“Fata Morgana” is a term used to describe a mirage, named after Morgana le Fey, the shapeshifting fairy queen of legends such as King Arthur’s.
I’ve seen a few mirages, certainly the heat in the desert making it seem as if you are standing at the edge of a large body of rippled water.
A mirage is not a hallucination in the sense that a mirage is very real and often can be captured on film. It’s an optical phenomenon. Much like our eyes can deceive us, our own narratives and the narratives of others can deceive us, too.
A great deal of what goes on in social media and what passes for “news” these days is a narrative or a mirage. It isn’t what it appears to be, it is not an accurate representation of reality. It has about as much substance and truth as heat rising in the desert and revealing an “ocean.”
I love a good dramatic story, even an overly dramatized one. In fact if you lay it on thick enough, I will probably laugh. Story telling is not necessarily about the literal truth, and hopefully not simply about the dry and unemotional recounting of facts.
But science should be! Journalism should be! The judicial system should be. The medical profession should be, to some extent at least! There are even a few times in faith where, “just the facts, please” applies.
I was bravely hiding in a public restroom the other day, eavesdropping on a conversation about the Great Reset, the joys of mandated socialism, the coming societal collapse, and also ironically, eyeball transplants. Seems as if the lady living in 222 has had one and obviously it contains a government tracking device, which is why we should never speak of these things around her.
Also, we should probably check for feet in the stalls, uninvited eavesdroppers lurking in public restrooms, pondering the whole nature of a proper narrative a good mirage, but I digress……
I have experience in this area, having been subjected to a quite a number of cray-cray narratives in my lifetime.
So when an overwrought, worn out, under appreciated nurse goes on CNN to speak of bodies stacked in the hallways and 20 yr olds walking in and dropping dead of covid right before her eyes, it is a cry for help. She is attention seeking her own trauma. And that’s okay! That is totally understandable. We do a really lousy job of meeting the emotional and spiritual needs of people, especially nurses.
People need to understand this is a venting woman, a trauma victim, not a reporter. There are NO actual bodies stacked up in the hall. There are NO 20 year olds being vaporized and pixelating right before your eyes. Zero. That is a complete a mirage. A Fata Morgana. That woman is trying to justify feeling overwhelmed by implanting false memories in herself and seeking justification, an explanation for how she feels right now.
Hyperbole, exaggeration, drama.
We as a society seem to have lost our ability to discern, to tell the difference between facts and fiction, aka, good storytelling versus factual reporting. This is blatantly evident to me in a small town where I have the freedom to go check for bodies in the hallways and refrigerator trucks parked out back trying to handle the huge overflow of alleged covid deaths.
In truth, there is no refrigerator truck, no bodies in the hallways, and it is practically a ghost town up there.
Said nurse is in part hysterical due to staffing cut backs and her inability to now pay her bills. Also, single motherhood, the election, and the uncertainty of life in general, the somewhat surreal, tense and distracted feeling we are all experiencing right now, in part simply due to some really crappy leadership.

In a perfect world, in a healthier world, we would give this woman some soul care, love her back to good health, to a calm, non anxious state of being, but of course we don’t live in a perfect world. Rather than addressing her needs, the media descends like a pack of vultures and jackals to harvest her distress so they can repackage it and sell it back to you. And of course a few million keyboard warriors, gossips and fear mongers themselves, blow hot air on the Morgana le Fey, the shapeshifting fairy queen of mirage, in the hopes of bringing her to life.
Why do I write about such things? In part because there’s not much else to do when you are trapped in a restroom patiently waiting for the scary socialists to leave and in part so you will remember to look directly into my left eyeball, so as to ensure the Minority Report downloads properly. But in truth I write about such things because we control the horizontal and the vertical, we write the narratives, we decide which mirage we are going to feast on.
Now remember, a mirage is not a hallucination, it is not unreal. I mean, here we are locked down with a crashing economy surrendering our rights and our freedoms, over a complete mirage!
Yep, a mirage.
Don’t get me wrong here, I believe people are dying in part due to a virus, as we have been doing since the beginning of time. But the rest of it? The drama, the hyperbole, the fear, the lockdowns, the scary stories, all a mirage.
Yeah.. 250 thousand are dying “just in part” to the virus. Share with me something… should one of your loved ones pass from Covid.. (or even one of those “just in part” viruses…) who would you blame as you sit down to cry… Trump? God? (almost the same thing these days) Socialists? Unnecessary and unconstitutional mask wearing? Hillary’s 30,000 emails? The Chinese? I’m guessing the Chinese.. because it’s away from here… it deflects.
LikeLike
Something you might want to look into, has the over all death rate for your state increased dramatically since 2019,2018, 2017, 2016? In a genuine pandemic, we would expect to see a much greater number of people dying in 2020 then in years prior.
LikeLike
Ah.. I see.. we are not in a “genuine” pandemic… hence this is all a normal. If it’s not “genuine” we should accept no substitutes… which apparently half the country is doing. Then.. if “we” (Dems? Socialists? RINOS?) want to make it genuine we have to let the death toll creep up. How silly I didn’t see that.
LikeLike
Doug, when you are in the midst of an extinction level global pandemic event, you would expect to see something that looks like a spike in the over all death rates. You yourself said 250,000. So if covid has actually caused the deaths of 250,000 people, than our overall death rates should reflect that. 250,000 more people should have died this year than last year. Our per capita death rates should have increased.
LikeLike
It’s way more that death rates, IB.. and you are smart enough to know that. This is taxing the entire health system and the huge numbers of people not dying yet experiencing long lasting issues is a larger problem. Why does half the population have to scurry around to find alt-science sources to justify political ideology? I was serious in asking the question.. if a loved one dies of this virus that’s not a genuine pandemic… who do you blame in your emotional need?
LikeLiked by 1 person
If this pandemic is NOT a complete mirage, then we should be able to see some statistics around death rate spikes. You do not get to avoid that question and simply change the narrative to, “potential long lasting larger problems.”
LikeLike
You were talking deaths and I was talking deaths. What narrative have I tried to change? You want to position me so you can claim some statistically interpretive “gotcha moment” for the audience? I’m replying to you.. not anyone else in here.
LikeLike
Doug, I don’t want to “position you.” I don’t want to claim a “statistically interpretive gotcha moment.” I want you to go check it out for yourself, audience free, and begin to question the narrative.
LikeLike
What am I missing? The CDC.. representing MY government… has far more scientific knowledge than me even on a good day… and therefore I trust until one day they abuse it… says this is a pandemic. Do I need to go somewhere else to critical think this further? Logic tells me that on any scientific opinion there will always be at least one other opinion to dispute current scientific thought. I am not a conspiracy buff Republican that dwells on a constant presumption of deviousness of my fellow man for political posturing. And I hold NO credence to accepting Trump’s alienating our institutions to the point that I think they have all been polarized against him. Sorry.. I didn’t wake up one morning thinking mask wearing was infringing on my Constitutional rights enough to go find some alt-science as an excuse to defy it and polarize the politics.
LikeLike
So basically you’re just content with crashing our economy, cutting people off from vital services, costing us jobs and small businesses, creating more deaths from drugs and suicide, all because it provides you with an opportunity to hate President Trump and rank on Republicans?? So basically you’re too lazy to do any research and you don’t care about your fellow Americans?
In that case, Doug, go away. Go find an echo chamber to hang out in and you can kick back and validate one another.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Back to being dismissive, I see. Carry on.
LikeLike
Here’s the BBC’s take on this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53073046
LikeLike
This isn’t about truth or science, IB. It’s about narrative. We have an incoming globalist administration with a host of useful idiots in tow.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Isn’t it odd that never have there been more people wearing masks, yet the infection rate continues to rise? Which science are we to believe? When Fauci said masks were good, or when Fauci said the masks were bad?
LikeLiked by 2 people
Maybe when someone you know dies of the thing. Otherwise.. it’s not real.
LikeLike
haha. Yes, it’s real. It’s also monetized, and that’s why you get a person dying in a motorcycle crash with covid listed as cause of death. It’s also the excuse for the mail in ballots that caused so many irregularities in this election. Funny had that worked out for the left.
For the record, my mother and my brother both had it and are fully recovered. I wonder how bothered are you by the fentanyl crisis in this country. Do you support open borders, too?
LikeLike
*how* not had.
LikeLike
In 1918, ~675,000 Americans died of the flu, out of a population of 92,000,000 – 7 out of 1,000.
In 2020, ~250,000 Americans died of coronavirus, out of a population of 332,000,000 – 7 out of 10,000.
Every single year, heart disease kills 655,000, and cancer kills 600,000.
But using numbers to illustrate context is, like, totally oppressive and not SCIENCE.
Personally, I think that people should be allowed to self-identify as having died of COVID. That’s way more scientific and inclusive than our current bigoted system.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Ahh, now that’s a fabulous idea! We should be allowed to simply self identify as having died of covid. That could solve some major issues with bill collectors and also government over reach! Sorry, this doesn’t apply to me, I self identify as having died of covid several months back. I am deceased, deceased I tell ya! Respect my pronouns, please. Also, it shouldn’t interfere with my voting rights at all, so it’s pretty much a win-win. π
LikeLiked by 4 people
True story: Some years ago I was with my friend in the ladies’ room at the small town mall. We were the only ones in there, and she mentioned quietly that the restroom was bugged and police or security were probably listening to our conversation.
I said loudly, “Kelly, did you know that Jesus died for our sins?”
“REALLY? Tell me more!” And we proceeded to have a “dialogue” about salvation, complete with FAQs. Hey, one person’s problem is another person’s opportunity. π
LikeLiked by 2 people
Ha! How delightful! Even the spies, the NSA, and the mall cops need to hear the good news that brings great joy! π
LikeLiked by 2 people
Exactly!
LikeLike
When we lived in Chicago, our downstairs neighbor used to call the police on us, because of her conviction that we had suitcases full of electronic equipment that we were using to listen to her telephone conversations, and interfere with her television reception. She also accused us of sneaking into her apartment and turning her clothes inside out while she was sleeping. The police were very nice to us while they were searching our apartment for the electronic equipment. No harm ever came of all this, fortunately.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Where in Chicago?
LikeLiked by 1 person
East Rogers Park
LikeLike
Ah yeah.. more inner city than me. My mother hailed from Rogers Park. I was born and raised far Northwest Side… next to the airport… then raised my family in Des Plaines. Left in ’05. Small world.
LikeLike
Well said. I really do feel bad for the people which our predatory media complex preys on. Also, why would you use an eyeball or a vaccine to hide a tracking device when all everyone is willingly carrying around a cellphone?
LikeLiked by 1 person