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The Soul Is Being Drained

Ofoto Ray
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As I write this now, it's June 2025 and this is quite a special moment for me. In my life, so to speak. And I'm trying to describe it a little.

What I'm really trying to do is describe what the plan is. What so many people have come to realize. That there’s something they want with us. That they want to lead us somewhere. And that “somewhere” is an empty feeling.

In my case — I'm 63 — I still carry a warm, full suitcase of memories from the old days. But what I find so heartbreaking now is that I’m starting to notice more and more how we’re turning into robotic humans. Everything around me shows that the true value of things is fading. Young people seem to be forgetting.

When I think back to the feeling we had before 2020... I honestly get sad. That feeling was so different. Some might say: back then, we were being fooled, living in an illusion. But that's exactly the point: we’ve realized now that we were living in an illusion — but that doesn’t change the fact that life in that illusion was still really enjoyable.

It’s so clear to me now how our minds are being drained. I feel it very strongly in myself. My mind, which would usually overflow with ideas and fantasies when inspired... is now being emptied. Every idea, every dream that comes to me gets pushed away. The moment I feel something bubbling up — a warm sense of imagination — it gets knocked down immediately. Because I no longer see any point in it. There's no response from society.

And that’s exactly where they want us to be. And I feel that very strongly now. What I also see clearly is that, across the entire society, an unbelievable flatness has emerged. In every area. You can literally see it — for example in music and photography.

I'm originally a musician, and I worked as a professional photographer for many years. In both music and photography, there's been a shift from the analog era to the digital one. When I listen to music from the analog days, I hear passion, warmth, and dynamics. Love for life. Willpower. Pure beauty.

If I compare that with today’s digital music... it sounds empty, cold, crude, even filthy. Banal. And in photography, I see the same. Images from the analog era had love, warmth, depth — and stunning sharpness. AI-generated images might be razor-sharp and perfect, but they’re empty. There's no soul in them. The soul is gone. That’s the right word. The soul has been sucked out of us over the past five years. Out of society. Out of humanity. And that’s exactly what they wanted.

The worst part is that most people still don’t realize it. They're too busy with daily survival, making ends meet, you name it. And I think that as an artist — because I’ve always been one, that’s just who I am — I’ve always had a deep sensitivity for these things. For how people are, how they feel, for the atmosphere. Empathy for the world. And now I feel it with painful clarity.

I'm at a special moment in my life. Completely alone, somewhere in a little house in the Czech Republic. And it feels as if the whole past, before 2020 — all those beautiful people, musicians, artists, writers — it feels like it was all for nothing. That’s how it feels.

For example, I recently played a song by George Michael — something I almost never do anymore. A jazz track from an album he recorded in 1999:

And when I play it, I’m overwhelmed by a deep sadness. That man is gone too. Far too soon. I don’t even know what really happened, but he died far too young.

When I hear that song, I’m confronted so strongly with that time of illusion. And I’ve become afraid of that time. Because I know how beautiful it was — and at the same time, how deceived we were. That makes it hard to let my mind, my eyes, or my ears go back to that time.

When I step into that warm bath of the old days, I want to get out again quickly. Because I know something wasn’t right. And that makes me sad. Deeply sad.

And when I think even further back — to people like my parents, and my grandmother... people who endured the horrors of World War One and Two. My father, who in his youth got caught up in politics — and was completely misguided. All those people were terribly misled.

In the fifties and sixties, when I was growing up, all kinds of products hit the market — and now we know many of them were full of cancer-causing substances. And to think it was done intentionally — to eliminate us.

I honestly don’t know how to deal with it anymore. As I write this, the whole situation with Israel and Iran is escalating... and Trump is still hanging around. The performance continues. We’re being fooled again. And once again, most people have no idea. They just go along with the theater.

Meanwhile, we’re being drained. The youth is being emptied more and more. They know less. They can do less. They’re becoming used to doing everything through AI. The next generation won’t be able to do anything anymore. And then — most of them, or at least many — have been injected with some devilish substance that will make it impossible for them to have children. That will cause illness. Or early death.

I mean, the science of the future... casts a long shadow. Right now, I feel like I’m sitting in the eye of the storm. It’s quiet. Still. But when I look back, I see a wild and false period. And when I look ahead, I see a terrible, dark era coming. Cold, cruel, mean, and soulless. Cultureless, imaginationless, heartless, loveless.

And that’s one of the reasons I’m writing this book. Because honestly... I don’t know what to do anymore.

The other day I thought: maybe nature is the answer. As you get older, you start to appreciate nature more. Because it’s so incredibly perfect. Nature created these stunning compositions — in humans, animals, plants.

Maybe nature is now trying to get rid of us. Because we ruined it. That’s the only thing I still hope for. And I wish it for nature — that humankind simply disappears. Because we’re not worthy of this flat Earth. We just aren’t.

We’ve messed it up. And in every generation, we had the chance to learn — but it was always wasted. And of course, there’s a small group who deliberately steered things in that direction.

So maybe nature should just let us destroy each other. And then it’s done. It’s a shame for the people who see what’s happening, the truly good people. But maybe that’s the price we have to pay to preserve nature’s perfect composition.

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