Is Reality A Pill People Cannot Swallow?

 
How much water will this take? How much liquid to get this down?

The pill jams in the throat, the feeling of choking can be felt, the body reacts, knowing something is wrong; but in today’s world, where thought and perception are manipulated at every turn through propaganda, they are trying to manipulate, trying to convince the conscious self to ignore the subconscious reaction.

They dangle carrots before us; they offer us stuff, things, material possessions; they tell us to disregard sound practise, common sense, prudent living, in favour of their drug that distracts us from the stark realities of life. How many people now find themselves in insurmountable debts drowning them? How many people are turning away from the threatening letters of loss or repossession?

So many have enjoyed the good times, so many have indulged, had things beyond their wildest dreams; seemingly gifted from nowhere.

Who could have seen the future, where this could all come to an end, where abruptness becomes reality and change is forced upon the people?

Money is free to some, they pull it like a rabbit from the hat; they attribute it, they gift it to themselves, then they expect us to pay for it. How many millions of people, how many billions of people have come and gone, unbeknown to them their embroilment in gifting their existence to someone else?

The markets are rigged; housing, banking, stocks and shares, money; the skeletons in the closet are beginning to force the doors. Their weight of number is now so great that if the few can no longer keep them contained, the world will get to see the skeletons for what they truly are.

How long can they keep us in the dark? How much longer, in these failing economies, can they keep the truth from the people?

We can believe all they say, if we choose to;

but if we do …