Your mind has been hacked…

Imagine yourself sitting at your desk in front of your computer, as the purple lightning bolts outside the window create a sparkling contrast with the midnight dark sky, such that for a moment, you pause your search for the unattainable hidden truth you were trying to find, and then resume it as the monotony of dark-blue returns. As you continue your work on the computer, suddenly your screen goes blank, and then some letters appear typed in green:

“Your computer has been hacked!”

Planet Earth stops spinning for a moment. This can’t be. Chills run down your spine. You simply can’t accept the fact that this once-upon-a-time sci-fi machine that you loved so dearly, no longer obeys you; it is now possessed by the dark forces.

Yet, yet, yet… you just can’t give up so easily. In just nanoseconds, you have decided what to do next. You cut the internet cable. Freeze your bank account. Change all your account passwords. Wipe your computer’s hard drive. Check if the BIOS has been corrupted. Scan all other devices for malware. Lodge a report.

You might not be able to sleep for nights after this, but believe me this is _not_ the worst case of security breach. You were lucky because the hackers were lenient enough to tell you.

Imagine scenario # 2, a malicious software has hacked your computer but you don’t know it. Not just that all of your activity is being recorded, but they also have full control over your computer. Your social media, emails, microphone, everything. They have access to all your data, and can use their access to make you take specific actions. You continue using your computer without having the foggiest of notion about getting hacked, and yet anytime, the hackers can use your computer to do anything landing you in a serious trouble.

This, my dear friend, is the true horror story when you don’t even know that you are part of a horror story. But anyways, these were just imaginary stories which I just made up.

Except that these weren’t. I was definitely not writing that merely for the sake of it. I had an intention. I wanted to tell you something for which I was preparing you. I wanted to tell you that your mind has been hacked!

No, no, no, I am not talking about those microchips they inserted you via corona vaccines. They really don’t need that to control your mind. Then, what do I mean?

I mean this: You were born with a genetic code that no one else in the universe shares with you (except in the case of twins, but that also doesn’t matter) and then, if you are 20 years old, that means you have experienced 631,139,040 seconds of unique existence. Your sense of experiencing the world is extremely unique. Even if the universe happens to repeat a million of times, the probability of emergence of the unique person that you currently are is approximately equal to zero.

Yet, what is baffling is that contrary to these unique perceptions that you hold, you seem to be thinking just what everyone else is thinking. You represent what you have been told, so you can easily be replaced with someone else who has been told the same thing. Then, what is the point of your unique existence?

I just don’t get it. Something’s wrong here. The math doesn’t add up. How on Earth is it possible that every human is so unique, yet many of them hold the same surface-level thoughts. There certainly is something wrong here. And so, at exactly 9:29 pm, I state my conclusion:

Your mind has been hacked!

Somewhere inside you still lies the person who is uniquely you, but you have lost it. You have lost control of your mind and your thinking process. Because you have been indoctrinated the way you are supposed to think and the way you are supposed to behave.

I don’t want to put up any ideas for who is responsible for it as, actually, I literally have no idea who it is, and I certainly don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist. However, one thing that I am sure is that this hacking case is scenario # 2. You don’t know that your mind has been hacked, and your thoughts are being manipulated without you ever sensing it.

What my intention is by writing this piece is to convert this case 2 scenario to case 1 scenario. Now that you know that your mind has been hacked, you can take the necessary measures. Turn off the computer. Disconnect it from the internet. Thoroughly check the data if it has been infected. Look for the viruses, understand how they work. Reverse engineer to build a coping mechanism. Test it on small scale. Fail, adapt, repeat, until you have built the immunity to survive in this wild crazy world without giving up on the person that you actually are. Best of luck!