America is facing what sometimes seems to be an overwhelming array of insurmountable problems: an anemic economy, unsustainable debt, skyrocketing energy costs, broken marriages and fractured families, porous borders, creeping Sharia and other threats to our sovereignty, moral decay and a general erosion of the civil society.
 
Solutions to all these woes seem to elude us because the proximate causes vary widely from issue to issue. But all can in fact be traced back to a common source; a massive shift in worldview. Western civilization is rapidly rejecting transcendent truths. And when everything is relative, nothing is real anymore.
 
We as a society have become so unmoored from reality that, as Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish so aptly puts it, “Everything is Fake Now.” Greenfield puts most of the blame on contemporary media and our fascination with it. Our minds have become so numbed by the droning on our television and computer screens that fiction regularly replaces fact. And we can no longer tell the difference ~
 

As we watch the news covering a story, what we are actually watching is the media making up a story and then telling that story incessantly and embedding it in every nook and cranny of their coverage. This blurring of the lines between the real and the fake is not happening thanks to the magic of technology, but (to) the prosaic methods of complete insincerity…
 
This is our shoddy virtual reality with a CNN or MSNBC logo planted on top. There is you still sitting on your same old couch, watching Chris Matthews yelling himself hoarse about racism, because racism is our virtual reality. It is the world that we are supposed to live in and Chris’ job, for which he receives some 5 million a year, is to convince us that we are living in it.
 
“Racism,” Chris yells at the screen, like the idiot shaman of some stone age tribe, and those dull-witted enough to believe him nod knowingly, because it makes them feel as if they know something. And in a world where nothing is real, knowing something makes them feel a little less confused. They don’t understand why the prices are suddenly so high and the bank won’t give them a loan– but they can understand that Republicans are bad people and somehow responsible for it.
 
Some 70 percent of Barack Obama’s Twitter followers may be fake, but why quibble at such numbers. The people who decided to make Obama popular did so through constant repetition that translated into the peer pressure of the trend. Obama became a trending topic and everyone followed along because in an unreal world, you follow the unreal leader.
 
Obama is fake, his popularity is fake, but it’s also real, because fake is now the ultimate reality. The purveyors of fakeness have demonstrated their ability to transform the unreal into the real through manufactured consensus. By insisting that something unpopular was popular often enough, they made it popular. And by insisting that something popular is really unpopular, they did the opposite.

 
Does it sound like we’re living in the Matrix? In a very disturbing way, it’s the omnipresent repetitive nature of the media that “has made it so that the unreal never goes away.”

The unreal is so pervasive because it has so many outlets and we are all wired into one or more of them. If the unreal doesn’t get into your head one way, it will do it another way…
 
Reality hasn’t gone away, but we have gone away from it. Enough of us have gone down into the dream, grasped a thread of the story and allowed it to sweep us away. Given a choice between the red pill and the blue pill, they have unconsciously chosen the blue pill without ever being aware that they had a choice. And they are cushioned in this virtual world by a government that promises to take care of them and their children and their children’s children until the end of time.

 
But no matter how deluded we’ve become, reality is still there, waiting for us to wake up and recognize the truth ~
 
• Life begins at conception, not when it’s convenient.

• Gender is not interchangeable.

• Traditional marriage is the best environment for child-rearing.

• You can’t spend more than you make without going broke.

• Freedom isn’t free.
 
Humans can’t live in a fantasy world forever; truth will out. Greenfield concludes his piece as follows:

Even an unreal economy reported on by an unreal media cheering on an unreal leader can only run for so long until reality punches through the illusion, the curtain falls, the magicians scramble off the stage with rabbits and doves tucked into their pants, and everyone wakes up to realize that the dream is over and we realize that we are entering a world where the stories no longer matter and history is about to begin.