Fiction Warned Us First: A look at what's next for From the Tomb

Tonight, From the Tomb with Cadoom opens a different kind of tomb…

What if the movies, music, television, and media we consumed for decades weren’t just entertainment… but warnings?

In this final audio-only episode before the launch of Phase II and the Triangle Files Finale, Cadoom dives deep into the unsettling patterns connecting fiction to reality. From predictive satire and digital addiction to celebrity symbolism, artificial intelligence, social engineering, algorithm culture, and the transformation of humanity into content, this episode explores the terrifying possibility that society ignored the warnings hidden in plain sight.

Featuring discussions surrounding:

• predictive media and satire
• society becoming entertainment
• The Simpsons predictions
• The Matrix and digital dependency
• Jurassic Park and scientific arrogance
• Gamer and performance culture
• music industry symbolism
• social media manipulation
• attention span collapse
• AI and synthetic reality
• modern outrage culture
• parasocial relationships
• the psychology of repeated imagery and symbolism

This is not just another conspiracy episode.

This is the bridge between the mysteries of the past… and the reflection of what society is becoming.

Next week, The Triangle Files return one final time.

But tonight…

You taste what comes after.

Cadoom is here.

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Transcript

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How many times? How many times does fiction have to predict reality before we stop calling it coincidence? Seriously, think about it. Movies warned us about artificial intelligence. Television warns us about corporate control. Music warns us about identity manipulation. Games warn us about turning human behavior into entertainment. Yet somehow, every single time, humanity laughed at the warning and sprinted directly towards it anyway. The weirdest part? The people who noticed the patterns first usually got labeled insane, conspiracy theorists, paranoid. Crazy. But now we live in a world where satire feels normal. Algorithms control attention. People live online more than reality. Artificial intelligence creates art. People willingly document every second of their lives. And nobody even questions how weird it is anymore. Tonight we aren't opening a tomb filled with disappearances or cryptids or unsolved mysteries. Tonight we open a tomb of ourselves. It's Wednesday night, so welcome to the tomb. This is From the Tomb with Kadum. I am Kadum. Lucas warned you about me. Now it's time to see why. Let's get into it. The first most obvious example of what I'm talking about today is everybody's favorite show. The Simpsons. Now personally, I don't think The Simpsons are psychic. I don't think they have a time machine. I think that satire writers have a different level of understanding of human behavior. And I think I have that ability a little bit too, and that's why I can do what I'm doing now in showing people the truth about what we're doing to ourselves. Back in the nineties, The Simpsons was viewed as an exaggerated satire. It mocked politics, corporate greed, consumer culture, media obsession, and celebrity worship. They were part of the cable television boom. The twenty-four hour news cycle beginning, advertising becoming more targeted and aggressive towards certain people, let alone the explosions of celebrity culture and mass consumerism. But the thing about satire is satire only works if there's truth hidden inside the joke. One thing I'm assuming you all expect me to talk about that I'm not even going to touch is the Trump thing. I follow politics to an extent, just enough to know that I don't really care. I'm gonna pick whoever leaves me the hell alone the most. That's what my political take is. That's all you need to know about my politics. That's all anybody needs to know about anybody's politics. What does it matter? As long as we're not being bothered and we can still do what we want to do, what does it all matter? But you take Trump being voted president on the Simpsons, and then it happens in real life. Even though the Simpsons showed us what was gonna happen when it happened in real life. And we went out and did it anyway. No matter how absurd idea sounded back then, that was the whole joke. And eventually, we voted him in anyway. And look where we are now as a society, how we feel about each other, how divided we are, and look at modern politics feeling like reality TV. It doesn't seem like anybody's out there fighting for us anymore. We're just seeing who can make the biggest name for themselves. Everything is clips. Politics functions like entertainment, everything is outrage, everything is sound bites, everything is division. That's why I don't talk about it. Then reality television exploded. Survivor, Jersey Shore, TMZ, the tabloids. Look at how close to home we took celebrity gossip culture and sensationalized media, and now people look at it almost as a religion. If it doesn't come from certain media sources, they won't believe it, but they refuse to understand that the bias that these media sources put on everything hides the full truth from us all. People stopped caring whether something was intelligent, and they started caring whether it was dramatic. And slowly satire has stopped looking exaggerated, and now today we can look into politics on social media, algorithm outrage, rage engagement, meme culture, and internet attention spans. We live in a world where people argue with strangers online for entertainment. The news channels profit from the anger, not the knowledge, and nobody can tell between satire and reality anymore. The scary part isn't that the Simpsons predicted things. The scary part is that society became the joke. Now let's talk about humanity's favorite hobby ignoring warnings because something sounds cool. Darwinism at its best. Jurassic Park is remembered as a dinosaur movie. But it's really a story about arrogance. The movies looked at advancing science without wisdom. At letting greed override caution when we were investigating and messing with things that we didn't truly understand. It was a warning about corporations controlling dangerous technologies and about humans playing God. The movie literally tells us the problem. You're the quote from the movie. Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. One line from a movie that now applies to almost everything today. Look at the nineties, the cloning debates, the biotech expansion. Genetics becoming mainstream discussion. Then Dolly the Sheep gets cloned. And humanity's response? Awesome. What else can we do? But what about the ethics? How far can we push the limits? When do things stop becoming helpful and start becoming predatory? Why do we have to obsess with the progress? Why can't we be happy with one result? Why do we have to push it so far? Like moving into the 2000s and 2010s with all the stem cell controversy and CRISPR and synthetic biology, gene editing, AI assisted medicine. Growing up I remember a time where none of this would have been accepted. None of this would have even been talked about publicly. Yeah, some of us can see the benefits, and some of us could stop at those benefits. But most people most people just want more. They don't know when to stop. And now people are discussing and attempting to bring things back to life that we shouldn't. Artificial biology. We are actually attempting to bring back woolly mammoths and saber toothed tigers in the real world. In the United States even. And we're still making Jurassic Park movies at the same time. What is wrong with the world we live in? How can we show how the things we are trying to do are gonna fail at the same time we're trying to do them? And the world still doesn't see it. That's where I come in. That's why I'm here. Somebody has to open this reflection on ourselves before we destroy ourselves. So at what point does curiosity become arrogance? Now this is where things might start getting a little uncomfortable. But this is also one of the first patterns me and Lucas connected on our own with the media and pop culture. People think the Matrix was about robots. I don't. The Matrix was about comfort and making decisions that can affect you in too many ways that are completely understandable. In the nineties, the internet started becoming mainstream after it was created. Forums and chatrooms started developing where kids anyone even this is back when the internet was a wild west, anybody could access it. Yes, technically we still needed our parents' permission. But parenting back then wasn't what it is today. We didn't have supervision like that. We didn't need it. Because if something happened to us, we just rubbed some dirt on it and moved on. So once people started escaping reality digitally for the first time, people could be whoever they wanted online, and that led us to the early social medias, MySpace, early Facebook, online validation, curated identities. People stopped presenting who they were and started presenting who they wanted people to think they were. And it only gets worse because then we'd come into the smartphone era. Notifications twenty-four hours a day. Dopamine loops that we feel we need these phones and devices and apps for the feeling of having to be permanently connected to everything at all times through these cell phones. And ninety percent of society never having or choosing to have mental silence anymore. Suddenly, humanity was permanently connected to stimulation with smartphones. People stopped sitting with their thoughts. People stopped working through their problems. Silence disappeared because we could always be busy and distracted instead. The battery in the matrix, it wasn't electricity, it was attention that brings us to today doom scrolling, parasocial relationships, influencer culture, AI companionship, virtual reality worlds, and short form addiction. Now they eat while they scroll. They sleep while they scroll. They watch TV while they scroll. We've all known somebody or someone close that has lost somebody to people driving while they scroll. We became terrified of being disconnected, and now we have no attention span. Most people can't pay attention for more than a couple minutes because that's all the algorithm's like. Most people can't even talk to other people in person, let alone know how to act or carry out business because they're too wrapped up in their phones and they think that it means they don't have to know how to be a person, how to carry themselves respectfully, how to have respect in the first place, but we don't fix it. We just make the technology more and more and more so we can just be that much more addicted. Another personal favorite of mine. A movie people thought was ridiculous when it was released. Gamer, livestream culture, monetized personalities, rage bait, public, humiliation, cloud addiction. Now, people literally structure their lives around engagement fake drama prank culture outrage content streamers farming reactions Swatting Essentially People pulling pranks on each other live that can cause harm without thinking. People doing anything for the views now clearly I'm not immune either. Obviously I'm here I'm doing things my way. I'm using some of these things I'm complaining about and talking about. But at what point do we stop living life and start performing it? At what point did I have to say no, they need the help? The only way I can get to them is to use the things I've never wanted to accept to get them to see how harmful these things really are instead. Don't get me wrong, these things can be helpful. But as with everything in life, things need to be done with moderation, and we're going too far. Now this is the part where people really get uncomfortable with music. And let me make something very very clear about this first. I'm not saying every symbol means some giant conspiracy. I am saying that patterns matter. Let's talk about MTV. Music was no longer sound. It was visual. Celebrities could engineer their image however they wanted people to see them, and aesthetics replaced authenticity. The moment MTV exploded, music wasn't about sound anymore. Not only anyway. So let's talk about some of the symbols we see in music that form these patterns. About checkerboards. The duality, the black and white morality, the illusion of choice. Everything always is a black and white decision in most people's mind. Nobody talks about the gray areas. The areas like the one I'm in right now where I have to make a choice to ride the fence. To use the things I never want to do except to get you all to see how far it can go if we don't stop now. The masks, the hidden identities, the personas. Who knows? That might be part of my stuff too. We've gotta protect ourselves at times. But in the music industry, they're not always protecting themselves for the right reasons. And then we have the diamonds and the pyramids. Very, very, very repetitive in celebrity branding is geometric symbolism. Now, I'm not saying there are hidden societies. And I'm not saying there are hidden societies that control the music industry. Maybe it is psychological. Maybe it is aesthetic. Maybe it's meaningless. But if it's meaningless, why does the same imagery keep repeating? At some point the musician stopped being the art and became the algorithm. And maybe that's the real pattern here. The disconnection of society, the digital exhaustion, the constant stimulation. None of us care about helping each other anymore. None of us truly care about each other at all anymore. You can find a select few that you can actually build a solid group of people with. But I know firsthand how hard that is to do. But why? Is it the collapsing attention spans? Is it division being profitable? Outrage being profitable? People are exhausted. Nobody trusts anything. Reality feels artificial. I know firsthand you can't try and help people at an individual level anymore. We don't need to get in any details because I don't need that kind of drama back in my life at all. But it's really, really hard to trust people these days. And I think in a way we all know that. And we've all experienced that. But I don't think we're doomed. Not yet. Just kadoomed, if you will. Awareness matters. Critical thinking matters. Questioning things matters. Batum isn't pouring mystery anymore. It's pouring reflection. And maybe that does make me a hypocrite. Because I'm building and utilizing the same systems I'm gonna be criticizing for the foreseeable future. But how do you expose the machine without stepping inside it first? How do you wake people up? Without using the very thing that's keeping them asleep. Because if we keep going down this path, eventually we don't recover society. We lose ourselves. And when that happens, the only thing left to ask is will the tomb remember? So that does it for this week's From the Tomb with Kadoom. Next week we finish off our Triangle Files series with our finale episode. Same time, same place. Just with a YouTube video this time. I am Kadoom. This was From the Tomb with Kadoom. Just remember, keep it twisted and escape your tomb until we break mine open again next week. Have a good night.