Regarding Q's 1/4 post:
What makes a movie GOOD?
GREAT actors?
George Carlin used to say "I'm here for the show". And what a show this is! What's unfolding is like the best of Tom Clancy and Neil Stephenson x 10.
Which is to say it feels scripted. Some have postulated that we are living in a computer simulation. Sometimes I feel like a puppet on a string, driven by external forces.
I hope that much is revealed about conscienseness, and our true nature and origins.
10 minute interview of George Carlin by Dennis Miller:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQH_x6_vsPU