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13 Going on 30, 2004

Was this predictive programing?

During the making of 13 Going on 30, a movie which strangely features numerous magazine covers of Jennifer Lopez throughout, Jennifer Garner met and started dating Ben Affleck. Just before that, in 2002, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez had a notoriously media-frenzied relationship, which garnered the shipping moniker, “Bennifer,” and which, I believe, was a manufactured publicity romance for both parties. After years of troubled marriage and 3 children, Affleck and Garner divorced, and Affleck and Lopez are now married. I have come to believe that Lopez is Affleck’s (who is always reported to look “bored” and “miserable” in paparazzi photos) controller and handler. Given his purported reputation with women, gambling, and alcohol, I don’t think Affleck wants to be married to Lopez, or anyone for that matter. These types of men are not the marrying kind. Affleck’s incredibly shady past, which I imagine is far worse than anything we’ve been told, especially during his Hollywood golden boy, Good Will Hunting, best friends with Matt Damon, Harvey Weinstein wet dream days. I think his marriage to Lopez is protection/blackmail for hiding his secrets, whatever those secrets may be. (I happen to know more about the manufactured Matt Damon/Ben Affleck Good Will Hunting childhood-rise-to-fame media narrative from former industry friends. But for this post, I’ll just base this on the public narrative we’ve all been fed).

Affleck has recently been on a publicity-humiliation tour singing the sycophantic praises of Lopez everywhere he goes. Take this utterly bizarre Zoom interview with the psychotic Drew Barrymore, where she and Affleck both swoon like deranged fangirls over Lopez’s appearance. Is this what a good husband is supposed to do —promote the physical (“all-natural”) perfection of his wife on TV? Is this what a mentally stable talk show host does—practically have an orgasm over a fake husband’s scripted characterization of his fake Hollywood viper-wife? Is this what America wants? Is this supposed to sound like genuine love and attraction on Affleck’s part, especially when Lopez herself is not even present to (pretend to) reciprocate his adoration? More grist for Lopez’s personal brand of Monarch mind control, malignant narcissism, and self-promotion.

There is also Affleck’s recent 2024 Super Bowl meta-commercial, “DunKings,” where he plays Ben Affleck the deluded loser-idiot pandering to the musical “genius” and industry approval of his all-powerful wife, a media empire onto herself. The DunKings commercial is clearly damage control for Affleck and Lopez’s constantly scrutinized and criticized marriage, with some more self-promotion thrown in for Lopez. It should also be noted that in the Barrymore interview, Affleck has apparently been recruited to rewrite the story Lopez has repeatedly told the public about what she does to stay young and fit for the past 20 years—strict diet, no alcohol, coffee, sugar, or junk food, constant exercise, and lots of sleep. Now, apparently, in addition to refusing to admit to any cosmetic procedures, plastic surgery, or the use of beauty filters, she doesn’t do any of what she’s claimed has kept her young-looking and fit, and can now suddenly “eat whatever she wants” and not exercise at all. In effect, Lopez is gaslighting her fans completely (as she did with her olive oil skincare line a couple of years ago, claiming it was just the oil that made her skin look young, not plastic surgery, lighting, makeup, or the heavy filters used in the video), and relying on cultural amnesia. The older Lopez gets, the more she claims to do nothing for her appearance. It’s all magic, it’s all natural.

I’ve also come to believe there are many female handlers in Hollywood, self-professed “nepo-baby” Jami Lee Curtis being another one of them. The once very talented Christopher Guest has become virtually comatose as Curtis’ obedient and adoring husband. The famous story Curtis like to tell about first seeing Guest on the cover of Rolling Stone after Spinal Tap came out in 1984, and immediately deciding he would be her husband (a few months later they were married), has gone from once sounding incredibly romantic to me to sounding completely engineered and fabricated. It is clear now that Curtis, the legendary hermaphrodite, turned 70s horror queen, turned 80s “The Body” (as I write about in my book Picture Cycle), turned Trans-activist, grew up in a Hollywood family and was due to be married, so “chose” Guest based on his Rolling Stone cover, which was good PR. This arranged Hollywood marriage was orchestrated possibly to advance the future pro-trans ideology of Curtis’ adopted son, who came out as trans and whose marriage Curtis officiated herself.

Caption by Apocalughs on YouTube

Jamie Lee, Oscar acceptance speech, 2023

Jamie Lee Curtin winning an Oscar in 2023. Caption by Apocolaughs discussing Curtis’ bizarre Oscar speech.

All very odd. And there are many more stories of false matrix personas like this in Hollywood. They are growing—culminating—by the day.

English writer Alan Watts defined predictive programming as: “A subtle form of psychological conditioning provided by the media to acquaint the public with planned societal changes to be implemented by our leaders. If and when these changes are put through, the public will already be familiarized with them and will accept them as natural progressions, thus lessening possible public resistance and commotion.”

So now that I have set up this lengthy context-pretext, my question is: Why does Lopez’s image pop up so many times throughout 13 Going on 30? What kind of pact does the movie have with her?

I will leave this question to you.