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Jane Scandurra's avatar

Great post. Here’s something I learned just yesterday that made me think some new “conditioning” could be afoot. I was talking to a friend in Chicago who has teenage daughters. She said there’s a new TikTok trend where young people make videos recording the horrified reactions of older people (55+) to the sudden death of a beloved figure from their generation - who did NOT in fact die. “Ha-ha. Just kidding. James Taylor did not die.” is how a typical video ends. I am not on TikTok so have not seen any of these videos. Needless to say, she told her kids this is wrong. But I immediately thought, if this is indeed regularly happening, this might be one way TPTB are trying to “normalize” so many sudden deaths. By flooding social media with false reports, burying the impact of the authentic ones. Possible? Or am I crazy and over my skis on this one?? 😊🤷‍♀️

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Marcus Knight's avatar

After jumping at the ghosts so many times, I believe it to be something along the lines of "crying wolf", in that many whose patience will have snapped, will in many cases be caught off guard when the real wolf appears.

Better to be suspicious of the obvious perpetrators, than to be lulled to apathy by their seeming blunders, and incessant simulations, and by those parroting "new, new, new"...

And for your enjoyment - I was using the bic lighters that I purchased for the ruse that was Y2K for over a decade after the "event".

Thanks for your diligence, Ray.

This year should give many of us plenty to discuss, if we should have a continued platform for such.

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