"Don't worry - it will never happen."
Now the Man on Television sits there in prime time - on one of the biggest morning shows - eating beetles and insects on live broadcast, smiling while reassuringly confirming to viewers - "That's delicious... it's all up here...!" (pointing to his head).
"Predictive programming" is what culturally critical - or conspiratorial voices call it.
Whatever we call it, that's how you frame ideas and prepare the public by deliberately planting ideas, images and narratives through entertainment surfaces and media - so when they later become reality, they feel neither foreign nor threatening, but already "normal."
You've probably heard many times these past few years that this business about swapping steak for insects - that was just a "conspiracy theory"... Until a kilo of beef now suddenly costs 150 kroner... due to climate taxes throughout the chain... and you still need protein, since you're starting to look like Gummi Tarzan from all those legumes you've been chewing through.
"It will never happen," they said.
Just like all these other things that also NEVER happened -
There will never be vaccine passports in Europe.
That would be totalitarian.
You can't be fired for refusing medical treatment.
We're not in China.
There will never be central bank digital currencies.
That's just fantasy.
We will never censor opinions and views online.
That's against freedom of speech.
No one wants to sexualise children.
No, who on earth would ever do that?...
"Biological sex is a scientific reality."
Of course it is, they said... once...
We're not removing meat from the diet.
Just having "more options."
The 15-minute cities thing is only about convenience.
Not control.
Cash isn't being removed.
But it's just so... impractical.
Surveillance only happens for your safety.
If you've got nothing to hide...
WHO won't be allowed to decide over national governments.
No no, not at all.
No one will replace the population in Europe.
That's just far-right nonsense.
No one wants to remove your culture or history.
We just need to be more inclusive - and Vikings were also Africans and Middle Easterners, by the way.
No one wants to make you a minority in your own country.
And diversity is a strength™, remember.
Mosques won't fill more space than churches.
It's just about religious freedom.
No one hates the West.
It's just your own racism if you sense it.
It always starts with laughter.
Then it becomes ridicule.
Then it becomes acceptance.
Then it becomes norm.
And every time someone warns in advance, they say -
"That? Never happening. Stop yourself."
Until it happens.
So ask yourself.
How many 'conspiracy theories' need to prove true before you pull the handbrake a bit and start wondering out loud?
Or... are you seriously planning to nod and smile politely - filled with civic duty - eating your beetles in silence?
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