Dark City, another dystopian sci-fi which reflects current reality

In 1998, a very weird science fiction, if you can call it that really, dystopian reality film might be a better term, was launched onto the public.

I guess it is science fiction, as the controllers of the world, as represented by the constantly shifting city every night as the citizens are put to sleep, are basically humans wearing matching Goth like leather uniforms, typical of alien representation in film. (Not counting British Science fiction films where everyone wears shiny silver onesies.)

Yesterday I attended a protest against Bill C9 on Parliament hill. There were some really good speakers there, video of which should be posted here soon. But while listening to example after example of how the state dialectically enforces even existing thought crimes laws to move actual Canadian laws and culture moving everything overall to the left, it occurred to me how the state manages to shift our day to day reality using narrative attacks with great deftness and yet the people don’t seem to even notice. Very much like Dark City. In the movie, people wake up, and the architecture has all changed. The city itself works differently and no one remembers how it was before, except of course, for the protagonist.

It reminded me of how the current Global Warming narrative attack has been cancelled for the most part. For sure, CBC hasn’t got the memo, but Bill Gates and Mark Carney even are dropping the narrative claiming that there are now, more important things to focus on.

Now let’s be clear here. ANTHROPOGENIC (man caused) Global Warming was sold to us as an existential threat to all life on Earth. By all who forced illegal rights-destroying regulations and laws on us. And now its just going to fade away.

If AGW was what they said it was, NOTHING could possibly be more important. Of course those who still have some critical thinking skills would notice that all the elites using Global Warming narratives to disenfranchise the proles would themselves by very expensive beachfront properties. Both Al Gore and Obama invested millions on luxury properties right on the beach in areas they both told us would be underwater by the time they signed the deeds.

It occurred to me that the exact same thing happened about Nuclear Winter, where the same organizations and in some cases the exact same PEOPLE (Cough cough David Suzuki) claimed that Western industry, the same existential threat  as ‘Global Warming’, was going to destroy the world. And it just pivoted to its  own opposite. Global Warming from the exact same cause! Western industry!

Not China’s 5000 new coal plants a year, or India’s or the horrendous pollution from North Korea, which one can be certain is the case. Just Western industry is causing this planetary existential threat, even though only Western Industry cleaned up its act and dealt with real pollution for the most part back in the 70s.

And suddenly Dark City made sense.

The hidden state leaves teasers all over the place about a paradise just out of reach called, Shell beach and anyone could go if they wanted, but it doesn’t really exist. The motivation for everyone to be slaves was that someday they could go to Shell beach. Meanwhile, every night the landscape totally changed, and no-one remembered how it was the day before.

The same will be true of the Trans-sexual narrative attack. And the Indian Residential schools Mass graves. Black Lives Matters, DEI, Covid, mRNA injections, forced mask wearing, Islam as a ‘Religion of peace’, Feminism, older ones like “Multiculturalism”, the very definition of an oxymoron, “Colonialism”, and any of a dozen other narrative attacks launched onto Western peoples for the one purpose of attacking and destroying some integral component of our culture and system of belief. Once they do what they were meant to do, the people who launched it care about the issue on a surface level about as much as an artilleryman cares about the shell after it hits the target and destroys it. The narrative is a weapon. The target is some aspect of our identity. Once the weapon is used, its on to the next one.

Dark City, The Matrix, The Truman Show, They Live, 1984, and of course, the original version, Plato’s Cave all explain versions of the same idea. Our reality is constructed for us by unseen forces, who manipulate us and not for our benefit.

Increasingly all of these movies make more and more sense as descriptors of the communist or dialectical state.

Source: https://vladtepesblog.com/2026/03/13/dark-city-another-dystopian-sci-fi-which-reflects-current-reality/