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Most folks well informed in matters of synchromystic high strangeness are at least somewhat familiar with more noted tears in the fabric of consensus reality such as the1949 sci fi book that named the leader of its Martian civilization Elon, or that a 19th century science fiction author wrote a novel about a boy named Baron Trump who travels to Russia, followed by another called "The Last President". I mean sure, both of those are a bit eerie but nowhere near as freaky as the sheer volume of times Simpsons' writers have at least somewhat accurately predicted the future. I shouldn’t have to inform anyone about the whole Berenstain Bears memory rewrite business at this point, should I?
In my world all of those can be explained away fairly easily, although admittedly most squares would have a bit of a difficult time grokking the true reality of the sitch. I mean, humans are connected to a cosmic psi side of themselves that exists beyond the parameters of human time space perception. We've know this rather definitively for the better part of 50 years now but we just keep running away from it. Artists in particular are prone to often unintentionally tap into this pulsating field of living information which makes the Elon, Barron Trump, and continual deluge of Simpsons precognition pretty much exactly what we'd expect to happen given an acceptance of the circumstances. Think about it for a sec if it's not sinking in. It's not a hard concept to comprehend, it's only rendered difficult by the counter programming our societal institutions have embedded within us.
As for the Mandela Effect, well, I'm no expert but in studying psychology in my youth I was absolutely taught that human memory is exceptionally fallible, which is another fun fact we tend to intentionally ignore. Fallible to the point that we might as well be making it all up to a certain extent. It's more stories we tell ourselves than anything else. Knowing that, I've never been super impressed with the Mandela stuff, although I can't rule out the possibility that some higher force is re-writing those incredibly fallible memories on a mass scale either. Seems like something that might happen I suppose, considering how peculiar the mutliverse can get. I'm just not super compelled by the evidence given the circumstances is what I'm saying.
The NBA2K disappearing fans glitch however? That's a whole different level of odd. What am I talking about? Well, for several years leading up to 2020 there was a rare glitch in the certain one player modes of NBA2K where the fans just straight up vanished from the stadiums. Now, what I find particularly fascinating here is that not only did this rare glitch happen, but it just so happened repeatedly to one of the few dudes who'd eventually contemplate the uncanniness at length.
On a personal level, it soars into next level WTF territory as it involves the conscious universe demonstrating to me that it is not only stranger than I imagine, but rather stranger than I can imagine. That comes across like a fun Terrence McKenna referencing turn of phrase, but in this case it's literally true. When I was playing simulated hoops and my fans mysteriously vanished, I had to explain why this was happening to myself, and yet I simply couldn't. As I soldiered through stoned contests in empty coliseums for hours, I could not come up with a single cogent narrative by which these imaginary ball games would go down in massive halls filled with no one. I'm a writer and I had nothing in this instance. Zilch. I straight up could not envision a fictional scenario that would cause something seemingly so unlikely to actually go down.
Enter 2020.
Global pandemic was apparently the precise answer to this internal narrative black hole I'd accidentally wandered into and as of today, the prophecy has come to pass. Sure, the 2020 NBA season played out back in late October, but that was in a quarantined bubble whereas a whole season of b-ball played in front of vacant home stadiums officially tips off today, exactly as foretold in the glitch.
That's some serious ghost in the machine shit and as this rather bizarre digital prophecy comes to pass in the flesh, let's take another sec to contemplate the inherent curiousness of it all. I remember this happening in several versions of the game and finally being fixed in 2K20 but I have no hard proof that this is the case. We were just talking about how unreliable human memory is.
The above videos are in 2K17 though, so unlike the unintentional prophecies of adult animation writing teams, this went into effect a tad quicker. And rather than being easily explained with a connection to something like a collective unconscious that we all feel but refuse to accept exists, this hints at something even stranger, which is that all the fancy technology we're creating is not only a part of us on some level, but also tied to that same connective grid. I'd expect more and more of this type of eerily sentient precognitive digital glitch art in the century or so to come as we're not simply creating computer technology, what we're truly doing is creating deeper metaphors for something much, much larger. Keep that in mind at all times true believers.
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