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By now, you’ve probably heard enough debate about The Debate, so I’ll spotlight only a few points everybody else left out. You might know this, but Hollywood plays a larger role in the Kamala campaign than just stuffing the endorsements of celebs such as George Clooney, Taylor Swift, and John Legend into the corporate media tank. In fact, much bigger playas, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg, are producing and directing things backstage at Kamala Central, so what gets in the Kamala news plays as a Spielberg movie like The Color Purple. Just so you know. . . .

As a civilization and as individuals, we are currently living at or near the Goldilocks Threshold of stochastic resonance. Before the rise of global networks, the signals were too weak for most observers to detect and interpret them in liminal space. But we have now reached a kind of “sweet spot” for the mean observer. Signals that were invisibly weak or encrypted before are now ringing loud and clear for greater and greater masses of observers.

This is also the reason that so much of what we’re seeing now strikes us as hilariously absurd, and what is provoking such extreme and paranoid reactions from the signal designers and their paymasters. It’s the reaction of the Invisible Man, suddenly finding himself nude and fully visible in the public square. If only one person could see him, such an apparition might instead horrify, and cause the witness to question her own sanity. But when a large enough fraction of the population can see through an illusion, an avalanche of comedy may ensue. ...




... But resistance to the presence of hidden or double-meanings can come off as equally pathological, if not more. For example, If I were to explain the sexually explicit signal embedded in the Disney gift card image above to such an obstinate reciever, the reaction might not just be disbelief, but outrage. Their anger might be born of a narcissistic threat-response (e.g. this person is calling me blind, stupid, gullible, etc) or some ego-driven political projection (“That's just a Right Wing talking point!”), or just some meta-game they mistakenly think you’re playing (“You edited this picture to gaslight me!”). And if it’s not anger, it might be concern or fear, because they think they’re in the presence of a maniac.

The U.S. is controlled by ten cartels and collectively they are destroying our country and enslaving the population.

Big Pharma
(Pfizer, Merck, GSK, Moderna, Sanofi, J&J, AstraZeneca)
Controls the FDA, CDC, and NIH.

Big Tech/Big Data
(Alphabet/Google/YouTube, Meta/FB/IG/WhatsApp, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, Twitter, TikTok)

Big Finance
(Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, Berkshire Hathaway, Citigroup, Blackrock, Vanguard, the Federal Reserve)
Controls the U.S. Treasury.

Military contractors
(Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon Technologies, General Dynamics)
Control the Department of Defense.

Big Oil
(ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP)
Controls the Department of the Interior and DoD.

Big Food + Big Ag
(PepsiCo, Tyson, Nestle, Kraft, Cargill, ADM)
Control the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Big Chem
(Dow, ExxonMobil Chemical, Dupont, Eastman, Bayer, Syngenta)
Controls the Environmental Protection Agency.

Big Wireless
(Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, Apple, Samsung)
Controls the Federal Communications Commission.

Big Media
(AT&T, Comcast, Disney, Paramount, Netflix, Facebook, TikTok)
Control our attention.

Big Philanthropy
(Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Soros Foundation, Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation)

This is who rules over us.

They have interlocking boards of directors to coordinate their actions.

The U.S. government now exists to serve the interests of these cartels.

Any bureaucrat who challenges the power of these industries will be removed.

Any politician who challenges the power of these industries will be met with a well-funded opponent in the next election.

Those who work for these industries do better financially than those who do not.

Those who challenge these industries live on the margins and are under constant surveillance and threat. ...

Because of this impenetrability, we remain blind to the controlling threads of our world, which furl into the darkness above our heads. There are few people with the intellectual virility and analytical keenness to discuss this matter in any genuinely revelatory way, as opposed to playing at sophistry and subversion like a double agent.

One of the few with the moral-psychological insight that I’ve seen engage on this topic is Eric Weinstein of the ‘intellectual dark web’ fame, just days ago on the Chris Williamson podcast. Those wanting a rare glimpse behind the curtain should hearken to the segment below, which I’ve cut for length...

What he ominously alludes to is a series of secret foundational agreements undergirding our world, whose gossamer fragility belies their expansiveness such that they require an iron-clad enforcement mechanism to prevent any presumptuous young parvenus from wittingly or unwittingly resetting them. In this case, as Eric points out, that upstart happens to be Trump. What he inadvertently reveals extends much deeper than that, and lifts the veil on the centuries’ old esoteric hierarchy over our lives.

There are a series of old agreements, he intimates, which in some cases can be reduced to mere ‘handshakes’ between no-longer-extant parties, that underpin the stability of world markets and act as levees against the breakout of global war—or so goes the framing. Many of these explicit and implicit compacts were made in the post-war era and can only endure if they are not repeatedly challenged by some upstart with ‘fresh ideas’ every four years. You see, the caprice of the masses cannot be allowed to put at risk the foundational structures of society; as such their upkeep requires a kind of ‘silent authority’ to maintain the world’s institutional stability in order to ‘keep us all safe’.

But therein lies the crux of this invisible tyranny: it is reconciled with the characterization of being some great Katechonic force, keeping the ever-leering collapse of civilization at bay for our sakes. Closer examination, however, reveals it to be nothing more than the Great Lie of the generational elite for the continuity of their power.