In Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow, a lieutenant in World War II who’s lost in a synchronistic labyrinth of conspiracies and the occult has his reality shattered when he realizes he’s been the subject of mind control experiments ever since he was a child. The main character is compared to The Fool archetype, the embodiment of divine madness, and his name, Tyrone Slothrop, can be rearranged into Sloth Entropy, which seems to be a reference to chaos theory and the eventual entropic death of the universe. By the end of the novel, after the author makes allusions to Apollo and biblical sacrifice, a religious hymn is sung as a rocket with a mysterious “black device” attached to it freezes in time right before it descends over a movie theatre where the film projector is breaking down, causing the narrative of the novel itself to break down as well. It seems something similar is happening in the world today. Religious zealots are full of apocalyptic fervor as cows are sacrificed and rockets are launched at the X Eclipse, time is moving differently, movies like 3 Body Problem are imitating life, and mainstream news narratives are starting to unravel as our ideas about objective reality are shattered. Maybe there’s even a mysterious “black device” involved, or CERN’s NeXT computer. And it’s all happening on April Fools’ Day. Interestingly, the book’s cover looks like those “mysterious spirals” that are supposedly created by rockets and CERN, and its title seems to be a reference to rainbow gravity, or the way light speed refracts into different wavelengths as it’s bent around a black hole, like it does through a prism. Scientists at CERN claimed they finally found rainbow gravity back in April of 2015, but accidentally created a new “rainbow universe” in the process. This ended up being an April Fools’ Day prank. But because of the current conspiracy theories involving the X Eclipse and the particle collider, which is supposedly using a black hole to summon Apollyon, or Aiwass, Crowley’s personification of The Fool, it still seems relevant. It appears as if we really are in a new universe, one where everything is absurd and more fictional than real. However, fiction creates reality, at least according to chaos magicians like Crowley. He said art is high magic, a system of holy hieroglyph. Pynchon’s novel also references the Wizard of Oz when it quotes Dorothy saying “Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore...” Well, it seems we aren’t either. We’ve gone Somewhere Over the Rainbow and landed on the Dark Side of the Moon, where Toto pulls the curtain back, and the elite’s sorcery is revealed to be nothing more than an April Fools’ Day prank. To keep us in a hypnotic trance, reality has become more like a reality television show. But the tape is about to run out. Frank Zappa seemed to hint at this moment in history when he said, “At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” When the masses see this brick wall and realize they’ve been fooled, will they experience an ironic kind of divine madness? In Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun music video, we see something like this happen. As a black hole opens up in the sky, religious zealots proclaiming the apocalypse are sucked up into the clouds and devoured during a dark Rapture event. And while they celebrate and await this false Rapture, their expressions begin to twist into demonic smiley faces. Interestingly, researchers recently documented a rare disorder that causes people’s faces to appear distorted and demonic.