A Screenplay for the Illuminati

a love potion for humanity?

A while back I asked you to write the ending to the movie we’re living.

A group of globalist billionaires and mad scientists want to turn actual world domination into a live action game of global monopoly. They use the human race as part of the currency and legislators, judges and celebrities as game pieces. You know, for fun.

They devise an elaborate business plan that enables them to make potions and laws, do entertaining experiments with the humans, make movies, gamble, play real life SimCity, play doctor, and even capture the flag along the way. They use pharmaceuticals to perpetuate a lucrative sickness and delusion cycle while simultaneously reducing the population and collecting all of the resources produced and cultivated by a sick and overwhelmed population saddled in debt.

But some humans start figuring it out and they get mad. They get loud and their numbers start to grow.

The globalists try to silence these people and accelerate their plans. But the people keep getting louder and more clever and they’re penetrating the pharmaceutical haze and breaking the spell that everyone is under.

You have to finish this movie.

What will the globalists do to silence the people so that the others continue to obey? How do they get the masses to ignore their warnings? How do they maintain the control they have and gain control of everyone else? What kinds of things will they need to resort to and who can be sacrificed?

And how will the small group of people wake the masses and escape the medicated haze? How exactly do they get through to their friends and neighbors? Do they figure it all out? Do they work together? What do they have to overcome? What’s their biggest obstacle?

Do they win?

We seem to be coming to the conclusion of this first script. Let’s call it Part 1.

I will say that, whoever is writing this has woven in some very good plot twists and are effectively raising the stakes. There seems to be a reasonable chance we’ll survive to write a sequel.

Furthermore, my family initiated this tradition of writing a Year in Review letter at the start of the year as a way of manifesting what we’d like to be able to say about it by year’s end. So maybe we can manifest Compassionate Agenda 2025.

So let’s get to work!

Working title: Illuminated

(or maybe we can borrow from Suzanne Humprhies and call it Dissolving Illusions)

The heir of a global billionaire philanthropath, whose father likes to dabble in global pandemic solutions, attends an Ivy league school where he has been sent to infiltrate the peasants and learn their ways so he can resume taking over a variety of civil rights movements and hijack all efforts driven by compassion and empathy by distorting those very things.

Since we thwarted their initial round of efforts (Build Back Better, Agenda 21, etc.), this heir (let’s call him Chip) must get on the inside and champion our advocacy campaigns. His is a mission to earn trust and stunt human growth.

Along the way, Chip meets… well… who does he meet? I haven’t fleshed out this character… or maybe it’s a small group of friends.

Whoever it is invites Chip into a world that he is forced to reexamine through a new lens. Chip discovers, through observing the interactions of his new friends, that heartfelt experiences, even when challenging and sometimes painful, can be profoundly meaningful. He experiences human connection and gets a taste of resonance, which is something entirely new to him. He witnesses people voluntarily making sacrifices for the benefit of others. It’s weird, uncomfortable, pathetic… compelling.

Initially, he is immersed in feigning an embrace of their silly, naïve efforts to change the world. He starts out observing his “peers” as though they’re the subjects of a wildlife documentary (only less consequential) and focuses on co-opting and disrupting their dreams and vision of the future. Chip is caught up in manipulation and play-acting and “winning” a game that only he is playing.

Little by little, theses people start to matter. At first, just as entertainment, reality show contestants, and a way to pass the time. But even though it’s what he came for, Chip is astonished by their willingness to be vulnerable. They share their fears and insecurities with him. They let him enter a space that feels almost sacred.

He has to actively resist becoming invested in these people.

So he refocuses on strategy. His friendship makes his job easier and he comes up with elaborate plans to break spirits and reduce humanity to soulless, mindless slaves. These open hearts are so easy to deceive. They’re so gullible in their hope and optimism. He reinitiates his mad science control labyrinth.

But then Chip experiences a kindness. A real kindness that he REALLY experiences. And it’s different from anything he has ever experienced before. He has his first taste of introspection and it sparks a notion that the decadent, indulgent lifestyle that he has mistaken for happiness and success is actually trauma, abuse and addiction.

He confronts the possibility that he is actually a slave, more programmed than anyone he’s tried to manipulate. The people who he has dismissed as slaves are far more free, despite everything that has been taken from them because they have access to their own hearts and they are free to love.

He wants what they have.

He falls in love, of course. Sort of.

Since he doesn’t understand love, he can only try to win it. He only knows how to strategize desirable outcomes and he’s a sore loser, so he hurts people when things don’t go his way.

But then he experiences forgiveness. And it’s mind blowing. He notices that there is a power in forgiveness that allows these people a kind of peace that he can’t fathom. And a way to move on and evolve.

This friendship thing is so strange and cringey (caring, bleh), but so compelling…

Ok, so help me think of how this goes.

I know it sound trite and corny, but I think I’d like to save humanity. I think we need to work on these friend characters, because this is how we access Chip’s crusty, calcified heart. And it won’t be easy. What would a philanthropath-in-training need to see to realize that human beings, with all their flaws and vulnerabilities, are amazing and worth preserving? What would convince him that maybe they don’t need to be digitized or culled? Maybe making way for their natural growth and evolution has real merit? And maybe all the interventions that his globalist community are forcing are making everything worse for everyone, including himself?

Will Chip discover that evil genius is inverted genius… which is actually stupidity?

Can opening Chip’s heart open the floodgates to a new type of creativity that surpasses all his AI delusions of grandeur?

Admittedly, this is some pretty formulaic screenwriting I’m proposing, but I’d love to see Chip break free of his demons and finally experience just being human with other humans.

Maybe some method acting will help us flesh this character out. Perhaps we can work on our own character in service to a happy ending.

What do you say?

“Heartlight” by Shen Rosen