Review: Only Those in the Shadows Truly Know
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 8, 2014
Each person, each family, each nation builds its own network of friendships, extended family, work, play, school, sports, entertainment, etc. We form our rituals of daily life, vacations, traditions, cultures, and inherited beliefs.  Some of us grow beyond those inherited beliefs, be they secular or religious and, through much self-work, experience, we form our own, live our lives along the paths we have plowed with so much effort shedding the beliefs previously presented as truths by our fore-bearers.Some of us abide in a place where we divide our loyalties between those who  think and believe as we do; find support in those of similar life patterns of belief and life styles, and find others whose lives are different as we see them among “enemies” of our way of life. Others try to remain open to conflicting points of view, trying to bridge gaps; trying to open communication and remain unaffected by propaganda, distorted religious dogmas, yellow journalism, and yes, just down and out plain lies and hyperbole.That being said, as humans when things, whatever they may be—economic, terrorist, job loss, “unacceptable” life styles that upset previous  “normalcy”—we  look, intentionally or unintentionally, for scapegoats;  for someone to blame, rather than ourselves for our perceived misfortune; for the perceived invasion of what we have designated as our neat and tidy artificially perfect, or not so perfect, life. Some accept responsibility which is good, moves one forward, but perhaps we should also ask what outside forces have impacted on us from areas previously never considered.So, what has all this to do with the 29 Conspiracies of the Orphan Trilogy?What if we think we are our own puppet masters; that we pull our own strings, and that is not now, nor never has been, the way of it?  What if those we consider THEM to our US, are not really the THEM that pull the strings, but that THEIR strings are being pulled; kept so deeply entangled with ours to keep us both too busy with “conflict” at  personal/national/international levels to notice the strings that are tying our heads and theirs up in knots?What if behind this veneer of civilization; behind this veil that obscures our sight, there are who lurk in the shadows—there are those to whom “regular people” are simply devices to be “educated” to produce the demand for what they supply—legally, illegally, out in plain sight, under the proverbial table of decency, honor, and every other word that supposedly defines one as a righteous woman or man?Once upon a time in November we were dismissed early for prom night.I was on a bus when I heard the news that shattered a dream. There was no prom that night. Everyone sat in horror in front of the television for days.Did we believe then, do we believe now, that our president was murdered in the way we were told? Not many of us, just as not many of us believed what we were told about Martin, about Bobby. Too many variables, too many too quick answers, too much at stake for such simplistic answers. But perhaps the explanation was to make us feel better in such a terrible time of betrayal?We do so like to feel good, thus, the pharmacological industry spends millions on advertisements about drugs that will help our hearts, our arthritis, our allergies and a host of other ailments. Everyone, every actor, in them seems the picture of health, tiptoeing through the tulips, bouncing a grandchild on our knees. And then, then come the warnings about possible side-effects from  everything from strokes to promiscuity, and, oh yes, kidney failure. That is in the fine print, in the sotto voce voice.We like to feel good, so corporations and banks all make advertisements around the idea that they care so much about us, maybe even give us an astonishing 1% back on our credit cards that carry usurious rates of interest, while paying less than that in interest on our savings accounts—and, well, yes, there were all those too good to be true mortgages that allowed us to find, maybe not keep, but find our homes.We are engaged in “endless war” against terrorists who could, will, are coming from wherever. We have color coded alert levels, a “permanent” loose coalition  of ill defined but always disparaged enemies with hordes of WMD's—somewhere.In the news there are those “meetings” of heads of state, CEO's of corporations, CEO's of banks just there to talk things through for the betterment of all. And if, indeed, they are there for the betterment of all, why is all kept sub rosa—secret...what happens in wherever, stays in wherever.We feel good that slavery is illegal, immoral, and yet close our eyes and ears to the horror of it still existing in many areas including sexual slavery increasingly rampant across the world. Would that donut you might be dunkin' while reading this truly taste as sweet if you really acknowledged that many of those contemporary slaves are children—prepubescent children armed with rifles, with shovels, or used as sexual slaves, forced physically through punishments or induced drug addictions?Surely they did not volunteer for service or have naps with cookies.And what is that little whatzit inside your cell phone, i Pad, etc. that is not available in huge quantities; that could make the country that has it rich, but which instead knows poverty and war? Wonder why?Does 200.000 billion seem like a lot of money to you? Does it seem a lot of money when it could end hunger worldwide? Have you checked out the costs of war in Iraq and Afghanistan? If we are so innately bellicose, if we so love war, can someone tell me why those who fight them are changed forever, suffer so many horrid physical aftermaths, and wake screaming, live screaming with PTSD? If were are innately bellicose, why are there 22 veterans suicides a day in the States alone?How necessary really is war, and what are the true causes behind it—what are the real profits behind it, and who is making them?What is the real cost of war in human terms? How many have come back, this is not even counting those who live in country, with TBI, with spinal cord injuries? How many KIA, WIA, MIA, in armies and civilian populations? If you don't know, why not?Why is the continent of Africa, so rich in resources, so devastatingly poor in so many areas?Are we mind controlled by some devious force in endless ways, subliminal ways? Are we becoming conditioned to drones making strikes, watching our movements; to subversion of our communication systems? If were are becoming conditioned to “collateral damage” of so many kinds, from whence cometh the conditioning? Who are those men who stare at goats?Are we really citizens united when some of us barely can make our electric bills, put food on the table, and others POUR millions into elections?Are you like Mulder, do you want to believe that they are out there, maybe even here, here even for a long, long time and not just sitting about munching on bonbons? If they are here, have been here, why are all not benefiting from advanced technology?Would you frack or put a pipeline in your own backyard and not expect some reaction from Mother Nature? Those of us old enough remember the advertisement saying that “you can't fool Mother Nature.” Perhaps it should have said you can't fool with Mother Nature, unless, of course, you want to make seemingly limitless money and don't give a tinker's damn about Mother Nature—her children, or her planet.The bottom line questions the Morcans are asking in this mind bending work are of importance to us. Many children never get over their fright of disturbing clown masks, of puppets on strings made to yell, hit each other, be verbally abusive to each other. What these authors are asking is simple—are we choreographing our own lives, or are there, indeed, very powerful puppet masters in the shadows, in the air, under the ground, deep in caves, and/or at sumptuous secretive retreats for those who broker power as their own inalienable right? Do we wish to live with might is right, or right is might?Do we want to live with power with, or under power over?Do we choose a Machiavellian world, or do we choose  the order we need for a new world of compassion, communication, and peace?Are you up to the challenge of the 29 Conspiracies of the Orphan Trilogy which gives a whole new cavernous dimension to a parent's terrible fear of not living long enough to care for and protect their children at least until they come of age. No one wants unprotected orphan children; well, maybe not no one. My reviews for the Trilogy are here online.Read this explosive unveiled follow up of the 29 ConspiraciesGo for it.Then start asking questions yourself and be prepared to dig deep, not from the infotainment “news.”  And, oh yeah, you might want to have a paperclip or two around to keep track of some things that will launch you into areas and things that you have heretofore never considered, or perhaps even heard of.Good read, great adventure for those with  the black hats, the Fedoras, or  those of the Tin Foil variety—an unveiling of those who possibly dwell in the shadows that whips up thought, pours light through those closed drapes and clandestine meetings to “them.”