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The Most Important Movie in the World
Instead of a Simulation, Here's What You're Living In

If someone asked you…
"What’s the most important movie?"
...what would you say?
…how would you answer?
[Write down your movie choice now because I really WOULD like to know
your answer before you read further to see mine]
Now, you might be one of those weird thinker types who got stuck on the question and can’t answer because you feel like Jordan Peterson:
Well, what do you mean by 'most important'?
Bloody hell.
And what do you mean by "movie"?
It's not easy. It's not. And that's that! ...so.
(bonus points if you heard his voice reading that)
Okay, fine.
I'll give you (and Jordan) allowance for needed clarity.
…but ONLY for the ‘most important’ aspect, not for “what do you mean by ‘movie’.
Because for movie, it's just movie. Whatever you think is a movie.
But for "most important" you're totally justified:
Important to whom?
Important in what way?
Fair enough. (Mr. Inbetween)
So let me elaborate.
By “most important,” I mean:
Which movie is most important…
to all humanity,
to human civilization and progress,
to ensuring the most freedom and well-being for every single person and all subsequent generations for the rest of time?
How's THAT for important?
In essence, I’m asking…
What’s the most important movie for the future of all human kind?
What’s the most important movie to human freedom?
What’s the most important movie for leveling up humanity, from barbarism to peaceful coexistence? …for solving humankind’s most troubling problems?
I’m talking about the kind of importance that trumps everything else.
The kind that makes all other concerns seem trivial and provincial.
It even trumps Trump. Whether you love him or hate him, everyone seems to act like there’s no topic or decision in the universe more vital than him.
Let’s stop being middleschoolers caught up in a Jr. High popularity contest.
Expand your sense of what really matters if we care about human wellbeing in breadth and depth, for all time.
Now that you and Jordan Peterson understand what I mean when I say “most important,” do you have an answer to my question?
"What’s the most important movie?"
I’ve got the answer. Here it is.
There's a movie that came out a few years back that went mostly under the radar, despite having a well-known name starring in it:
Mel Gibson
When I first told you the most important film in the world is a Mel Gibson movie, you thought:

The Passion
and if not that, then

Good guess, and Braveheart might actually be the 2nd most important movie for humanity.
(Hmm…why does Mel Gibson have the top 2 most important movies in the world?)
and if not that, then
What Women Want
(haha, joking…but only partly—half of 8 billion people might argue that figuring that out is top priority)
and if not that, then

another worthy contender, but if not that, then

It’s not that either…but I am starting to see a theme from Mel’s movies.
And don’t you dare say Lethal Weapon is the most important movie. I’ll know you’re trolling.
I know you thought all those movies because…
1) you’re a robot and therefore rather predictable
and 2) those are all logical candidates as they deal with human freedom
But you’d be wrong.
There’s a watershed Mel Gibson movie that’s more important than all of those.
This movie has a scene that makes it the most important movie not just to our generation, but to the entire future civilization—to your great grandchildren and mine, and their great grandchildren, and on and on, even jumping to other emerging sentient beings.
And it's not just a scene. Really, it's a moment—a transition from the intro to the main story. It's the core premise of the entire movie, the backdrop concept in which the entire plot plays out.
And that movie is...
[drumroll, please]

big reveal

I’m completely serious. This is not a troll.
This is not just my opinion. I’ve concluded this through logic and reason.
I declare that Get the Gringo is the most important movie in all the world.
But even more important than which movie is the most important, is why it’s the most important movie.
Pretty much everyone who watched Get the Gringo didn't think twice—didn't bat an eye at the moment I'm talking about.
But never fear, that’s why I’m here…
…to connect the dots you can’t. To think where no man has thought before.
For me, the under-appreciated moment in Get the Gringo blew me away. I knew, all those years ago when I first saw it, that I'd end up writing about it.
Instead of spoiling it with words, you should really go watch it so you can experience it yourself. Even if you don't watch the entire movie, just watch the first, I don't know, 10 to 15 minutes.
You can probably find it on YouTube.
The Powerful Moment
The protagonist played by Senor Gibson is MainGuy, who is running from the American police and escapes them by flying his car over the wall into Mexico, where he is promptly captured by the Mexican police.
After the intake process, our hero finds himself in a Mexican prison cell, cramped in a smallish cage with 30-40 other prisoners. It's hot, sweaty. No way to relax. Things look bleak.

Then the Warden shows up and gives his speech. He says that they are now going to be allowed into a better space, but they must behave themselves or else lose the privilege.
As they let these prisoners pass into the better, larger portion of the prison, we marvel just as our protagonist marvels, seeing it through his eyes.


The "better area" is not merely GenPop.
(GenPop is prison lingo for General Population—I should know, I’ve seen enough prison movies)
GenPop is the standard incarceration experience that we are familiar with.

You know, the yard with a corner for weights and weightlifting, small bleachers on the side, a picnic table or two, all surrounded by the standard chain-link fence.

It’s not that.
Instead, Mel Gibson and the other prisoners walk out into a bustling space that more resembles a flea market: both men, women, and children milling about, going about their business.

It looks no different from the busy streets of a small town. No one’s in handcuffs. No one in chains. Guards and fences are nowhere to be seen, even though they know they must be there.
There are people conducting business.

Nothing about this looks—or feels—like a prison.
Nobody’s in prison uniforms. No one’s in orange jumpsuits.

No one’s in classic zebra stripes.
They've never seen a prison like this.
The surprise and marvel Mel’s Gringo feels is that he had no idea a prison could be like this; that there was a prison like this; that you could be in prison, yet be in such a “normal” environment.

Wait…what?!
WHAT?!!
You can have a prison that feels like the regular world? …like normal life?
But if that’s true…then…



Some of you just had the same dark realization I did.
To self: “okay okay…just breath” [takes hit of asthma spray] “just settle down…stay calm” [hands shaking]
Some of you are wondering what the big deal is.
So what? you say.
Some have already got it.
For those who haven't, I'll nudge you in the right direction.
But you're gonna have to think harder than usual. Dissolve the walls in your mind that you don’t know are there.
I’m connecting the dots for you, if you haven’t already.
If there’s a prison like this (as portrayed in Get the Gringo)…
…could I be living in a prison and not know it?
If it’s possible to have prisons that don’t feel like prisons, then…
…are we all living in a prison without knowing it?
But that would mean…

“GTFO of here!” I hear you saying.
“Of course I don’t live in a prison. Are you mad! I’m not a prisoner. If I was, I would know.”
Are you sure about that?
This is my opus to the world—to all humanity…including you:
I have concluded that you indeed do live in a prison (and are therefore a prisoner) and will, in this essay, prove that not only is it possible, but probable. So much so that it’s nearly certain.
And that so much of your world/life/society will suddenly make sense to you.
And that this theory of mine is not only a simulation theory, but the only simulation theory that matters (out of the other big one).
Because if it’s true that you live in a prison and don’t know it (until now, you’re welcome), then you have been fooled and that the free world you thought you lived in is false—a simulation.
Those of you who think harder than most already have the wheels spinning, pulling in the myriad of implications, raising all the “yeah, but”s and “yeah, but that would mean”s.
Let’s just list all the objections and knee-jerk reactions you’re having to this. After all, the first stage of death is DENIAL, and the loss of a deeply rooted paradigm (of what your life is) is very much a death of sorts.
How do I know these are all your retorts and arguments? Easy. You’re a robot. You’re all robots and all react the same; in the same possible ways.
All of you who think my theory is absurd are having the following thoughts…
Why There’s No Way I (and Everyone Else) is a Prisoner in a Prison
I would know it if I was / There’s no way to be in prison and not know it
I know what prison looks like and my world that I live in does not look like that
We already have prisons, which would mean we’d have prisons within prisons and that’s not a thing
Prisons have walls, and we don’t have walls
You’re not allowed to leave prisons, and we’re allowed to leave
If we were in prison, then that would mean prisons could be ginormous, and we all know they are not
Only criminals are in prison, and I’m not a criminal
Nobody’s going to imprison the entire world
(to that I can only say: Oh you sweet summer child)
Did I miss any?
Okay then, here’s the part where we see how emotionally mature you are and how intellectually honest.
If I can prove each of those points wrong, would you grant that my conclusion is correct?
The flip side to those points would be:
For us to be living in a prison and not know it (a real simulation), all of these would have to be true:
There are different kinds of prisons
Prisons can be of different sizes
2A - prisons can be huge
Prisons can have different levels of freedom/restrictions
3A - including freedom to come and go
3B - i’d have to feel completely free while being in prison / prison would have to give me seemingly complete freedom
Prisons can span great lengths of time, even generations
4A - people can be born inside prison
Prisons have different sections
A prison’s walls are not always walls (the effect/purpose/goal of a wall can be achieved in other ways)
You must be able to be a prisoner having done nothing wrong
7a - prison and slavery are strongly tied and have a unique relationship
It must be possible to fool entire populations living in a prison to believe they are not prisoners and are not living in a prison
In this ThoughtLetter essay, I will prove each of those premises true.
Yes, it will necessarily mean that you expand your view of what it means to be a prisoner.
It will require you to adjust your idea of freedom. What it means to be truly free.
This is why Mel Gibson’s movie Get the Gringo is so monumental. It jammed a wedge, created a crack, and now I am pulling apart the crusted shell of our concept of what a prison is; what a prison can be.
“Yeah, but that’s just a movie. That’s just fiction. It’s exaggerated for dramatic effect and to make it interesting.”
Again, I ask: Are you sure about that?
Even if it was just a fiction and merely a creative idea, it’s still an idea that shows what could be possible. And that would be enough of a foot in the door to make me consider the wider implication.
As it happens, the prison in the movie is deliberately designed and modeled after a real prison.
Yes, the prison actually exists, and/or existed as depicted in Get the Gringo.
I looked it up. I did the research for you.
Mel Gibson’s movie (and the prison it’s based on) gives us everything we need to address and satisfy so many of the proofs that lead to my conclusion. It proves my thesis in so many ways.
Premise / Proof | Get the Gringo prison |
| Um, yah. That’s the whole point of the movie and that magical moment when we see Mel’s astonishment at this most strange kind of prison that is nothing like we think of when we imagine prison. There’s really a prison that is this different. |
Here are the three big proofs that you live in a prison; that we all live in a prison.
Number one
It's possible to be in a prison and have it not feel like a prison. Exhibit number one open air prison, Monday, January 15 2024, 2:28 PM.Number one It's possible to be in a prison and have it not feel like a prison. Exhibit number one open air prison
Number 2
Prisons can be large enough to have entire societies in them. Exhibit b gas a strip open prison
Proof number 3 prisons can be as large as nation's as countries. Exhibit c North Korea. Does this trip what other country is the country where he says you're?Proof number 4. You can have prisons inside prisons with different levels of freedom exhibit. Isolation and box versus jen pop
Proof number 5. In prison you have locked down imprisons. You have rewarded and a and the guards, and there is deaf different levels of freedom. And rules for each
Prison is all about restricting freedom. And is intertwined with slavery. And slavery is exploitation and taking the fruits of your labor
And that's happening now
What does this mean?,
It means our entire society is an open air prison. Headed maps quite perfectly. You have a warden and sometimes you get to vote for sometimes not always. The prisoners do not have a say in the guards who are the police they have immunity from the prisoners. The prisoners don't get to override or overpower them. You are their mercy and that tracks
It means our entire society is an open air prison. Headed maps quite perfectly. You have a warden and sometimes you get to vote for sometimes not always. The prisoners do not have a say in the guards who are the police they have immunity from the prisoners. The prisoners don't get to override or overpower them. You are their mercy and that tracks
You are in a prison where they let you have quite a bit of freedom freedom enough to work for somebody to make other people rich and to work in order for the prison to take your labor and the form of taxes.
The only way to get outside our Prison would be to break free from all of the chains no matter how invisible they might be. And all the subjugation and slavery. Whatever the form may take and that would be the taxes. How they take your money. And being free from the police, which has nearly all power to do what they will to break into your house to keep you from going. And in the end, the Government or warden, which can put you on lockdown. That is not freedom. That is being a prisoner.
Is it possible to have:
prison within a prison?
mel, solitary
...to be in a prison that is bigger than normal? big enough that you don't see the walls?
north korea
...be in a prison that doesn't feel like prison? One where you have some freedom?
is there a limit to how big?
can it be nation-sized
What if children are born inside? (matrix)
Could you call the prison a name and get people proud of it?
What if they let you vote for your warden?
How could you tell?
It's like the simulation theory
What if you built a wall around a country? It would not only keep people out, it would keep people in?
So what does it mean if you're living in a prison?
A huge giant prison.
When I first came up with this, I had never heard of this thing they call “open air” prison. In fact, the first time I heard of it was recently after the whole ammose Gaza, Palestine is really.
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That's the first time I heard anybody mention open air prison. Because what they were talking about was how all the people who live in the Gaza stripped. What's her Israeli Palestinians? I don't even know which. But the poor people who live there. Online, discussion would come around to, “Why don't they just leave?” At least half of the time the answers would come back, “Well, they can't.”
“They won't let them leave.”
Who's the they? Whoever controlling it and won't let them leave. So does that mean there's walls up? Because that mean there's checkpoints. That means there's gates to get to an out of there, and then there are soldiers standing by. They won't let them leave, and if they try to leave, they'll shoot them. Is that what they need by the one that they've leave was it mean exactly?
But if I can't leave the smallest area, what would you call that? What does that make it? So that's why they call it a prison. They call it open air prison because it's so big that you don't realize that it’s a prison.
I mean, regular prisons aren't open air in a regular prison for the prisoners. Not get to be outside where there's open air. Well, of course, not. of course, they do. However, what it must mean is that the ever looming walls and sniper towers that are always in view. Give you the feeling that we're that open. Yes, you can see the air above. You and blue skies and stuff and white stuff, that's not clouds, but. It's not the open feel that you have when you're just out in the regular world.
So this whole Israeli Middle East conflict in 2023 is just one more proof and added evidence on top of all these others that I'm on target with my conclusion and my claim that you, I, we, we're all living in prison because now we have this new concept.
We have this new concept called open air prison. and so if you look at the type of living condition that constitutes open air prison, a prison with open.
Because then we see that it's possible to live in a "normal life, normal existence” yet still be in a prison. If you cannot leave, then it's a prison. If you cannot leave, you are a prisoner.
Even further support to the idea that there are different types of prisons—that different prisons can have different levels of freedom within them—is that there are different sizes of prisons. So if the Gaza strip is a prison, that's how much larger prison prison than the wee.
Edit furthest support to the idea that there are different types of prisons that different prisons can have different levels of freedom within them and their different sizes of prisons. So if the has a strip is a prison, that's how much larger prison prison than the week will be normally, thank you.
And when you're trying to get out of that place and you can't, then you know that you're imprisoned. But until you try to get out, you almost feel like you're not in a prison.
So now a different picture starts to emerge. A different painting on a large canvas begins to take shape and begin to take form.
But if you are in a prison right now, where are the walls? Where are the borders beyond which you are not allowed to go? Where is the space that you cannot leave from? Well, we know that for many nations look at USA for each starter.
In America, the nation, are there any walls? Every nation has borders, not every nation has walls that extended entire border. But of course, we know that the U.S. has, yes, attempted to protect borders with walls.
But nearly every nation has checkpoints, main inflow and egress spaces where people come into the country and people leave the country. Of course, airports are special such places. If you've ever traveled to International, you know they have Customs, that most enjoyable of funnels they herd you through to have people that will check you.
“We need to see your papers, and we'll check your Passport.”
These Customs “agents” ask you questions and if they don't like what you say, they will not let you in.
So there's an airport, don't be bus stations in Italy. May maybe highways named roads thoroughfares which are the major points for normal people to cross borders and so what? That is effectively a wall; is a checkpoint. Just like you have at normal prison press and let you put ten to,
So, if your nation and everything is its own prison, what do we have for the entire Earth? That is composed of one giant prison or several connected prisons, which effectively means one giant prison with dividers. Maybe you're allowed to go from one prison to another to visit the other prisoners. “Let’s see what the other prison is like.” Some prisons are nicer than others. Some prisons are highly sought after and everybody wants to go there.
And if everyone's in a prison and if every nation, every country, is a prison, then who are the wardens? Who are the guards? Did you know that in some prisons they allow you to vote for who your warden is?
In the freehouse, the prisons were they really want you to feel free, they will let you vote for your warden. If that's going to make a difference to you, maybe they'll give you some perks that you wouldn't have, otherwise. Maybe you'll get to harass and dominate other prisoners during a few years. And then they'll switch it so that the other group gets to harass and dominate the other prisoners. So that you feel good about things.
And if you're in a prison, what do wardens and guards typically like to do to make sure that the prisoners don't cause a ruckus and don't try escape or overthrow the prison?
But in the prison that you live in, dear first-world citizen, the prison is not so much defined by the walls at the borders that you may or may not be able to cross, but it's more about a different and more fundamental attribute or aspect of being a prisoner.
So if you think about normal prisoners, prisoners in jail, prisoners people's were in prison for a long time, and what their lives are like and what they do and how they do work.
For example, the thing that I know about and probably you could have heard of too is the whole license plate making that's done by prisoners.
So prisoners are able to work and make a little money. So I've heard. So if they are making license plates for the state, that means they're doing work that a private company outside in the regular world would normally do. And would normally charge for a guess what the government, the state gets to have it. I have they're product created these license plates.
Created at a massive discount. So is it any different from a sweat shop?
If we are in a prison, it explains so much, so many things that don't make sense haven't made sense become completely reasonable understandable, that's.
Does a warden have to be accountable to the inmates? Do the guards have to be accountable to the prisoners?
Every time we see the government do something that we don't like, or something that doesn't make sense from the lens of the government doing something for the benefit of the people. And we can't comprehend well. It becomes crystal clear and super obvious why that's the way when you consider that you're really just prisoners in a prison. The controllers don't have to do anything because they're in charge and they're in control.
Well, not coming, it definitely happens. And I've heard stories, and you probably have too where you know of somebody who knows if somebody who had to go to jail in the evenings. War on the weekends, something would let him out in the morning to go do his job to go to work. And then after he's done with start. Come back in the evening and check back in to jail. And stay in jail during the night and during weekends. So they only let him out to go and earn money. I think the case I heard about it was 4. Somebody who had a man who had been divorced. And because he was not able to run enough money to pay. What was owed in alimony? Dad? He had to go to jail, but they still let him out to go to work. Maybe he was a doctor or something like that, and he probably made good amount of money. Cancel, do not let him make the money, but still needs to go to jail part time part time due.
In order for my theory to be true to be correct for it to be the case that you, i, everybody. Let's just say all ame cancel anybody living in the land of America. If this is a prison cause this is a giant open air prison. What would have to be true in order for it to qualify as a prison?
Number one
guards can break into your cell, your living space, at any time, heading point and that not allowed to keep them out.
Number two
there is no protection from other prisoners or rival gains. That they may hurt you, they may harass you. They may attack you at will at any point. And the guards will allow it. The guards are not there to protect you you're on your own,
Number 3
You eat what they feed you. If you don't like the food to take given you, you're out of luck, you have no choice. There's no other option you must eat, say video. You are there mercy look up the food and water,
They the prison keeps your earnings. The key call or apportion of whatever productive work perform the value of your. Efforts, your manual, labor your mental labor they can take as much as they want, and you cannot say no.
How I imagine people will will react to learning that where they live is actually a giant open air prison that you are a prisoner. When you're born into the prison, they give you a number. You are a numbered prisoner. Remember the number that they tattooed onto the captured Jews and Auswitch and in the other concentration camps. You become a number when you are born in this prison. You get a number you are part as to which prison you belong to. And you must comply with all the requirements of that prison.
You must comply with all the requirements of your prison whether it be health, movement, such as driving.
Enlarge prison would want to train those who are born inside it. And that's the group as children. They would want the children trained in such a way. They're, they don't cause trouble with the prison. The dare not let the other prisoners know that they are in a prison,
A warden of a prison is not the owner. It's not the ultimate controller. A warden is simply a manager. The one who manages the daily opera of the prison, but prisons have owners, it's the owners of the prison. Who are outside of the prison who pay the warden and pay the guards and to make profit off of the prison.
If your country is a prison, a large carch of entrepreneurs, the that means that there are regular prisons inside the larger prison, and so that checks out there are prisons within prisons.
If America is a prison, if you are country or nation is a prison large prison, that would mean that they're would have to be. The prisons would have to have the attribute of being super large, large enough to be nations and that checks.
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Because we already have examples of such large prisons. Look at look at North Korea. Look at ghasa the Gaza Strip. I'm, and there are other countries where nation sized countries. And so we knows that that is confirmed.
Maybe America has the most freedom. Some might argue that in some might have good arguments. Where that's not the case? But in all, the perception is, and it's some ways is probably true that America. Does offer is citizens/prisoners the most freedom? But if these countries are prisons, the net would mean that prisons must have different levels of freedom within the we know this checks out, and it's true because we already have examples of prisons. Have you been different sections within prices that have different levels of freedom? Consider your general population area, which is more open or free compared to solo going to.
Are you going to isolation the box? They call it.
So we have. Very degrees of freedom with an a prison. We have very sizes presents. How do we have prisons within prisons
Another example of what doesn't make sense. But then does once you realize you're in a prison. Is the way that So-Called democracy doesn't work. Nobody's happy with democracy, nobody's happy with the elections. Nobody's happy with the politicians. Nobody's happy with this system. That's supposed to let us be free. I get everyone's mad and angry. Why doesn't just voting thing give? What kind of people that we would like to see in charge? Well, it makes perfect sense when you see that. You're actually in a prison, and you just voting for the warden's. The possible wardens that are allowed by the actual owners and controllers of the prison. You're not gonna get to vote for a prison. Who said for a word in who says,
For a warden who says that we are gonna let the prisoners go free. That's just completely at odds with the fundamental purpose of the prison. You're not gonna get a warden who says let's stop make an our prisoner's work? I'm keeping some of their earnings where they're value unless left. I'm having all that's not gonna work. Because the prison needs to keep functioning and so it needs the word. The word from the prisoners, the generate that value domestic product. They call it roast americans roast domestic,
—Elon, this is for you.
Elon, if you were impressed with the "we're in a simulation: theory, then I'm about to really blow your mind.
^^End of addressing Elon^^
Start of talking to my readers
Is Elon smart?
Is Elon intelligent?
Would anyone dare say they are smarter than Elon?
I'll say it.
I'm smarter than Elon.
And I'll prove it right now.
Tim Poole
This is not about Tim Poole, but he seems to think Elon is smart.
Compared to Tim, Elon probably is.
(Real quick...in case you don't know who Tim Poole is. He's just some regular guy who spouts off on YouTube and somehow got popular. A Joe Rogan situation.)
Anyway, at one point Tim tries to sound smart and progressive by explaining how he believes in god but is not religious.
And the reason he gives for believing there's a god?
(here' I'm paraphrasing)
"Elon's smart and Elon says we're probably living in a simulation. And since some future human or advanced alien must have created the simulation we're in, they are god to us."
In short, Tim's argument:
God is a human who created the simulation we're in. Therefore I believe in God.
What it means
If it’s true, it reveals much more than the concrete nature of this one situation
it reveals and is an exposure of a much broader and all encompassing disturbing fact of human nature, and is just one method or tactic of those in control
It teaches (or hopefully will) us that we must be wary and suspicious at every turn.
My think harder brain tells me that the higher up you go in the pecking order, the more those toward the top will readily admit (if just to themselves) that my conclusion is correct, accurate, on point…that I nailed it.
If you go high enough
Can getting yourself enough money get you out of the prison?
Andrew Tate sure tried. But he’s smart enough to know he’s still captive in the system.
What does it take? Having the right contacts? Friends in high places? Being born into the blueblood families?
I can answer Varys’ question to Tyrion: “What is power
I believe this movie is a leak. Not an intentional one.
A truth got leaked by way of this movie—a leak they’d rather not have happened.
But they’re not too concerned as nobody’s paying attention.
But I did.
With a brain that works on overdrive, I see it. I put 2 and 2 together.
And I’m letting the world know.
And I would never Epstein myself.

When you discover what you’re really living in.
When you realize you’ve been living in a prison this whole time.
There’s a reason it’s called the “vertigo effect.”

Prison and Slavery
