Dateline 8-22-2017

Over the past couple days leading up to the eclipse, I started to share my interest in the occult/supernatural. In these post, I tried to explain that I am more interested in the concepts being thrown around of alternate explanations as to what is going on in this world. I also tapped into the fact that I have a morbid fascination with the idea that others might use these uncommon natural events to push forward their own agenda by playing off other's fears.

Just like every other thing in my life that I used to find entertaining, I'm beginning to find that my dark obsession with doom and gloom is slowly fading away. Again, I didn't think anything unexplainable would happen when the sun went dark, but I have to admit there was a small part of me that wanted some group to take advantage of the situation and do something weird to distract us from the fucked up shit that we're dealing with for real.

Keep in mind, I'm not talking anything big like a terrorist attack, I'm talking more a rise in cult activity with something weird up their sleeves to celebrate the day. I also had deep in the mind "What if thoughts" about the conspiracy where the they that runs the world is planning to use holograms to either replicate an alien visit or the second coming of Christ.

This conspiracy may sound crazy but it was actually a discussed strategy during the height of our issue with Cuba back during the cold war. Though I believe this was a plan that was really pitched, I'm not sure how far it went when it comes to development but I'm willing to bet that there is technology that can now pull this off but at a small scale that probably wouldn't even reach as many people as the broadcast of War Of The Worlds.

Once again, another proposed magical day came and went without anything interesting involved. Hell, even the eclipse itself was boring from where I am because the sky just got a tiny bit dark. This minor disappointment isn't all that big of a deal because I'm an intrigued follower without being a true believer.

I want to be clear that I'm a fan of the "What if" aspect to this type of predictive storytelling and how deep that the people who are sharing these views can go into their crazy stories. In a way, it's pretty impressive. I used to listen to a lot of Coast To Coast AM while I write and was always impressed with how every single guest was able to answer any question about their claim with zero hesitation in their answer.

I feel that this really helped me with thinking deeper into my own fictional stories. At the same time, it also led me to want for at least one of these people to be right, while creating scenarios of my own. Though I normally keep these thoughts to myself they are often in the back of my mind.

Lately, however, just like every other thing that I used to be a fan of, my interest is starting to dwindle. Part of this is due to the fact that there has yet to be a payoff but it also stems from the fact that I'm all caught up on the old stuff and anything that does pique my interest is so new that there is not enough content out there with attempts to try to explain it because the discovery or events are still in the development process.

Though I will still listen to these supernatural/conspiracy shows, I'm no longer as enthusiastic about the potential for any of it to be true, which I only was interested in the idea of one of these events triggering the change of our ancient world views or hell, I'd even be happy if something went down to verify the idea that there is a magical man in the sky. Either way, my main goal has always been to escape the mundane without having to leave my apartment.

Alright, now that I've gotten that out of my system, it's now time to get back to work. Last night, I started Phase IV of my SNL review prep-work plan and I'm now super excited to finish it off to get into the first phase of an entirely different plan.

We'll see what I get up to and as always, I'll check in tomorrow with what happens.

Talk to you then,

The Wicker Breaker