THE NEW WORLD ORDER
It was as if the world changed overnight. One minute she belonged, and the next minute she didn’t. Everyone looked foreign to her, and no matter where she turned, nothing felt the same. Almost as if a black cloud had dropped down and was sucking the life out of everyone. No heart and no feelings. Eyes without a soul attached to bodies that looked sick and no longer sat, stood or walked as she remembered.
There were so many of them that she began to question who was the real alien … her or them? Did she get plucked out of her sleep one night and dropped onto a different planet that looked like Earth? Or maybe she had been transported into the future somehow and the life she remembered was from an earlier time period? But when she checked her cellphone, the date was correct, and the phone itself looked the same. So did the streets and the buildings … and she could still find her way around everywhere. Even the food in her refrigerator looked normal, yet she still found herself walking through her garden later checking to see if the plants had changed. They looked ok, though, so why was she so frightened and why was every internal antennae she had telling her that something was terribly wrong?
Maybe it was the hand gestures that got her attention first. Another news story about an Arab Spring protest in the Middle East, but this one was the largest group ever, and what alarmed her the most was when she noticed that hundreds of them were lifting up their fingers and exhibiting the Victory sign at the exact same moment. How could they possibly coordinate that so perfectly, and why would they be using the same hand signal that Winston Churchill used during WWII? Then more news coverage about other protests in Asia and South America where they were also making the same victory sign. All huge demonstrations and every one of them violent and disturbing.
It was about then that she began to notice other strange hand signals. Almost from out of the blue, it appeared as if everyone was doing a thumbs up to give approval or encouragement to something. When did this start and why did she never notice it used so much before? Was this a secret code or a sign of a secret fraternity, and if it was, why then did everyone but her seem to belong to it? Athletes. Actors. Politicians. Teachers. Students. Rich, poor, young and old. When even her gardener gave her a thumbs up one morning, she began to cry.
She cried even harder, though, the night she watched the David Letterman show and saw Donald Trump walk out from behind the stage and give the audience a thumbs up twice … plus a victory sign … before he even shook hands with Dave. Then when he sat down, she saw him make a third gesture she had never seen before that looked like a diamond or a pyramid of some kind. What had happened to him, and why was he of all people giving all these hand gestures?
Then came the devil horns that she first saw at a concert one night. It confused her at first because she was standing too far back and thought the singer was just pointing to something. Then he kept doing it again and again with the same hand but later began doing it with the other hand as well. When she glanced around, others were doing it also in the same aggressive and defiant way. Trying to stay calm, she told herself that this was just a secret sign for this particular music group or perhaps an innocent protest against the establishment. But when she noticed Pope Benedict giving the devils horn sign shortly after he announced his retirement, she became very worried. Had they invaded the churches also?
No matter who she asked about it, she always got the same blank look. Like they didn’t understand her question, and when she pressed the issue further, they started looking at her suspiciously as if she was crazy or paranoid. What was she getting at, and why was she asking them? So she gradually stopped voicing her concerns and began writing in her journal instead, documenting all the odd behavior she was observing and trying to make sense of it the best she could. Writing about not only the way some of them were walking or talking but all the beards and tattoos that were suddenly sprouting up everywhere and all the women she met who looked more like men dressed up in drag.
Even some of the animals seemed different to her so she went to the zoo one day and took notes on them also. Like a lot of the people that she was seeing, their eyes also looked controlled and their body movements abnormal. Their skin and fur seemed strange as well, and she just didn’t feel the same attachment to them as she did before.
It was the night that she went on a hike with a group of friends and a stranger began talking to her about world politics that she began to connect the dots. She just knew he was right when he told her about the New World Order and a secret religion called the Illuminati. This was not mental illness or paranoia on her part. This was a takeover.
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