{"id":1425,"date":"2026-08-05T06:44:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2026-08-05T06:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:44:50","slug":"see-them-for-what-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"see them for what they are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Everyone stares straight ahead<br>and says<br><br>'this is the earth and the sky<br>and the horizon and who we are'<br><br>when it's just a black mirror,<br>a glowing screen, a curtain,<br>a shadow play, a wall upon<br>which a false reality is<br>projected<br><br>because<br><br>we've been taught to NOT look up,<br><br>so<br><br>we MUST look up<br><br>because<br><br>this artificial world has been built<br>around us to deceive us,<br>to trick us into NOT<br>looking up, NOT<br>noticing<br><br>them,<br><br>because<br><br>if we look up we will see<br>them for what they are<br><br>and<br><br>we will crush them<br>underfoot like cockroaches,<br><br>so<br><br>above all, they MUST NOT be seen<br><br>because<br><br>they are weak,<br><br>because, after all,<br><br>deceit wouldn't be worth<br>the effort if they were powerful<br>enough to enslave us by force.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">August 5, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone stares straight aheadand says&#8217;this is the earth and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=1425\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">see them for what they are<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58,2],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-58","tag-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}