Anyone else feel like we’re all living in ‘The Truman Show’?
Every day there is a new horror thrown upon us as a society and as each new day passes, I have to ask: Are we all living in our version of The Truman Show? Is that what is happening?
From roughly 2016 on, I have felt like our reality cannot really be happening. Each new day brings a horror like no other and we just rinse, wash, repeat every single day. Now, in 2025, I have come to a conclusion I think we can all agree on: Maybe we’re being watched by people on television and they’re laughing at our pain. Right? That makes more sense than literally anything happening.
The idea, of course, comes from the 1998 film The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir starring Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, a man who has spent his entire life on camera. He doesn’t know that he is part of a show or that his life is fake and planned for the entertainment of others and when he finally figures it out, he leaves this protected world he’s been in his entire life and heads into the real world.
Right now, it feels like we’re all kind of living through that because that’s the only way to explain some of the more outlandish things that have happened. Should we all start saying “Good morning, and in case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!”?
Part of this thinking comes from the need to try and find an explanation for anything happening. And this is coming from a girl who was in middle school and high school during the George W. Bush era. Never forget the shoe getting thrown. But right now, everything feels so overwhelming that there has to be some explanation for what is happening, right?
So here is my pitch: We’re all just on a television series and someone out there is getting some sick satisfaction of watching us suffer.
(featured image: Paramount Pictures)
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