Seers and Visionaries

WORDS: LAURA JONES, COLLATED BY CHATGPT (OPEN AI)
IMAGE: CREATIVE COMMONS

You can publish your own special brand of bias or fakery in a click, influencing perceptions and asking crowds to follow (it’s never a crowd, just one lonely soul at a time clicking randomly), while you applaud rising popularity. It can be quite the ego trip. We understand fakery because we know how to manufacture it. Fake news has helped erode trust and we have an eye out for false information, coupled with a sense of disbelief (hopefully), created to distance ourselves from the ugly and the ridiculous.

Now I’m asking you to suspend disbelief, and disengage from the Hollywood drivel (think horror, thrillers, and gory titillation) that preys on your adrenals. Mark absent everything Netflix, TikTok and YouTube spew, just for a moment. The events that Nicolaas van Rensburg and Baba Vanga have predicted, have all come to pass – the past defending the accuracy of their future visions. Neither had anything to gain from their abilities. Both were born long before the noise of the digital age. Nicolaas ‘Siener’(seer) Pieter Johannes Janse van Rensburg, was born in Wolmaransstad in 1864 and died in Ottosdal in 1926. Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova (Baba Vanga for short), was born in North Macedonia in 1911 and died in Bulgaria in 1996 …

continued in the February – March edition of The Big Issue.

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