Syn-ACK :facepalm: on Nostr: You know, I'm still surprised at how relevant shows like The X-Files and The Lone ...

You know, I'm still surprised at how relevant shows like The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen are today, despite all the potential cheesiness of the plot lines and subject matter. Underlying the entire mythos is that ever-present tagline that sums up the entire point of the shows: "The truth is out there".

And I think that the true fundamental question that Carter & Co. were trying to communicate was yeah, but who really cares? These characters were dedicated to finding the truth and shouting it from the rooftops to anyone who would listen, but a willfully ignorant society just collectively yawned and rolled over and went back to sleep (as did most of the viewers of these shows).

I am constantly amazed, on a daily basis, about how astonishingly little a majority of most average humans seem to care about the truth. Look at the news and social interactions on any given day and it almost seems like a very large portion of society wants to be gaslit on a constant basis that "everything's alright". It floors me at just how little the average person cares about the fact that they are constantly being exploited in just about every arena of their lives. And that carelessness doesn't just hurt them; it also hurts anyone that sees what's going on and wants out of the system but can't escape because there's too many somnabulists out there just sleepwalking their way through their lives like so many mindless zombies. And what's worse, the only time they DO wake up is when one of us makes enough noise to upset the apple cart a bit and they just effectively pat that rabble-rouser on the shoulder and tell them to go back to sleep because we don't want to wake the neighbors now, do we?

The truth IS out there, but nobody CARES and us Lone Gunmen will end up wasting our lives and won't change a damn thing because nobody is going to bother to listen.

It's infuriating.