The general public’s willing acceptance of the draconian restrictions placed on mobility and freedom of assembly due to the coronavirus was ‘predicted’ in fictional novels and other artistic creations over the last few decades. Is it a matter of life imitating art or something more sinister?
By Raul Diego | 20 November 2020
MINT PRESS NEWS — Life imitates art is a phrase we often hear when certain events are seemingly foretold in a painting, a song, or any number of the creative disciplines people engage in. Books, in particular, are a generous source of such lore. Sometimes, the separation between the work of art’s making and the foreshadowed event is eerily short, leading to speculation that more than simple creative genius was behind its production.
Drawing too close a link between an artist’s inspiration and a future event mirrored in their work is a risky proposition, but sometimes the events depicted on the page or the screen parallel real life so closely, that questions of predictive programming arise – a concept many in academia dismiss as the ravings of “conspiracy theorists” in a familiar pattern of discrediting narratives that challenge authority.
Alan Watt, the man credited with postulating the notion of predictive programming, describes it as “a subtle form of psychological conditioning provided by the media to acquaint the public with planned societal changes to be implemented by our leaders. If and when these changes are put through, the public will already be familiarized with them and will accept them as natural progressions, thus lessening possible public resistance and commotion.”
While scorned by sycophants of power and gatekeepers, predictive programming is not an especially farfetched idea. Anyone who has ever put together an advertising campaign knows that conditioning public opinion is the name of the game and after nearly one century of television and a world awash in screens that relentlessly try to influence consumer behavior, predictive programming is just a small step beyond that. […]
Israeli authors writing about Covid-like pandemics years ago. Colour me not surprised. Think back to 911 and all the predictive movies and stories about an attack on New York. Even the Simpsons came out with strangely predictive 911 in one episode. Informed people know who controls the world. This Covid1984 seems too convenient to be dismissed as just an accident in Wuhan.