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ladies, gentleman and everyone in-between, what you are about to see is the first installment in a three part series entitled "AMERICA2020: the reality of the end of the world as we knew it." this series is mixed media formatted at 24”x36”. AMERICA2020 is a body of work documenting AMERICAN LIFE during a year that changed everything. i spent the first six months of 2020 documenting the early PANDEMIC shutdown in new york city. i tried to understand and make sense of everything i was seeing. i was searching for the truth. i noticed that what was being reported in the mainstream news was vastly different than what i was experiencing in reality. this got me thinking about what "reality” is and how we define “reality.” the next six months i spent on the road traveling AMERICA in my trusty steed and home,
lady basecamp. together we went 14,596 miles. that is like flying from new york to
new delhi and back! i traveled the eastern coast, the midwest, the great plains and the south along with the entire west coast. i saw so many incredible and profound things across this great country of OURS. much of what i saw was so beautiful it took my breath away. other things i experienced left me in a state of disbelief that i still have trouble processing. i was continually surprised by what i thought i knew but of which couldn’t have been more wrong. this trip changed the fabric of who i am and how i understand the true nature of “reality.” without further adieu, i give you thePROLOGUE, a document of new york life during the 2020 global pandemic shutdown. please form a single file line as we move through the doorway and down the hall. thank you for your time and interest. side note, this is an ongoing project.
the reality of the end of the world as we knew it
AMERICA2020
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in the time before, there was so much we took for granted. so much we relied upon. so much we just didn't think about...in the time before. the petshop boys call this time we live in now a time of greed. the irony is that it was greed in itself that sparked a mass human awakening. the truth is all around us, in every fabric of who we are. in the time before we learned to forget, ironically, the time before, before. this photograph was taken at the very beginning of 2020, at a bar that has sadly become a casualty of the global crisis we are all now very aware of. this bar, this place of human gathering, this sanctuary for many, this catalyst for the free exchange of thoughts, ideas and emotions is captured at a moment before it was snuffed out like countless other small businesses across the entirety of our great mother. so many possibilities brought to a tragic and unfair end. there was so much so many of us lost as this all encompassing event continues to play out. there have been so many sacrifices that every single community on this planet has been forced to endure. are we really that different from the rest of US? we are all connected. i am a proud member of the mental health community. one of the many labels society has placed upon my shoulders. we are a community of individuals who struggle with drastically more intense and confusing realities than many others. we see the world in a very different way than most. in the time before, we faced the harsh criticism of an ignorant society and yet we were still making progress, we had a few resources encounting. in many places, like new york those resources have since disappeared. more casualties lost to a systematic use of overwhelming fear. i carry a long list of labels deemed by many to be the scourge of humanity. the bottom of the barrel, the swine of it all. its just happens that these labels are the exact reason why i came to understand the true nature of our reality, of who we truly are. i thank god everyday for what these aspects of my infinitely faceted self have given me, although it wasn't always the case in the time before. what you are about to see is the playing out of 36 images from a world...in transition. "coincidentally," this clipping with a mother theresa peeking through was from the same time that john f kennedy jr. went missing and was presumed dead. one thing we must remember (from the time before, before) is that everything is connected. everything plays a role. there are no coincidences. the "B" was created through a custom made stencil and the use of metallic gold spray paint in an homage to the street art of this great city. the photograph itself mimics the dying art-form of digital photography's predecessor through its gritty and abstracted presentation of film grain that came from the time before. throughout this series, one will come to experience pieces that have been drastically manipulated through the use of both digital and analogue elements such as the use of computer technology and also different types of paint and painting technique. one will also experience photographic street images with virtually no manipulation. this deliberate expression is meant to again, broach the topic of defining the word "reality."
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new york on a sunday in the time before. a crowded upper east side diner. eggs being thrown here and there for the mass consumption of the masses. maybe afterwards a stroll through the park leisurely down the promenade looking at the backwards flow of the east river. in the time before. i painted the "4" on this piece with watercolor paints of every color on the visible spectrum to highlight the celebration of human diversity that continued to grow and evolve in the time before, back before everyone was scared of everyone else. in the time before we didnt interact with fear in the same way. in the time that is now, i can see clearly how fear has destroyed/is destroying the communities we belong to that we once held sacred. in the time that is now i can see clearly how fear bred hatred and judgement, have made communities sacrifice their own. as a gay man, i never thought i would see the days when an institution and community leader like the THE STONEWALL INN would choose to turn disabled gay artists living with HIV away from their doors, all while still claiming to respect and fight for equality amongst ALL human beings. it is fear that has created this contradiction in many communities and in the voice of community leaders. i see hospitals with signs at their front doors praising ALL emergency responders as heros, while continuing to enforce the firing and weeding out of the people who we collectively cheered for everyday at 7pm during the 2020 year. when did the selfless actions of these people become worthless and not worth considering? in the time that is now, these same selfless heros are now considered selfish and unworthy of being allowed to be our heros anymore. in the time that is now our communities are greatly divided by fear, controlled and manipulated by the mainstream media pushing their division inducing fear propaganda. in the time before, simply being gay was enough to see other gay people as family, a way to connect and not feel alone. in the time that is now, that is simply a fond dream from the past for many of us. fear has tainted this simple connection and added conditions to who we can connect with and respect as a a fellow human being. i approach all members of my own community now with the underlying fear that i will be forced to deal with ignorance, hatred, judgement and segregation by those i once considered "family." fear has made it easy for us to hate and judge others we choose not to understand. fear has made it justifiable to treat people in horrific and negative ways when normally that would violate our morals, values and ethics. we have forgotten where we come from. we have forgotten that we only got this far because we stood together. WE ARE ALWAYS STRONGER TOGETHER. within society, every major change that occurred for the better, happened because we stood together, as one, united. one might wonder whether or not the response to this "PANDEMIC" has caused more harm than good. how many lives have been ended or destroyed because of the response to the global pandemic event, in the name of saving others? how far will we go to sacrifice one group of people to save another? being a proud member of multiple minority groups, i can say from firsthand experience that the communities i belong to have been devastated by the response to this crisis and the subsequent mandates that have created a second class in new york. i have been denied health care by mental health care professionals after pleading for help and support simply because of my second class status. i wonder why the hippocratic oath is no longer valid in the time that is now. these mandates were supposed to end march 7th and yet because of fear, most places in the gay world and many places otherwise still continue to enforce the segregation of the city. one could wonder if the global elite have an agenda to divide humanity and keep us weak. one could wonder this because it seems clear to me that one of the biggest and most concerning byproducts of the response to the pandemic has been the global division of humanity on a level never before seen in modern society. it feels like everyone so desperately wants things to be back the way they were but that they feel so controlled by the fear of everything, the air, other people, our own communities, other communities, our own families, the government, other governments and even our own heros. this piece is a digital image manipulated to emphasize the precursor to the digital format to again play into this idea of the time before everything changed. the news clipping continues from the first piece from the time when JFKjr. went missing and was presumed dead. together these two pieces talk about the difference between a world before and its transition into the world of tomorrow.
reality is subjective
it was a beautiful sunny and brisk spring day when i shot this photo adjacent to the bow bridge that passes over the lake in central park. the perfume of the spring blossoms wafting through the air while masses of new yorkers break shutdown guidelines to soak up the beauty and warmth of spring after a long winter, the irony being that this will be the shortest winter in the coming years. at this point, the majority of the population of new york was tuned into the mainstream news and media being force-fed the toxic propaganda that was (and still is) stifling the airwaves. the fear tsunami that was being created by the mainstream media’s role in this global event was just getting started. our individual realities for all of us were going through a drastic and significant change from the time before to what lies ahead. the curious thing was that the 2020 year ended up being the best year in my life, up to that point. i mention this because it was my differing perception of reality that created the opportunities that i went through in 2020 that made that the case when so many others could regard the 2020 year as the worst year of their lives. i cannot speak for anyone else, but i can explain why my perceived reality allowed me to experience a year unmatched in its brilliance in my life, up to that point. spending my entire adult life as a schizophrenic has taught me many things. when one is schizophrenic, one spends their time hopping between various different realities and dimensional frequencies as everything in this universe exists as vibrational frequencies of light. it took me a long time to understand that this was the case. i used to explain it to people like this: i am sitting in this chair and you are sitting in another chair across from me. i see a table in between the both of us. you do not. you tell me there is nothing there. the problem is, i can touch the table, i can feel the table, i can even put my drink on the table, and yet you continue to tell me that the table is just a product of my broken mind. it took me a long time to accept that even though no one else sees the table, it doesn’t necessarily mean the table is a hallucination created by my diseased brain. after years of approaching this problem in many different ways, using the scientific method to learn about it, i came to the conclusion that there is a great deal out there that exists all around us at all times and just because the majority is unaware of this, it doesn’t mean it does not exist. it is unwise to assume we have discovered and learned everything there is to know about the entirety of our universe. a closed mind can only stay closed. it is the open mind that grows, evolves and becomes stronger and more intelligent. in the end it has been the voices i hear and the “hallucinations” that i see and feel that have guided me to a greater understanding of the end of the world as we knew it. schizophrenia is a very difficult and complicated reality to understand however when one does understand it on a greater level, one can then learn how to use it to ones advantage. this is what i have been able to do and ultimately i have found a way to enter into a recovery from being debilitated by schizophrenia as i used to be for a great many years. thank god for those voices in my head;-) the definition of reality is a tricky thing because every single human being on this planet experiences a reality vastly different from every other human being, even though we all seem to think there is one and only one “normal” reality. the idea of a “normal” reality that we all strive so desperately to be a part of will always be a fruitless effort because we will never experience this idea of “normal” as it simply does not exist. the idea of “normal” is in itself irrational and unattainable. the fact that we all perceive reality in vastly different and unique ways is actually the greatest thing about humanity. when we, as a species, can have the chance to become united then we will fully understand that we all have something to offer to the rest of us. we all have something to bring to the table that is equally important as what is brought to the table by every other human being. one of the messes we are in right now is caused by our being programmed to believe that we must sacrifice who we are to settle for contributing something to society that isn’t who we are. that is why we all suffer so greatly. this is by design. the more we suffer, the better off those at the top are. but that is a topic for another time, back to reality as we know it, or perhaps knew it. in my time observing the city of new york during the early shutdown and afterwards i have found that everyones idea of reality differs quite a bit. as a member of the gay community, my definition of "normal reality" will differ greatly from say a straight individual, or even a transgendered individual. an african-american working woman with a family will have a great many differences in their perceived reality from a caucasian working woman with a family. we all truly bring a unique perspective to the table. this piece hopes to get its audience to question what reality is. is reality marching with protestors down 7th ave as a participating member of the massive countrywide BLM protests of 2020? is reality being a passive observer on the sidelines as the BLM protest passes by? is reality being afraid of the air and everyone else because of the narrative contrived by the mainstream media? is reality spending time violating the destructive mandates put into place as the shutdown gained momentum to enjoy a sunny and brisk day in central park as the perfume of spring blossoms waft through the air tickling ones nose in only the most joyous of ways? i imagine many of our realities will include some of these things and not others as well as many other infinite things that i have not mentioned here. in the end, reality is not fixed, there is no normal as there is not one single human being on this planet who experiences the same exact reality of another. normal implies that there is more than one of us who experience carbon copies of reality. when it comes down to it there are many questions about this global event that must be answered because at this point in history the worst was yet to come. the newspaper clipping on this piece comes from a newspaper i collected and saved for 21 years from the 2001 september, 11th WTC/DC/PA events. at the time i was a freshman in highschool, watching the next day of infamy unfold, at least until the next day of infamy came to be. i collected newspapers for a year after 9.11 not knowing why and then they sat in my mothers garage until now. i include this newspaper clipping (along with many more throughout this project) to emphasize the idea of history repeating itself along with making a connection between events seemingly unrelated. as this story of humanity on earth continues to play out, if one is willing to open ones mind, one can clearly see that everything is connected and that there are no coincidences. 9.11 happened for a reason and so did the global pandemic event and they are both playing off one another to accomplish a great many things as this has been in the works for a very long time, all with the goal of taking away our ability to be true to who we are, both as a species and individually.
timesquare
the subterranean labyrinth of the times square subway station in all of its glory was once a constant hustle and bustle as it sits under the crossroads of the world. in the time before there were millions of people moving through it everyday, from all walks of life and all corners of the world. i have pondered that one could understand the health of this city just by observing the subway system. i imagine it would be like observing the vascular system in the human body to determine its health. as the city began to enter into the shutdown in early spring, the change in the subways were dramatically obvious in a very short period of time, all things considered. the subways emptied out in less than a month and by the end of march, riding around on the manhattan trains at rush hour were like being on 3a monday morning train in the outer boroughs. riding around on the train in april was like living in an abandoned amusement park, where for some reason, the power is on and all the rides and games and things still work, but there wasn’t a soul to be found. it was an eerie reality that mimicked the final finale of some twisted hollywood horror flick. it was during this early shutdown period that new york was dealt a blow that was heard around the world. the blow wasn’t a crack of lightning, like the blow new york felt on 9/11. instead, this blow was slow moving and methodical, like boiling a frog from cool water. new york had once again become the mainstream poster child to an event that would result in the wide-spread fear, panic and terror throughout the people of our nation and around the world. this blow fractured the integrity of our city, it broke our way of life that, even now, is still struggling. the spatters of gold glitter paint represent the remnants of old new york from the time before. the subway is one of a very few places in new york where people of all colors, ideologies, classes, and otherwise come together in relative harmony, when they would otherwise never come into contact with each-other. the subway system unites the people for the time that passes as they use the system to go wherever they may be going. we have all come into an unspoken understanding with one another to do our best (all things considered) to be in such close proximity to one another and make it as stress and awkward free as possible. of course there are exceptions to this, however i would say the majority of the time, people made the effort to keep the peace. it wasn’t until irregular warfare was waged on the city that disharmony started becoming more prevalent. i remember from the time before, when i would ride the 6 train sitting in a full car, every seat is filled with standing room becoming scarce and we all invaded each others personal spaces by choice and sat packed in like sardines, shoulder-to-shoulder, and it was okay. it was accepted as necessary for this system to work. in that moment, an upper-class socialite could be pressed against a poverty class loner and it happens despite the almost impossible likelihood of it happening again anywhere else. it certainly would be taboo for this poverty class loner to be invading the personal space of this upper class socialite, on such an extreme level, outside of the subway system. when the subway system was emptied out by the fear propaganda of the mockingbird media it was a symptom of the rapidly deteriorating health of new york. this cataclysm wasn't one of traditional warfare, like the blitz on london in the early 40s. instead it was a cataclysm created by a strategy of warfare known to be most irregular in nature. this cataclysm left the buildings in-tact, but broke the connections that human beings had with one another. the floor of the times square subway station is painted with watercolor to mimic a deep and painful bruise to highlight the damage that this city has been faced with since the shutdown began. the bruise can be seen in new york society now as many small businesses destroyed or suffering, struggling to stay alive. the bruise can be seen in the second class created in the city that faces ferocious hatred, judgement, intolerance and ignorance every day. the bruise can be seen in the littering of masks on seemingly every surface of the city. there are a great many other ways this shutdown has negatively affected this city. that brief and glorious moment when all shapes and colors of people came together in unity as they commuted in relative harmony was destroyed. during the past two years people struggled to sit as far away from each-other as they could. people have fought with each other as to the best way to handle this cataclysm. there are signs promoting people to ignore one another and stare at their phones while riding the train. all of this and more created more tension between each-other as we try to get from point A to point B. there are signs ranging from proper mask wearing technique and then later on, promotions by the city to get vaccinated and boosted while downplaying any negative problems associated with the vaccine. the yellow element on this piece was taken from one of the MTA signs that i found on the sidewalk outside of a subway entrance one night. it had been walked on and was looking pretty gnarly. it thanks the viewer for wearing a mask. it seems to me, in the context of everything else, to be a push to conform and to do as we are told and to not think about it past that. on the surface, things may seem as though they are returning to ordinary but it is underneath the surface where one can see the damage done. currently, the subway system is still not back to where they were just as the city is not back to functioning as it once did. this past tuesday an armed gunman injured many people, regardless of the details, this is proof of the deep bruise that the city is still currently faced with. i would imagine a vaxxed and boosted individual would see the city in a very different way than that of an unvaccinated individual. perhaps it is the vaccinated who are more ignorant to the bruise underneath the surface than the unvaccinated, although i am certain we ALL feel the disharmony. i now feel like a refugee in my own city. i am no longer welcome in my own communities and because of my mental health i have started seeking connections with other people in groups i never before considered connecting with. my drive to attend to my mental health has me searching for what my soul needs outside of the communities in which i was once welcomed. i walked to the cathedral of st. john the divine the other day to say a prayer for my grandparents as my grandmother makes regular requests for me to do such things and was denied entry to the cathedral to worship god and pray for my grandparents because of the discrimination caused by the second class dynamic now very prevalent in new york. despite the mandates being called off, many places in the city still enforce the discrimination of people who have the right to medical freedom all while ignoring any of the scientific evidence that counters their viewpoint while still claiming to “trust the science”. the city is not what it used to be on so many levels and it will never be what it was again. our future is bright despite the current global climate (no pun intended). just as i healed after emergency gallbladder surgery, the city of new york will, in time, heal as well. the scar of this irregular warfare will be something we will all live with for a much greater amount of time.
eyes wide shut
during a time of great change, as the one we are ALL faced with for the past few years, it can be very easy to get caught up in the major drama and let the little things pass us by. during the early shutdown in new york i spent a lot of time wandering the deserted streets searching for the right things to document to help me tell this story of the end of the world as we knew it. one day, in early april, i was wondering down lexington ave. and came across this church. i noticed this cat sitting on its steps and it got me to thinking about why that cat would be there and why a normally very skittish animal would sit there so patiently letting me photograph them for some time. the topic of universal consciousness came into my mind. this is the idea that everything in the universe is conscious and connected and that we are all part of one giant consciousness, like conscious cells in a larger conscious body. because of this logic, it occurred to me that god could be in this church-going kitty cat and that god was perhaps observing me. the cat in this piece was given a glittered gold halo to emphasize its divine nature as god is everything and everything is god. we are one. by this logic, that cat very much is god, just as i am god and you all are god as well. god is in all of us. somos uno. it occurred to me a few years back that the age of privacy is over. then, it occurred to me that maybe privacy was always a myth on some level. at this point, we are starting to become aware that there are cameras in most of the corners of human civilization, as well as massive storage systems of the countless hours of data being recorded as the mass surveillance conspiracy continues to be uncovered more and more by people like edward snowden. whether it be the intense network of cameras both public and private or the ability for big tech and the government to monitor what we do on our smart phones, we don't have the privacy with which we have the inalienable right to. the most interesting thing to me about this is that it has become public knowledge that our rights are being suppressed, and yet, we still let this horrible invasion of privacy fly. we remain apathetic to the full scope of the implications to a completely monitored society. there is a reason why the elite 1% push so hard for this system of mass surveillance. they have expended incredible amounts of resources to obtain a fully monitored global human society. they do this not for our safety or for the betterment of humanity, as they claim (ie: the patriot act), but instead to manipulate and control us. we choose to remain apathetic because we are all already pushed to the limit. in my time traveling around the country during the 2020 year, i had conversations with people from all walks of life and one thing that became very obvious to me was that we are all struggling to keep our heads above water. we ALL have proverbial full plates to manage and juggle. we ALL currently exist within a system that was designed to keep us ALL suppressed and divided without a path to understanding true happiness. instead we are taught that materialism and consumerism is the key to happiness when it is indeed the opposite. we are too afraid to loose the little bit we have so we choose to stay asleep with our backs turned to the truth because we have no hope that we can take a leap of faith and land on our feet. it is too much for most to entertain the idea that everything we know is a lie. it is only at the precipice of total destruction that we feel the motivation to change on a mass level. this time is here and now. the eye of this piece was created with a custom stencil (i created) and watercolor paint. this eye symbolizes the mass surveillance of the american people and it is also representative of the “all seeing eye” at the top of the pyramid, a nod to the elite 1% that control the rest of us 99%. i take a direct nod to the 1% elite because it is them, who have created this system of mass surveillance that we all now deal with on a daily basis, whether we know and acknowledge it or not. it is companies like facebook, twitter and tiktok that have been created to monitor the american people to learn about them with the intention of using this information to control and manipulate us. perhaps these issues are being considered as elon musk continues to move on taking control of twitter, hopefully, for the purpose of dismantling the system of manipulation of the american people through social media. this eye is also a nod to the universal truth we all adhere too, a universal sense of right and wrong, put into place by the etherial beings of the highest vibrational frequencies that all consciousness in the universe adheres to. the newspaper clippings about the movie "eyes wide shut" come from a newspaper during the time when jfk jr. was missing and was presumed dead. it is not a coincidence that this movie was released when it was. this movie is about a man who stumbles into the secret world of a hidden elite shadow society that exists within human society. in this film these secret elite maintained a hidden surveillance of the protagonist (played by tom cruise “coincidentally”). this film acts as a vehicle of disclosure to the american people, and elsewhere, about what continues to happen to us. i say that the timing around the release of this movie is not a coincidence because coincidences simply do not exist. everything happens for a reason. another element of this piece includes a newspaper clipping about humanity visiting the moon. there is quite a bit being kept from the general global human population about the interaction of humans beings and space. the public space programs around the world only scratch the surface of what humanity has been able to accomplish. the vast majority of human/space interaction (on earth) is being kept from us and the extent at which the moon plays a part is not fully realized to most of us. the moon serves many purposes and definitely holds a role in the monitoring, control and manipulation of humankind on earth. the answers lie on the dark side of the moon. so whether its god that is watching us, or perhaps a cat, or a shadow government, or aliens, for that matter, the time has come for us to stand up for our inalienable right to privacy. in the coming months and years we will be pushed to understand the true nature of mass surveillance and how destructive it has been to humanity on a whole.
silence
it was a rare thing indeed to see new york during the early shutdown days of 2020. there were times i was going about the city and i would not see a single soul. no cars driving by, no people walking or hanging out down the block. no music or tomfoolery being heard off in the distance. i couldn't even hear the far off sound of emergency responders in the distance. most of the time, the only proof of life that could be seen in new york was the occasional food delivery person rushing about to deliver sustenance to those sheltering in place. later, i found that most of the ambulances were parked outside of the various manhattan emergency rooms in mass, which seemed to be evidence of something specific, although that is a topic of conversation for another time. it was in these unique moments that i truly felt the monumental nature of what was happening. there have really only been a handful of moments in the history of new york that have ended up being as impactful as the 2020 shutdown. i suppose i was in a unique opportunity as well to see how the contiguous 48 states handled the shutdown. its one thing to hear about global events in the mainstream, it is an entirely different thing to experience it firsthand. i can honestly say i did not fully understand the scope of what happened until i was experiencing it “in the flesh” as they say. this piece was framed with a gold spray painted border to emphasize the urban artistic aesthetic and the photograph of park avenue was taken at 68th street looking south towards grand central. i captured this moment as the day was at its peak, a time when park avenue is typically very crowded with commuters making their way around or out of the city. this is also a time when school children are getting out and being scooped up by parents and other caretakers. it is usually best to avoid park avenue at this hour of the day. alas, during the spring months of 2020 the story of park avenue and every other street, avenue, boulevard, place, parkway, circle, court, etc. was a very different story. it seems as though for a moment, the silence that fell across the city was similar to that of the silence that encapsulated new york in september of 2001, almost 20 years before. one might actually hear the proverbial crickets chirping. i have included a newspaper clipping from a newspaper i collected in 2001 that talks about silence falling across NYC in the aftermath of the september 11th events. is this silence becoming a pattern? what else could be observed about these events that could reinforce this idea of these repeating patterns. after the events on september 11th 2001 the patriot act came into the picture. this was advertised as being a way to improve the safety of the american people, however the cost of our freedoms was definitely in the fine print as mass surveillance, among many other issues, made the patriot act a completely different animal after it was signed into law. it is seemingly coincidental to the untrained eye that again the city has fallen into silence because of a profound and significant event that has also led to the further restriction of the freedoms of the american people under the guise of safety. as i have stated previously, coincidence simply is not the case. everything happens for a reason. when one can start to look at the broader picture over an extended period of time one can start to see how these seemingly unrelated events are indeed following a pattern. it starts with a profound and overwhelmingly negative event that happens which affects us ALL at our cores. then the silence falls upon us as everyone struggles to deal with ”the blow” of said event and then in response to said event, the powers in government then implement new laws or mandates that advertise safety all while further restricting our freedoms and creating division and destruction on many different levels. i believe it was robert kennedy jr. who talked about how the bill of rights in the american constitution is being systematically dismantled over the past few decades. if we look at the bill of rights currently, it seems as though the only amendment left standing is the second amendment, which has been methodically attacked for decades now by the deepstate through organized and orchestrated mass shooting events all over the country. i have mentioned the scenario before where one can put a frog into boiling water and the frog will immediately jump away seeking safety, but if one puts the frog into cold water and slowly increases the heat over a prolonged period of time, then the frog will stay put and slowly boil to death. as these patterns emerge more and more, it starts to become clear to one that these significant events tend to indicate a military strategy known as a “false flag operation” or (in this case) the strategy of manipulating the people to get them to play along with a hidden agenda that is not in the best interest of the people. coming back to the shutdown in new york, one can clearly see how the shutdown has lead to the further restriction of the citizens of new york. the shutdown has caused a domino effect throughout the population of new york which has fueled destruction on so many different levels through hatred, judgement, intolerance, and ignorance. for example, i recently had a conversation with the management of a large nightclub in new york. i asked them why they have signs in their establishment claiming to have a zero tolerance policy of discrimination OF ANY KIND, all while choosing to enforce the segregation of the unvaccinated community by refusing them entry into the establishment. i wanted to know how establishments like this one rationalize two policies that contradict each other, as this practice has become quite common in new york. they claimed to uphold these guidelines as a way to make sure their customers are safe and comfortable. it seems to me that this same argument could be made by an establishment from the 1950s when asked why they only serve the white community. i guess this night club is really only concerned with the safety and comfort of some people while sacrificing the safety and comfort of others. this seems to be pretty cut and dry discrimination to me. i remain banned from the NYC pride instagram page because i commented about whether or not there was a place for unvaccinated LGBTQIA+ people at pride on one of their posts where they claimed “to have a place for everyone at pride”. in the end they never answered my question, they simply censored me and took away my voice by blocking me from nyc pride. it seems hypocrisy has become a symptom of the silence that follows a false flag operation. while certain public vaccine mandates have been lifted in new york, many establishments still enforce these discriminatory policies and thousands of people remain jobless after being fired because of the vaccine mandates while other high profile people like kyrie irving are allowed to have their jobs back regardless of their vaccine status. all of this is a product of the shutdown false flag itself. it was the shutdown that began this destruction and division just like the september 11th event in new york which also created subsequent destruction and division. without the damage caused by the shutdown in new york, these issues would never be brought into existence. the issues new yorkers are currently faced with are a direct result of the deep state design and implementation of false flag operations. in both the september 11th attacks and now with the shutdown and subsequent mandates, people have become more and more divided, our human connections being pushed to the breaking point and in many cases much further beyond. it seems as though people are being programmed not to think for themselves but to blindly believe what they hear in the mockingbird mainstream and to instead be pressured by the government through society to follow the mainstream narrative with fear of societal and community excommunication as punishment for challenging the mockingbird media narrative. we live in an age where the closed mind is sought by most over the open mind while still preaching the inclusivity of unique thought and expression. i wonder why that could be… a total rejection of any and all information that does not fit the mainstream narrative (being designed and orchestrated by those who control the mockingbird media) is at its most prevalent. it has been this intense push to follow the narrative of these historic events that has ultimately created the division and destruction which has further pushed us away from of a peaceful and unified society. it has been this noticed silence that has been the precursive symptom of the damage to come.
what is child abuse
as we really start to get settled into the 2022 year, the topic of child welfare seems to be popping up now more than ever before. i imagine that the roe v wade debacle that happened earlier this week will feed into this argument adding to the already tense environment of the past few years. not only are we concerned with the welfare of the children running about the surface of our planet, but now the welfare of unborn babies has been amplified into the mix. it certainly didn’t start out this way. granted, these issues have always been a matter of concern amongst american parents, as we all know, parents can be very opinionated about their children’s wellbeing, and rightly so! tis a dammed individual who gets in the path of a parents fury about their kids. the energy that motivates a parent to protect their child is a force to be reckoned with. i wonder tho, what if someone (or a group of incredibly, disgustingly, filthy rich someones with all the power) were to figure out a way to harness this parental force. what if this group of someones were to manipulate these parents to use this force to their advantage. a parent fearing for the wellbeing of their child creates quite an irrational response. it is interesting to me how under “normal” circumstances, a parent would never subject their children to something that suddenly becomes “okay” when overwhelming fear is injected into the equation, pun intended. this photograph was taken of a manhattan playground during the early shutdown, a reminder of how quickly our freedoms can disappear despite the fact that they are supposed to be protected under the law #stateofemergency. this image was left largely unaltered in any way, to emphasize the idea of reality being completely subjective in comparison to other pieces of this project that have been drastically manipulated. one “normal” reality will never exist, only billions of unique and diverse realities all equally necessary for the betterment of humanity. getting back to the topic of children, it has been clear from the beginning of 2020 that children have been the least affected demographic population to be affected by COVID19 amongst the american people. it is far more likely for any other demographic population to have life threatening issues with the COVID19 virus than it is for children to have life threatening issues with the virus. this is saying a lot too because even the most affected demographic populations are still way more likely to survive COVID19 than die from it. this information has been readily available for years now and yet the curious part of this is that children are one of two groups of people still under the control of state run mask mandates in new york city. the other group being the people in healthcare. why does this response of starving children of their god given freedoms seem to contradict the information we have been receiving from that group of someones in power? why are their signs throughout the MTA system from east new york to staten island talking about how vaccines are now deemed safe and effective for children five to seventeen according to pediatricians, despite the truth that children are now having cardiac problems among other issues in a direct response to the vaccine. i wonder how this could ever be a claim made by those in charge of our health and safety when these covid vaccines have never been subjected to long term testing, to see how this brand new DNA altering vaccine technology will affect a human being over extended periods of time. i wonder if parents would be okay with their children being injected with any other medicine if it had not gone through the short and long term analysis that the FDA usually imposes on medications before they become available to the general public. why would this vaccine be any different to parents. the answer to this lies in the manipulation of americans through the use of fear. its funny how fear can make typically rational intelligent adults do things they would never consider under “normal” circumstances. it seems as though, yet again the mockingbird media is the culprit. the fear that is being delivered unto us through the mainstream media has us making choices that we would never even consider under other conditions. let us take a step back for a moment and return to the mask mandates. a close cousin of mine happens to be a third grade teacher. she has been doing gods work, by preparing our youth to take over the country someday, for nearly a decade. i must say she is damn good at it too. she and i had a conversation recently about what she has been noticing about her current class of third graders. now, keep in mind that in 2022, the third graders going to school have never experienced the elementary experience outside of the “pandemic” event climate. these kids started their school careers on computers at home using zoom to interact with other kids and their teachers. these kids were taught from the beginning to fear one another and to expect to wear a mask at all times during their limited physical social interactions. my cousin has made some startling discoveries about this current class of third graders. she has found that these little rugrats have absolutely no idea how to relate to one another. they have no real understanding of how to interact with other children or adults. she has also found that every child she teaches is not anywhere close to where they need to be intellectually at the third grade level. she is finding that these children do not know how to behave themselves in the classroom setting and they have been severely stunted in all aspects of their growth. this is something we can only start to see as time passes. i now ask the question, what is child abuse? can we safely say that the decision to shut down human society on a global level was indeed in the best interest of humanity including the children? if fear was taken out of the equation would we have made the same choices, of course not. fear has been the returning culprit for most issues the world is faced with today. it is fear that makes us okay with abusing our children and putting their collective futures at risk because we keep lapping up the bowl of freshly warmed fear milk from the saucer like hungry little kitties. we have even gone to the extent of firing teachers who were otherwise incredible at guiding and preparing our youth for the future. i met so many teachers in covid mandate protests in new york who were brought to tears talking about how painful it has been for them to be pushed out of the education system for simply refusing a vaccine with proven life threatening side effects (according to Pfizer itself) and no long term testing. at the end of the day, when working with the least affected demographic population, is the vaccine even necessary? then again, was the vaccine ever necessary? i suppose it depends on who one asks as to what answer one will get with that question. i would, however, say that teachers who are good at what they do and who can help advance the next generation to take charge of our great nation are always going to be the hottest and most important commodity to the american people. without them, our children have no chance of the future they deserve and ultimately the future america deserves. it is time to acknowledge that fear is not and will never be a good reason for abusing the nations children. we must approach our youngest generations from a place of logic and reason, not fear induced paranoia as the damage currently being done to our kiddos is a direct result of the fear smoothie the mockingbird media is force feeding us like foie gras geese. we can do better, not only for ourselves, but also for our children and our nation’s future.
where are the people
as the shutdown grew in its strength, it was becoming clear this would not be something that resolved itself quickly. this art piece is highly manipulated both digitally and in the physical sense with the use of paint. the drastic manipulation of this piece juxtaposes the almost non-existent manipulation of the piece before this one, dealing with child abuse, in an attempt to further enforce the truly subjective nature of our individual realities. this manipulation is also representative of the pattern emerging at the time of the first shutdown mandates and that still continues to this day. there has and still is this strange pull for people to practice hypocrisy in what they say versus what they do. i have come to see that there are two different types of hypocrisy that seem to be emerging as a direct result of this global event. in the first group there are people who dont seem to be buying into everything the mockingbird media is forcing upon us. these people seem to be doing the bare minimum required to appease the people around them so that they can try to keep living their lives as they did prior to all this with the least amount of resistance. these people will be the ones with mask signs in the front window of their businesses while choosing not to enforce the mandates. these are also the people who will wear their masks when they are told to just to keep the peace but will choose not to wear it in all other circumstances. these people probably have mixed opinions about the vaccine, some will praise it and gladly take it while others may resist it. i would imagine one will find that most of these people could care less whether or not anyone else is vaccinated. these people are just doing what they have to so that they can get through this grand clusterfuck of a situation. i would imagine i fall into this category on some level as it has been my rule from the beginning to only wear my mask when i was told to and i did it so that i could live my daily life with as little resistance as possible. i have had so much else to deal with as far as the shutdowns and mandates are concerned like loosing all of the resources i used to rely on to keep me sane and sober, or the fact that the communities i belong to have sacrificed us unvaccinated folk because of our opinions about medical freedom. these issues have created so much destruction in my own life that it became necessary for me to play the role of hypocrite in some situations. i simply did not have enough energy or support to manage it all. i focused on harm reduction and have been doing what i need to so that i can survive this horrible happenstance. i would imagine there are a great many people in this category who are under similar situations, dealing with an already full load and have had to make concessions because of that. this is the group of people that were likely frequenting the parks during the shutdown. as the full scope of the shutdown was taking effect in april of 2020, the city of new york was seemingly a ghost town. one could walk the streets of manhattan mid-day and only see 3 or 4 people. in this piece one can see a scene at grand central, a once extremely busy place full of people moving about and the street scene on sixth avenue outside of radio city music hall at rockefeller plaza. these two areas being typically some of the highest volumes of traffic in the city. strangely enough, the story could not be more of the opposite if one made it north of 59th street up into central park. there it seemed as though the entire city called into work and everyone had planned to meet up in the park for a grand citywide celebration of the summer that was approaching. to represent this shutdown park phenomenon i juxtaposed a scene of a busy and sunny day at the christopher street pier next to these deserted midtown scenes. why was this happening? hanging out at the park with everyone else was not what the mainstream wanted. if the mainstream has its way, everyone would have been isolated and sheltering in place and there were a great many people who did shelter in place. who spent the majority of two plus years isolated, inside and alone. the mental health of these individuals in particular should be of great concern to the federal, state and local governments as it was the federal, state and local governments that ultimately decided their health was less important than the health of the people who were becoming sick under the umbrella of COVID19, an issue that has been proven to be under 1% lethal for the vast majority of americans. alas, society in general has seemingly deemed the sacrifice that these people have made to their lives and their health as necessary. during the months of march and april in the 2020 year i spent a great deal of time at various parks around the city. all of the parks i spent time at were busier during the months of march through june than i had ever seen them at any point before that. it was almost as if people were hearing the inaudible call of nature to bring them out and help them heal from this disaster. being out in nature in the sunshine will always do a person good because these things boost ones immune system making it stronger. social interaction boosts our immune response as well because we are a social species and long term solitary confinement is considered by many to be the worst form of torture a human being can endure. being in a state of duress will always suppress our immune response. alas, i think that the parks were a place where people felt they could attend to the significant health issues that were created by this global event all while still doing their best to adhere to the fear induced by the new rules of human engagement that were put into place by our governments and the mockingbird mainstream. the curious thing about this phenomena that was occurring in the new york city parks was not an isolated occurrence but rather a phenomena that i noticed in every single city that i visited during the 2020 year. the parks were always full to the brim with people having the grandest of times. there were mass hordes running down the trails, almost like grand flocks of migrating canadian geese. there were so many picnics that one could taste the wine, cheese and hummus just by smelling the sweet park air. balls of all shapes and sizes were being kicked about or thrown around and caught in leather catching gloves. this leads me to the second type of hypocrisy i have noticed. this hypocrisy seemed to develop around the time that the trump administration packaged and released the first ever mass use of a vaccine using mRNA technology to combat this virus. normally, all vaccines that reach the general population have undergone years of testing, up to a decade or more. this is done to understand how this technology will interact with a human being in the short term as well as the long term. it has happened many times before when big pharma has made medications available to the general public only to find out years later that these medications can have irreversible life threatening and altering side effects that can only be discovered through the prolonged observation of its use. on top of all this, the brand new mRNA technology that is being used in the current COVID19 vaccines is a brand new technology that actually alters ones DNA to start producing specific chemical compounds that, in theory, will help the body fight the COVID19 viral infection. so we have vaccines that have been made available through emergency use authorizations that have cut out the years of testing that the FDA would require before any medication vaccine or otherwise would be approved for mass consumption. this vaccine quickly became the hottest topic of debate amongst the american people. while the outright forcing of the vaccine on the american people is illegal, other methods of motivation had to be implemented by the government. it was deemed appropriate in the state of new york (and elsewhere) to restrict the freedoms of those who had not been vaccinated. unvaccinated people were no longer allowed to work, feed their families, or enjoy the lives they used to live because of these orwellian mandates. through these government sanctioned mandates, that went directly against the declaration of independence and the constitution of the united states, new york (and elsewhere) had successfully split american society into a first class of people whose rights were still being protected and a second class of people who were (and are) no longer seen by most as equal human beings deserving of the same protection of their rights. now, from what i can recall, i have never seen someone with a slight case of small pox walking around, or another person with just a little bit of polio. if i look at the definition of a vaccine according to the oxford dictionary, a vaccine is a substance that stimulates an immune response that creates an immunity to the ailment in question. we do not see these slight cases of small pox or polio about and it is because the vaccines we take for these issues create immunity and that is what a vaccine is supposed to do, make one immune. so we have in early shutdown the mainstream media claiming that these vaccines are 100% effective, and then over time we have the ever changing mainstream narrative that now decides the definition of a vaccine is actually something that just lessens the blow of the virus because the vaccine is not effective at stopping a human being from becoming infected with the COVID19 virus. the proof of this is in many of the most famous people in the world who have all been vaccinated (and in many case boosted as well) and then later on have tested positive for COVID19 at least once, if not more. there is a legitimate cause for concern about a medical technology that does not even do what the definition of a vaccine is supposed to do. the hypocrisy in all of this stems from the programming and brainwashing of the mockingbird media and our governments who have made it so that the unvaccinated have become public enemy number one. i have seen countless organizations and people who claim to advocate for the rights of ALL people while choosing to completely ignore the unvaccinated. what message does this send to the unvaccinated? the message says that we are no longer considered human beings, worthy of equal protection and treatment. when NYC pride says “there is a place for everyone at pride,” what they really mean is that there is a place for all of the vaccinated at NYC pride. so many individuals, organizations and establishments across the board have been claiming one thing while then doing the exact opposite in practice. the irony is that all of these individuals, organizations and institutions all have their rights protected, they can all operate their businesses, have access to healthcare, have jobs, are able to feed their families and yet they advocate for the suppression of the rights of others. this is the second type of hypocrisy because i am certain these individuals, organizations and establishments would not willingly put themselves into the situation the unvaccinated are dealing with right now. these people are willing to dish it but certainly are not willing to take it. it is interesting to me how quickly someone will abandon their morals, ethics and values when they stop seeing another human being as equal and deserving of the same treatment that one desires to be treated in return. to wrap this up, i have observed two types of hypocrites in this post shutdown world we now reside in. there are the people who have not bought into the mainstream narrative and who have been doing whatever they can to live their lives outside of the destructive nature of the mockingbird control. these hypocrites are only hypocrites because they have been pushed into a situation that requires them to pick their own wellbeing over the irrational toilet water being fed to us by the mainstream narrative that doesn’t even make rational or logical sense. then there are the hypocrites who have gobbled down the mainstream narrative due to intense brainwashing and programming and who have been blindly following it despite the gigantic holes in the logic of the narrative and who continue to try and live their lives as they had before but at the cost of sacrificing the unvaccinated community for their own comfort. these hypocrites will gladly burn the unvaxxed at the stake but would never in a million years trade places with them. these hypocrites will continue to promote equality, peace and togetherness for all, but what they really mean is that they want equality, peace and togetherness for the vaccinated. they do not want to understand the plight of the unvaccinated, they do not want to be true to the words they speak. in all reality, if the unvaccinated were put into boxcars and shipped off to covid camps, i dont much think they would say or do anything to stop it.
we are all americans
recently, i have been taking measures to spend less time every day staring at a screen. since 2020 i feel as though i have been steadily increasing the amount of time i spend everyday looking at a screen of some kind. whether it be sitting on the potty, starting at the boob tube, bingeing away my nights to mind suppressing programming, staring at the computer while i work or mindlessly swiping with my overdeveloped thumb on my phone while i wait for the train to take me uptown and home. now, some of these things are unavoidable, i need to stare at the computer to create the art i create, to write, to perform research and maintain my small business. on the other hand, there are other things that are quite avoidable. in somewhat recent months i have been making more of an effort to turn the tv off more in my daily routine and to spend more time doing other things that don’t require my tush slowly turning into a potato fused to the couch. i have also been making more of an effort to sit on the subway or bus without needing to be constantly stimulated by my phone screen. i feel as though the most current modern age is controlled by this push to be constantly stimulated by screen activities. we look at our phone screens while we stand in line, we look at our phone screens when we are dropping those sweet and sour chicken kids off at the pool. we even look at our phone screens while we wait for the train to take us wherever we are going. i feel that the vast majority of us spend more time looking at screens now then before the shutdown started and the world began its transition into the new age. i decided to set a goal for myself. i would ride the train quietly and without taking my phone from my pocket. i would take measures to occupy my mind in the ways that we used to occupy our minds before we began this transhumanist conversion to cyborgism that started with the development of the cell phone. by definition, a cyborg is a biological entity who has been altered by non-biological technology for the sake of advancing the human being past the “perceived limits” of biology. i wonder how many americans have a cell phone on them for the majority of their daily lives? how many americans have come to be totally dependent on our cell phones to get through our dailt grind? how many americans could not actually function anymore without the daily use of our cell phones on some level? it was elon musk who said “we are already cyborgs, most people just don’t realize it” in relation to the connection of human beings and cellphone tech. in the beginning, not using my cell phone on the train was difficult. i felt anxious and uncomfortable. i did not know what to do with my eyes, i did not know where to look, i did not know how to occupy my mind. it seemed as though i had forgotten what it is like to live without the constant stimulation of my cell phone screen during my downtime. over the weeks, i started to get more comfortable with this new way of living. i began to notice things that had previously slipped by me and my preoccupied mind. i started taking notice of how many people would use their phones during their ride and how many people wouldn’t. i noticed that most of the time there were more people on their phones during the ride than not. i also noticed that, at times, every single person on the train would be glued to their phones, be it through their headphones or through their screens. i also began to take notice of other things, thoughts and ideas that i started pondering as a result of not being preoccupied by my phone. one of these ideas started with the seats on the 6 train. i noticed how all these seats were exactly the same with one exception. i noticed that no one ever favored one seat over another, and that when people stepped onto the train, the only thing that seemed to concern them was finding an open seat. it didn’t matter what the seat looked like, the only thing that really mattered was whether or not it was available to plop down into after a long day of cubicle surfing. it then occurred to me that we americans are very similar to these subway seats. we all function in the same way. we all have souls that occupy our energy body that control our physical body. we all eat food to be broken down and ultimately transformed into ATP and other things to fuel the cells in our bodies as well as providing other chemical elements to various parts of the body for optimal functioning. we all must drink water to survive and we all need shelter from the storms. we all strive to find our place in this intense earthly experience. we all just want the freedom to be who we are and to use our god given talents to provide something to the rest of humanity. we all strive to find happiness and we all deal with the pain and discomfort of what life can throw in our collective faces. we all are so close to being the same that the entire human race shares 99.9% of the same exact DNA. it is less than .01% where we find our individuality. i mentioned earlier that the subway seats were exactly the same with one exception. well in the case of the seats, the one exception was the outward appearance of the seats. some are orange while others are yellow and still others are more worn than ones that are brand new. it seemed to me that human beings have become hyper-focused on worthless and trivial things that promote division. we have forgotten that under our superficial exteriors we are all still subway seats, so to speak. in this piece i have used a custom made stencil to spray paint all of the seats gold, which represents the human soul. i left a small circular window open in the spray paint to show how the seats may appear to be different but that the similarities of the seats are much more plentiful. the newspaper clipping titles the piece and comes from a denver periodical i collected in september of 2001. this also illustrates how everything is connected. speaking of newspapers, the mockingbird media has been programming us to be focused on these outward differences that keep us from seeing the countless more ways we are the same. instead of focusing on the 99.9% of us ALL that is the exact same, things like our beating hearts and our capacity to suffer and feel pain, we are programmed instead to be hyper-focused on the less than .01% that makes us different. it is not a coincidence that the american people have been divided for so many years by the same controversial topics. we have been programmed to believe that it must be our way or the highway. we have been taught that we must maintain our beliefs and to never see that the answer to uniting the american people will always lie somewhere in the middle of the problem, not on one side or the other. the key to uniting the people is through compromise on both sides of the aisle. for example, the key to the topic of abortion will not be the ability to take the life of an unborn baby up to the time of birth, nor will the answer lie in making all forms of abortion and contraception illegal. the answer will require concession from both sides to find harmony. the system in which we ALL currently live is designed to keep us at both ends of the spectrum and it is designed to restrict communication between both sides of the spectrum. this lack of communication leads to a REAL pandemic of assumption. the right side makes grand assumptions about the left and who they are and what they stand for and the left side makes grand assumptions about what it means to be a conservative. both sides are drastically mistaken about the true nature of the other side because both sides have been subjected to the mockingbird media’s gross distortion of both sides in an effort to keep people from understanding one another. i firmly believe that love, compassion, forgiveness and understanding will be the only way to bridge these gaps between communities because the alternatives of hatred, apathy, intolerance, judgement and ignorance will only continue the division of humankind. through the programming of the mockingbird media and our own government, we have been taught to stay focused on differences like the color of peoples skin, cultural beliefs or our positions in the wealth class structure. we are taught that these differences are far more important than the 99.9% of us ALL that literally makes us EXACTLY THE SAME. what we believe becomes our reality, so if we are focused on our differences, we continue to divide ourselves based on these differences. it is only when we choose to start focusing on the overwhelming similarities between us all that we can find common-ground-a-plenty. it is our hyper-focus on what makes us different that causes the creation of multiple classes in new york as the vaccine controversy continues. we decide that because of the differences between human beings, it then becomes justified to protect the rights of one group of AMERICAN HUMAN BEINGS while the rights of other AMERICAN HUMAN BEINGS can be suppressed and taken from them. it is this focus on what makes us different that essentially creates the belief on both sides of the spectrum that one group of american human beings is essentially more worthy of equal treatment under the law than another group of american human beings. now i believe that the declaration of independence states that in the united states of america, all human beings have the right to be treated equally under the law and that all american human beings have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. i wonder, would a true patriot choose to stay focused on the .01% that makes us different, essentially perpetuating the division of the american people, or would a true patriot put their differences aside to focus on the 99.9% of us all that is the same? the time has come for us all to stand up as TRUE patriots of the united states of america to save our sovereign lands from the tyranny of secrets, manipulation, deceit and intense and overwhelming darkness. the time has come for every single american human being to start focusing on our 99.9% similarities that we ALL share, lest we forget that UNITED WE STAND and DIVIDED WE FALL. we ALL have the right to equal treatment under the law. we ALL have the right to be protected under the law. we ALL have the right to live true to who we are in our individual journeys to true happiness through our collective rights to life and liberty. when we can accept that this is what the united states of america is supposed to be about, then we can start to learn that even though someone may have differences in opinion about what happiness is and how to achieve it, it doesnt mean they are any less entitled to their happiness. a true patriot of the united states of america will stand side by side with those different than themselves, just like those subway seats sit side by side, and fight for the equal rights of every last american human being, because being a true patriot will “ask not what my country can do for me, but what can i do for my country.” i think it was some guy named john kennedy who mentioned that little ditty. making choices that divide our great nation will never be in the best interest of the united states of america.
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the mainstream media is a tricky thing to understand if one does not understand the broader story. without all the facts, the mainstream media news seems to be an experience worth pursuing. it is important for the people to understand what is happening in the world and the obvious choice for educating ourselves would be the mainstream news. after all, the job of the mainstream news is to report the facts in an unbiased way. that is the only reason for the mainstream news to exist. anything outside of that would be pointless, unhelpful and detrimental to humanity as a whole. we as a country need to have a place in which to come so that we can make educated choices about ourselves and about other human beings and the world in which we ALL live. we have the right to be given unfiltered and unbiased truths through the mainstream media. unfortunately, it has been quite some time (if ever) since the mainstream media reported the unbiased truth. this work of art comes into play as a representation of the mainstream news that currently exists. this is a photograph of a block in east harlem that was closed off for the "open streets" program that the mayor’s office implemented during the days of the early shutdown. the idea was to close off various blocks around the city so that people could spend time outside while still being able to follow social distancing mandates. the thing about this program is that it was pretty much useless. granted, i was not able to see every single street closed off for this program in the entirety of the 5 boroughs, however i did see quite a few of them, mostly in manhattan and some others in the other boroughs and it was a rare thing indeed to come across any of these areas that were being actively used. i would imagine that people chose instead to spend their time in the park if they were to come outside and get away from the sheltering in place mandates. i can honestly see the appeal of a beautiful springtime in the city parks over the almost prison yard-like nature of walking in a circle on the unforgiving, tar-flavored blacktop of a street blocked off. the more i noticed these empty city blocks under the guise of “NYC open streets” the more i started to connect this to other patterns i was noticing in the city that all seemed to point to one conclusion. since the beginning the mockingbird mainstream has been peddling a very specific narrative. this narrative was designed to induce fear into the american population in the attempt to control the people into willingly giving up their rights for the false illusion of safety. people will give up everything they have just to feel safe. the narrative that the mainstream media has been pushing since 2020 has been one of distraction and fear through the manipulation of facts being reported. it is clear that the mainstream media is biased towards a narrative that is aimed at one thing, controlling the people through fear. this piece includes a straight shot of an east harlem street scene with very little digital manipulation that has then been painted upon with watercolor paint in specific areas. these areas include the NYPD police barricade and the NYC open streets informational sign. the reason why i chose to paint these elements while leaving the rest unaltered was to illustrate the point that events were happening in new york city and elsewhere all across the united states that were being fabricated to make a specific narrative seem like truth. i gussied up the sign and barricade as an actor would be painted with makeup before they step out into the lights on some sound stage in front of live cameras. i feel that programs like the open streets program was designed to be just that, an actor in a fabricated reality meant for the mainstream media. i feel like there have been many events that have been fabricated for the purpose of feeding into a specific narrative and i have more than one example of this both in new york and all around the country, that will be further discussed in the near future in this project. i feel as though places like minneapolis, portland and seattle all have examples of these fabricated events. as for the biases in the mainstream news, we can use the hunter biden laptop as an example. light was shed on the hunter biden laptop at the end of 2019 when the FBI seized the laptop from a computer tech store. this laptop contains a plethora of evidence of corruption reaching as far up as the oval office. this laptop contains evidence linking multiple administrations to the corruption in the ukraine as well as many other significant crimes such as pedophilia and even possibly incest. all of this information was coming to light just as the 2020 election was coming to fruition and what did the mainstream media do? the mockingbird mainstream suppressed all of this knowledge and in many cases denied its very existence. since then, many months went by before the evidence on hunter biden’s laptop was officially entered into congressional record on march 29th of 2022. now, if the mainstream news was unbiased and concerned with doing their job, this information would have been widely reported before november 3rd, 2020. the information found on the hunter biden laptop is proof of multiple scandals all worthy of the front page across the country. this information is so explosive that it would definitely effect the way people vote, although right now its not like it even matters as none of our votes matter as long as the voter fraud epidemic continues to sweep the nation. ironically enough, that is an “oprah” for another time, pun definitely intended. getting back to the bias of the mainstream mockingbird media, one must ask themselves, why would the media be picking and choosing what information to report on if they are an unbiased and unconnected element to the end of the world as we knew it. why would all major news sources in this country be reporting the same toxic and biased information about the existence of the hunter biden laptop and what it contains? why would all major news sources in this country choose to report the same lies? perhaps the answer lies in the owners of these news sources. perhaps the billionaires who control the mainstream media have an agenda. is that so hard to believe? if you were a billionaire with seemingly limitless resources who owns a network like CNN, wouldn’t you make sure that what you were reporting was in your own best interest? wouldn’t you suppress any information that might lead to your being dethroned from your media empire? one must next ask why information like the kind being uncovered on the hunter biden laptop would even be connected to a media empire billionaire. if someone was going to such great lengths to hide such important information by manipulating what is being reported on a countrywide level that spans many different news outlets on the national, state and local levels, then one must accept that these media empire billionaires are in some way connected to washington, otherwise, why would someone spend incredible levels of resources doing something that would mean the end of ones media empire if it were to be exposed. one must also ask oneself why things like the BLM/antifa protests and riots were being covered when a 12,000 plus march in new york city made up of fired police, firefighters, healthcare workers, education professionals, average joes and more only briefly gained media attention after the federal vaccine mandates went into place. i thought that police, fire, emergency responders, healthcare workers and education professionals were our nations frontline heros? now, suddenly they are being fired by the tens of thousands and they protest this and they get minimal media coverage. anytime a protest grows large enough to cover the brooklyn bridge from end to end for hours should be enough to get nationwide coverage just as the BLM protests of the same size were getting nationwide coverage. why would the mainstream news be organized enough to suppress the information of active events happening on a national, state and local level, all using the same lies and manipulations to focus the attention of the american people in a specific way that makes it more difficult for the average american to find facts about the events happening in our own country and around the world. lets further examine what is happening right now. so we now have one indictment of a lawyer connected to the clinton campaign and another person who have shared enough evidence now to show that hillary clinton, one of the most beloved and cherished politicians and philanthropists in the nation, as someone who is currently dealing with massive amounts of evidence being stacked up against her to prove she knowingly made choices that will be considered treason in an attempt to overthrow the american presidency. the investigation into the russian collusion coup led by john durham has been ongoing now for years and as bombshell information is starting to come to light, is the mainstream media covering this information as it should be as unbiased and factual news sources? hardly. instead, the news is filling the airwaves and periodicals with the roe v wade crisis, something that just seemed to come out of nowhere after decades of a largely unchanged status. is it simply a coincidence that this happens during a time of great upheaval and change? as there are no coincidences, i would comfortably say that timing is everything, especially when everyone is so focused on roe v wade that practically no one is paying attention to the fact that one of our most beloved leaders is being uncovered as a corrupt and destructive threat to the lives of all american citizens not to mention the lives of the people of the world. one must understand that the manipulations and fabrications of the mainstream media is directly connected to the current political environment as well as many other things. one cannot simply blindly believe what they are taking in from radio, television, the internet and periodicals. this is what the mainstream media empire billionaires are expecting from us all and this is why we continue to be faced with this threat not from outside of our great nation but instead from within. we all continue to take what is being reported as truth and we question nothing and they continue to profit from our chosen ignorance. we MUST learn to question everything we see and hear. we must learn to believe information only after we have taken the time to vet the sources and information. only when we start to question everything will we find the way through this informational hell on earth.
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