There are two realities that have been purposely created for humanity and one can live in either quite easily, with all the supporting infrastructure that makes your “reality“ quite realistic.
If you’re in the “Everything Is Fine” reality, there are newspapers, morning shows, uninformed friends, doctors, movies, books, jobs, internet sites and media that will reflect that reality back to you. It’s quite easy to believe “everything is mostly fine” and think everyone touting an alternate opinion is nuts. Beyond inflation and the oddities—like soldiers in skirts—you can live fairly comfortably, going to work, watching a movie, having a beer with uninformed friends, making a pie, watching your news. You don’t have to live in fear for a nanosecond if you don’t want to. Maybe you survived the vax all right, and so did your family. Your newspaper comes to the door, the coffee is on, life, for the moment is good. But that reality is artificially created for you.
If you’re awake, there is also a reality you can inhabit. There are websites, newspapers, blogs, intelligent people to follow, like-minded people to associate with, directions on starting gardens, medicinal remedies, prepper books, videos, and the like. You can inhabit this world fully. Like the “everything is fine” reality, Deep State operatives contribute to it, by feeding news stories, peddling fear to us, supplying us with rogue informants, bad actors and the like.
To inhabit the reality of pure truth, and not falling prey to the propaganda In the two artificially created realities, is a difficult proposition. I would say people with finely-honed intuition are best at it, but even then, it is difficult. Who to trust? What to read? What to believe? Who dropped that story and why? Which politician is fighting the matrix? Who is just pretending? Are there really cockroaches in our food or is that just part of the fear machine?
Living simply helps to discern the artificial realities. Staying away from corporations and their products, weighing information before reacting, spending time in nature to strive for clarity, taking care of oneself, taking breaks from our news sources and reading—-it all helps. And knowing that an artificial reality has been created for truth seekers helps too.
We must be at our best right now.
Another thought on this: You are right about avoiding the corporate "reality" presented to us on TV. I've tried to tune out TV as much as I can, but occasionally watch certain programs I like (Mountain Men, NOVA, etc.), but in the back of my mind I sift and sieve what is being presented, ESPECIALLY in the commercials. I mostly mute the commercials but every once in awhile I will watch one simply to look for the subtext, the unspoken part... where today only black and Hispanic people are depicted as strong people and whites are mostly feckless losers and can be "set right" by emulating the minority folks; where men are mostly depicted as second-class wimps and STRONG WOMEN!! take charge.
I first noticed this in the original movie "Toy Story".... where was the father? No father at all, not even an oblique reference to a father. Presumably the mother had divorced the father, or he was dead, or whatever; we never know, he simply doesn't exist as far as "Toy Story" is concerned. Countless TV shows depict men as superfluous annoyances and the woman of the household wears the pants.
This emasculation of the media males has led to quite a few social disasters.