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3 min read THE GREY ZONE

If it's not filmed, it didn't happen (the observer effect of our time)

When I was a journalist, I noticed something strange.

I was in places where every action could mean life or death - yet what people feared most was being unseen. The cameras had their role to play in that mess.

Without cameras, there would be "less" point in being here.

And suddenly, I saw it: reality wasn't just lived, it was performed.

Back then, I didn't have the framework to name what I was seeing. Today I do.

I call it the observer effect - and it is a funding principle of my Quantum Framework: the idea that the mere act of observing changes the phenomenon itself.

Once you understand this, you realise that we do not live events, we live recordings.


If it wasn't filmed, it didn't happen.

And that's not me saying that.

In the "chart" of a radical group I've been monitoring, it's written, black on white. They only have 10 rules guiding their actions. And number 8 is "Record":