’Cause It’s the World I Know

Mike Michaelson : Christof, let me ask you, why do you think that Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of his world until now?

Christof :We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented. It’s as simple as that. ¹

The Truman Show

There is no secret stuff here.
It is all to be found if you have the eye to see it,
if you know where to look for it. ²

Porter Sargent
Getting US into war

The overview effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space.

It is the experience of seeing first-hand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, “hanging in the void”, shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere.

The effect may also invoke a sense of transcendence and connection with humanity as a whole, from which national borders appear petty. ³

Wikipedia contributors. “Overview effect.”

While almost everyone is taught that the Earth is a sphere with all of us somehow glued to it by gravity, the reality of our circumstance did not really begin to sink in until the famous frame-filling Apollo photograph of the whole Earth—the one taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts on the last journey of humans to the Moon. ⁵

Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot

I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life.
The world, the place you live in, is the sick place.

Seahaven is the way the world should be. ⁶

Christof
The Truman Show

Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were the Christians or Muslims of an earlier era.
What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority. ⁷

James H. Billington
Fire in the Minds of Men

James Hadley Billington (June 1, 1929 – November 20, 2018) was an American academic and author who taught history at Harvard and Princeton before serving for 42 years as CEO of four federal cultural institutions. He served as the 13th Librarian of Congress after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, and his appointment was approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate. He retired as Librarian on September 30, 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Billington

Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly successful popularizer of several natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

If he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there’s no way we could prevent him. ⁸

Christof
The Truman Show