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The Roman God Janus. Screenshot from the 2024 miniseries, Ripley.
As my posts /research over the years have demonstrated, there is an awful lot of talk about mask-wearing these days.
It’s no longer just “crazy talk.”
It turns out doubles and doppelgängers are not just a psychological phenomenon, or a cinematic and literary trope, they are real.
No longer confined to the horror or thriller genre, masks, alters, MPDs, and split psyches are now a mainstream norm and a beauty ideal.
The mask trope is everywhere.
Omnipresent in mass imagery—music videos, movies, fashion ads.
This ALL stems from Mkultra culture, which promotes trauma bonding, dissociation, fragmentation, incoherence, mind control, false personalities, and multiple identities.
We are way beyond the plastic surgery excuse (there’s also the “Ozempic Face” excuse), which all celebrities deny anyway. So if they deny it, perhaps that is a clue that we should go deeper into this question.
For the record, they’re not all just using good cleansers and SPF.
These denials are all don’t believe your eyes (or your intuition) gaslighting techniques.
Something else is going on. Something else has been going on.
Mask technology, cloning, doubles, CGI, AI, deep fakes, simulation, you name it.
The CIA has admitted to this and it dates very far back.
In German, doppelgänger means "double-walker."
There is also, of course, the double-talker (Gemini, Mercury, the trickster, the Magician in the Tarot).
And the old idiom/accusation of being “two-faced.”
Double lives.
Doublespeak (George Orwell).
Acting, by the way, is a vocation—”talent”—no one really understands or questions.
There is a great MYSTERY around it.
Some actors even claim it is a form of possession.
Acting is occultism.
The fan has never been able to wrap their heads around who an actor is, what he does, or, the real clincher, how he does it.
All we know how to do is fawn and throw awards at these people. Even while Los Angeles burns down. And these Stars lose their (empty) homes.
It is 2025, Hollywood has fallen, and we are still going ahead with the Oscars.
The actor is the double life/double talker/two-face Janus archetype turned into an Idol.
A dram.
Plastic surgery is an alibi/cover for becoming unrecognizable and inhuman.
For becoming not just someone else, but something else.
For things not making sense, not looking normal, not lining up.
Uncanny valley.
Where does this completely abnormal ability to professionally act—to be someone else—come from?
No one asks.
No one cares.
I am asking.
Who are all these people? How did they get here? Where did they come from? What happens to them?
The Free Guy, 2021
A little too alike. Lookalikes or clones?
The Menendez Brothers as women in Ryan Murphy’s 2024 miniseries, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
Are either of these Tom Cruises real?
Psycho II, 1983
No Good Deed, 2024
F For Fake, 1973
Resurrection, 1980
Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1978
Ariana Grande’s super Mkultra 2024 music video, “we can’t be friends (wait for your love).“
Val Kilmer on Marlon Brando’s ubiquitous double, Norm, in The Island of Dr. Moreau, 1996. From Val, 2021.
Face/Off, 1997
Free Guy, 2021
Email from 2011
Looks that Kill, 2020
