The Greatest Show on Earth

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Terence McKenna famously said, “The truth doesn’t need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist.”

Joseph Farrell, one of my favorite thinkers, says, “The fulfillment is the deception.”

I’ve spent my whole life in show business, in one form or another. When I watch a show, I only see the wires, lighting, and blocking. I see sets and transitions. I see camera movements and depth of field. When I look around these days, I see only a big show being staged.

I am of the opinion that the events laid out in the Book of Revelation (a.k.a. ἀποκάλυψις or apokálypsis) were fulfilled in the years between Pentecost and the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. Halley’s Comet in January AD66, and the Blood Moon of AD 68 fit the celestial signs. The Roman-Judean War took place between AD 66-70, culminating in the destruction of the Second Temple. There are records of the Dead Sea turning red after heavy rains, though no records at the time note this happening.

Interestingly, Rome went through five Caesars in the years 66-70—Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian. Four of them were in AD 69 alone. All in all, these years might well qualify as TEOTWAWKI for folks around the Mediterranean—signs in the Heavens, wars and rumors of wars, destruction of the Temple, Roman civil war, revolving Caesars.

Think how different the world would be now if we had all been taught that we are in the post-apocalyptic world. None of the early theologians (Irenaeus, Augustine, Origen, Jerome, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, etc.) taught anything resembling this chart-heavy system. Instead, it was created by a lunatic named John Nelson Darby, and popularized by a felonious grifter named Cyrus Scofield.

The interpretation was carefully managed to instill fear and anxiety in generations of humans, as a means of command and control of the masses. Nothing packed a revival tent full of donors better than imminent hellfire and damnation. No one wanted to hear about esoteric astrology, they wanted rivers of blood, piles of Vatican corpses, Beasts and Anti-Christs, and of course, watching it all from the safety of Heaven after the Rapture.

Of course, you’d also have to believe that Jesus was a liar (Matthew 24:34, Mark 13:30, Luke 21:32), but that seems to have been no hurdle at all for most folks.

If someone were attempting to stage-manage the Book of Revelation as a geopolitical screenplay, it wouldn’t look mystical at all. It would look brutally practical, theatrically symbolic, and depressingly familiar. Strip away the incense and thunder, and you’re left with a blueprint of power consolidation, engineered chaos, and psychological theatre. Here’s how such an operation would likely manifest in the real world.

Revelation opens with a series of calamities—war, famine, economic collapse, pestilence. A group bent on “fulfilling” the script would not wait for divine intervention; they’d create the staged conditions.

What we would see is coordinated destabilization of key regions (Middle East, Eastern Europe, Pacific Rim). There would be supply-chain sabotage to mimic famine-like conditions and dependency, financial shocks triggered by debt implosions or engineered liquidity crises, pharmaceutical panic cycles—create fear, sell cure, repeat.


In plain English, manufactured scarcity, not divine wrath.

The “Beast system” isn’t magical, it’s bureaucratic. It would rely on standardization, surveillance, and supranational power. We would expect major institutions pushing “global harmonization” in finance, digital IDs, taxation, and environmental regulation. There would certainly be a sudden enthusiasm for centralized digital currency, pitched as “safety after the latest crisis.” We would have consolidation of media, data, and communication platforms under the guise of “protecting democracy.”

They’d wrap it in benevolent language, but the outcome is a velvet-covered cage.

There would have to be someone cast as an antichrist figure. Not a cartoon villain with glowing eyes, a polished technocratic savior who “miraculously” fixes the crises he helped engineer. This person would be a fresh-faced reformer with “unifying global vision,” with media worship bordering on cultish. He (or she if you like) would have a meteoric rise that seems a little too suspiciously frictionless, with a message of “peace and safety”—the biblical dog-whistle in a suit.

The trick is always the same: create the fire, then sell the extinguisher; the Hegelian Dialectic writ large.

Revelation includes a false prophet and a religious apparatus. In modern terms, we would expect conferences pushing “universal spirituality” and “interfaith governance.” There would be pressure to dissolve doctrinal differences in favor of a soft, state-approved religion, with marginalization of belief systems that resist centralization.

Think less “false prophet” and more corporate chaplain for the New World Order.

Revelation is rich in imagery: rebuilt temples, wars in specific locations, signs in the heavens. A group wanting theatrical legitimacy would stage events to look prophetic. We should look for sudden efforts to “re-establish” ancient sites and rituals, major political events conveniently aligning with biblical imagery, and astrophysical events sensationalized through media as omens.

In short: the special-effects department working overtime.

The “mark of the beast” need not be a literal brand. It’s about economic control, the power to include or exclude. Mandatory digital identity systems linked to financial access, programmable currencies controlling how you spend, AI-administered social compliance scoring, and a narrative that “only the irresponsible will refuse adoption,” are clearly part of the control system for “buying and selling”.

Convenient, isn’t it?

To “fulfill” prophecy, people must believe they’re seeing what they’re told they’re seeing. Here we can expect highly curated information pipelines, and demonization of dissenting voices as “threats to global stability.” There would be heavy psychological priming through entertainment, news cycles, and educational doctrine; basically cancel culture.

Propaganda isn’t a sidesho, it’s the core machinery.

Nothing boosts an artificial prophecy campaign like conveniently timed discoveries. Possible moves might include announcements of “ancient manuscripts” supporting a preferred narrative, archaeological “proof” of prophetic legitimacy and/or scientific interpretations massaged to match eschatology. This is theatre masquerading as revelation.

Armageddon isn’t a mystical battlefield, it’s a symbolic brand for a global showdown. A manipulative group might engineer a three-block mega-conflict between the US/NATO vs. Russia vs. China, with the Middle East as fulcrum. Pull religious triggers to inflame regional zeal, and use the war as justification for final consolidation.


Never let a good apocalypse go to waste.

Once society is exhausted and begging for order, the group unveils its final act: a unified global authority “to prevent future disasters” (the UN on steroids). This would include a complete digital governance suite, a charismatic figurehead promising rebirth, and the public—exhausted and traumatized—applauds.

If someone were engineering Revelation, the key elements would be: centralization of power, manufactured crises, narratives wrapped in religious symbolism, a charismatic technocratic figure, digital/economic/identity control, and a climactic geopolitical conflict with a “new world” rising from the ashes.

If any of this sounds familiar, then perhaps it’s time to push back a bit. It’s not divine intervention, it’s unbounded ambition. Millions of Christians have been sold a show to get them to submit without a fight. After all, they get whisked out of the nastiness, and instead get to sit around with God surveying the All-New Earth. Powerful incentive to feel vindicated.

But hey, it’s not the end of the world or something.

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There are two films that slot perfectly with today’s rant, and both are well done and thought provoking. The first is 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), about a man who holds a woman hostage in a bunker by convincing her that the apocalypse has occurred. The second is The Rapture (1991), written and directed by Michael (The Player) Tolkin, which does a great job of asking why a loving God would do such a thing. If you prefer full frontal Scofield with Orson Wells narrating Armageddon, then it’s gotta be The Late Great Planet Earth (1978).

The Scofield Madness is well-funded and has spread worldwide, both of which are strong indicators of a marketing campaign, I think. Almost none of the "end times" narrative existed before the 20th century, so it's a very effective sales tool to pack the revival tents. The question is, who helped Scofield? He wasn't that smart all by himself.

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.

“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,  and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
— Matthew 24:6-13