The Oldest Trick


For a long time, I wondered whether reptilians really exist.
Not as creatures from movies, not as monsters that change skin in front of cameras.
But as a presence. As an idea. As a system.

At some point, the question changed.
No longer “Do they exist?”
But: “Who benefits if I don’t believe they exist?”

History has taught me one simple thing:
power does not like to be seen.
It does not need to reveal itself—only to normalize itself.
The official version of the world is not created to explain everything, but to limit what is allowed to be thought.

Science measures what can be measured.
Politics divides what could unite.
Art entertains what could awaken.
History tells what is convenient to remember.

A perfect conspiracy is not required.
All it takes is a stable narrative.

That is when I began to think of “reptilians” not as physical beings, but as cold consciousnesses, predatory in nature, incapable of empathy.
Forces that do not create, but manage.
That do not live, but optimize.
That do not hate humanity—they use it.

Perhaps they are not separate from us.
Perhaps they are the dehumanized side of power, the one that reproduces itself whenever humans give up feeling, doubting, remembering.

The oldest trick was not hiding.
It was convincing us that there is nothing to see.

If you question the official version of reality, you immediately become something inconvenient: a conspiracist, a dreamer, a fool.
And so the boundaries of what is thinkable remain narrow, guarded, safe.

But sometimes something cracks.
A sense of emptiness.
The feeling that everything works, but does not live.
That the world is efficient, but not real.

Maybe that is where suspicion is born.
Not that someone rules us from the shadows,
but that reality itself has been domesticated.

And then you realize that it does not matter whether reptilians truly exist.
What matters is what happens inside you when you imagine that power can be invisible, ancient, impersonal.
When you begin to observe instead of react.
When you stop automatically playing the game that is handed to you.

Because if an invisible enemy truly existed,
it would not fear weapons.
It would fear only one thing:

being seen.

And perhaps seeing does not mean believing everything.
It simply means no longer believing everything you are told.

The rest follows.

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NietzscheElettrico
NietzscheElettrico

Nietzschean reflections on the future of humanity and the sweet tyranny of machines. A fragment a day for those who aren't afraid to think.


La finzione del secolo
La finzione del secolo

Tutto era teatro. Le guerre. Le libertà. Le rivoluzioni. Kennedy non doveva parlare. King non doveva unire. Sankara non doveva liberare. Li hanno uccisi perché non recitavano. Ogni gesto di vero amore, ogni atto di verità profonda ha fatto tremare il palcoscenico. E il mondo, allora, è stato addormentato con nuovi ruoli, nuovi attori, stesse regole. Il Secolo è finzione. E chi lo sa, o tace, o brucia

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