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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/characters-and-stories-tuesday-december

Narrative is story.

Helpfully, everything is a story: Your job is a story. Your family, well, that’s a real story. Your friends, your religion, your political party, your house, your car, your gym membership, your hatred of eggnog and your wife’s fear of hairy spiders — all stories. To have any meaning at all, every conceivable notion must be suspended on an existing story the way a dust mote clings to a spiderweb.

Our minds process stories every conscious moment. People even dream in stories.

Unsurprisingly therefore, the wicked security state psychologists who design manipulative memes and mind control tools start with a story. Story is both their toolbox and their most useful tool. Consider a conflict happening in some far-off country, and suppose our current political leadership wants us to choose their preferred side. The mind controllers first need a good story.

If Narrative is story, then Story is characters in conflict.

The most effective characters are colorful ones engaged in an unambiguously-good versus perfectly-evil conflict. Think cerebral vaxxers versus Cave Man anti-vaxxers, trans people yearning to be free versus theocratic Christians, suppressed black folks versus systemic racists, and old-fashioned Republicans versus open-minded democrats.

The best conflicts are those for high stakes: such as if Putin isn’t soundly beaten in Ukraine, then he will attack Poland and the rest of the World. So if you load a Ukrainian flag in your social media bio picture you are helping save the World.

Since “Narrative” is the security state’s main manipulative tool, the deep state has a long-standing love affair with Hollywood. It’s also why spooks constantly use celebrities, who are handy, compelling, pre-mixed characters right on the shelf: in other words, celebrities are an easy way to rapidly publish a new Narrative and demonstrate its core conflict for the audience (us). ...

So: Vladimir Putin as the cold, clean-shaven, calculating, evil dictator who always wears a dark blue business suit. Think of a Russian version of Mr. Smithers from The Simpsons. On the other hand, cast Vladimir Zelensky as the nerdy, short-bearded, naive underdog, a man of the people, a French-resistance type who always wears a military-green t-shirt. No beréts though; too metro. ...

Effective narrative manipulation avoids ambiguity. Moral ambiguity is anathema to a useful capital-n Narrative. In our running example, it’s not good for the two countries to share blame for the conflict. Whose fault it is mustn’t even be arguable. The two sides must be black and white. One country must be clearly in the wrong, and the other country one hundred percent justified. Thus, anti-vaxxers cannot be permitted to have any kind of a point, however minor, because it would muddle the Narrative.

If there’s any wiggle room for reasonable argument about a conflict’s morality (who should “win”), then the Narrative crumbles as any kind of useful mind-control tool.

In fact, they can unravel a Narrative when it is no longer useful just by introducing a little moral ambiguity. For example, two days ago corporate media reported the possibility of compromise in the Ukraine Proxy War — maybe giving Russia a little land could be a good thing — and it’s a good sign the security state is winding up that tired old Narrative:

A related sign that the Proxy War in Ukraine might be ending is they’re now treating Putin as a rational leader with whom a ceasefire could possibly be brokered. Putin used to be a demonic instrument of pure evil who could never ever be trusted, but must be removed.

For the spook shrinks, the characters in an effective Narrative must be drawn as cartoons, not as real people. Real people are too messy and introduce moral ambiguity. There must be nothing good whatsoever about Putin (he is not worried about U.S. biolabs!) and nothing bad at all about Zelensky (he is not enriching himself with aid money!).

https://twitter.com/JoshWhoX/status/1739069087332868307

Nein Danke, Frau Genocide!



https://twitter.com/ClareDalyMEP/status/1738968791269134498

https://sukwan.substack.com/p/midweek-memes-ac4

I keep hearing that the "string pullers", have plans in the works for us useless eaters in 2024 right before the election. "Kill-ware", that will crash cars into poling stations, hack traffic lights to kill people, some banking crisis internet hack that will be so devastating we'll all be begging for internet ids, "for our protection", and crap like that. (what does that cunt Nikki Haley, er, I mean Nimrata Randhawa know?)

The internet will become regulated and won't be anything like it is now after that. Censored, managed by the government. And yeah, CDBCs, but really if they have all of that they really don't need CBDCs to control us.

Whitney Webb discusses some of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYyTyXpdQRI (she's a good investigative reporter hiding out in Chile)

Apparently the liberal corporate media was discussing it recently and freaked a bunch of people out.

https://twitter.com/jakeshieldsajj/status/1740025932893634769

https://twitter.com/nataliegwinters/status/1740029519334093199

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1740174817976778863

Actually the secret ingredient is treason.

So that guy in Argentina was legit. Cut a shit-ton out of the government so far, causing communist protests. Also, pulled Argentina out of BRICS..

I don't see why he pulled out of BRICS. It makes him seem like a puppet of the Federal Reserve.

No one should be using dollars at all, ever, because they are counterfeit money, the "value" of which depends solely on armed men who demand that you pay taxes in dollars.

We should all use silver by weight with each other instead. Promises of silver are also OK, as long as appropriately marked down for default risk.

Washington said never to sign these kinds of treaties. Less of any government is always good. Would be the same as us pulling out of NATO. BRICS nations still use central banks, and are still pushing digital currency.

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1743272220892504087

They cancelled WEF, Davos, last year because of security concerns.

Participants know that they will become a known entity. We will see who shows up this year, if it goes on as scheduled.