Our Hospice Moment

Flipping the script on mass delusion.

A friend recommended that I re-watch The Truman Show and I did. If you’ve seen it, you’ll remember that Jim Carrey plays a man born and raised in a media fishbowl artificial bubble world, his every move caught on camera and broadcast live to millions world-wide who’ve followed him from birth.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth a watch. It seems oddly familiar these days.

I read a post that identified one insightful scene. Here’s a link to the clip (3 minutes) and I recommend that you watch this before reading on. LINK

Who is she talking to?

The article that mentioned this scene compared her cereal rave to the way doctors often address us when recommending procedures and drugs. They aren’t talking to us. They are talking past us, representing the pharmaceutical and insurance companies that reward them for selling their products.

Whether what they recommend may actually help us is questionable. For instance, it’s well known that colonoscopies have proven utterly ineffective in extending life (data ignored), while the mammogram-industrial complex conceals the rather ominous fact that the ionizing radiation they use is carcinogenic.

Hmn.

Later in this Truman clip, his best friend delivers an Oscar worthy rave to convince Truman that his suspicions that “something is going on” are unfounded. If you watched the two men’s faces carefully you might have discerned that the friend was sure he succeeded to persuade, while Truman knew that he’d failed.

In fact, that exchange cemented his conviction that something was going on. And, in the end (spoiler alert) he turns out to be a true man.

Why is this my subject today?

It’s a creative way to discuss how we are currently dealing with a very similar illusion.

There was an army of actors in the film sustaining Truman’s alternate reality. Likewise, we all have friends and even family doing the same with any of us who begin to question things. These are the ones who believe and amplify narratives they are fed by mainstream media, convinced that anyone who suspects “something is going on” relative to politics, the economy, gender, alternative health, 911, Who Killed Kennedy, etc. is a conspiracy nut and no longer worthy of their friendship.

Truman’s friend delivered the punchline in that clip: “Everything’s going to be OK. It’s all going to be fine.”

Not.

Society is unraveling. Toxic empathy (criminals are victims) has fueled insane policies like “defund the police” while misguided efforts to save endangered species and keep humans out of nature has turned forests everywhere into powder kegs that produce raging wildfires and choking smoke every summer. Etc.

But, “Everything’s going to be OK. It’s all going to be fine.”

Ironically, there’s an illogical truth to this.

Once the delusional world dissolves, everything does change. And that’s exactly what’s happening. on earth in 2026.

Dr. Zach Bush just recorded a Joe Rogan podcast that explores all this. Watch/listen here. An edited clip:

“Everything that's happening right now is actually a perfect manifestation of a maturation of our species. We don't actually have a poly-crisis going on. We've got a hospice moment.

“Sitting by someone’s bed as a hospice doctor, I got to watch how humans in their last few minutes of life suddenly looked back and realized their life was perfect. ‘OMG, the whole thing was poetically perfect. All the heart break, all the estrangement, the disappointment, the insecurity…’ I got to see that moment where someone who’d thought their life was a failure - a difficult time with their kids, never became successful in their job - suddenly realized that what mattered was feeling everything that a human is capable of feeling.“

Zach suggested that humans have a couple of decades left before we mature into the next version of ourselves.

This is the collective hospice moment for Humans 1.0. Will we fight to stay alive in a fake world where technology promises us eventual eternal life, here or on Mars, or will we embrace our biology, let life have its way, and transform?

I choose to give up the fight and discover what/who comes next.