Bearing witness as winter begins #solstice #anagram

There are unexploded Unknown Unknowns waiting to derail our most rigorous research & promising praxis, and we will not be able to sweep them away with Marxist tools. There’s value in articulating an ideologically-correct parapolitics but it won’t (can’t!) organize the revolution.

Do we understand the role of “AI”/LLMs in “how the ruling class and parastatal formations work to maintain the capitalist status quo”? We lament threats to personal psychology & information ecology, but how do THEY use it? How long have they used it before it trickled down to us?

We’re currently far from posing a real threat to TPTB, but In Case Of Emergency they will not hesitate to deploy an outrageous hoax on the scale of ‘Alien Arrival’. Mapped networks & plausible motives won’t help us 1/10th as much as Understanding the Media that prop up the hoax.

Meanwhile most Marxists and far too many left-leaning parapoliticos were fully willing to accept the Emergency premise and only quibble about the details of the Reset. I shudder to think what would ensue if “Aliens” or “AGI” arrive and present themselves as ‘bringing communism’!

It sucked that the effective opposition to that Putsch was led by rightists who thought they were battling “communism”! That extreme ignorance made them easy to seduce w controlled opposition, but didn’t prevent them from saying a loud & much-needed “NO!” https://t.co/4wDcy7Gn2P

It’s all well & good to trace the elite-network planning that powered the globally-coordinated Covid Putsch, but selling the premise of an Emergency Pandemic (to useful idiot science & health workers as well as to the public) depended on the (alleged) genetic surveillance of PCR.

Not that there’s anything wrong with the Marxist mission wrt ‘opposition research’, and it certainly is annoying when ignorant marxoids dismiss parapolitical research as mere details of “class struggle” — but this ‘medium is the message’ aspect of Marx might be the most valuable!

WE THE PEOPLE are the adversary, and MindWar involves the creation & maintenance of a rich variety of seemingly-unapproved ‘alternative’ narratives. Ideological commitments simplify (if not automate) the deployment of synthetic ‘social mortar’ for controllable ‘opposition’ cults.

We tend to take spectacles at face value and only argue over ‘whodunit & why?’ within the framework of what may be a false premise. What is PROBABLY a false premise, imo, regardless of the spectacle (it’s nice to see folks realizing the value of an ‘Autohoax’ attitude to images).

The ‘Knew That Award’ remains a dangerous lure both for ‘revelations’ and for ‘I knew that there would be no real consequences to these revelations’. But what if we are presented with the appearance of ‘real consequences’? How prepared are we to be skeptical of such a spectacle?

This assumption is completely unfounded. One of their greatest weapons is our credulous acceptance of ‘declassified documents’ as genuine. Parapolitical heads know that feeding fake documents to adversaries is older than Angleton, but it’s too tempting to take them at face value.

The recent fiasco of “redacted” files that anyone can unredact; whether they’re stupid all the way down or the redactions were sabotaged by some unknown hero clerk, 99+% confidently assume that this situation was not what “they” at the top wanted, bc lazy psychological profiling.

[snip pretense of a comprehensive catalogue] we are burdened with MANY ineradicable tendencies which “they” know better than we do, especially the tendency to think we’re smarter than them & ‘see through’ their shenanigans. And they work overtime to service our self-satisfaction.

We are burdened with an ineradicable tendency to pollute our rigorous research into current fuckeries with whimsical ‘psychological profiling’ of actors both seen and unseen. And these our actors are only too happy to play into our biases & manipulate our ideological commitments.

We are burdened with an ineradicable tendency to automate our understanding, both bc it is often justified & bc it often SEEMS justified. That subtle difference is where the crowd-management experts drive in their daily wedges, & our ideological commitments make that task easier.

OTOH, it’s true that parapolitics inherently ‘leans left’ and/or is most at home in a ‘Marxist’/‘revolutionary’ context. OTOH, making this truth more explicit is unlikely to lead to major breakthroughs, either in understanding or in communicating crucial facts to a mass audience.

The Ghost Of Christmas Presents

https://t.co/9nD9lVtdMD

Glenn Gould plays Bach on Christmas!

The first chapter of Infinite Jest is a great portrayal of cancellation/struggle session: smart sensitive repressed striver white boy (“Hal”—as in the supercomputer in 2001 & the prince in the Henriad) feels as tho he’s communicating clearly to smug midwit college admissions