Many who see what's wrong with our world also hold out hope that there might be some Big Reveal in our future, some leak drop or heroic feat of investigative journalism which rips the veil off the mechanisms of oligarchy and oppression and shocks the world into revolutionary change. They think if there was just some major unprecedented revelation about 9/11, or Covid-19, or the oligarchy, it would snap open people's eyes at long last to the fact that everything they've been taught about the world is a lie.

This will never happen. We know this because if it were going to happen, it would have happened already. If facts and evidence were enough to open people's eyes and change their minds, then consent for the entire world order we are currently living under would have been rescinded as soon as we learned the Iraq invasion was based on a lie. Or as soon as we saw the first pictures of the children in Yemen who are being starved to death with the help of our government. Or any number of shockingly evil atrocities that the world's most powerful people have engineered right out in the open.

The Big Reveal will never happen, because the Big Reveal has already happened.

Reading by Tim Foley

Article with hyperlinks and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/what-if-the-big-reveal-already-happened