Ever since The Stage was released, I became interested in this topic. But the deeper my rabbit hole got, I began studying things outside the concepts of the album, like parapsychology, metaphysics, spirituality, Gnosticism, while also watching some interviews by this famous Croatian SF writer and conspiracy theorist Krešimir Mišak and the infamous David Icke, who I assume most people know by now.
My personal opinion is that we live in a system, specifically designed to enslave mankind. Whether it’s a simulation or something else, it’s actually irrelevant. Something happened to us to the point where we became slaves of our political systems, social systems, and now our technology systems. But this raises a question, who could have possibly done that? If animals aren’t able to create non-animal world, how were humans able to create a non-human world? Well, I don’t think it’s humans who did it… They have many names, Anunnaki, Archons, extra-terrestrials etc. But every ancient culture in every corner of the world, from Mayans to Sumerians, claims that sometime in our history, these beings visited Earth and gave us knowledge and technology. So whoever they may be, they very well knew the depth of human consciousness and have created this prison we’re in, call it a simulation, a matrix or whatever.