…to be hummed to the Elvis Costello tune…
Russia russia russia putin russia russia etc, baddies du jour, endless media hype, constant barrage of programming for the hive mind.
There are two problems with this, and they are related, and to truly understand them you had to be around in the earlyish days of the “world wide web” when the “all your base” meme exploded.
Problem 1 is nobody could have predicted its runaway viral success.
Problem 2 is nobody could replicate it on demand.
These are in reality vast civilization shaking problems because top down social programming is one of the very few tools left in an otherwise utterly empty toolbox of mass control, it has spread to everything, to the extent that you have to sit down and think very hard to come up with things that may concern the man in the street that are not the subject of social programming, and if you do that, 99% of your hard thought ideas are trivially shot down in flames by anyone else in the group playing devil’s advocate…. January sales, house prices, diesel used cars, video games, pop music, beverages, Syria, you name it, it’s easy to shoot it all down as soon as someone plays devil’s advocate and starts to conjure examples of why it is not free from top down social programming.
As any reader of zero hedge will know, many stock prices are fucking insane, to the point where no mere human actor would play along with the herd, the more the prices rise into the stratosphere, the more humans would come out of the woodwork to short it… the fact that that has no happened and the only way up is just proof positive that in volume terms there are no more human bulls or bears, and it is trivial to make algorithms bullish on demand, in groupthink there are no dissenters, because dissenters are punished for being dissenters, loooong before there is any chance for mere circumstance to come along and either reward or punish them.
Crypto is great, until central banks get in on the act, then crypto is evil, and we are back to the gun analogy, the gun is good, the gun is evil, and nobody talks the truth, it is a tool, and as such inherently incapable of being either good or evil by itself.
A gun in the hands of a soldier on foreign soil may well be an instrument of evil, but the gun itself is still just a tool, but sufficient social programming can change the public perceptions.
50 years ago it would have been literally unthinkable and laughable to suggest that seat belts in cars would be mandatory front and rear seats, that crash helmets would be mandatory on motorcycles, that “bunch of bananas” helmets and lights and hi-vis vests would be mandatory on pushbikes, or that folding pocket knives would be illegal.
Yet today all but one have come to pass, and the final one comes into law here in the UK on January 1st 2018, a scant 4 days away.
Enough inviolable articles of the US Constitution have been voided or simply ignored that it is no longer ludicrous or laughable or infeasible to suggest that the right to bear arms, already severely curtailed compared to the constitutional text, can go away completely.
We already destroyed the nuclear family unit with the white man as breadwinner and head of the household, think on that, one of the most fundamental principles of civilization wiped out in 50 years, so if that can be erased, *anything* can be erased.
It doesn’t matter whether fuckbook was a private project to make money or a CIA tool, the reality is that today it is one of the 900lb gorillas in the room, and even if you are an individual like me who has NEVER had a fuckbook account and never will, that does not protect me one iota from its influence on me indirectly via influence of those around me.
The fact that those at the top of the pyramid are not ignoring fuckbook and their ilk is also neither here nor there, sure, there is a causal link between the hands on the controls, the controls and what they connect to, and what the controls connect to and the real world, where we can say that social media is the controls, you buy a new car you do not get to decide the mapping between throttle position and injector delivery volume map, you do not get to decide overall transmission ratio, you do not get to decide standard wheel / tyre circumference, you do not get to decide standard braking systems or efficiencies or potentials.
But the fact is that no matter how good and complex this shit gets, nothing changes the actual adhesion between the tyres on my car right now and the road surfaces I drive on right now at an ambient around freezing.
I can go out in my old diesel 2wd shed when everyone else is stuck in the 4×4 low profile tyred 400 bhp level 2/3 autonomous cyber bubble, I can drop all 4 tyres to 5 psi and drive at up to 20 mph anywhere and have traction and control, all I have to watch out for is other cunts who aren’t stuck yet sliding into me… I don’t need winter tyres, snowchains, traction control, all wheel drive or any other shit.
What I need is a car that actually does NOT have all that fuckbook style control interface, what I need is what I have, an old style control cable with one end attached to the gas pedal and the other end attached to the rack on the injection pump.
My mobility however falls apart when every other cunt crashes and blocks the road, I still have an ordinary old auto, I do not have a tank and the legal ability to just drive over other assholes with impunity and crush them to death.
And this gives us a nice analogy to the individualist lifestyle in an environment where social control from the top down is the menu du jour every fucking day, the social control systems do not make any difference at all where the rubber meets the road, no matter how much they pretend that this is so.
So on the one hand the disconnect between reality and socially programmed groupthink is what makes socially programmed groupthink so attractive, after all, it is all Putin’s fault that my local supermarket has put the prices up 10% and has no bread left anyway, but the other side of that blade is that very disconnect between reality and groupthink, you cannot debunk and defuse the groupthink with mere facts any longer…
The more fertile and productive the ground for top down approved groupthink, the more fertile the ground for the unexpected event, for the all your base meme, the war of the worlds radio broadcast and people going out and shooting water towers (that have stood there for 20 years) thinking they are suddenly martian spaceships ain’t nothing to what could happen now.
Yeah man, DC is gone, it’s just mushroom clouds, and the russkie nazis are landing everywhere, and then verizon or someone with a backhoe fucks up and the net goes down…. ok, game over man, let’s go grab something sharp and a zippo and something that burns and get freaky, got some scores to settle… meanwhile the epic PS5 / Fallout 5 launch advert rolls along unwatched by anyone but the techs.
But it doesn’t have to be that bad or extreme, it could be much more mild, and much more serious at the same time.
HSBC just went under and the only way you’ll ever get *any* money out is if you hit an ATM before it gets emptied, it says on fuckbook, 45 minutes later there are fights outside every ATM in the country, 24 hours later HSBC is toast, and the more some guvvmint talking head says it’s all bullshit and stop panicking, the more people will panic.
Because that’s the point, when you use top down control and feed people 24/7 bullshit, sure, they will still consume it, but as a herd they will become ever more skeptical…
Sure, on the surface they are still behaving according to the message, but below that, they are watching the rest of the herd.
Nobody knows what started the mini panic in London a couple of days ago, people who are followed on twatter twatted about people running scared, OMG, I am hiding in an office, next thing you know people are running, other people see people running, and the herd is off.
The post mortem cannot explain it, because the post mortem is looking for an event, a car backfiring, an armed robbery, someone crashing their car, but the unique and interesting point is that there is no event, we have gone way past that point.
It doesn’t even take a malicious actor any more, all it takes is an autocorrect error that isn’t seen before a message is sent… or less… one till closing cos that person is at the end of their shift or has the shits might do it.
We are at a place now in society where it gets harder and harder to put the genie back in the box, I have just heard from a friend, in his town which is in the midlands he got stopped by armed po-po, serves him right, said the po-po, for driving down a road 2 miles from a suspected terrorist (that he knew nothing of) with a couple of other guys in a car with weird black clothing on, and a flag showing in a rear side window that said some shit in white text on black cloth….
… apparently it was some “well known if you are into that shit” star trek quote written in Klingon text…. they were off to a Christmas fancy dress party.
My friend tells me his friend says the po-po who were sweeping them with the barrels of the loaded weapons were wide eyed and sweating.
My friend tells me his friends got to the pub 2 hour later than they planned, and were dressed in civvies, they went home and changed after eventually being released by po-po, and when they got to the pub they heard about the gang of armed terrorists stopped by po-po just up the road, of course the po-po fuckbook and twitter feeds had fuck all to say about this, which was taken as proof it was real serious shit by everyone in the pub… apparently the party was a bit crap, everyone got utterly shitfaced, fights broke out, several couples broke up, and it wasn’t a celebration so much as a desperate attempt to drink as much anesthetic as possible.
There is no dissent comrade, there’s only sluggish schizophrenia, nothing a few pills can’t fix tho, so no worries!
Comment by guest — December 28, 2017 @ 7:13 pm
http://philippineslifestyle.com/motorcycle-gang-spread-fake-tsunami-news/
Something like what you described happened
Comment by undefined — December 30, 2017 @ 5:39 am