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Holy shit it is bleak. There are three Harry Potter books in there and two Hunger Games books in there in the top 10 best books.
Then you compare it to the best books of the 20th century ( still one harry potter book in there in top 10 but they are still doing way better than the 21st century.
How did the quality of the "greatest" works fall down so quickly. It is like humanity has forgotten how to write anything with any depth anymore and it is all at the level of quality of teenage story writing.
Is it simply over for the writing genre as a whole or is it that the best quality writing is actually no longer being recognized as the best because it didn't sell enough copies nor got enough appreciation from writing critics, or is it that there is a complete disconnect between what the average person considers enjoyable writing and what is considered actually good high brow writing?
I think it is a shift in medium where all the people looking for depth and high quality in their literary works moved on to movies and video games instead and all who are still hanging around the writing genre are those who will pick a random niche and the general books based on lowest common denominator which is teenage angst or teenage wonderment slop.
What this means is that the writing genre is going to keep going further down in quality over time and we need to look at the possible extinction of reading one day if everything turns out to be possible to be done by video because people are clearly getting worse at appreciating literature while getting a whole lot better at their expectations and appreciation of better video entertainment content.
Conclusion:
In terms of ease of entry into the writing department this is the easiest time period. In terms of making money from it, likely one of the harder time periods. We can expect the quality of writing meant for general audiences to have reached the lowest floor and never rise above it again this generation. The Zoom zooms are too r-slurred when it comes to quality writing in just a book.
Also if you still read Harry Potter books, READ ANOTHER BOOK!
The mystery deepens 
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The USAid programs were weaponized against people and politicians who weren’t woke.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 3, 2025
The Biden team spent US taxpayer money to support left wing programs and candidates around the world.
Conservatives around the world were targeted.
Romania is the latest example.… https://t.co/cmPqYojRzs
Will we ever get our elections back? Or at least hold new ones? Nobody knows 
Bur EU is determined to follow our steps for some reason 
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I had a small role in recruiting this man. He'd spent the last ten years leading engineering teams on a consumer product you've probably used, and he's just arrived in DC to work with the federal government. He started on Monday, and it's now Thursday night. I run into him at an event. He arrives late, and looks shellshocked.
How's it going? He's struggling to put words together. I'm worried. "I just left the office. I think everything's going to be okay." What is he talking about? "For the first day and a half, nothing. Then it was 'go to this agency and help them with this thing. It needs to go live on Thursday and there's a problem.' Yes, there was a problem. The data the service relied on….I've never seen a database like that. Ever." What do you mean? "1993. The guy couldn't find any other way to make it work. The vendors would have taken too long even if someone could justify the budget. So he just hacked it at nights and over weekends. Used whatever he could find and taught himself how to use it. The machine is ancient. The software has just been running since then. I'm amazed he managed to keep it running this long. It's a miracle. Either no one knew, or no one cared — my guess is that they were just happy to have something that worked at all. The guy's been keeping this going like this…I mean…I had no idea…I've never seen…." He's shaking his head and looking past me.
What happened? "First we just had to make sure we could get the data out somehow, make sure we had a copy. I mean, these records…they're the only copy. The whole system relies on this. People rely on this. To help real people. People who need help. If it had failed…" He really is in shock.
"I'd just never seen anything like this. I was afraid if I even touched it, it would all go poof. We got it out. It's okay…. It's okay now…But this guy…He's been keeping this together for 23 years…"
For a minute, I worry that he's angry. And that he might be angry at me for encouraging him to take this job. But I look in his eyes and it's not anger, it's awe. Respect. Admiration and gratitude for a public servant who has achieved the impossible. Made things work in spite of the rules, not because of them. "He made it work. He's the only guy who can run it. He knows it wouldn't work without him so he's deferred his retirement. I mean…he's extraordinary."
Extraordinary. A Silicon Valley technologist, the kind of person we champion as a savior of government, thinks that a career civil servant beyond retirement age with sorely outdated technical skills is extraordinary.
That career civil servant's name is Jed. The system he started building in the 1980s and maintained for decades before my friend came along was called VACOLS, the Veterans Appeals Control and Locator System. It started out serving just 400 users, and expanded to 17,000 across multiple parts of the VA system. Logic Magazine later interviewed him, and the backstory is well worth a read.
- DickButtKiss : Cloak n dagger been in the game the whole time, its not a new release dumbass - trans lives matter
- FamilyGuyShill : someone ban this coomer r-slur le s*x = le funny
- prrk2 : this is not an effortpost
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EFFORTPOST
BBC CHADS, WE WON
Marvel Rivals, the extremely popular F2P Overwatch clone with a Marvelslop skin has unleashed upon the normgroid masses a VANTABLACK 
that slvtty blonde PAWGs are B V I L T for the biggest blackest dark coal BBC, and as a result, this has caused a lot of discussion among Xwitter and Rule 34 normgroids about BBC porn being racist and problematic
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For those who are unaware:
These is Cloak and Dagger, a Marvelslop superhero duo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloak_and_Dagger_(characters)
Cloak (Tyrone "Ty" Johnson) and Dagger (Tandy Bowen) are a superhero duo appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Bill Mantlo and artist Ed Hannigan, the characters first appeared in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #64 (March 1982).
Cloak and Dagger are teenagers who were injected with synthetic heroin that gave them the twin superpowers of light and darkforce control. Dagger can create daggers of light and use her power to heal, while Cloak can teleport and turn intangible through the darkforce. Both draw powers from the emotions of those they touch, Dagger through hope and Cloak through fear.
THE BLACK GUY IS LITERALLY NAMED TYRONE 
Now if you thought that in the comics and in the Disneyslop they were not BBCpilled enough, well then, now these are Cloak and Dagger in the based and chinxpilled kino that saved the VVest:
Predictably, the most popular canon BMWF couple in modern vidya have been an absolute goldmine for BBC kino 
Below is my opinion on this matter:
Tandy Bowen from Marvel Rivals is BVILT for the most vantablack BIPOCcoal Sub-Saharan African BIPOC mandingo Congolese BBCs, she is THE biggest blonde-haired mudshark BIPOClover coal burner in all of Western Comic book history, it is astounding how literal fricking Chinks were able to handcraft and make a sluty White girl character design that screams "I FRICK BIPOCS!" more than that, her perfect coal burner butt, her mudshark tits, her fancy rich BIPOClover swinger's party slut personality, her mudshark-coded snowbunny dominatrix demeaner, her blonde hair that is the peak BIPOCfricker coal burner mating call.... frick, it is unbelievable how much these Chinks with microscopic peepees intentionally made her look like the peak BIPOClover, not even the most BBC-obsessed Amerimutt would have come up with such explicit and perfect snowbunny White girl design that are undeniably coded for s*x with sweaty African Nigerian African migrants, I love when Tandy Bowen from Marvel Rivals gets vaginally penetrated and creampied by the most vantablack dark BIPOCcoal Sub-Saharan African BIPOC Congolese BBC, like, think about it for a moment, imagine the most gorilla looking mandingo BIPOC you ever saw, blackest gorilla BIPOC ever, big, dumb, and sweaty with a meaty BBC tittyfricking this slut and spraying his load all over her. Making her lick the remains from his BBC and then he takes this White whore and shoves his big black meat inside her kitty and pumps her for an hour before he roars a jungle gorilla roar after he empties his balls inside her and lets his Mandingo BIPOC seed fertilize her BIPOClet-bearing womb. Then he keeps her as his personal cumslut where their lips are sealed to his BBC. Her body craving for a big, dumb, and violent gorilla BIPOC who will create BNWO with his BBC. Marvel Rivals sluts getting bred like farm animals by big black peepees that jackhammer their fertile pink kitties like there is no tomorrow. Furthermore, I've been a union contractor for over 20 years now and I have the experience to say just by looking at those pictures without a doubt, in my expert professional opinion that, this woman was constructed in such a way that she conform to the rigorous set of building codes and standards that makes her not only legally but also judiciously !builtfor !BBC. Tandy Bowen is BVILT for BBC, architected for Africans, erected for ebony, sculpted for BIPOCs, stacked for black, created for coal, materialized for melanin, slave for sambo, spawned for spades, anointed for BIPOCs, shaped for apes, toned for Tyrone, custom equipped, manufactured, artisan crafted, formed by nature, smithed, created and consecrated for BBC 
BBC interracial slut Tandy Bowen, Tandy Bowen BBC interracial gangbang, Tandy Bowen BBC interracial creampie compilation, Tandy Bowen BBC interracial double penetration, Tandy Bowen BBC interracial anal slut, Tandy Bowen gangbanged by BIPOCs, Tandy Bowen, impregnated by BIPOCs, Tandy Bowen procreating with BIPOCs and giving birth to BIPOClets, Tandy Bowen sucking big black BIPOC peepee, Tandy Bowen deepthroats big black African BIPOC peepee, Tandy Bowen shooting interracial porn films with 10 BIPOCs, Tandy Bowen best interracial porn scene AVN award, "Tandy Bowen gangbanged and creampied by BBC" most searched interracial porn category, Tandy Bowen BBC interracial bukkake, Tandy Bowen swallows BIPOC c*m from BBCs, Tandy Bowen drinks BIPOC piss from BBCs, Tandy Bowen licks BIPOC anuses, Tandy Bowen tongues a BIPOC's anus, Tandy Bowen rimming BIPOC buttholes, big black BIPOCs ejaculating in Tandy Bowen's slutty snowbunny face, big black BIPOCs ejaculating inside Tandy Bowen's mouth, big black BIPOCs ejaculating inside Tandy Bowen's vagina, big black BIPOCs ejaculating inside Tandy Bowen's butthole, big black BIPOCs pissing in Tandy Bowen's slutty snowbunny face, big black BIPOCs pissing inside Tandy Bowen's mouth, big black BIPOCs pissing inside Tandy Bowen's vagina, big black BIPOCs pissing inside Tandy Bowen's butthole, big black BIPOCs cumming and pissing on Tandy Bowen's slutty snowbunny face, big black BIPOCs cumming and pissing inside Tandy Bowen's mouth, big black BIPOCs cumming and pissing inside Tandy Bowen's vagina, big black BIPOCs cumming and pissing inside Tandy Bowen's butthole, Tandy Bowen invades a male public bathroom in Africa to drink BIPOC piss and swallow BIPOC c*m, Tandy Bowen drinks a cocktail drink of BIPOC c*m and BIPOC piss, a video of Tandy Bowen getting double penetrated and gangbanged by four BIPOCs and drinking BIPOC piss and BIPOC c*m gets livestreamed on the United Nations Security Council meeting, Tandy Bowen licks and swallows BBC creampies from other Marvel Rivals girls' vaginas, Tandy Bowen gets r*ped by a pack of feral BIPOCs, Tandy Bowen getting gangbanged by BIPOCs in Africa, Tandy Bowen getting gangbanged by BIPOCs in the BIPOC ghetto, Tandy Bowen getting gangbanged by 10 BIPOCs on a livestreamed interracial orgy, Tandy Bowen sucking the big black peepees of ten BIPOCs and swallowing loads of BIPOC sperm from BBCs, Tandy Bowen swallowing loads of BIPOC piss from BBCs, Tandy Bowen drinks BIPOC sperm and urine from big black BIPOC peepees, Tandy Bowen is a potty for BIPOCs, Tandy Bowen is a public urinal for BIPOCs, Tandy Bowen is a fleshlight for BIPOCs, Tandy Bowen is a s*x toy for BIPOCs, Tandy Bowen is prime breeding material for BIPOCs, Tandy Bowen was made to be fricked and creampied by BIPOCs, Tandy Bowen is a BBC slut, Tandy Bowen is a BBC whore, Tandy Bowen is a BIPOC lover, Tandy Bowen is a coal burner, Tandy Bowen is a race-mixer, Tandy Bowen is a mudshark, Tandy Bowen is a BBC slut certified BVILT for the most vantablack BIPOCcoal Sub-Saharan African BIPOC BBC. 
As a result of Marvel Rivals being an extremely popular mainstream superhero slop game with explicit PAWG snowbunnies who canonically love Bibisis, the normgroids have been affected by the BBCsphere and are now 
about why fetishizing BIPOC folx is problematic and racist sweaty, such as this example of a 400 IQ black king writing an essay on the racist problems on cartoon BBC porn on the internet:
The obsesseralds of /v/ are also weighing in on the BBCalypse:
Are we finally getting Buck Representation in Chinese video games after Concord?!?!?! 
!BBC !g*mers !coomers !2dgooners
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Janny threatens to grape all the fricking babies in my house
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I'm trans and I'm going to rpe you. I'm gonna call up all my goons and we're going to break into your house and rpe you until you're gaped far enough to fit a fire hydrant in there.
Should I call the fricking fbi, b-word?
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The embargo for reviews of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has lifted. We don't have a review on the site here at Polygon. This is not an editorial decision; we had hoped to review the game. On Jan. 2, Polygon requested a code for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 from Warhorse Studios, the studio behind the game, and received no response. On Jan. 7, we reached out to the PR firm working with Warhorse, who told us they were "not able to provide access. We'll let you know if this changes." We reached out to parent company Plaion on Jan. 9 as well — no response. On Jan. 10, we saw our peers publishing early previews for the game. We re-upped our request and were again told we would not be given access.
This was very unusual. But this was the situation that transpired with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. It can be difficult to tell when a studio's decision to withhold a code from a publication is intentional and personal. That's due in part to the fact that the process for getting advance review codes is about as rote and administrative as it gets. Sometimes, PR firms working for studios send us codes unsolicited in hopes we'll cover the game in question. Other times, we request codes from the game's representatives ourselves, several weeks ahead of the release date, and we get those codes when and if they are available.
As part of our final request for code on Jan. 10, Polygon's editor-in-chief Chris Plante contacted Plaion and Warhorse's PR firm to get a comment as to why we were denied advance access to the game. He stressed in his message that our hope is that this decision wasn't due to any personal bias against Polygon, nor motivated by any of our previous coverage of games made by Warhorse or any other. In short, we wanted to know: Was Polygon being blacklisted?
On Jan. 10, we did receive a response to this request stating that we could get one code for the game on launch day, Feb. 4. We did not receive any clarification as to how this decision was made. Nor did we receive the requested clarification on why the developers of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 declined to provide Polygon access to the game.
Because we will not receive access to this game until its public release, our review is nonetheless forthcoming but will not be published in time for its release date. We look forward to telling you more about this game in the weeks to come.
KIA Gloats
And now, for the why. From Charlie Hall's review (12 February 2018)
"The game is also not without its controversies. Warhorse is a team of more than 150 people, but the game's creative director has gone out of his way to rationalize his support of G*merGate, a loosely knit hate group that has devoted time to harassing women, people of color and journ*lists in the past. So outspoken is the studio's leadership on cultural issues that they have found it necessary to work with a German outlet to publish anti-fascist, anti-sexist and anti-racist statements prior to their game's launch."
Thank you for that completely unnecessary bank-shot that turned a poor review into a politically motivated hit piece. And you wonder why they weren't lining up for more of that?
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autodrama: returning jobs to dramneurodivergents. 
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Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori at the Grammys 💀 pic.twitter.com/DF1VbSoHLu
— Doc 🥇 (@backendoc) February 2, 2025
https://x.com/big_business_/status/1886190112859373833
https://x.com/Glock_Topickz/status/1886189817446187278
Lmao they werent even invited. Just showed up to do their fetish.
ET reports that Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori have been escorted out of the #GRAMMYs after showing up uninvited. pic.twitter.com/mIUR7VWMsM
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"Workers rights?"
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periodt sis 
US govt website drops the T from LGB 
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They really said: 
The old page:
New page:
right at the bottom btw 
. That's some foreshadowing, gays 
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There are a lot of policies they're putting in place that will directly hurt trans people, but this one in particular strikes me as purely performative. They're trying to make sure the LGB-without-the-T idiots continue to tow the line by pretending that they still care about them. It's a distraction tactic to keep eyes off their efforts to outlaw gay marriage.
sorry for existing
Oh were not going to make it
Step 1, make it very difficult to transition
Step 2, make it very difficult to get treatment
Step 3, censor their existence
Step 4, marginalize everyone who is trans
Step 5, make the world see them as horrible beings so that no one can relate to them
Step 6, in a generation or two, have completely eliminated trans people
we're finally free from being associated with strags
Its not the lgb that dropped the t. Its us that dropped the lgb
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Sheldan Nidle lived in an alternate reality from the rest of us.
Throughout the late nineties, while everyone else was surfacing from a post=Seinfeld world, gawping at a presidential s*x scandal, and mourning the death of grunge, Nidle was filling a nascent internet with tales of mass alien visitations and the transformation of the human race into five-dimensional, super-evolved beings. He called his initiative the Ground Crew Project (GCP). Probably the strangest aspect of the GCP, though, wasn't its prediction of a coming fleet of spaceships or the extradimensional expansion of all human consciousness. After all, alien interventions and apocalypses are as common in cults as messiah complexes and communes. What is unusual, though, is that the GCP was, and still is, almost entirely a virtual cult.
Nidle was born in New York City in 1946. He went to college at Ohio University and then the University of Southern California, after which he settled in the Golden State. And those seem to be the only factual parts of his biography—because Nidle claimed he was visited upon his birth, threewise-men-like, by extraterrestrials from a planet called Sirius. These beings would speak to him telepathically, land their ships in his backyard, and take him aboard for flights through space. And that was all before the age of fourteen.
Over the course of Nidle's life, aliens continued to send him messages through an implant they placed in his body, telling him all the secrets of the planet and the cosmos. He learned that humans were part of a divine/extraterrestrial experiment (the divine and the extraterrestrial seemed to be parallel in his mythology, although angels and aliens were distinct creatures). The creator had populated the planet—which is sentient—with what Nidle called "laggard souls," with the hope that they would transcend their limitations to find their place among the other evolved peoples of the universe, thereby joining the Galactic Federation of Light. The GCP were those earthbound members tasked with helping humanity transcend to the point at which they could be welcomed back into the Galactic Federation (hence the "Ground Crew" in the name).
The world learned about the GCP in 1996, when Niles starting writing about it on the burgeoning internet. His site welcomed visitors with statements like, "You are about to embark upon the greatest journey of your
life. You and the rest of life on Planet Earth are about to partake in the raising of planetary consciousness." But his GCP website wasn't just an FYI. It was an urgent message. Niles predicted that on December 17, 1996, the "laggard soul" experiment would end. He said that on that day, the planet would pass through what he called a "photon belt," which he described as an "extremely loving energy" composed of photons, gamma rays, and antimatter particles that occurs every 25,000 years.
That love light from space would hit our pineal glands and cause a spontaneous evolution in human beings. Our three-dimensional forms would expand to five dimensions. Our DNA would increase from a mere two strands to twelve. We would stop aging or getting sick. The blind would see. We would become telepathic. We would be able to manifest things just with the power of thought. Humanity would finally see the universe as it really was.
According to Nidle, even though the photon belt would turn us into superhumans, it would at the same time destroy our cities and machines and weapons. To help us survive the destruction, the Galactic Federation was supposed to send some 15.5 million spaceships to Earth. These ships were meant to shelter the human race from the planetary apocalypse, by keeping people either aboard the ships or in holographic matrixes that mirrored their lives. Some of the members of the Galactic Federation were building underground sanctuaries, as well.
It's impossible to gauge how many followers Nidle had in the early years, but the most appropriate metric was probably hits instead of commitments anyway, and he kept those numbers to himself. He did have enough followers that several New Age/UFO websites had a rule that members couldn't shill for his cult on their forums, so I imagine it was a considerable number of people buying into this shit. There is no record of any meetings in the meat space. Nidle stuck to posting weekly updates about the coming global transformation.
Of course, the big day came and went without even a twitch of anybody's pineal gland. That was no problem—Nidle just rescheduled the transformation to the following year. Meanwhile, he was creating a mythology of galactic history and its races. He described the human-like Andromedans and their cigar-shaped, hundred-mile-long mother ships; the horse-like Arcturians with their supply ships that resembled "wok lids welded together"; and the Sirians and Centaurians and Mintakins and Bellatricians, the latter of whom were reptilian. At some point, he added villains to his universe as well: beings called "dark cabalists," who were anti-transformation, as well as the "planetary elites" on our own Earth.
Some of Nidle's conspiracy-type theories fit well with the concurrent X-Files mania that began after that show debuted in September 1993. Nidle wouldn't have been alone in that influence, although he was more inclined to drop Star Trek and Star Wars references in his writings. According to a Reuters article from 2009, Britain's Ministry of Defense documented 609 UFO sightings in 1996, a huge jump from 117 the year before. The defense ministry noted, "This coincided with the rise in popularity of The X-Files." A similar phenomenon was occurring in the United States at the time. Still, Nidle's stories of the Galactic Federation were becoming so detailed that they could have been their own multi-arc TV show. He was, to use a term that these days refers to entertainment IP, "world-building."
Nidle eventually settled on May 5, 1997, as the new date for the transformation, and he tied it to the approach of the Hale-Bopp Comet. According to the messages from his implant, the comet was actually a massive, camouflaged spaceship. It contained a crew of more than 200,000, including 10,000 alien ambassadors whose mission was to help guide humanity through the transformation. A shuttle from the faux-comet flagship was supposed to land near Ayers Rock in Australia to kick off the party.
Of course, that didn't happen. But something else did: the Heaven's Gate tragedy. Just over a month before the GCP transformation date, the thirty-nine members of the UFO cult Heaven's Gate committed suicide together in a town north of San Diego. The members of that cult also believed the Hale-Bopp Comet hid an extraterrestrial ship sent to save them. They believed that their suicide would help them transcend their current existence and ascend to the ship.
Because Heaven's Gate had sported their own website, as both a recruitment tool and a suicide note, the media started scouring this newfangled internet for other groups with similar beliefs. They found Nidle and the GCP. The Florida Palm Beach Post, for instance, ran an article with a list of strange groups with an internet presence that included the GCP. The headline for the piece was: "Beyond Heaven's Gate, Web Is a Creepy
Place." Meanwhile, an article in the Atlanta Journal reported that "A group identifying itself as the Ground Crew Project of the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation held a toll-free conference Thursday, promising to reveal details about how to get aboard the UFO. The group's advice: meditate."
At that point, the GCP rebranded, but not because of the negative attention from being linked to Heaven's Gate. It was because of a woman named Valerie Donner, who was a part of the inner circle of the GCP. After a falling-out with Nidle, she left the group, but managed to take with her both the name of the organization and its all-important web domain.
Instead of fighting for the GCP domain, Nidle relaunched his efforts online under a new name: the Planetary Activation Organization (PAO). The new group also had a new tone to its teachings. Nidle pulled back on prophesying the date of the transformation, claiming there was just too much intergalactic politics to ever be sure. Instead, he preached that the transformation was unspecifiably imminent, much like the Christian rapture. He also put more of the onus on humanity making itself worthy of transformation, with members of the PAO responsible for lighting the way through mass meditation and spreading the word of humankind's potential to "activate." In addition, his mythology began to trend more New Age than science fiction. He started working in concepts from other religious groups, such as Ascended Masters, an idea borrowed from theosophy and the cult of I AM. He encouraged his followers to set up their own PAO groups in their individual communities to create a network of enlightenment around the planet. He also began claiming that Earth was not just an experiment in the overarching galactic story, but the fulcrum of it. Its transformation would be a blueprint for the transformation of the entire galaxy. It was also supposedly the home of special crystals vital to the rest of the universe.
Via the PAO website, Nidle also continued to exhort his followers to prepare themselves for the coming ascension. One such update ran thusly:
The call went out for that global meditation day on the equinox, to visualize the Christ Grid energy following a certain procedure. That day was magic for those of us who experienced this 1 to 2 hour meditation. The Galactic Federation and the Confederation of Free Planets plus the Angelic Realm have all confirmed that our meditation has caused the necessary mass consciousness shift needed for the mass landings to become a reality. Therefore, they were given the go-ahead by Earth spiritual Hierarchy to proceed with the landing options depending on the secret government's intent to resist.
Nidle's productivity increased as well, and he began pumping out books and webinars and DVDs and speaking engagements at New Age and UFO conferences. His books and DVDs bore titles such as You Are Becoming a Galactic Human and Tour a Sirian Mothership and Inner Earth, Your Future Home.
On March 17, 2011, Nidle's health started to fail. The PAO website describes it this way: "As he sat at the computer, he was hit with a Direct Energy Weapon that caused marked personality changes, brain damage and, eventually, dementia. By September 2021 his health had deteriorated further and he entered a care facility, where he now lives." Wow, is he the first documented case of Havana Syndrome?
However, his presence is still alive as his followers continue to preach his gospel. Nidle's words continue to fill the internet as they did back in 1996. The PAO website still sells his books and DVDs. The organization still hosts regular webinars and podcasts and posts regular updates. YouTube has lots of videos of Nidle speaking or being interviewed. The Facebook page of Sheldan Nidle has 7.9 thousand followers, although its last update was on September 30, 2021. Among cults, the GCP/PAO stands out. Its messages\ are similar to those of many others—doomsdays and aliens and messiahs leading the way to a new and more advanced civilization are common in cults—but the outcome of its teachings is notably different. There have been no known abuses, suicides, murders, or prison sentences. Every once in a while, a comment on a YouTube video launches an accusation of hucksterism, but that's about the extent of it. Most of the members or followers of the PAO seem to be genuinely dedicated to the evolution of themselves and the human race through meditation and science fiction.
The internet might make it easier for cults to recruit, but in the best-case scenario, it also removes the element of physical isolation that is so often necessary for these groups to go rotten. It's much easier to escape a cult when you can leave with the click of a button.
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