... Or at least, some of them, as 'The Great Reveal' rapidly gathers pace and everything we thought we knew begins to fall away.

'The End of History' concept was a very dangerous psy-op that gained huge global momentum in the 1990s, by encouraging the residents of modern liberal democracies to believe that this was "it", historically, culturally, and politically: that, via the brilliance of our collective social strategists, visionary scientists and various other "experts", we had now reached the apex of human civilisation.

We were thereby encouraged to believe that all important conflicts had been resolved, all desirable social values achieved, and so now, there was nothing left for the residents of the Western world to do but sit back and enjoy - to bask in the benevolent wonders of modern culture, and simply indulge their own appetites - for career success, travel, leisure - whatever glittering worldly pleasures appealed, but certainly nothing "deep and meaningful", because all that's been sorted out now.

Don't you worry your vacuous little head about things like centuries-old political conflict, empire-ending clashes of culture, or religious, political, and economic complexities that have brought societies to their knees. Such concerns are antiquated relics of the past. Tedious superstitions that have been resolved and settled by the greatest minds ever to grace the globe (and aren't you lucky they just happened to be born within the exact same 100-year time period as you!). Now, you stop thinking about such stuffy serious subjects and go out and enjoy yourself!

(If you've ever watched the sitcom, 'Friends' - by far the most popular television series of the 1990s and early 2000s - there's a very telling repeat theme, where whenever "boring intellectual" Ross alludes to anything cultural or political, it is met by eye-rolls and tuts from the rest of the group, whose preoccupations are solely insular and self-referential. Ross is the geeky, unfashionable one, whilst the others are cool and attractive, so you can see what the messaging - 'programming' - is here.)

This attitude was clearly exposed for what it really was by the chillingly revealing 'Truman Show', whereby - when young Truman expresses an interest in becoming an explorer when he grows up - he is immediately shut down by his teacher with, "Oh, you're too late! There's nothing left to explore!"

In case you're not familiar with the plot of the film, 'The Truman Show' depicts the story of a man who is adopted at birth by a TV station. A whole world is constructed around him by the producers of the show - parents, teachers, friends, and, later, a wife, job, and colleagues - and every moment of his life stage-managed and scripted, whilst being beamed to riveted audiences around the world by way of multiple hidden cameras.

To Truman, his world is completely real, but we the audience know it is all fabricated and fictitious, with all scenarios and encounters expertly manicured to elicit the desired responses from Truman. So, whenever Truman comes close to discovering the true nature of his "reality" - such as by expressing a desire to escape the tiny, self-contained island upon which he lives - he is strategically lied to - "there's nothing left to explore!" - in just the way we have been in recent decades - "there's no history left to make!"

Truman accepts his teacher at her word, just as we too are taught to uncritically trust and accept "experts", and therefore continues to interact with the extremely limited and controlled confines of his existence as "all there is".

Western societies have been duped by the same trick. We were lulled into a false sense of security, collectively convinced to take our eyes off the ball, as we were saturated by messages that history was over, and had been replaced by an eternally self-indulgent present, where you need pay no attention to the man behind the curtain - what man? what curtain? - but instead, become solely fixated on your own personal interests and fantasies, and indulge them as much as you can.

We have a million different options for entertainment and self-indulgence now - hundreds of TV channels, soap operas, streaming services, computer games, social media platforms, the list goes on. We are told "normal life" is going to work, then coming home to watch Netflix or Corrie or porn, broken up with a few cheap Spanish holidays and subsidised supermarket booze. Add into this some dopamine hits from the endless Instagram selfies, and the recipe is complete for the perfect modern citizen-slave who is now psychologically and emotionally incapable of engaging with all the most profound conflicts and struggles that have raged within human cultures for all of time.

That means when all this fabricated fakery is dismantled - when the proverbial 'Truman Show' style nature of this "reality" is revealed - the "normie" modern individual is going to be confronted by a psychic and spiritual crisis that they do not possess the tools to handle.

The truth is that nothing about modern Western culture is "real", it's a fabrication every bit as fraudulent as the movie set Truman Burbank called home. As Frank Zappa so adroitly put it, "The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre."

And that is exactly what is happening right now. The illusion is no longer profitable or necessary to the social controllers, so they are dismantling it. This means that all the modern individual has been taught to base their entire life and identity on, is going to crumble in front of them. The so-called "normal" lifestyle of "job to finance leisure" will evaporate, as businesses everywhere collapse (including both businesses that employ people, and that they rely on for their leisure), and everything becomes ludicrously expensive. Nobody is going to go out for a few drinks once the price of a pint hits £20, nobody is going to treat themselves to a takeaway or meal out when you're looking at a three-figure sum for a single meal. It's all going to come crashing down, and even our reliance on electronic entertainment (Netflix, computer games, social media) is imperilled as electricity becomes increasingly unreliable and expensive.

The whole of modern culture - including 'the end of history' psy-op - is a rich man's trick. The ruling classes have been playing the long-game (as they always do) to strategically stage-manage the masses, and lure them away from lifestyles that were far more self-contained, self-preserved, and genuinely independent - such as living in interconnected communities where people produce much of what they consume themselves and trade and barter with others they know - and towards total dependence on the "grid". Not just dependence for basic survival needs such as food and heat, but dependence for your very identity.

If one is a typical modern person with all the typical modern preoccupations and obsessions, what happens when these are suddenly taken away and - as Zappa says - you see nothing but the brick wall at the back of the theatre?

What has happened in recent decades is that social engineers have tricked people into surrendering their true identity - their 'spiritual' identity, if you will. I'm not a huge fan of that word as it's come to have too many connotations with happy-clappy 'toxic positivity' (or "New Age Bulls**t" as Mark Passio rather more directly calls it) - but what I mean by 'spiritual' identity is a strong sense that there is far more to existence than the external, material world (jobs, money, status, etc), and that it is this fundamental knowing - knowing there is "something more" - that has formed the basis for all successful and sustained societies, cultures, and people. The deep understanding that while we are in the world, we are not of it - that we are more than just 'meat suits' acquiring money, status, and possessions. We are, in fact, spiritual beings having a human experience (and the point of that experience is not to be constantly happy and comfortable, but to be challenged, stretched, and to grow).

Many modern trends such as evolutionary theory have worked very hard to try and strip this innate knowledge from people (I mean, how spiritually advanced can you really be if your most distant ancestor was a pile of goo?), and they have, for many, proved tragically successful. Ultimately, that is why many submitted themselves to the Covid injection. Not because they were scared of a glorified cold, but because they so deeply feared losing their whole identities - their status, their social life, their (how many times did we all hear this one?) annual foreign holiday.

This is why, in my view, minority communities were far less likely to take the jab than white indigenous Britons. It's because minority communities are more likely to have a strong sense of spiritual or religious identity. European immigrants are often devout Christians; those from Asian backgrounds are often Muslim, and so on. Yes, of course you can be spiritual without being religious, but the point is that when you have a profound sense that you are more than your external achievements or experiences (job, travel, leisure, etc), you are far less vulnerable to being manipulated by threats to take these things away.

It has been utterly astonishing to me to learn how many people so strongly identify with, for instance, their two weeks on the Med, that they are willing to take multiple dangerous injections to facilitate this, even when they know the injections are dangerous.

For many people, the status and importance of that annual holiday is so great, and so bound up within how they see themselves and what they prioritise in life, that death is preferable to giving it up. It sounds absolutely insane (and it is), but it's true.

And you can apply this to many other things, too. For instance, as the price of everyday items continues to soar, what is going to happen to non-essentials that many are addicted to (and have been encouraged to become addicted to, by these things being heavily subsidised and made unnaturally cheap and overly-available)?

Alcohol is an obvious example (if that suddenly becomes scarce and expensive, many will go into profound physical and psychological withdrawal), but there are other, less obvious examples, too, like make-up. We all know of women who cannot conceive of leaving the house without full make-up in place. So what happens to these women when all their disposable income is going on food and heat, whilst make-up has become as scarce and expensive as everything else? How will they cope? Similar for people - men and women alike - who religiously dye their hair and are horrified at the thought of anyone seeing their natural colour. If and when hair dye runs out (because all the hair dye factories are under all the same financial pressures as every other business), or becomes so unattainably expensive it is only the preserve of the very rich - how will they resolve this conflict?

You may think, "oh come on, when people are starving and freezing, nobody will care about hair dye and make-up" - but two years ago, we would also have said, "nobody will take a series of life-threatening injections to go to Lloret De Mar for two weeks" - but they did, and so you can be sure a similar crisis will happen around hair and make-up (and many, many other "non-essentials" people base their identities around). Will families skip meals for themselves and their children to get their hands on that black-market lipstick or packet of Loreal? You bet they will.

I'm not suggesting by outlining all this that I'm immune to all these modern illusions and addictions, because of course I'm not - none of us are, because we've all had to live in this world and adjust to it as best we can, and, inevitably, that means following some modern trends. I've never got into hair dye or make-up (apart from some transient and fairly hideous experimentation in my teens), but I love coffee, the internet, and going out to social venues. How would I fare if all these were suddenly unattainable? It would certainly be a challenge.

However, I believe I can cope with losing such things (or their becoming much more scarce), just as I coped with all that was restricted and taken away in lockdown, without ever once submitting to an injection, a mask, or a test. It was difficult, yes. My life would have been, on the surface, easier and more pleasant had I capitulated. But I never considered it and I hope to bring this same resolve to the next set of challenges.

Because I do believe that is what life ultimately is, a challenge, a test. "Covid" was, to a large extent, an IQ and character test (do you have the intelligence and the integrity to resist?), and what is about to come next is a spiritual test - do you have a strong enough sense of your identity beyond the worldly and the material to survive a dramatic change in everything around you? My answer to this is yes, I do genuinely think I do, and if you're reading this now, that is almost certainly your answer, as well.

If you're wavering or feeling unsure, please remember that The Truman Show was revelatory in every sense: not just regarding the illusory nature of modernity, but on how the strong and adaptable (and anyone who's made it this far with their mind still intact and their own, is demonstrably both) respond when that illusion is shattered. As much of an enormous, existential shock as Truman got when the true nature of his reality was revealed to him, he didn't collapse. He didn't break or give up. He pulled himself together, he walked off the set - and he discovered the real world.