This 6-pillar curriculum teaches the basic literacy we need to be personally and financially successful and to do so in a manner in which together we evolve a culture that supports the emergence of an advanced human civilization.
“We [Europeans] have succeeded in dissolving all values … and only by having the courage to jump into this nothingness can we reawaken our own innermost creative forces and build … a new world of values.”
The 1984 German fantasy movie The NeverEnding Story, rated by many a classic of children’s cinema, is a story with multiple layers, but at its most basic, it’s an old-fashioned tale of good versus evil, where evil takes the form of “the Nothing.”
At the time, The NeverEnding Story was the most expensive film ever made by the German film industry, with almost twice the budget of director Wolfgang Petersen’s prior film, Das Boot. Story became a box office hit and continues to be shared by subsequent generations of parents with their children. (Disappointingly, Petersen went on to make the dreadful movie Outbreak, a piece of CDC propaganda used to condition the public for scary “viruses” like Ebola and Covid.)
In the movie, the imaginary world of Fantasia is under attack by the Nothing, resulting in the creepy situation summarized by one reviewer as follows:
“[Fantasia is] in a terrible, terrible state: all four corners of the land have … begun degrading into absolutely nothing. Not destroyed wastelands, not empty space: literally Nothing…. A free-standing Nothing that comes along and acts as pure absence, not a force of destruction but a force of negation.”
The story has not lost its applicability in the decades since author Michael Ende wrote the 1979 book that became the movie’s source material. (Unfortunately, Ende apparently hated the film and had his name removed from the project.) When the young hero asks the wolf-like creature named Gmork—sent by the Nothing to hunt him down—why Fantasia is dying, the wolf answers, “Because people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams, so the Nothing grows stronger.” Commenting on that scene, an adult who watched the movie “so many times as a kid” that she wore out the videotape, says, “Here is the scariest movie monster I had ever seen, a ruthless, brutal, undeterred threat, and he is scared of something else, something shapeless and intangible.”
One of the lines that perhaps speaks even more to our current situation—where the Nothing has taken the shape of a control grid—is uttered by the wolf in that same scene: “People who have no hope are easy to control, and whoever has the control has the power.” This is why, at Solari, we constantly quote Jon Rappoport: “hopelessness is an op.” If you want a reminder of why it’s important not to fall for the op, watching (or rewatching) The NeverEnding Story might do the trick.
