses and the many, but the single and undivided (individual) person.
Don’t let yourself get unpersonned. Exit the illusion, denounce the lies, embrace reality.
This battle is about the things we do throughout the day; our food, our clothes, and everything that constitutes reality for us.
Here are just a few examples of things we can do:
I replaced my plastic pen with a stainless steel Parker Jotter.
My daily sandals are made of leather, produced by a local company. The sole is rubber — which I’m okay with for the extra grip, rain resistance, and price — but for anything other than active footwear consider leather soles.
Casio makes inexpensive wristwatches with stainless steel bands.
Throw away all polyester and synthetic clothes. Opt for 100% cotton, linen, leather, and silk. Don’t mix your fabrics.
Distill water at home to remove micro-plastics and all chemical contaminants from your water. Store water in glass bottles.
Get rid of all plastic cookware, food containers, and anything that is plastic from your kitchen. Stick with wood and stainless steel.
Avoid barcode-laden supermarket products. Buy from open markets and local farms.
Throw away your plastic water bottle. Use stainless steel when outdoors and glass when indoors.
Use a wooden toothbrush, bamboo interdentals, and make your own toiletries.
Plastic is fantastic. It is not real.
When our things are real, we tend to value and respect them. We become mindful of those who made them and those who will inherit them. Real things substantiate and bring meaning to our lives. We are no longer ephemeral and disposable.
Human life is sacred. We may as well treat it as such.
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Disturbingly and heart-achingly true. 😱 An alarming, timely and urgent wake-up call! 🤩