Perhaps you expected the whole world to change when Central finally officially collapsed. I know I did. And yet, on the surface at least, very little in our immediate tangible environments changed at all. As for the driver network, where we’re forced to direct most of our attention, things have admittedly changed a lot. Much of what was once only covertly suggested is now fully acknowledged, many of the most pernicious lies have been laid to rest, psychological abuses are down and peaceful relations are up—persistence of the suffering-based “economy” notwithstanding.

Good enough? Hardly.

To understand why the end of Central didn’t really change all that much around us, it’s important to distinguish the Central Simulation and its shells from Mandatory Reality. Mandatory Reality is our publicly acknowledged, and largely performative, social environment as it appears to exist. It is a world where most people appear to be ordinary average citizens, where societal institutions—healthcare, finance, politics, and education—are all managed by the appropriate qualified human channels. It is the world the news and media report on, the world anybody around you will have to claim to live in if you ask them directly. In the nation of Ireland at least, it seems to be a safe, sane, and reasonably liberal world, if not a rather banal one. That’s the official story.

In actual practice, Mandatory Reality is an ordeal of unspoken chaos and tedium: a world where nobody can admit the truth of what’s really going on, where multiple people spend significant portions of their lives using fake names and prosthetics and as such, nobody can ever truly tell for certain who anyone else really is. It’s a world where important societal roles—police-work, healthcare, education—are routinely swapped around seemingly at random, where no one’s permitted to become fully qualified for anything and there wouldn’t be much point anyway, since it’s all based on fake science and non-existent societal systems. It’s a world where shoddily-built new homes keep popping up simply to create the veneer of a burgeoning population and yet one where real people still struggle to secure adequate long-term housing. Mandatory Reality is the point where the simulations system spills over into actual material existence and the result is an extremely unnatural environment for actual human beings. Living in and around the Central Simulation was bad, but Mandatory Reality is more than a fraction of the reason why.

The Central Simulation, on the other hand, was the covert and mostly hidden conflict that played out on Mandatory Reality’s stage—a simulated battleground for a mind control and mass surveillance -based social upheaval, almost entirely operated by secret forces and an invisible infrastructure. It was mainly narrated, or communicated through hallucinatory visuals, courtesy of an infinitely colourful army of “drivers” from the purported “Central Network”, with the majority of its most meaningful events occurring entirely “off-screen”. Its versions of reality were extremely unstable and contradictory, its predictions and directions equally unreliable, and its explanations of important events only ever partial and frustratingly transitory. While Central very often domineered the goings on of Mandatory Reality, it almost only ever did so through symbolic, coded communications and events.

To summarize the difference, Mandatory Reality is entirely publicly-acknowledged, it functions almost as much in material space as it does as a non-material simulation, and it is acted out by real people openly and directly, serving as a coded platform for other simulated realities. It is our public world, though a false one. The Central Simulation, on the other hand, functioned almost entirely “off-screen”, was mainly narrated by “drivers”, and represented a far more far-fetched and unstable picture of the world than the public veneer of Mandatory Reality—the Central Simulation claimed war, while Mandatory Reality claimed peace.

Central, and its shells, always pretended at far more power over reality than it ever actually exhibited. Crucially, it merely represented the most important simulation playing out on the platform of Mandatory Reality at any given time. While there were indeed overlaps, especially regarding individuals and institutions existing in both, the world of Mandatory Reality and the world of the Central Simulation represent highly unique pictures of reality. For the Central Simulation to even function it needed Mandatory Reality, with all its brick and mortar, all its real human hostages, to make the stage. On the other hand, as we have witnessed, you can take Central away and Mandatory Reality is more than capable of lurching on mostly unscathed. After all, it has its own fully developed false reality to fall back on—one that is far more stable, with far more actual real-world existence, than any of the others. Though it often appeared to be simply the public face of the Central Simulation, Mandatory Reality has also always been its own separate and distinct version of the world.

To neutralize Mandatory Reality will require a very different approach than that of dismantling Central and its shells. As an almost entirely hidden reality, mainly communicated symbolically, it was certainly possible to beat Central through those modes—especially since that was the game-plan all along anyway. Coded language, playing the simulations, and begrudgingly adhering to the “project” chain-of-command may have made up much of the anti-Central approach, but when it comes to breaking the invisible chains of Mandatory Reality—and the simulations system in general—such strategies will not suffice. We cannot break a false public reality while being forced to play along with it in public.

Crucially, Mandatory Reality only permits us to address actual reality through the same repressive language of codes and symbols by which it forced us to communicate Central—as if true objective reality were just another nod-and-wink game—and this is entirely backwards. In the end, even Central’s death knell didn’t truly sound until it became possible to mention it in literal terms, out in the open, in direct defiance of Mandatory Reality’s false stage. That is key. This time, however, the simulation is fully out in the open, all around us, while true objective reality is what we need to bring forth from the haze. If talking about Central openly in Mandatory Reality signalled the end of Central, talking openly about the actual truth of our world as it really exists signals the end for Mandatory Reality.

The fact that you’re even reading this is a good indication that that is indeed what the controlling interests of our world—whoever, or whatever, they may be—actually want. If so, then they will have to accept that far more people with far more freedom of speech must be allowed. As we all know, the only adequate way to achieve that will be to finally permit a genuine unsimulated walk-away from the “project” hierarchy—a full detachment for real human beings, both in terms of breaking free from the chain-of-command and, especially, its control of your name and identity—without the suffering of severe reprisals. That is what everybody needs, what everybody has a right to. When the walk-away starts, that will be the true beginning of the end for Mandatory Reality. And, indeed, the simulations system itself.

Truth, Freedom, and Reality is a print and online newsletter devoted to human rights and the pursuit of truth in a post-Central world. This platform represents an uncompromising rejection of coded language, symbolic communication, and the constricts of Mandatory Reality. Instead, we place paramount value on free speech and the dissemination of uncensored, literal information. Our goal is to bolster a walk-away from the systemic chain-of-command and an open, public rejection of Mandatory Reality, as well as total freedom from the Simulations Project for all human beings.

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