We live in strange times. It’s a time, I believe, unlike any before. What makes this time especially strange, is that it’s a “divided” world that to my knowledge is unique in history.
At the present time, we not only have had increasing divisiveness between (primarily) two different groups of people, but there is a sense that this division is so deep, that our perception is that we are actually living in parallel universes. The worldviews of those I will refer to as lefties, “normies”, or the “woke” and those I would call “the awakened”, are so distinct, their perception of reality so completely different, that as many have found, it’s become nearly impossible to talk to those on the other side. These two groups of people really see almost everything in the world and current events, entirely differently.
This situation recalls that found in the Matrix movie, where it’s discovered by the character Neo, that he’s living in a kind of simulation world run by machines, where with the help of the character Morpheus, Neo and Trinity rebel against the machines in order to free humanity.
Background Contest: The Lead-Up to the Matrix Time
During the time I came of age, in the 1980s and 1990s, to be liberal meant to in a sense be a “rebel”, be critical and questioning about government and institutions, the status quo. It meant to stand for “the little man” against the machine of faceless bureaucracy and heartless corporations.
However, over time, and in particular with the rise of identity politics, Critical Race Theory and DEI, certain worldviews and ideologies associated with the political left, went mainstream. These ideologies, which we call “woke” ideologies, began in and then took over universities, then government, then corporations, as well as the media and entertainment industries. All these ideologies focused on attending to the needs of allegedly greatly oppressed minorities, and oriented around what has come to be called the “trans agenda”, or “trans insanity”, often through DEI or non-discrimination policies, as well as focused on the alleged problem of “white supremacy”, had gone mainstream. There was an inordinate focus on “hate groups”, which in practice meant, people with views that would be characterized as middle/center or conservative. Ironically, the left would demonstrate quite a bit of hate, but in their minds, they were allowed to hate, while the other side wasn’t. The entire edifice of identity politics and Critical Race Theory is built on such hypocrisy and really a set of two entirely different sets of rules: one for whites, the other for minorities. This two-tier justice system eventually worked its way into all institutions, even showing up in the DOJ and FBI, and certainly all mainstream media, which had all been weaponized by the woke.
Kamala Harris, in her usual nincompoop hyena-cackling style, encouraged everyone to “stay woke.”
Yet the irony was lost on the many woke folk, that the very fact that their own worldviews and values had been incorporated, reflected and put into policy across government and institutions around the nation and world, meant that they were no longer “the resistance” as they claimed. They were the status quo. They were the privileged ones, the ones with the control of the levers of hiring and firing, deleting posts and terminating accounts, deciding who was unlawfully “hateful” and whose hate was good, even to the point of the woke-weaponized FBI labelling as “domestic terrorists” parents who spoke out at school board meetings, against the trans agenda in elementary schools.
One may well wonder how such bad ideology as the woke nonsense could spread over the entire nation. And that’s where we come to the main theme of the Matrix movie. Because in my opinion, this didn’t happen organically. It was done intentionally, coordinated by a shadow organization that we call a global crime syndicate or Cabal.
Now I never used to believe in what to me sounded like conspiracy theories about a shadow government or New World Order bent on world takeover and the imposition of a totalitarian One World Rule. I had not been much interested in politics, I voted Democrat, and considered myself mainly an artist and nature photographer. When I would hear people say things like “9-11 was an inside job” or “the moon landing wasn’t real”, I wouldn’t dismiss them — because, after all, who knows — but I had little to no interest in exploring such theories. I just pursued my passions in life and like everyone else, struggled to make a living and pay the bills.
All that changed in 2020, which I regard as the year when we decisively “entered the Matrix”.
This began with the Covid pandemic. When this started in March 2020, I thought we were in for another black plague. I expected to see people dropping dead in the streets. At the time, I had mostly longer-stay Airbnb guests, which has always been my preference. I had a couple students staying for a few months to complete some work at the local university. Upon the start of the pandemic, these immediately cancelled their stay and returned home to Europe. Eventually, the university itself shut down to in person classes. Face mask mandates went into effect, various businesses were shut down. I was puzzled because while these drastic government and institutional responses were going into effect all over the nation and world, I could see very little impact on the public from Covid itself. Statistics continued to show that very few people were getting seriously impacted or dying from Covid. I personally knew not a single person who’d “had Covid”. Government statistics revealed the death rate from Covid to be extremely low except in the elderly population, which as we know is more at risk of death from ordinary flu as well. In essence, Covid was just a bad flu, yet there was this quite dramatic, vast and heavy, as well as overreaching, government response to it.
I began to be concerned when the face masks mandates went beyond 2 weeks, then beyond 2 or 3 months. I began doing research into the legality of these mandates, and discovered that governments, institutions or businesses are not allowed to require people to use a medical device, which a face mask is. I also observed that churches were being shut down in some areas,https://nclalegal.org/covid-closure-of-churches/ and https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/us/pastor-macarthur-church-california large gatherings being prohibited by government, “social distancing” being imposed, many stores were forced closed by heavy handed government Covid policies, and there were even ridiculous things happening like police arresting people on a beach in Santa Cruz or Long Beach, claiming that people had no right to be in these public places due to some Covid related risk. In fact some I realized that none of these things that government was doing, were lawful, and that a very vast unlawful overreach of government was taking place around the nation, and around the world.
Around this time is when I began to see the huge divide grow between two groups of people. On the one side, were people who simply believed whatever their governments told them, and who seemed to never question if the actions of government during the pandemic were lawful or not. They seemed to be motivated primarily by fear: if the government could make them fearful, could point to alleged grave dangers to public health and safety, these people apparently saw no limit to what government was permitted to do, to attend to an “emergency.” They apparently never thought of the possibility that the government had created the “emergency” precisely to be able to use it to justify their unlawful overreach and expansion of power and control, and deprivation of people’s rights.
On the other side, were people who stood for freedom and our rights under law, and viewed the government’s response during the Covid pandemic as unlawful, tyrannical and even totalitarian. In particular, people in this group were deeply concerned, and indeed outraged, when the Covid vaxxes were finally developed, and began to be pushed on people through various “vaxx requirements” in businesses, institutions and government. Never in my life had I seen a campaign for vaccination like the massive campaign for Covid vaxxes. Remember when people were offered donuts or hamburgers for getting vaxxed? Remember the disturbing “Vax-Scene” skit on the Colbert show?
I wondered why there weren’t more people who were concerned about the massive propaganda push to get vaxxed, when Covid was doing so little harm, at most showing up as a bad flu. Why would people be so heavily pressured to get vaxxed?? Especially since the vaxxes were not authorized by the FDA, were only experimental, and if you opened a box of a Covid vaccine to see the ingredients listed on the insert inside it, you found nothing but a completely a blank page.
Unlike those in the first group, who obediently got their vaxxes and boosters and went like lambs to a slaughter, the rebels in the 2nd group did their research and realized these vaxxes were only experimental and had not been authorized by the FDA. For that reason, as well as the fact that no one in government or business may ever impose medical interventions on any person, it was prohibited for any government or institution to impose vaxx mandates on anyone.
But if the difference between the two groups had only been as regards government response to the pandemic, the divide would not have grown to the staggering abyss that it is today. What happened after people began receiving Covid vaxxes greatly deepened the abyss of the divide. Because many people began being injured or even dying from the Covid vaxxes. Many MANY people began to be injured or die. This was clear not only from first-person testimonies, and many videos and stories that appeared online, but also from the government’s own data on their VAERS site for vaccine adverse events reporting. https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html
There were thousands upon thousands of adverse events reported in response to the Covid vaxxes, including many deaths. Yet quite strangely, and very concerningly, none of this was reported on any of the mainstream news sites. In the times of the swine flu, in 1976, the swine flu vaccination program was halted in 9 states over just 3 deaths following vaccination, as reported here: https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/13/archives/swine-flu-prograrm-is-halted-in-9-states-as-3-die-after-shots.html
As well, 450 people came down with Gullain-Barre syndrome after receiving the swine flu vaccine, which led to the end of the swine flu vaccine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-shadow-1976-swine-flu-vaccine-fiasco-180961994/
The whole swine flu vaccine affair was a debacle of large scale proportions. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200918-the-fiasco-of-the-us-swine-flu-affair-of-1976
Yet for the debacle that it was, the number of reports of people injured or killed by the swine flu vaccine was less than 500. Yet those numbers were made public and widely viewed as totally unacceptable. By contrast, now in 2020 and 2021 and beyond, their own data on the VAERS site showed that the Covid vaxx had injured or killed many thousands of people, and there was not a word about these injuries or deaths showing up anywhere on the news. This was extraordinarily suspcious and very deeply concerning.
Not only was there complete silence about all these vaxx injuries on the mainstream media, but I saw or heard reports from many in my circle, that they had attempted to post about the risks or dangers of the Covid vaxx somewhere online — on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok– and had their posted removed by the platform. In some cases their entire account was banned. Their posting of actual stories of vaxx injuries to people they personally knew, or their reporting of actual vaccine injuries from the government VAERS site itself, was being censored and deleted by all these platforms as “medical misinformation.”!! Not only that, but some nurses, doctors and other medical professionals and scientists, ended up fired, because they spoke the truth they were seeing about the lack of science behind the mask mandates, the social distancing requirements, or the dangers of the Covid vaxxes.
So with this widespread censorship of the truth, and very important truth at that, things turned from very concerning, to clearly nefarious. This vast level of suppression of truth, across all the media, across virtually all social media (except for alternative social media like Telegram, Rumble and Bitchute) pointed to only one possibility: that there was a nefarious shadow government operating, with the intent of killing people with the Covid vaccine. And also, that this nefarious shadow government, in essence a crime syndicate, was also controlling the whole mainstream media and virtually all the social media platforms, to ensure that the truth could not get out, at least not on a large enough scale to be taken seriously. It could be reined into smaller areas and dismissed through a coordinated propaganda campaign, as “conspiracy theory.”
As people on the woke left marched like a herd of sheep to line up to get their vaxxes, and dutifully wore their masks everywhere like the latest fashion in virtue signalling, they were slavishly showing their obedience to a crime syndicate that was carrying out plans for genocide. At the same time, those who we came to refer to as the “awake” (in contrast to woke) were forming “health freedom groups” and working to support awareness of what was actually happening in our nation.
So you can see that wtih this development of events, the divide between the primary two groups of people, grew much larger. It was no longer just a difference of opinion as regards government response to the pandemic. Rather it was, on the one hand, a group of what I began to call “Sheeple-people” who were sleepwalking through life, simply accepting whatever they were told by government or the “boob tube”, and on the other hand, people who had begun to realize that the only way to interpret the data points they were seeing, was that our government had been hijacked by a global crime syndicate intent on genocide of a large number of the public, and aimed at the gradual elimination of our rights under law. Clearly, the Covid vaccine had not been developed for the pandemic. Rather, it became clear that the pandemic had been created, for the Covid vaccine.
But if this massive divide were not enough, along came November 2020 and the Presidential election. Although to this point in time I had always voted Democrat, including for Hillary Clinton in 2016 (to my embarrassment at present), once I perceived what was going on in our nation, how in essence we were experiencing a “silent genocide” that at least half the nation was oblivious to as it was happening, I voted for Donald Trump in 2020. I began to realize that what distinguished him from everyone else in politics, was not that he was a racist or bigot or narcissist or massively egotistical, which were the accusations made by the woke. Rather, what distinguished him, and caused an incredible amount of propaganda to be directed at him, was that our nation was being controlled by a global crime syndicate, a Deep State, and Donald Trump was the only one standing up to this.
I also saw in 2020, the enormous amount of support Trump was getting. Hence, I was quite shocked when on November 4 2020, the day after the Presidential election, it was declared that Joe Biden had won. I very much doubted this had occurred. I began to go on Twitter looking for information. What I found, were many posts and videos, which gave evidence of widespread and large scale election fraud in the 2020 election. There were videos of “missing suitcases of ballots” mysteriously discovered. There were videos showing people putting two dozen or more ballots into a ballot drop box. There were videos showing that Republican poll observers were unlawfully kept out of certain areas where they were required by law to be given access. There were even videos showing that the number of votes for Trump had gone DOWN in a particular area. Eg at one point in time, the news reported that there were 238,000 votes for Trump in a certain region, and a few minutes later, that number was shown as 160,000. That isn’t possible. It was indicative of fraud.
Simply put, the events of 2020-2021, the pandemic and the deadly Covid vaxxes, the 2020 election fraud, very greatly deepened the divide between the two main groups of people in the nation, and the world. It was no longer that two groups of people just had different political views, different views on things like the economy, the environment, government spending, immigration and housing, and short term rental regulations. It was now that literally one group of people entirely believed and naively trusted the “mainstream narrative” as put out by their government and mainstream media, while the other group, realized that nefarious criminals had infiltrated and were running our nation, and aimed not only to gradually deprive us of rights while unlawfully expanding their powers through completely contrived emergencies, but also aimed to perpetrate genocide on the American people, and the world.
When seen thus, the absolutely stark and irreconcilable contrast of the viewpoints of these two groups of people is unmistakable. And as I will go on to explain, this made for unique challenges as an Airbnb host.
Airbnb Hosting in a Matrix World
Again, I use the term “Matrix World” because there is hardly a better way or better symbolism to describe this time. We are literally living in a “simulated world”, a world where all the information provided by the “mainstream” government, industry, universities, media, education system, entertainment system, medical system and so on, is propaganda and lies, narratives introduced to intentionally decieve people. And a great many people have been taken in by these lies. Why wouldn’t we be? Who would ever have suspected such a bizarre and massive crime to take place on earth, as a global crime syndicate gradually infiltrating governments around the planet, with a long term plan to set up a totalitiarian One World Government? The very idea sounds patently ridiculous, insane.
It’s only by perceiving the “cracks in the edifice” and seeing things that just don’t make sense or seem seriously wrong, that we can begin to realize that there indeed is something very, very seriously wrong with our world. Once you begin to see this, you naturally want to tell other people, and awaken them to. The ones we call sleepers, sheeple people, normies, or the woke. But this is the kind of thing that you can’t “tell” people, because, again, if people have not seen things with their own eyes and ears that concern them, they will not be open to you saying things that sound like whackadoodle conspiracy theories.
Thus the plight of an awakened Airbnb host, who is mostly hosting the “normies” of the world. People who do not realize what is actually happening in the world around them. Unfortunately, it is just a truism that conformity and “following the herd” is a common behavior in humanity, as this 2012 study revealed: https://watchers.news/2012/01/19/study-proves-95-of-people-really-are-sheeple/
We’ve obviously all been sheep in certain ways. Those of us in the “awake” camp were not always awake. We had to go through a process, often a painful one, to realize that the world was not as we thought it had been. Thus, we can have empathy for others who have not yet awakened. In a very real sense, we are the adults in the room, while the others, the normies, the sheeple, are still children. And a parent-child relationship is an affectionate one. So, even though these normies are not literally our children, in a metaphorical sense we can view them as children and have empathy for them.
This translates well to hosting, as a considerable part of the nature of hosting is hospitality.
Hosting in a Matrix time involves the very odd situation that if you are an awake host, you have some people staying in your house (not all, but certainly some), who quite literally live in a parallel universe. There’s almost nothing about how they perceive the geopolitical world, that is true. Their worldviews about geopolitics, have been entirely based upon lies and propaganda.
Fortunately, this vast abyss between your geopolitical worldviews and theirs, can rather easily be navigated with a certain hosting skillset. One bit of advice I would give to all hosts, whichever of the two groups of people they are in, is to avoid talking about politics and world events with your guests, except insofar as referencing situations (preferably from a neutral angle) that could impact their stay or travel plans.
If guests initiate a conversation about geopolitics with you, my advice is to reply politely and supportively. If you keep uppermost in mind that you are a host, and that you want to offer hospitality and be accommodating to guests, that translates to being accommodating to whatever their worldviews are, no matter what you privately think about these things. It’s more of your task as a host to be hospitable to them, and their views, than for them to be hospitable to and support your views. It does not take much effort and is a mark of maturity to be open and generally supportive of someone sharing their views, without at all needing to agree to those views or see things the same way. Actually this is part of the process of Non-Violent Communication, https://www.cnvc.org/ which I wrote about in another article earlier.
You can find the guide to Non-Violent Communication here https://www.schooltransformation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Kendrick_NVC_Materials.pdf
Or here below.
In these divisive times, actually Non-Violent Communication skills as described in this guide and taught by various NVC organizations, are highly valuable. These are skills as well that are taught in various workshops on communication skills, and are also things that psychotherapists learn in their training, because so much of their work involves listening to other people with attention and care and without judgment.
If you are awakened, you will realize that quite ironically, the “woke” crowd which is the group that wants to do the most scolding and lecturing of other people, the group that arrogantly believes it has the most moral authority to tell others not only what to do but also what to think, is actually the most deluded of all. These people have “drunk the koolaid” to a greater extent than anyone else, and in essence have become “useful idiots” for the global crime syndicate, as they readily do its bidding and propagate its propaganda.
But as a host, if you have any of these woke as guests, you’d want to do your best to keep your private views of these and their level of delusion to yourself, and instead be kind and empathetic towards them, be hospitable. With these in particular you’d want to avoid discussing geopolitics even more assiduously, not only because they are overly sensitive to someone with a difference of opinion (actually many have been taught in Marxist universities, that some people’s very opinions are a lethal danger) but also because they delusionally believe that it’s the business of Airbnb to censor people with the “wrong opinion” on things.
So for instance, oblivious to the reality that if President Trump was elected, this means over half the nation voted for him, the woke may call up Airbnb to complain that you are a domestic terrorist, white nationalist, white supremacist, member of a hate group, or dangerous conspiracy theorist, if they find out you voted for Trump, or even if you just express neutrality about him. This is the arrogance and delusionality of the woke: their longing for a bold totalitarian future is demonstrated by their belief that over half the nation should be censored, prohibited from Airbnb hosting, and perhaps even denied employment in all sectors because of their political views.
So to summarize: if you are an awakened host, who is hosting one of the more woke, you not only want to be hospitable and empathetic to them, you also need to be self-protective of yourself, as these are the people most likely to lay traps for others, and try to use Airbnb as a bully to force their ideology upon you. Because forcing their ideologies on everyone is really the essence of what woke is about. And unforunately, given the extent to which Airbnb has in fact “gone woke”, these woke bully guests may have some success, even if their retaliation at you based on your worldviews, is entirely unethical and also unlawful.
If by contrast you are what I’d call a “normie” host, well to be honest I would be surprised you had made it this far in reading my article, because most of the normitudes, even if they are not exactly of the “woke” crowd, do not have much tolerance for views they consider delusional conspiracy theories. They are not yet aware that what they call “conspiracy theories” are the truth, while their own views are based on lies and propaganda.
But if you have made it this far, as a normie host, I’m here to say that you are quite fortunate compared to the awakened host, because world circumstances and Airbnb culture being what these have been, are much more conducive to supporting your values, than those of the awakened host.
As well, unlike the woke, who arrogantly and delusionally believe in the supremacy and of their own worldviews, the awakened are used to being censored, dismissed as irrelevant or as nutty conspiracy theorists, or demonized or vilified even by family and close friends. As a result, not only will they be unlikely to think it’s their task to educate you about what is going on in the world, it’s quite likely they will not even bring up geopolitical topics in conversation. So you’ll most likely have little difficulties with these as guests.
Psychological Difficulties of Hosting in a Matrix World
Although it is certainly very do-able to host from the flip side of the guest in the abyss-like divide that our nation has been in, this doesn’t mean that doing so is without psychological difficulties. It is a stressful situation to be in. Because you are literally going out nearly every day, living in an upside down world. This is all the more true if you happen to be an awakened person living in one of the most brainwashed areas of the country, a deep blue Democrat run city. You are literally going out into a world where you may be the only one amongst those you encounter, who is actually living in reality. The rest are living in a fantasy world or simulated reality. You are in an upside-down world, and many an encounter or overheard conversation will reveal this to you, every day and all day long.
It takes a lot of inner strength to navigate these Matrix times as an awakened person. It will help if you realize that you are “ahead of the curve” in a quite significant way, and even though you’ve been treated with contempt and dismissed, you are a leader among humanity at this point in time. You’ve had courage to see what so many are in denial about, even though for the last 5 years, there has been so much that has been right in everyone’s face, which should have led them to wonder what the heck was going on, that so many strange or wrong things were happening all around them. Yet they kept their heads firmly wedged up their behinds.
It’s a stressful time, it’s a lonely time. You may want more interaction with guests than you are able to have, given the enormous divide in our nation and indications you have picked up on, that at least some of your guests do not really have any inkling as to what is really going on “out there.”
So all that can be done is to wait, be patient, turn to like minded souls for support during this time, and make peace with the odd sort of loneliness and isolation experienced now.
A Reconciled and Harmonized World Will Come
Though the times have been stressful during these Matrix years, there is good news about the future. The extreme divisiveness and phenomenon of living in parallel universes, will come to an end at some point and actually rather soon. In fact, I believe we are in the “end game” of the Cabal’s reign of lies and propaganda.
We are just now seeing the demolishing of the Democrat’s lies, that there have only been peaceful protests in Los Angeles, or Governor Nuisance’s lies that the National Guard and Marines are the ones who “chose to escalate.” Most of America sees through such lies. They understand that rather it’s the illegal immigrant who burned a Waymo car and then stood on the burned out hulk waving a Mexican flag, who “chose to escalate.”
The lies of leaders in government have been quite enough.
We see you, Governor Nuisance, and we see your lies.
As more and more people realize the lies and corruption of so many of those in government, especially of Democrats in government, more will awaken. Additionally, I believe there are many other things happening that are moving us away from an essentially fake government run by a criminal Cabal, to a legitimate Constitutional Republic.
As these changes occur, the “strangeness” of hosting in a Matrix time will diminish, and more people will be able to talk to each other and find common ground, once most of the world has awakened to understand the truth about geopolitical and current events.
Summary
In closing, it’s not so much that people have very different worldviews and belief systems that cause the great division we see now, it’s because many people literally are living in a simulated reality. They are not living in the real world. Most of what they believe in terms of geopolitics, is based on falsehood: on lies and propaganda seeded by a global crime syndicate. We who have awakened, can be empathetic to these brainwashed people living in a state of delusion, because we’ve all to some extent been taken in by this propaganda. We empathize because we’ve been through it ourselves and have had the experience of realizing how very wrong or blind we were, and waking up.
Maintaining this empathetic view during this strange “Matrix” time, will help us not only as Airbnb hosts, but also in relationships with family and friends, as we await the transformation of the whole world in the Great Awakening.
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