Story Plot versus Real Life

Certain story plots are really similar to real life, at least, to me.  If I didn't know any better, I would say they saw people in pain, relished in it, and created a story out of it.  Now why would they do that?  Is it purely for entertainment? Actually no.  But before we delve into the power of story plots, let's review some very interesting plots and its real-life doppelganger.

The Dragon Prince.  In the story of the Dragon Prince, two young princes attempt to stop an imminent war between the magical world creatures; elves, dragons, etc. and the humans.  The world is on the verge of war because some humans found that if they killed (break) the magical creatures, then they could obtain some of their powers temporarily.  This gave the humans a chance to be magical.  The magical creatures, of course, were against it because life was precious to them. 

This reminds me of white supreme lunatics (supremacists) who think they have the right to Black people, indigenous people and aboriginal people's property and resources and labor.  They break them with emotional, physical, and mental attacks relentlessly and ruthlessly and take over their very lives, their land, and their resources. The only difference is that in real life, the story is not over.  It is also interesting that in the story plot, they find a way to peacefully co-exist -- until the next season comes out.

The Wrong Man.  The wrong man is a cable series about wrongly convicted people who were thrown in jail mercilessly and the attempt to free them.  In the beginning, no one cared to free them.  They were Black, they were Brown, they were the kind of people that help the illusion statistics of who's a criminal and who isn't.  In the movie a bunch of suited-up white men carrying briefcases and the weight of the world on their shoulder try to release these poor, innocent people.

This reminds me of areal life dynamic duo team of black women, MiAngel Cody and Brittany Barnett, the tables are turning.  

A few years ago, with the financial backing of a celebrity, they were able to open cases and free 17 innocent men.  They were able to undue years upon years of injustice committed by the system and sanctioned by society after many, many years, spending a decade writing petitions back in 2011.  So, when society sees their handiwork becoming undone, would they celebrate it?  What's in it for them?  So, they create a series where this becomes entertainment.  The Wrong Man is named after the Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name.  What started as a fun idea of locking up innocent people, spiraled into a source of entertainment, only to be shattered by these brave warriors.

Avatar.  The Avatar movie is about a time when Earth is exhausted and dying.  But the white supreme lunatics are ever relentless in their pursuit to crush, kill, and destroy.  This time, they have well camera'd Black bootlick scenes showing the Black folks' willingness to go along with the agenda. Unlike the 1960's Time Machine movie which portrays the future with no black folks whatsoever, in Avatar, the Black folks have all cooned out.  But in the end, the blue people used all their natural resources to give one big punch to the enemy and send them back to Earth.  

This movie reminds me of the Ethiopian battle against the Italians who wanted to take over their land.  After the Berlin Conference where European nations gathered together to plot the destruction and takeover of the African continent, Italy went about trying to get "her portion."  Ethiopia was that land.  However, the Ethiopians fought valiantly.  Not only that, but they used nature and the creatures in their land as part of their warfare.  A swarm of wasps were sent to attack and weaken the Italian army.  

And there are many more movies with interesting plots that are reminiscent of real life.  Now why are these stories told?  And why that way?  Let's take the 1986 Shaka Zulu movie.  Grandiose as it was, it was not accurate.  In the movie, the British won.  But in actuality, they were not able to defeat Shaka Zulu.  In fact, it wasn't until his son took over that the British had a chance of overtaking the Zulu warriors.  But yet in the movie, they change the truth a little bit.

Movies, stories, and lore are all one and the same.  Although we can't see what goes on in the spiritual or abstract world, we can definitely feel something going on.  For instance, when we commit to being good people and doing right, then we feel guilt when a tempting thought to steal comes into our minds.  We resist.  We fight internally.  Or when we see a good thing to do, we feel "driven" to do it.  What "drove" us?   Same can be said about wicked things.  Basically, once our minds are made up to go a certain path, it's almost as if it's not us anymore, we are now "driven" to keep moving.  We set the ball rolling and the energy of inertia won't let us stop.  This energy is what we call spiritual.  And even when we sleep the energy is still there.  But we're asleep, so there's nothing happen.  So, this energy -- which is still pushing us -- enters the one part that is still active in our minds when we sleep, the imagination. 

In the imagination, this energy takes on a more personified role.  It becomes a character in our day dream.  And the more driven we are about different things, the more characters we gain.

The ancient people of Kemet knew that Heru was not real.  They knew that Ausar was not real. But they used these characters to explain a lot of the energy that was used to create the world as well as the energy that drove them to have the type of society and value system that they had.  The same is true for the ancient Greeks and their mythology.  The same may be true for the Hebrews and their Biblical stories.

Fast forward to today.  There are many stories, movies, and lore all meant to sway your imagination and lead you to adopt the media moguls' spirit, energy, and therefore, their belief system, value system, and way of life.  The big theme is the white savior in all the movies.  As entertaining as these movies are, its worth being cautious against consuming too much.

As you can see, it’s a spiraling process.  We begin a movement towards a direction (the dynamic duo freeing illegally criminalized men, our forefathers meriting lush lands and resources, etc), the spin doctors then make a movie about, but ever to slightly off from the truth -- trying to harness that energy, but then turn it into the direction that they want.  If we are not careful, we will proceed to go in that new (spin doctor's) direction and forget the original direction -- the direction that is meant to help us.