The Puppet Paradigm

Everything Changes Everything

I’ve been thinking about puppets.
I know.
But hear me out.

I hear people say
It doesn’t matter.
They’re both just puppets.
Someone else is pulling the strings.
Is this true?
Maybe.
Is that someone
An organized force
Or a shadowy whisper filled dimension?
Is there maybe more than one larger force?
Maybe.

So many questions.
And I’m a recovering know it all.
So I do try to love the question.

But here’s something I know for sure.
Viscerally.
Not a thought, not an opinion.
The puppet master may pull the strings
But the puppet affects the puppet master.

I experienced this in a literal way
In my You… But Funnier Masterclass.
I had a young talented, inspired ventriloquist in the group.
In the first two sessions
They made progress, but were struggling with one puppet.
I’d seen some reels they’d done with a different one.
And encouraged them to bring in
And work on stage with
This alternate puppet.
They did.
And everything shifted.
Almost miraculously.
The puppet changed the puppet master.
Right in front of our eyes.

Quantum physics also teaches us that
The observer changes the observed.
It’s an infinity loop of energetic exchange.
You reading this changes me.

So if believing that
They are puppets
Is keeping you from engaging
Please don’t let it.

And closer to home
If the state of our industry
Our industries - film books/tv etc
Feels like it controls you
If the way things are
Makes you feel like you are a puppet of the system
Be a different puppet.
It will change the puppet master.

Everything changes
And more so
Everything changes everything.
This knowledge is the true freedom.

Infinitely Yours,
Beth