Sherlock Holmes and Mass Media: How has the World become more Stranger than Fiction?

Where does our food come from?

Where does our medical advice come from?

Where does our history come from?

We are at an impasse.  We are stuck, most of us, between idealized views of the world and ideology, a zero-sum game.  We are marooned in our minds by our outside controlled environment.  Capitalism has captured our intelligence; consumerism has distracted our meaning.  We are subject to this system of control, obedience, conformity, and brand loyalty.  This corporate and governmental web is suffocating us.  We are in a state of de-evolution.

When I was a kid, what the hell did I know?  I was brought up with modest means and educated by intellectually challenged people, parents, and teachers.  Certainly, there was this and that, and some books and understanding later that led me to view our plight, our station in society that concerns me.  There’s a journey-less traveled problem here.

Sherlock Holmes is assigned to the case, along with Watson, also Watson isn’t gender-swapped, it’s Holmes and Watson.  What do they think, as investigators if they took on our case?  Where do reason and logic apply in the mind of Holmes?  Sherlock Holmes is a central character in the subject of ‘how’ to think.  How would this fictional character, a ‘consulting detective’ think about our current woke mind virus position through, observation, deduction, forensic science, and logical reasoning?

Holmes had his moments of the fantastical, but his real ground was logic and reason, philosophically.  Watson asks Holmes about the ‘Woke Mind Virus” and Holmes doesn’t want to hear it because it conflates, distracts, distorts, it contaminates.  Investigations should be impartial, Holmes passed on to Watson.  Holmes would know about government oversight, mass media manipulation, and corporate greed.

The point here is a fictional character could figure out what’s going on here.  It shouldn’t take Sherlock Holmes to help us figure out that we’ve been played.  Capitalism has become our wallpaper and consumerism our apps.  We have been convinced that we are not good enough, by powerful people who own all the magazines, run all the studios, and own mass media.  Why do we continue to listen to these people?

What would Holmes do? 

Holmes would think, and that might be what we are missing in our technologically savvy current state.  We have to think, investigate, wonder, curiosity, all of the above.  The problem is we are usually told what to think by our brain and assume the thought our brain told us to think was a thought we originated.  Little do know.   

To serve, we have to go deeper.  Sherlock Holmes, along with every philosopher has always asked the question, why?

Why?

We are our own operating system, technically, bare-bones, but we are thinking, hopefully about a ‘lifeboat’ so to speak.  Freud called it our ‘self-preservation drive’ on account that we want to live, but yet we defy that instinct by allowing ourselves to be consumed by……this place we find ourselves.

Metaphorically, it feels weird sinking on the Titanic with so many people oblivious that the ship is sinking.  So many are singing songs and watching sporting events, playing video games, and smoking weed, while the ship starts sinking around them.  It’s sort of amazing that the fortitude of blindness so many, (when I saw so many, I mean mostly, sadly  - everybody) project and defend as the ship continues to sink.

There is a mass migration of undocumented people flooding most Western countries at the behest of the nation's leaders.  Are they doing this because they care?  Do they feel guilty that most of these people are coming from impoverished and war-torn countries as a result of the West, I’m mainly looking at you, America, sucking these respective countries of all their resources?  Are they allowing this mass migration because of DEI, turning over a new leaf of sorts?  Reach deep down, you know they are not allowing this for any of these reasons.

So why are these Western countries allowing this mass migration?  The working people of the West are servants to the elite, and at this point, some of us are well-paid servants.  One of the reasons for this mass migration is to lower the wage gap.  Our greedy Overlords want more for themselves and less for us.  Another reason is the military, western people aren’t flocking to the military anymore – ‘to make a difference’.  The Military Industrial Complex needs soldiers that will die for it, so they can make their profit.

Another reason for mass migration is these Elites know that Western countries are falling, quite similar to the Roman Empire, and these greedy bastards want to get ahead of it before it falls.  By the way, like the housing market crash in 2008, these nations are falling not because of the working-class people, they’re falling because of the bloodsucking Globalists.

We did not start this, we just want to get by, feed our families, and survive.  As for our Opulent Owners, they are consumed by the high of greed and power.  They can’t help themselves and they hate us for it.  People at that level of wealth and power are not happy people, quite the opposite.  We’re taught that being rich will make us happy so these ‘Earthly Gods’ will have servants to manage their operations.  “One of the greatest tricks the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”  Folks, we have been laboring under one of the biggest lies we’ve ever been told.

As much as some of us love Sherlock Holmes, he isn’t going to help us here.  Fiction is no longer working if we hope to see the other side of this.  So many people are like, nope, nope, ‘I can’t think about that.’  Still with the ignorance is bliss bullshit.  I’m sorry but this isn’t going away.  Trust me, I want to forget about it, but I can’t.  I want to get away from it all but here I am.  We are in a culture war for our lives and the lives of your children and everybody else's.