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Fractured Realities
Brownstone Institute ^ | June 26, 2025 | Josh Stylman

Posted on 06/26/2025 8:20:38 AM PDT by Heartlander

Fractured Realities

We used to share the same lies. Now we each get our own. Soon, we may not even agree that reality exists.

Reality has been shattered into billions of pieces, each one perfectly tailored to fit someone’s worldview. The same event triggers completely different movies in our heads. The same evidence proves opposite truths. We’re not just disagreeing—we’re living in different universes, each one feeling absolutely real to the person inside it.

This didn’t happen by accident. Someone broke it. Someone profits from the pieces.

What follows is a diagnostic assessment. Five voices responding to the same events, each one convinced that they see clearly while everyone else lives in delusion. The question isn’t which voice is right. The question is: which voice sounds like you?


mRNA Technology

Person A: Life-saving innovation from our best scientists. The unvaccinated are selfish science deniers.

Person B: Rushed experimental gene therapy with hidden side effects the media won’t report.

Person C: White hats switched the poison vials with saline. Trump had to play along to expose Big Pharma.

Person D: Probably helpful for high-risk people, but mandates went too far and honest discussion was censored.

Person E: Doesn’t matter if it works or kills you. Pharma makes billions either way.


Climate Change

Person A: Existential crisis requiring immediate global action. Deniers are funded by oil companies.

Person B: Natural climate variation weaponized for taxation and control. Follow the money.

Person C: Weather modification tech hidden from public. Patriots will expose the real science after the Storm.

Person D: Climate’s changing, humans contribute, but proposed solutions feel worse than the problem.

Person E: Doesn’t matter what’s causing it. The people selling solutions caused the crisis.


January 6th

Person A: Violent insurrection threatening democracy. Trump’s brownshirts attempting a coup.

Person B: Mostly peaceful protest that got out of hand. Compared to BLM riots, it was nothing.

Person C: Patriots gathering evidence for tribunals. Trump told them to document everything legally.

Person D: Some genuinely believed the election was stolen. Bad day, but hardly the crisis media made it out to be.

Person E: Perfect theater. Trump got martyrdom, Democrats got their Reichstag fire.


The 2024 Election

Person A: Democracy’s last stand against fascism. This is the most important election of our lifetime.

Person B: Chance to restore America and stop the radical left’s destruction of our country.

Person C: Trump never left office. This is optics while the military cleans house behind the scenes.

Person D: Lesser of evils again. Both parties are corrupt, maybe one’s slightly less terrible.

Person E: Two masks, same face. Real decisions made by people whose names you don’t know.


Ukraine War

Person A: Democracy defending itself against Putin’s fascist aggression. We must support them.

Person B: Not our fight. Billions overseas while Americans suffer. America First.

Person C: White hats destroying deep state bioweapons labs and child trafficking networks.

Person D: Russia’s clearly wrong, but endless escalation seems dangerous and expensive.

Person E: Arms dealers profit, Ukrainians die, Americans pay. Same script, different war.


Immigration

Person A: Humanitarian crisis requiring compassion. Opposition is barely disguised racism.

Person B: Invasion threatening jobs, culture, and safety. Legal immigration good, illegal bad.

Person C: Deep state trafficking operation. Patriots tracking every movement for the trials.

Person D: Immigration can help, but needs control and legal process. System’s broken.

Person E: Cheap labor for corporations, voting blocs for politicians. You get screwed.


Artificial Intelligence

Person A: Transformative technology solving humanity’s greatest challenges. Regulation ensures equity.

Person B: Threat to jobs and values, made by woke companies that hate America.

Person C: White hat tech exposing deep state crimes. AI will reveal everything they’ve hidden.

Person D: Powerful tool with real benefits and risks. Need wisdom, not panic.

Person E: You trained your replacement for free. Tech billionaires ushered in the control grid, everyone else obsolete.


Trump

Person A: Fascist demagogue with nuclear codes. Threat to democracy and decency itself.

Person B: Flawed but effective fighter for ordinary Americans against the establishment.

Person C: Greatest president ever, still commander-in-chief. Assassination attempt was staged to wake people up.

Person D: Says some good things but too chaotic and divisive. Need normal leadership.

Person E: Perfect villain for the left, perfect hero for the right. Machine runs either way.


Elon Musk

Person A: Fascist tech bro with delusions of grandeur. Spreading hate and misinformation to millions.

Person B: Brilliant entrepreneur saving free speech and pushing humanity forward.

Person C: Original Elon was cloned, this one’s been flipped to white hat. Space Force commander.

Person D: Good intentions, misguided execution. Smart guy who lost his way in politics.

Person E: Transhumanist puppet born to play this exact role. The script demanded a tech messiah.


Covid-19

Person A: Deadly pandemic requiring strong public health measures. Anti-vaxxers spread death.

Person B: Overblown flu used to justify authoritarian control. Lockdowns killed more than the virus.

Person C: Planned operation to expose medical tyranny. Trump had to play along to show people.

Person D: Real disease, but response was disproportionate and politically motivated.

Person E: Viruses don’t exist. It’s all terrain theory and pharmaceutical theater for profit.


Social Media

Person A: Platforms spread misinformation and hate. Need content moderation to protect democracy.

Person B: Censorship of conservative voices by woke tech monopolies destroying free speech.

Person C: Patriots using back channels while mainstream platforms stay controlled. Truth Social is real battlefield.

Person D: Useful tools that got weaponized. Need privacy and less addiction, not censorship.

Person E: Attention farms harvesting human consciousness for profit. You’re the product.


You just read through those and had reactions. Some made you nod. Others made you angry. A few made you think “finally, someone who gets it.” Some made you say this guy’s a nutjob. One or two made you uncomfortable because they almost sounded reasonable.

Here’s the thing: I have opinions on all these topics, too. Sometimes, strong ones. But it’s not lost on me that I’m being manipulated at every turn, just like everyone else. I make a point to go outside my bubble and maintain relationships with people who fit each of these archetypes. I find their certainty utterly fascinating and deeply tragic.

Propaganda has always existed. In ancient times, a town crier would climb on a stump and deliver whatever the ruler decreed. But at least everyone heard the same lies. Now we each get custom-fitted delusions, perfectly calibrated to our psychological profile. The algorithm has become our leash, and we mistake the length of chain for freedom.

Each of these voices belongs to someone who considers themselves well-informed, rational, and awake to what’s really happening. Each one thinks the others are deluded, manipulated, or evil. Each one has evidence that supports their worldview. Each one feels like the protagonist in their own story.

They can’t all be right. But they can all be wrong.

The most sophisticated manipulation doesn’t give you false information. It gives you real information filtered through a lens that makes you feel smart for seeing what others miss. It makes you feel special, part of the small group that truly understands. Your timeline feels true because it was designed to feel true to someone exactly like you.

We’re not living in an information war. We’re living in a perception war. And the battlefield is your mind.

The question isn’t which perspective is correct. The question is: who benefits from keeping us sorted into these predictable camps, arguing with each other instead of looking up at who’s pulling the strings?

You think you see the manipulation. But what if the manipulation is making you think you see the manipulation? What if your sophisticated analysis of the system is just another room in the maze?

Welcome to the hall of mirrors. The exit is marked “certainty.”

That’s how you know it’s a trap.

Republished from the author’s Substack


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Society
KEYWORDS: r

PROPAGANDA: The Music Video


1 posted on 06/26/2025 8:20:38 AM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander

I’m Person B, and y’all are nuts.


2 posted on 06/26/2025 8:29:08 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Nitzy, now with 88% plausibly anti-Semitic posts!)
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To: Heartlander

Interesting and somewhat related:

https://uapf.substack.com/p/wikipedias-quiet-war-how-activists


3 posted on 06/26/2025 8:33:07 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Heartlander

This article is really, really good.

You think about the Epstein files. It would be hard to come up with five viewpoints. It is hard not to come to the conclusion you are being manipulated.


4 posted on 06/26/2025 8:37:13 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Heartlander

Great article!

But I wonder whether propaganda controls us or we simply pick and choose the propaganda that reinforces our beliefs.

In other words, does propaganda define our beliefs or do our beliefs determine which propaganda we listen to and which we ignore.

And if it’s the latter, than the 64k question is where do our beliefs come from? What determines what we believe?


5 posted on 06/26/2025 9:03:32 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: aquila48

But I wonder whether propaganda controls us or we simply pick and choose the propaganda that reinforces our beliefs.

In other words, does propaganda define our beliefs or do our beliefs determine which propaganda we listen to and which we ignore.


It is not an either or situation. both are valid.

It is complex. Sometimes it is a little thing and a certain time. Imprinting (Gods design for good) is part of the problem. The homosexual perverts want to get to the kids at the imprintable time.

You don’t buy anything from one advertisement. maybe after the 1,000 time, you might think Dr Pepper is a good idea.

Humans are complex, there are no simple answers. Each and every one of us is unique.

Some would argue we have no free will. We cannot make a decision completely independent of outside influences.

Now, complex questions like yours lead to headaches and answers like GOD. I have learned from an outside influence that the answer to every question eventually leads to God.


6 posted on 06/26/2025 9:20:16 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Heartlander

“The question isn’t which voice is right. The question is: which voice sounds like you?”

Too simple. What about those with more than one voice?

mRNA Technology

Life-saving innovation (but still a rushed experimental gene therapy with hidden side effects the media won’t report), from our best scientists (which doesn’t mean they’re very good), probably helpful for high-risk people but mandates went too far and honest discussion was censored, and Pharma makes billions if it works or if it kills you.


7 posted on 06/26/2025 9:20:46 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: PeterPrinciple
Humans are complex, there are no simple answers. Each and every one of us is unique.

I’m not.

8 posted on 06/26/2025 9:22:24 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Sirius Lee

Humans are complex, there are no simple answers. Each and every one of us is unique.
I’m not.


We are going to need some evidence, please take the quiz:

https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=how-unique-are-you_1

humor intended......................


9 posted on 06/26/2025 9:39:32 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Uncle Miltie

This isn’t a fun game at all.

This needs to be read while in a large group, in a circle. As each person reads off the list, everyone else gets to point and identify which brand of looney that person is.

Fun and frivolity for all!


10 posted on 06/26/2025 10:38:56 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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