Narrative reality

I read a tweet from @MaxKeiser about the Batman massacre, half an hour after it happened. Like so many events, the random killing of people in a cinema attracted global attention. It took less than 24 hours not only to have the facts reported, 12 people killed and over 50 wounded, and a prime suspect being arrested after the shooting, but also have people talking all over the globe.

The alleged killer, with hair dyed red, wearing SWAT gear and a gas mask, had his flat booby-trapped with some sophisticated bombs that could have easily killed unsuspecting intruders. The mayhem started by someone entering through an emergency exit, throwing a smoke bomb and then the shooting started.

Basically, we know little more in terms of facts about this event. Yet our minds want to know more. We got exposed to a vicarious trauma, which needs transformation or it will lodge into our psyche. We know instinctively that something 'wrong' happened, luckily not to us. The circumstances suggest that it could happen to us, we can easily identify with going to the movies to watch some spectacular emotional roller coaster made in Hollywood.

Human nervous systems have been prewired to perceive injustice, and our minds demand closure. This means either believing that this event can't be repeated, or that some sort of punishment is dished out to the perpetrator. A psychopath on the loose creates nightmares for the community, understanding this event as a cruel 'act of god' allows the grieving process to start.

The 'lone gunman' narratives describes the current official reading of the story, no worries, we got him in jail, mourn your dead and move on. However, living in the age of web 2.0, of social media, 'talking points' find entirely new ways of being evaluated. The diversity of opinions on the interwebs approaches infinity, and random webs of connections make memes traverse the globe with increasing speed.

We don't even need to wait for some TV team to present their cluelessness, or some pre-scripted version of events, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube quench our thirst for information faster than any single commercial entity ever could. Media consumption has many of us desensitised towards random blood spilling, unless we identify the victims with our in-group. While we're used to hundreds of victims in bombing in the Middle East, massacres in the 'center of current civilisation' make it easier to appeal to our empathy glands.

The preparation for the Batman massacre opens the door to many questions, especially as to how this could all happen. Without a forensic reconstruction of the timeline of this event asking why he did it can't lead to useful conclusion. At this stage, we can't even conclusively say whether James Holmes has killed anyone. A movie theatre filled with smoke makes positive identification nearly impossible, especially of someone wearing a gas mask.

We haven't heard a confession of Holmes on record. During his court appearance he didn't say a word, and looked drugged. Ostensibly, he informed police upon his arrest about the booby-traps in his apartment, another detail that raises suspicion. The Joker, which he impersonated, would have enjoyed blowing up cops, remorse or respect for uniforms seems out of character.

The loner/nutcase explanation remains easiest to come to some closure, without really changing the vicarious trauma. The idea of a complex psy-op offers an alternative path to closure, and doesn't necessarily work out better to deal with the trauma. Although Ireland, Spain and Greece currently demonstrate how little governments hesitate to act against their people, condemning them to poverty and starvation to make some friends filthy rich, blind trust in government is one of aims of state education that usually sticks.

For now, we can only conclude that something really fishy goes on when the official narrative sticks with lone gunman myth. But then, seeing chemtrails on a regular basis might convince you as well to scrutinise messages from media and government a bit more thoroughly.

The Olympic Games in London start.on Friday, I doubt that we'll hear a convincing story from official sources. I wonder whether there's some important date within the Games, I hope David Icke chose the timing of his event well, otherwise the Batman Massacre might look tiny in comparison to London. It certainly withdraw the focus of the security screw up from G4S, which invited many ideas about the next 911 to finalise the NWO takeover (or however you call a prison planet, or global fascism, or One World Government, or Neo Feudalism, or Check mate for mankind, or what ever).

Yet, unless you know someone who was sitting in the Aurora theatre, or someone who was involved in its preparation, you can easily find solace by some simple considerations. It doesn't really matter what exactly happened. But the probability to fall victim to such an event is really small, lottery millions kind of small. Sharks and lightning will get you faster, and if the endgame has begun (and have any idea what endgame means) then better prepare yourself.

If we want to save this planet, everyone is needed. If the endgame continues, most people are dispensable. However, the people, united, can never be defeated. Sweet dreams of the Dark Knight.