Femi LazarusCEO at Femi Lazarus Consulting

An average person is living in a simulation.

13 May 2026 · 2 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that most people exist within a pervasive falsehood, likening everyday life to a simulation. He uses the biblical story of the Israelites and Pharaoh to illustrate the inevitability of certain outcomes when minds are entrenched in false narratives. He introduces the "principle of institutionalization," describing how a person who spends a lifetime in prison internalizes that environment as their identity, making any attempt to free them effectively a death. He extends this analogy to the average citizen, claiming that media, government, and the film industry have conditioned individuals from childhood, wiring their perceptions and beliefs. The speaker concludes that escaping this system is virtually impossible and any effort to do so would be futile, reflecting a deeply pessimistic view of human agency within societal structures.

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Do you believe we are living in a simulation? You see, I think that we have so lived in a lie that for some people it is best in a lifetime they never find out the truth. We have so lived in a lie there's nothing you can do. I mean, I've looked at the case and I can tell you there's almost nothing you can do. And if you say that sounds pessimistic, I'm going to give you illustration. When the Israelites left Egypt, I mean, this is a historical fact. Yes. God got to the point where it occurred to him that there's nothing he could do about the mind of these people that Pharaoh had afflicted this much. They all had to die. We have so lived in a lie that the truth you know are very few. Let me give you an instance. There's a principle called the principle of institutionalization. You take a man, age 20, committed a crime, lock him in prison, life imprisonment, stays there for 70 years. Now he's 90. His development, his civilization, everything is in the prison. His identity is in prison. His success is in the prison. Yeah. Place that ought to be the place of bondage become the place of his identity. If you pity that man and say, I want to help you, I'll bring you out of prison, you are bringing him out of the life he knows to the life that has moved on without him. You have not helped him, you have killed him. He is formed, he is already institutionalized. That is the case of an average human being walking on the street. Who thinks what he's saying is smart? Who thinks the nation that thinks an angel is an angel? Because the news have formed you from birth till who you are now. There's nothing you can do. If I'm going to spearhead an agenda and I want to see yourself as people in certain ways, the government will fund movie makers to give you the stories. Movies that engineered you from being children, that wired you, is the reason why anything will pass now. You've been wired from the seasons that you were young. There's nothing they sell to you that they have to go through struggles. True, true. It's just the way the system works. To try to get a person out of that, you'll be fotonated.