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PostScript - Lessons from Factional Conflict & Elections in the House of Lies

The inorganic nature of recent political events became obvious some time ago. We called it The Script. Now that it's played out, this is what it looks like. 

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Now that some unknowables have resolved, we can fill in a bit around The Script. The link is to a Substack post, where we can put out short pieces at a time where longform isn’t really viable. But this scenario pulls together enough threads and themes that it’s too big for over there. The Band is the venue where all the parts can be properly dealt with. One thing that hasn’t changed is our attitude towards how and why. We have no inside information and therefore no way to assess motives, reasons, or inner processes. The mechanism of the House of Lies is a black box. It’s a small price of choosing to operate outside of it in the overall scheme of things.

It's like a toxic spill. You can see it contaminating nature and even identify some of it's harmful properties without knowing it's chemical composition.

This post will flesh out The Script as we now can understand it with the new data from the election. The overall pattern was confirmed, and that lets us settle a few of the variables. We still have no idea how or why in the big picture, but we can see more of how it worked on the specific level. This ties into a number of things that have come up here and on the Substack. Giving a clearer picture of the operational landscape. And some inkling of what to look for going forward. On a more personal note, our respect for the unknown Scriptwriters’ competence has grown geometrically. Morality aside, what can be seen of their reactive perception and ability to learn and adapt is astounding. This is another data point - whatever the agenda, it’s likely to be exquisitely planned from a position of strategic advantage. 

The caveat here, as always, is ultimately to judge by the fruits. 

This is one of those quotes that is universally profound. We can't know other's minds or true intentions. Burt we can see if their words and actions line up. Handsome is as handsome does, to put it another way.

Opting for objectively false words over objectively observable actions is one of the CLI/FTS-2 [Functionally Two Species Model 2] symptoms.

Bu the fruits, The Script suggests competence and foresight at this point in time. At this point in time. If the faction quickly morphs into a 2016-style tool shed, we have to throw out that projection. Narrative compression is what we’re calling the fatal tendency to act and think like things that have changed didn’t. When even the most likely forecast doesn’t turn out, it’s imperative to drop the old assumption and absorb the new reality. 

Narrative compression is a result of CLIs [Can't Learn from Information  - see link for more] amassing information pulses. There's no logical connection between those as in real life events. Only a vague emotional impression that they can trigger and direct. This means a character arc doesn't register as a single coherent entity. So if an impulse imprints, it doesn't change with the character. When in reality the Trump of 2016 has little to do with the Trump in The Script. It's imperative for any analysis - even casual armchair - to keep up.

Generally people don't really change. Sometimes they do. For any number of reasons. When trying to anticipate directions, be attentive to the difference.

In a scripted narrative, it's clear by the fruits. The character simply changes.

The Script is what we call the obviously inorganic pattern of recent political events.

The Substack link goes into more detail if interested. It’s typical of how we look ahead - focusing on overall directions in the flow of events instead of building from specific details. There's too much context to account for if you don't start by getting a handle on the big picture outlines. The Macro-Arc is the most archetypal example of this process. The limitation is like qualitative statistics. Reading population trends that are made up of countless discreet entities. Any two of which may be radically different from each other when observed up close. Practically speaking, it means we can see where the big picture has to go, but not the paths that get it there. There’s always an element of horrified fascination watching how the masses self-immolate. The Script became visible when it was apparent was that events were unfolding in a pseudo-narrative way. Not causal chains the way real life does.

An older graphic shows the difference. Real life follows causal logic. Pseudo narrative is a sequence of unrelated things that FTS-2 takes as "meaningful".

The Script is more refined.

It takes the naturally logically unrelated events and packages them as if they were following an organic chain.

This requires elements of systemic control. Especially when aggressively counter-programmed. No idea how this was possible. But by the fruits, it's what the big picture looked like empirically. And since reality is real and truth stays true, our lack of understanding is irrelevant. Events were proceeding in an inorganic, structured way. A narrative that wasn't describing or reacting to natural chains of events but spinning implausible events into a familiar arc. Again, no idea how this is done. Just recognition that the things were unfolding in a different way than was generally assumed. It's still almost impossible for most to see it.

Comprehension limits have no bearing on what happened. And when you're in a new landscape, you need a new roadmap.

Realizing events are following an artificial narrative for whatever reason meant changing analytical frames. The standard motivators weren't going to be relevant. Or of secondary importance at best. The House of Lies isn't as directly orchestrated as binarists think. Because overlapping agendas within a common direction has more than two colors. Apparatchiks perform tasks with degrees of independence - it's how pillars keep going regardless of what might shift elsewhere. In this case, the players are unknowable, the visible agents unable to influence narrative direction, and the general plot easy to make out. If we're going to read and react to it, we need to approach it like a plotted story. Q did remind everyone to enjoy the show. Hence "The Script". And an approach that's closer to critic than analyst.

Charles Joseph Travies De Villiers, Literary Criticism, caricature of literary critics removing passages from books that displease them, 1830, color lithograph, Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

There's always a figurative violence to criticism. Even positive. It comes from having to pull pieces out of context as examples. Breaking the organic integrity that defines every work of art as such.

The most important observation from the new perspective was the structure of the narrative. Things come clear when you know how to look at them. The Script was unfolding or realizing the same basic beats that Q had wrapped up with four years ago. This was a blast from the past. Q was something we paid attention to at the time. Some of the information proved useful to us in different ways. But there were reasons we never jumped on board that became stronger in hindsight. It wasn't organic or really reality-facing - more later - and just faded out. Any time it came up, it seemed like a vaguely silly memory from another time. A couple of important observations follow.

The truth stays true. Or be aware of the power of programming on the meta narrative direction level. It's subtle and insidious. For example, why did the Q narrative seem distant and vaguely silly when the things that first drew our attention were never resolved? 

The whole basket of high weirdness and suspension of any organic rationale in whatever that last government was just sat there. The lesson is the power of the House of Lies to pulse the NPC collective into a zeitgeist or cultural unconscious. That even Can Learn from Informations get influenced by from living in the culture or ziet. Recall that the Q counter-programming was all-spectrum and all level across the House of Lies. Aggressive suppression and ridicule. A discrepancy that should have triggered interest if learning from information were possible. More on that in a moment. 

The Q-Script narrative being the same confirmed the inorganic directed nature of of events that we had noticed. The whole big picture snaps into focus it's realized “you’re watching a show” positions Q and us inside the performance, not outside. As unwitting players, not knowing audience. But that's all just an impression. Nothing that can be shared with anyone unable to conceptually see at that width. The neon technicolor tell was that the plot hewed closely to the Biblical resurrection story. For two concrete reasons.

1. Any writer knows there aren’t many canonical plot types. And everyone knows real life doesn’t fall neatly into structures like the hero's journey or Rule of Three. To the degree that when events do resemble a narrative, it's noteworthy. Seeing a narrative stick closely to one of the big ones was an example of conclusive single-data point pattern recognition. The alignment requires external plotting.

Resurrection of Jesus Christ with Angels icon, 2022, tempera, gold, and silver foil on wood

2. The chosen plot was the one most likely to resonate with a Christian base. The memes write themselves. Events falling into a plot-like pattern isn’t absolutely conclusive. Coincidence is real and we are conditioned to understand reality through media narrative. The plot-like pattern happening to be the most rhetorically ideal is.

The continuity of truth is essential for understanding what we can of this House of Lies because it deliberately distorts, buries, or fabricates. Official narratives do not keep accurate accounts of what happened. And as we’ve written many times, things that are true remain true, even when ignored. If anything happens to change the narrative course, take note and adjust accordingly. If not, it keeps on being true. Logical conclusions lying fallow are still logical conclusions. Understanding improves over time because truthful points can be accumulated into a growing picture. 

Structure is self-evident. What we can can infer is what matters.

Even MAGA memers can see the scripted nature of it all. Because most people think in narrative. It resonates in the preconscious base code. Not that The Script has wrapped, some inferences are possible. Confirmation and clarification of some deductions along with a few inclinations as to where this may be heading. First point.

There is a House of Lies. Who is at the apex is unknowable. We assume it’s metaphysical - the only way to account for the macro-continuity. But it is carried out by real people through real physical and cultural structures. The structural part isn’t intrinsically inverted. There’s no reason schools can’t disseminate knowledge or hospitals prioritize health. Some aspects are more suspect. But in general, the House of Lies is institutional capture and socio-behavioral control. The problem with all the monolithic, TPTB, reductive doltcasting is that is completely misses how any hierarchical organization actually operates in real life. Fantasy dark lord projection onto the competitive and confusing structures of any human hierarchy. Thinking in narrative.

James Panarella, The Politics of Hell, imaginary AD&D 1e book based on Alexander von Thorn's The Politics of Hell, Ed Greenwood's two-part The Nine Hells and his Nine Hells Revisited in Dragon magazine

This imaginary 1e volume takes up the Nine Hells - the plane of absolute Lawful Evil in AD&D cosmology. Law is pure structure, yet the domain of Lawful Evil is the most Machiavellian, convoluted, snake pit of intrigue and scheming. The Hell metaphor seems appropriate for a hierarchical integrated House of Lies. Elements are always in opposition as they try to climb the ladder. 

If the end of the Ontological Hierarchy is Sorathic evil - absolute opposition to Creation - these guys are Aharamaic evil.

Next up...

Conflicting factions exist within it. Whether Sorathic and Aharamaic or some other breakdown, this is now observable fact, not logical conclusion. The continuity between Q and The Script confirms it. 

Consider that Q appears shortly after the Trump win. The reality-facing outsider campaign that fired us up slammed headlong into the swamp. Priebus like creatures were suddenly lurking and grass-roots initiatives like the list of outsider hires went down the memory hole. No idea what actually happened. But the timing of inauguration, clowns, and Q lines up perfectly. While accounting for the inexplicable change in attitude that a lot of Trump followers still struggle with.

Narrative compression comes in here. 

Franz Stuck, Lucifer, 1890 to 1891, oil on canvas, National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria

This is where a character changes in narrative time but the consoomer keeps acting like their pre-change claims still matter.

A lot of people held on to insurgent campaign Trump long after his own factional status was different.

The timeline gives the clearest account. The insurgent outsider hit clown reality in some way and the Scriptwriter faction responded in haste. The agenda switch follows from the two not being 100% sympatico. But there's reason for hope for some improvement in the assumption that they're at least in the same time zone. Our assumption was that this was the only available course of action given the compressed timeframe and extent of clown institutional capture.

This was sufficient to indicate some facts. 

1. Whatever Q was, it was obvious that clown world opposition to it was real. The all-channel two prong strategy cancelled any mention of it in every beast venue and rebranded it in the House of Lies as wackjob conspiracy. To the point where even followers distanced themselves.

Chuck "The Legend" Dixon, Alt-Hero Q graphic novel, Arkhaven Comics, 202

The Band was always agnostic on Q because we couldn’t know what it was. Not at first, anyhow. It was more honest than the House of Lies. Calling out elite corruption and perversion in pretty direct ways. 

But it also wasn’t organic. There were certain corners of the hall of truth that it stayed away from. Key pillars of the House of Lies were upheld. So it was system related in some way too.

Dixon's take is a thrill ride that has aged well. Q is a system creature. Not knowing more, no reason not to imagine a benevolent action hero. Unfortunately hard copies are sold out, but the story can be read in full on Arktoons' webtoons type comic site. 

The information made Q worth paying attention regardless of the story. But that means being aware of the story. And that made recognizing inorganic structures inevitable. One of the biggest Biblical narrative beats was telling the believers they’d be mocked and reviled, but keep the faith regardless. Echoing Jesus’ first followers. Fast forward, and one of the early signs The Script was telling the same story was the way it built off the idea of Trump's "resurrection" and resulting eucatastrophe. Not so much as one signle event, but how the Q ending was picked up within the unfolding Script narrative.

And the beast really did oppose Trump and then Q with all guns blazing. No one with a functional memory can miss the difference between the all-out onslaught and the relative change in tone this time around. Some binary thinking mental self-cripples seem to think a monolithic beast agenda inexplicably changed. Despite the obvious reality of opposing factions that was just clearly pointed out. We've called binary thinking a curse in past posts. Anyone postulating an omnipotent, omnescient "powers that be" without any logical analysis of the full landscape has no place on the internet. The black-pilled idiocy serves the illusory psychological warfare of the very demons they claim to be worried about. A more useful service if public forums prove irresistible would be to drink bleach. We're told TPTB say it's tasty...

The all-spectrum, all-level kindling of TDS was one of the main factors leading us to the Functionally Two Species model and all the CLI and House of Lies stuff that followed. FWIW, binary thinking retards were another.

We can now see that pulsing certain NPCs into that level of total frothing psycho-emotional overload seared the insanity into them forever. Q got pulled under by the same tsunami. Except for the believers. Their problem is believing one side really is pure and righteous - binary us and them, not two thems in a hall of illusion. But they were correct to recognize that the narrative was an accurate representation of what was going on in the system to some degree. They were mocked. And he is back. That deserves some recognition.

Anyone with mild sentience, 5 minutes, and the internet could easily discover that the same NPCs and House of Lies organs were spewing the same lies, the election fixers were trying the same but it was countered this time.

Why not the all-out resistance melt-down? The factional leaders have conceded. Just as the Script faction conceded in 2020. Without orchestration, it's as effective organically as you'd think. 

In hindsight, another of the closing messages - "you're the news now"  - was a concession that iteration of the plan didn't work. Further confirming the factional opposition was real. 

So what about the Patriots?

2. The Scriptwriters want to keep the underlying House of Lies system. The first Q tell was how dire crimes and grandiose plans kept being revealed but nothing happened. No legal or extra-legal action. Not a glimmer of empirical evidence in the visible operations of the beast-huffers' activities or outcomes to point to as extra-narrative confirmation. The excuses were always some in-game nonsense move. Totally inconsistent with what the picture of secret civil war and children’s lives at stake would look like IRL. Some skeptics dismissed the whole narrative at this point, declaring it fake. But the problem - as always - with commitment to binary misunderstanding is missing all the other stuff. 

Some fantasy art from RPG magazines provide an unlikely visual analogy. 

Den Beauvais, cover art for Dragon Magazine # 83.

The analogy seems like a chess game – ironic given the amount of ridicule of 5D chess. Not for the tactical acumen. For the acceptance of intra-system rules governing extra-systemic responses.

It's clarifying to compare beast narrative beats to how things actually unfold in real life. If engaged in a life-or-death struggle, with massive abuses, crimes, and suffering, you wouldn’t not strike because the media created a fake story as a “distraction”. Nor would you care about “procedure” if the opponent were operating with totally unrestricted chaotic evil malevolence.

Unless committed to the game.

Den Beauvais, cover art for Gygax Magazine # 4. 

Beauvais resumed his magical chess game that had appeared on Four Dragon covers in the 80s for this short-lived revival. To the surprise of no one, it collapsed under retarded lawsuits. 

If committed to the game, victory is only acceptable on its terms. Maintaining the illusion that intrinsic secular transcendence in the system doesn't make creeping authoritarianism and corruption inevitable. The Band spent a lot of time working though the fundamental inversion at the foundation of the system. The logic is beyond dispute. The Scriptwriters appear much more ethical than the clowns. But they don't serve the truth.

Put another way, the mix of extra-systemic real life news and acceptance of the absurd fake rules of the House of Lies is almost designed to confuse NPCs. 

Obviously the story wasn’t coming true. So there was some element of fakeness. But the true information and more accurate picture of reality didn’t lose their truth or accuracy. So some element of realness too. Partly real and partly fake. Enhanced or magical reality. Opposed to clowns and wedded to the system. Two factions, one apparently less evil. But neither committed to reality. 

Real factional conflict between entities committed to the pillars of the system is the only model that fits both conditions.

The reason we're taking the time to go through all this is how clear it becomes once pointed out. It's just logically necessary structure. Who the factions are, what their agendas mean, and how it works are all lost FTS-2 at the realization that there can be different agendas in the same power structure.

There are certain moronisms that are especially grating. “It’s a psy-op” is near the head of the list. Ahead even of non-existent binary omnipotent powers, Both seem like pull-string response that NPCs feel almost compelled to bleat out for some absurd reason. Especially in venues were adults are discussing complexities. What does "psy-op" even mean? Seriously. Concisely define it in a way that accounts for NPC usage. Who is doing it? For what reason?

Any attempt to manipulate psychologically is a psychological operation by definition. Media, Advertising. Education, etc. Manipulating polls is a great example in plain sight.

The Q narrative was obviously aiming for psychological impacts. It was also observably blending real and fake contexts. Any relevant [can learn from information] analysis starts from there.

The answer to the Rubicon quandary follows. Why there was no real opposition to the obvious election fixing from outside the corrupted system? We all witnessed an illegitimate Congress adjudicate its own legitimacy. Whether or not an organic uprising was possible, the Scriptwriters didn’t want one. The weird blend of reality and House of Lies in the Q story had already made that clear, but the 2020 meek-out nailed it down. By the fruits, the system was important enough to them that they’d lose before threatening it. So more confirmation of inter-factional conflict.

Note how a few binarist myopes have claimed their mythic omnipotent overseer "let it happen this time for some convoluted reason that has no alignment with real necessity". The logic traced here makes much more sense. Both factions are committed to the basic foundations of the House of Lies. When Team Script lost the chess games in 2020 and 2022, they accepted the L rather than rock the boat. Team Clown is doing the same. The issue is who is actually in jeopardy. If the dispute is serious enough that someone with actual agency is heading under the bus, things can get kinetic. And NPCs can keep on NPC'n regardless. At this moment, things are fluid. As for the actual policies - need to see who fills the important positions. 

Speaking of the losers, the J6 retardery has been difficult to explain rationally. Nothing about it makes sense. No idea if it was some sort of price of losing, a strategic blunder, a straight-up betrayal, or a mass IQ test. 

But by the fruits, the actual keeping of illegal political prisoners did keep the issue front and center in right-leaning NPC circles. The low-wattage, low-vibrational screen consoomers couldn't fruit fly away to the next shiny object. And that keeps election fraud and clown illegitimacy fresh.

No idea if that hypothesis true, so no intent to build on it. Just note that like everything, what actually happened played directly into The Script. It was the accumulation of these bizarre convergences that made us aware of The Script in the first place.

3. Whoever the Scriptwriters are, they’re competent. Realizing The Script was following the same content beats as final stage Q confirmed the connection between the two. It's not widely noticed even now - probably because the forms or vectors are so different. That, and fruit-fly tier memories. This also reflects back on our representation and reality posts. The two are totally different "forms of representation", but are representing the same message. That’s why having The Script play out fills in more of the picture. The assumption of competence is confirmed by how the Scriptwriters adjusted to the failure of the initial effort. Three of Q's main final points map it out. The Biblical no man shall know the hour and promised of ridicule for keeping the faith was - as noted above - the narrative reveal. [You're the news now] was a concession that "the patriots" weren't really "in control". Yet. 

But [things having to get worse before the strategy can succeed] has turned out to be the most interesting data point to us. Because it tells us that the Scriptwriters discovered FTS-2 was as inexorably real as readers here know. Just years earlier. That's worth a banner...

If future really does prove past, The Script working is proof of competence. According to the timeline, Q used what was available on short notice. Try to spin up an effective counter-narrative with alternative channels. It failed for a reason we've been tracing out over the last while. Most people can't learn from information. It doesn't matter how horrifying if it can't be processed into meaningful activity. The Script shows they learned this specific lesson because it was designed to move NPCs without coherent thought or information. That pseudo-narrative is exactly how CLI types are directed by their screens. The Scriptwriters managed to acquire enough screen control for some direction of their own.

Bigger picture, it explains why there are no truly organic uprisings. Most people aren't capable of self-directed reactions. NPCs are fiercely resistant. The historical reality that there's always an elite faction behind revolution also fits. The portion that are capable of reasoned activity have to have access to communication and information vectors to emotionally pulse the NPCs. And quickly, because the dominant faction will take counter-actions. 

Allyn Cox, Washington Laying the Cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol (DC) in 1793, 1950s, George Washington Masonic National Memorial, Alexandria, VA

Not the "blessing" most consider. Though the little aprons suggest a different "laying" party to come. 

The Script was the perfect adaptation to the communication realities we just noted. If FTS-2 only reacts to emotional pulses, it was necessary to get enough vector control to counter the clown faction. The having to get worse turned into another narrative tell. Things did get a lot worse under the Presidency of the Six Bidens (props to Vox Day for that gem), but as we noted, there was no organic groundswell for Trump. The sense of betrayal among his followers for Jan. 6, the !vax, inability to detect, let alone counter enemies, etc. plus the failure to achieve any lasting positive domestic impact cooled the enthusiasm. Few really cared if he went to jail. But all the while, the narrative unfolded as if they did. 

The first indicator for us was how the course of events "predicted" by Q were unfolding - but without any real coherent causal drivers. Infinity lawfare that no one really cares about erased by SCOTUS decisions no one really cares about. Assassinations that don't add up or seem to have any of the impacts on events a real attempt would. Meanwhile, The Script kept inexorably advancing. The more we paid attention, the more rhetorically loaded obstacles inorganically sprung up and were knocked down. Then came mastery of the dirty tricks games where cuckservatives traditionally played the part of "piñata".

 

We could mention Tim Walz, actual pedophile. With the creepy mannerisms to prove it. But he's a subset of the Harris self-sabotage part of The Script. Whether intended or not. More later. Or the Iwo Jima assassination shot. We have our doubts about that event, but the rhetorical grand slam is obvious. 

How about, the most unlikely galvanizer on the eve of the vote.  Cant say this was orchestrated, because it seems impossible to us. But it's the perfect final example of how The Script just rolls.

Put it together and the conclusion is that the Scriptwriters learned from Q. And then spent the intervening time gaining the institutional control needed to drive events. In ways that could pulse the NPCs into motion. 

Then there was "the Harris Campaign". We noted earlier on Substack that whatever happens to Biden 6 won't impact the outcome of The Script. Just the [how it plays out] details that have to be seen to be known. The worst possible candidate in an act of seeming self-sabotage. Stick to the big picture.

Real factional conflict means that plenty of clown faction types and their NPCs were trying for real. Their media vectors, efforts to vote suppress and cheat, migrant hordes - who are still in play, fake polling, etc. all happened. Even deep operatives were activated - consider the "Republican" talon of the beast apparatchiks that came out for the cackling whore. And her response was increasingly unhinged and obnoxious behavior. Cartoonish blunder after escalating cartoonish blunder, until the fake polls deflated.  We suspect she was jobbing but can't prove it logically like the rest of The Script. And we do have to admit that a respected associate believes she really is stupid and incompetent enough that this was a sincere effort. She is stupid and incompetent enough that we can't rule it out.

The only way to determine is if any serious action taken against well-known faces. If there is and she skates into quiet retirement, we'll know. 

As an aside, it's mildly shocking just how degenerate the clowns became. 

What was different was the preparation and position of strength in the conflict. Twitter and Musk proved an essential parallel communication vector of the sort that didn't exist prior. Screen characters like Tucker Carleson or ultimate weathervane Joe Rogan could rack up huge numbers with lightly limited hangouts. Preserve the overall house of lies while attacking the clown faction. The sprawling alternative media sphere wasn't big enough to change the game on its own, but is a huge addition to any existing faction. And the Six Bidens Era was an abject disaster.

4. Working within the House of Lies + real opposition by clowns = multiple HOL factions. We are staying away from how and why, but it is worth noting a couple of recent developments. We are of the opinion that either covid or the !vax was intended to be much more destructive. Whether because beast incompetence FTW or some counter-action, it clearly wasn't. Ukraine had an obvious outsized importance from the initial reaction. Subsequent reports of money laundering, human trafficking, land buy-ups, biolabs, etc. are on the list of things that don't stop being true. The sheer cost in life and resources is more confirmation. Clown world world sooner self-immolate than lose one seemingly pissant state. So it is obviously super important in some way. And they are losing it. Who knows what consequences things like this could have.

Certain things follow. The first is the significance of the factional conflict. How deep into the hierarchy does it go? We can't comment on this until we see how the transition shakes out. In general, beast huffers means shallow conflict and business as usual. Serious actions mean deeper conflict and kinetic potentials. 

We have no idea what The Scriptwriters' real agenda is. They've captured their House of Lies from their opponents on their narrative terms. They don't tell us what's next. In fact, the beauty of The Script is that it is specific policy-free. We assume from the opposition that at least some of their intentions are not clown-friendly. This is likely a net benefit. 

There are also a huge number of shattered NPCs that are incapable of processing even a slight touch of the breaks. Let alone heavy opposition. Many populate media and other House of Lies pillars.

Not sure what can be done with them. Big picture, it's unlikely the US survives as a single polity.  Perhaps this is the root of the inevitable split. In any case, cursory consideration of their idiot babble is sufficient for analysis. The nonsensical hysteria would be amusing were it not a disturbing of a section of the populace personally and emotionally committed to sorathic atavism.

Time passes differently for damaged psyches. FTS-2 can't process information, so they are directed by rhetorical impulses from their screens. The last post mapped how that works. There is a subconscious base code that runs basic activities but is essentially fixed. The conscious mind responds to screens by activating the appropriate base code reaction to the emotional pulse. Directed pulses can lead to a series of actions over time. But emotional bursts are psychically taxing in ways information processing isn't. Especially when so much of it is fear-based. Each hit is a little bit of trauma. One of the early FTS posts surmised that accumulated trauma actually caused the dissociated FTS-2 state. Observing Trump Derangement Syndrome was one of the things leading to the FTS theory. 

The same clods triggered by Trump also tended to be all-in on the covid fear fest. More sustained psychic trauma. "Madman Putin" gave some jolts. Then somehow the Orange Boogieman was back. The loons have reached a state where they no longer resemble functional human beings at all. Already-vulnerable psyches battered until the reptilian core is running the base code. And badly damaged people seem to fixate on things long past any rational person would have moved on. Gamma obsessions are similar. All these freaks find some inane fetish and cling to it with never-dimming urgency. Everfresh. Some of them will be masking for the rest of their pantomime lives. There isn't going to be a reconciliation. That needs a common world. No Script can change this.

Vertically integrated liars.

These toxic broken NPCs are scattered all through out the system. Any resistance from them will be sincere. They can't be pulsed or informed into a new path. Whatever broke them froze their base structure. It's just that without clown control of the House of Lies their effectiveness is limited. Ultimately there will have to be a reckoning, but we're not there yet. 

For forecasting purposes, it goes without saying the critics can be ignored. Either the media liars or NPC detritus. Ditto the mirror of desire nationalist projectionists. There is nothing to indicate the radical 2016 radical lasted a year. The Scriptwriter faction does seem more reality-friendly. And any attempt to clean up the system is a benefit for those not parasiting off it. We harbor no illusions about "democracy" and willingly render unto Caesar regardless. But some engineers make that more productive. 

Whether or not anything concrete happens will soon be clear. This is a new reality chapter in the House of Lies with new players in at least some drivers seats. But one thing came out that caused us to rethink some of our own assumptions around vooting. 

There are two sides here. Our perspective remains that an objectively rigged game is a fool's game. The 2020 election was clearly rigged through various channels. As was 2022. The complete systemic acceptance fueled "Them" delusions. Therefore investing in it is foolishly consenting to the deception.

But by the fruits, The Script pushed hard for votes. We also saw real steps to block the limitless cheating. So obviously it was important for whatever reason to run up certain numbers. Why is irrelevant - illusions of mandate, outpacing what fraud did happen, public mood adjustment, whatever. What matters is that it did. And that could be the next point.

5. Buy in matters to a degree. Or else there wouldn't have been such a push for votes. This is another point that The Script clears up. A common myope bleat is that "They" let it happen. Anyone who payed attention to what actually occurred saw a deft parry of "Their" tricks. Lots of fraud was busted, lots of voter laws upheld, and late-night pauses snuffed IRT by on-call judges. Of course, myopia precludes effectively paying attention.

Thinking about socialization on Sigma Game and on our Substack offers a clue to this disorder. Most smug asserters of myopic idiocy fall into a common pattern. At least the ones whose posting history we are at all acquainted with. There are two driving factors. A compulsion to appear smart, savvy or ahead of the curve in some way. And thought processes that are entirely dominated by emotional investment in the idiocy. The basis in emotion provides the monomaniacal drive to blather about it at every opportunity.

The Script clears up some of the picture. "They" didn't let it happen. "They" got whooped running their old game plan. Whether anything comes of it is beside the point. More than one faction can observably win the pantomime. We've all seen the proof of fixing vote count chart. The myopes really do seem incapable of grasping that "blocking some cheating" completely explains what happened with Ockham's Razor efficiency. A visual aid may make it more obvious.

Simple, isn't it? No omnipotence needed.

Turning the sights back on the all-or-nothing binary thinking morons, countering some cheating doesn't mean no cheating. Harris only winning no voter ID law states is a pretty conclusive tell. Ditto the anomalous counts in down ticket races. The script didn't need to stop it all. There are good reasons why they might not want to. The illusion of a divided country is the black pill. Gathering evidence is the white. No idea, though hope is a virtue. In any case, they just needed to cap the limitless fake vote production to historic levels.

Another visual aid for the coexistance of cheating and controls. 

"And" seems an unlikely choice for conceptual puzzler. We're still mapping the mindscape of FTS-2.

We can also speculate on another opacity in the commentariat. Worrying about "the Dems" completely misses the actual power structure. Admittedly, we're still just seeing it come into view. Parties are systemic channels. A faction has to occupy one of them to vie for House of Lies control. The parties themselves are dictated by their controllers - they have no intrinsic ability to shape events. It's how the manage to reverse positions over time. The clown faction completely coopted the Democrats and most of the Republicans. The Script faction with Trump as face have begun coopting the latter. Consider the spectacle of Cheney campaigning for Harris to see the changing of personnel. 

For the binarists, this doesn't mean all the Republicans are declowned. But if a new faction takes control of their dossiers, it doesn't matter. And any unaligned survivalists switch teams on a dime.

Finally, if the Scriptwriters care about popular opinion at all, they don't have to be organic to hold their feet to fire. There are reasons to believe they are more in line with basic sanity.

The last factor is multiple agendas. Myopes and binarists completely miss those who could be playing their own game. All sorts of people take beast offers looking to advance personal interests. One reason analysists have so much trouble with the US-Israeli relation is that both sides have long played each other. There will be people in and around any faction who are unpredictable within the limits allowed.

Kennedy interests us the most here. Obviously personal scores and knowledge the game on a personal level better than most. He also appears to have an agenda that comes before other priorities and wasn't a big political player prior to running for president. Focused people are either impossible or easy to deal with. They won't compromise on that at all. But give it to them, and they'll give up most everything else. If he is empowered to make any of the changes or clean the houses he's talked about forever, that could be some authenticity.

If nothing else, the difference between Clown and Script artificiality is stark. 

As for the rest, time will tell. We know now what clown service looks like. We know that a legitimately oppositional faction is ascendant. We know what they claimed to want to do when they weren't. And we know what the most pressing issues are. [Script consistency] + [demonstrated competence] = not impossible that something happens.

We just won't need a script to see which way the sequel is going. 

PS. Read Ron Unz' meticulous account of the publicized events leading to the election. It takes a bit, but that's because of the thoroughness. Note the little details that seem odd or inexplicable. Now run through it with an understanding of The Script. 

Exactly.

Joe Mancuso, Lifting Fog, 2022, pastel

Information Processing and Functional Speciation

Why so few seem able to exit the House of Lies. 

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Toni Carmine Salerno, oil painting from The Path of Light Journal by Anthony Salerno

Aristotle briefly noted at the start of his Rhetoric that some people can’t be instructed. Which is another way of saying that they can’t learn from given information. Recent events suggest this is a majority. A recent Substack post on conflating binaries that look similar brought this kind of framing to mind. [Learn/can’t learn] is this sort of classificatory binary. Two opposing polarities that truthfully describe something about general human nature. And relate to other descriptive binaries in ways that aren’t perfectly identical. For example, the common NPC meme and my own Functionally Two Species (FTS) model. The follow-up question is why this matters.

The problem with treating similar things as the same is that the difference exists. 

The whole point of the Substack post is that isomorphic forms are easily taken for homologous content. It "looks" the same so it is the same. It's another version of that form/content problem.

In reality, formal similarity can cover diametric inversion.

There’s information in finding out how things relate that can be important for understanding. Even recognizing when there are unknowable factors in play. All three of the binaries apply to the same apparent mass insanity. It’s fair to say that [can’t learn from information] or CLI  is a central process behind the NPC and FTS-2 groups. And there’s the first distinction. Learning is a process. The others are categories. It’s worth looking at the text to be certain.

From the opening…

Aristotle, Rhetoric, book 1, 1, translated by W. Rhys Robert

It's not subtle, but easy to pass over. His interest is how rhetoric reaches people, not why most are functionally retarded.

To note differences, be attentive to specifics. What is meant by “learning”? Obvious question, but worth being clear. The ability to change in some way on the basis of direct or indirect experience. “In some way” broadly defined as beliefs, attitudes, behavior, specific actions, etc. And direct or indirect experience to cover all possible information vectors. The idea of change is important. Almost anyone can follow directions when there aren’t other options. “Exit here”, for example. Everyone also has a base level of functional knowledge acquired somehow. Work tasks, or basic life skills.

Learning is uptaking new knowledge or understanding and responding accordingly going forward. Assimilating data into a coherent evolving world view. 

Except for FRS-1s it's an ongoing process. More of a spiral than a cycle because it keeps moving onward and upward.

It's sort of like this, but not so smooth and regular. Real life has much more jagged learning patterns. But the spiral does capture the cumulative, progressive nature of the learning process for those capable of doing so.

Making the inability to learn not being able to to uptake new knowledge and change or respond accordingly going forward. No evolving understanding of the world based on a growing knowledge base. Only a base level grasp from directions or early formation that doesn’t change. Even when contradictory information is clearly understood intellectually. 

So learning from information is a process while FTS-2 and NPC are categories

To equalize them, we'd have to refer to [people who can’t learn from information]. Break down the differences. Categorically, FTS-2s are narrative huffers. That covers a range from some autonomy within the House of Lies parameters to full-blown NPCs. The NPC is the low-agency subset of FTS-2.  

There are levels to this that are too detailed for more than a mention. Some can make adjustments within a frame of reference but ricochet off when the frame comes into question. If you’ve experienced it, it seems like a weird mental glitch / reset that’s actually noticeable.

The person can be with you for a long conversation. Even asking the questions and making the observations that correlate to getting it. But then the thread drifts too close to a substructure foundation stone and it’s like hitting an electric fence. The train of thought vanishes and comprehension resets to the starting point. It’s jarring to experience. The [bzzzzttt … reset] is visible in the micro-expressions. But all levels have some degree of mental blockage around information absorption. Aristotle would differentiate the quality levels of their thought along the CLI axis. I’m simplifying for a short post.

CLI the process applies to FTS-2 narrative huffing, both in advanced and NPC forms. So FTS-2 is a subset of [people who can't learn from information]. It's possible all of them are FTS-2s - the difference is categorical parameters. FTS-2 refers specifically to accepting House of Lies narrative as reality. No doubt there are people that can't learn from information that don't. So for discussion, FTS-2 are the population where CLI is applied to beast media and institutional delusion bubble. And NPCs are the more CLI side.  

The Orator, late 2nd-early 1st century BC, Etruscan bronze, 179 cm, Florence, National Archaeological Museum 

The Rhetoric focuses on persuasion - Aristotle frames it in terms of his day, but the conclusions are universal.  The point of rhetorical - as opposed to dialectical or logical - communication is to persuade without relying on content quality. If only some are reachable through information and all are susceptible to emotional appeal … The rest follows.

He doesn’t lay it out like this but it’s easy to infer. Dialectical thought assesses the truth of syllogisms, enthymeme is central to persuasion, and enthymeme is structurally syllogistic.

So if rhetoric is persuasion that doesn’t involve dialectical truth judgments, information quality is not relevant to it. It can be truthful, but “truth value” isn’t part of its intrinsic properties. On the other hand, it’s easy to spot the informationless motion as the fruit flies flit from laser pointer to laser pointer.

It’s like unconnected tracks. In the abstract at least. Obviously everyone has some capacity to absorb usable information at various times in their lives - work skills, driving, taking a shower, operating the screens, etc. Where this basic life knowledge level is depends on cognitive profile but it's not 1 to 1. The reality distortion effects of accepting the House of Lies prima fascie means normalizing contradiction and absurdity. It leads to some weird behavioral twists over time. Why they're the way they are is less practically important than the fact they are. So tiers of FTS-2 roughly stratified by that base functional knowledge. 

Low-level FTS-2s - credulous morons, NPCs, continually self-pwning low Gammas, etc. - don't show any real signs of learning from information at all. They float through life at whatever base knowledge level they run on until hitting something that would require learning something to understand. 

At which point they shoot poison, virtue signal cultural degeneration, radically reverse supposedly core beliefs, and other ghastly errors. 

These are the masses that fruit fly from one incoherent pack of lies to the next. Narrative engineers simply add destructive commands to the upload - there's no possibility of seeing through them at all. Not even an excuse or evasive hand waving for the older positions because that is a form of learning and memory. There's essentially no recollection. Rabid sociopathy during covid might as well never have happened.

Fear-driven behavior is a big part of this. Heightened emotion is essentially an altered state in terms of thinking. Like being high, crazy things can seem perfectly rational. When the state is passed and thought returns to normal, the experience is distanced by the craziness. It seems implausible to the fruit fly that had been consumed by it. The low-level NPC version of CLI is...

Total separation of [what I "know"] from [what I’m informed of] 

Often accessorized with dull-witted arrogance. Glowing screens = Truth is part of the base code, so the fear signals are indisputable. But it's not information-based in the sense of something to consider. It’s virtually impossible to make any progress with these ones unless they have a specific interest in something you know. 

The [with you, with you, reset] types are more cognitively functional. The [with you] parts imply some information uptake capacity. These ones sometimes do skill development things like switch careers. But the reset point is no different from the low-level collision with learning. Interestingly, when this happens, the new information is dumped and awareness resets to the starting assumptions. So not really that different in outcome.

High-level FRS-2s are more functional narrative huffers. The differences in ability makes it easy to see them as different from the NPCs. The larger effects of CLI makes the differences cosmetic.

But both have a discursive substructure of base functional knowledge that seems conscious but works like a subconscious. Discursive because it is made up of bits of knowledge learned at some point. Driving, data entry, and football aren't intuitive. But the contours stay fixed or changes very incrementally - independent of new knowledge. Pieces of information may or may not be assessed superficially. But they won’t impact the substructure and are soon dumped. Sometimes the conversation is even forgotten. 

Gerard (Geert) Hendrik Hofstede's cultural onion model is more interesting for its structure than his specific categories. Terms can be quibbled over endlessly - we're not endorsing him as Truth. It's the idea of cultural practices expressing core cultural values through different layers that is insightful. Whatever categories are preferred, it more or less gets how the substructure works. If how it forms or changes over time is put aside.

The relation looks like this. Two points.

1. The sub/superstructure relationship is not the same as conscious/unconscious. The substructure includes subconscious assumptions, but also involves conscious activity. Orthogonal descriptions of human activity.

2. How they relate is central to CLI.

People who can learn from information - basically FTS-1s - interface between the super and substructures. Information can change base beliefs and assumptions. And that guides a changing engagement with the world.

Set it time, this can lead to a growing and developing understanding. Whether it does depends on the person. But the possibility is there. Graphically, it looks like this.

In contrast,  the CLI types lock the substructure at some point. Things they experience or see have no impact on their base assumptions or beliefs.  

It's a bit of an overstatement because obviously things do trickle into the substructure somehow. But on a daily operating level, the two seem completely detached. Years of discussions with family boomers reverting to decades-old opinions is an IRL example. Every visit following the same pointless dance no matter what the current situation.

Put it together and the comparison looks like this.

Functionally two species.

Aristotle’s point is a familiar one to us today. The CLIs can only be persuaded rhetorically. By appeals to emotion. By feels. And that explains how FTS-2s will change their behavior because of the glowing screen without being able to learn. "Learn" defined as assimilate new information into a coherent evolving understanding. Of anything, really. Psychologists call this accommodation - ability to change  beliefs by assimilating new information. There can't be assimilation because CLI means no substantive information uptake. When the implications are thought through, this explains a lot of  behavior patterns.

When an NPC masks up and shoots himself repeatedly with poison, he hasn’t added new biochemical or medical knowledge. Asking what's in the Science Juice is not thinkable, Likewise the blue and yellow flag doesn’t accompany developing awareness of geopolitics. Which is why the self-mortification rituals can be dropped without a second thought, let alone lasting impact. Nothing was learned. 

No information was uptaken in any meaningful way.

What actually happens is an emotional reaction to media stimulus. The House of Lies is a giant delusion bubble that projects a fake reality. Narrative huffers actually live as if it's real - CLI means the internal contradictions and inanities have no real wake-up effect. It's actually bizarre for people who can learn. The idea that you would watch a program and not even register the content seems hard to believe. That's where the thinking the implications through comes in. If you can't learn from information, what the glowing screen says doesn't matter at all. And yet they can't stop watching. They'll even state "being informed" as a priority. Like a sea slug worrying about wind conditions. 

"Communication" occurs on a rhetorical level. 

For whatever reason, their preferred media belong to the substructure. "Facebook" or "the news" isn't conceptualized as an information stream. It's more like a utility - background infrastructure that’s universal in modern life. There's awareness of different companies and fees, but no one questions the value of getting electricity or heat hooked up. It’s just ingrained life knowledge. The TV or social media can't be turned off because the idea of shutting down a utility doesn't even come up.

The substructure is the frame of reference. Unconscious and assumed. It appears to be imprinted in the way childhood imprinting sets behavior patterns. Only with events from later in life as well. These are things that penetrated for some reason and shape the world view. Learning a work skill fits here. 

Note how many NPCs get less willing over time to try and add anything. There's an age-related component. Only so much fits into the magic box, and the substructure never develops. It seems to freeze up completely at some point. Once the cap is hit, learning something like programming the VCR is impossible.

It’s why so many view retirement as psychic death and not finally having the time for all the projects. CLI doesn’t have projects. And work told them what to do.

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It isn't clear how this works. The substructure closes gradually between childhood and adulthood. All children learn a pile of functional knowledge beginning with basics like talking and dressing. The exceptions are rare and odd enough to be labeled syndromes. There does appear to be an innate human ability to learn from information. We see the same thing in animals - the cat responding to verbal expressions, for example. Two learning stages there - that human noises correlate to actions and things, then the specific vocabulary. All pretty obvious, but it's important to be very clear at the start when analyzing murky things. Otherwise, the logical conclusion that CLI is at least partly developmental is less obvious.

This isn't a nonsense claim that we all possess the same magic potential. Obviously everyone has a different capacities and aptitudes. The point is that everyone shows the ability to learn from information to a life-altering degree when small. And then most lose it before adulthood. Intelligence qualifiers - learning speed, retention, processing - are secondary to the initial framing. 

Analysis is complicated by the nature of children's formative experiences. Whether basic manners at home or the joys of school, learning and NPC programming aren't substantively different. Variations on following directions and doing as told. There is a split between children that consider why these things are important and those that just follow. The Band generally assumed that was just relative +/- brightness. Though it could be a sign of innate differences in how information is processed and used.

The "do well in school" impulse some kids have - or have forced on them - plays out the same way for FTS-1 and 2 at younger ages. Following direction can get pretty intricate. There are probably subtle differences, but other confounders make them hard to be certain about. [Servile rule following] or [compulsively neat notes and desk] might correlate to limited cognitive autonomy among high academic achievers. But it also correlates to their gender. The process doesn't distinguish.

At some point, a divide opens between those who adapt the things they learn and those who find the idea of learning unthinkable. What stays consistent is some ability to follow direction. A boomer mastering the Locomotion on a cruise for example. An FTS-1 could do the same. So there's a distinction between following direct instructions and actual learning. And the quality that distinguishes them is change in larger understanding, attitude, perspective, etc. Learning from information means being able to use that information to change mentally. To alter the substructure appropriately. We are all products of our culture, but equating [white coat & fluorescent lights] with [blind trust] isn't traditional wisdom. It's projected. Programmed. And if able to learn from information, it can be weighed informationally and found wanting. But if the substructure is fixed, malfeasance and lies won't have an impact.

CLI communication is not information-based in this - or any - way. It runs on emotion, bizarre as that sounds. Bizarre until the incoherence of mass behavior is considered, anyhow. There's a vague impression about the content, but not much. More like a label to indicate the [set of emotional triggers] category than relevant information.

 

Carl Schleicher, The News, 19th century,  oil on panel

You've all heard blatherers mix events in totally different places or events while mistelling a figment of current narrative. And blathering on with no more than an "oh yeah" if corrected. This is only weird if information exchange is the assumed purpose of the communication. It not even registering confirms it isn't. Facts literally don't matter at all, because facts are bits of information.

But the words aren't just random gibberish. We often call it that for rhetorical effect, but in reality that only applies to the meaning. Proper sentences are used to refer to recognizable topics. They connect to the current narrative as seen on glowing screens. Not on the information level - the information coherence would matter if that were the case. The words are markers or triggers that evoke the current thing. Hearing "pandemic" or "Ukraine" calls up the current active on-screen programming. But there's no real reflective absorption or learning. Otherwise the current thing couldn't be switched out without a trace. What’s transmitted is the feeling that the screens told them to have about the topic. 

Conceptualizing information-less communication is difficult if words are instinctively meaningful. It's why people who can learn from information keep overestimating FTS-2s. The do react to the screens, so it's natural to assume a similar process to one's own. It isn't. 

Infantile simplicity and repetitiveness are two of the many reasons FTS-1s drift away from narrative. But those are information retention and learning processes. CLI completely changes the experience. Fruit-fly tier memories limit interest to the current thing. Lock-box base codes limit complexity to NPC conscious capacity. It has to be simple and repetitive or it loses the target audience.

What the narrative does is rhetorical. It adds emotional shade to the current thing. Whether to feel good or bad about it and to what degree. We've all experienced someone emoting passionately about some au courant triviality they'd recently heard about. That could be written off as general idiocy. What can't is how a far more extreme example of the same offense from outside the current narrative doesn't register at all. Intellectually, for obvious reasons. But not emotionally either, despite apoplexy over a lesser version of the same. 

This indicates the emotional response to the trigger isn't reasoned outrage either. People who can learn from information will become aware of things that upset or offend. Emotional response to the new knowledge. But where the information comes from is irrelevant as long as the source is reliable. CLI means the [information content] isn't part of the emotional response pattern. That’s associative. Calling up whatever group of glowing screens = "being informed" in the substructure. [Factual non-fiction] comes out of the news utility the way [energy] comes out of the electric one. No further thought needed.

This is full-channel manipulation. Selective, slanted, and/or false content on the transcript level. Lots of judgmental word choices and qualifiers. Mood-enhancing music, lighting, tones of voice, and angles. Even the lead-ins and tag lines. At no point is information value assessed. Many have tried to counter media lies in real time with all the impact of a soft sigh in a hurricane. Information might as well be someone murmuring in old Norse through a symphony. Unintelligible and an irritating distraction from the show.

Once "informed", other references call up the associated feelings. That's literally the reward in a CLI conversation. The bonding experience of a shared feeling with a pinch of feeling up to date. It's objectively observable in the inevitable failure of any reply other than some vapid affirmation. "Well, it does seem suspicious that the deaths are so clustered in nursing homes..." doesn't use the standard media words or carry the designated feeling. So it doesn't even register. Pushing the issue slams into the entire fake world view - defensive anger or buffoonish incredulity being common results. 

And as long as it isn't too complex, strong emotions engage the ability to follow direction without touching the substructure. Fear is most effective, but others work as well depending on circumstances. They'll even pressure others to conform. That's the flash mob instant mass zombie-like behavior that's so disconcerting. It's coming from the same place as the [reset to factory settings] effect in the more capable ones. How much goes in the RAM before it gets dumped?

House of Lies narrative organs are often accused of emotionally manipulating their representations of reality. This implies that the information - the representation of reality - plays some partial role. It probably does for FTS-1s - someone has to be able to process for their process to be swayed. But for the CLI audience, factual truth content matters less than the host's suit. It's often completely made up. The emotional shading is the message. 

Consider this...

When FTS-2s show that obsessive need to watch TV or scroll social media, there is no intention to learn or assess. It's not an information transfer process. Broken record, but this CLI is not hyperbole. 

It goes like this...

The conclusion is stark. Content issues have to be abandoned with most people. They're not part of their belief or action decision trees. 

Media communication with the majority of the population is by emotional pulses

It all holds together because the narrative projects the same House of Lies that the huffer thinks is real. The huffer is a subset of the fake reality he believes he's observing. The worldviews line up perfectly. It feels “real”. Feels. Repeating the current thing makes the NPC feel in the know - at least until the next latest transmission clears the last. So a stream of beast consciousness that has to be watched for reasons that have nothing to do with intellectual curiosity. That transmits simple messages designed to trigger emotional reactions. 

Since the uptakes come from a substructure-tier authority, the idea of accuracy doesn’t even compute. The programming is accepted as truthful in the same way as the light switch working. Because its vision reinforces the huffer’s own. But with information content irrelevant, huffers only uptake emotional cues. And then vent the new feelings in the ways the media provides. Essentially following direction without change, not learning. Fear, outrage, or whatever other feeling drives the need to act, not knowledge. If it was learned, it would last. The official ritual just relieves the pressure until the voices tell them they don’t have to be upset anymore. The reason why their behavior seems so psychotic is because there is no learning. Just flailing because the voices they can’t shut off are upsetting them.

This gets us to fake media world. Over time, maintaining the House of Lies pushes its mouthpieces further from reality. Not that the media was ever honest. The early tell should have been it being the media itself spreading the myth of its impartiality. This gets to one of the retardisms that drove childhood alienation. During the age of newspapers, apparently major city dailies had different “slants”. Generally aping the left and right talons of the beast. The logic remains painfully simple. If an organ strives to accurately report events, slant is what it most tries to eliminate. Obviously some bias is inevitable, but it certainly isn’t promoted. Alternatively, if an organ misrepresents for ideological reasons, it definitionally isn’t accurately reporting events. They’re mutually exclusive. You have to pick one. But no one seemed able to see it.  Being breezily told bias is just a normal part of the information dissemination process was an early encounter with FTS-2.

A similar jaw-dropper was being breezily informed as a child that all politicians lie. And than promises aren’t in any way binding. But I was also told politicians represented the people and acted on their behalf. And no one seemed to find the mutual exclusivity problematic in any way. CLI clears these up. The structural assumptions are substratum. [Democracy represents] belongs to the the preconscious reflexive world view. Individual instances of lying are pieces of information. Common enough perhaps to be noted. But not able to inform the underlying foundation.

Can’t say how dishonest older media was - assume it was pretty terrible. Over the last 40 years, the entire media ecosystem has moved steadily into clown unreality. Not just big tech and media - the entire mainstream fake world view. The media bubble moves in lockstep with clown world malevolence and mendacity. That’s the House of Lies. A vertically integrated immersive false reality. Just without internal consistency or coherence because it’s made of demented whims. What was missing in our account was the hook that kept the FTS-2s from drifting. The assumption was a mix of mindless conditioning and fruit-fly tier memories. Didn’t mention it in the older posts, but that was never a fully satisfying explanation. CLI is. The glowing screens are unreflective, preconscious substrata. It’s not information they communicate. It’s feelings. 

This is why the glowing screens never let them down. The screens are taken as independent of their content. Like transmission lines. It’s hard for the sentient to wrap our heads around it, but FTS-2 see the House of Lies the way we do material reality. 

Institutions are trusted producers of knowledge, havens of expertise, and custodians of the public good. Government is freely elected and the only corruption is what gets mentioned in media. Putin is raving as Russia loses infinity men. And so on. It’s so extreme, that small talk is impossible around current events. The odd time a changing story is noted, they assume a mistake or “incompetence”. That [the media] is complicit is beyond contemplation. How could it be? It’s like the road being responsible for drunk drivers. 

The organs of the House of Lies control the huffers with pulses of feeling. This triggers direction-following mode to alleviate the emotional pressure. Herd dynamics amplify the compulsion. It’s why angry defensiveness results when challenged. They literally don’t know why what they’re doing is important beyond poorly understood screen impressions. Obviously lasting change occurs over time. But it isn’t learned through conscious information assimilation. Some is biological - personalities alter as we age to some degree. The rest is conditioned. Each spasm has an effect of some kind. Traumatic, sensitizing, or training in some way. Over time, huffers can be nudged into new attitudes without ever considering a thing. Which isn't learning in Aristotle’s sense either.

Keep in mind Aristotle lived around 2400 years ago. And remained prominent through the Middle Ages. CLI not only isn't new. It should have snuffed the entire universal equalism beast fantasy at birth. The absurd pretense that autonomous self-enlightenment was possible. Not only are we not now all free to attain some higher destiny. Most can't remember what they believed last month. 

Jean Huber, Supper of the Philosophes, 1772, Voltaire Foundation

Anyone familiar with “Enlightenment thought” has had their fill of over-emotional dolts fluffing the wonders of human reason. The similarity with the nonsense blather of today’s clowns is telling. Demented claims, thespian delivery, then proceeding as if the incoherent absurdities really were rational.  

Apotheosis of Claudius, around 54 AD, sardonyx cameo, National Library, Paris

Obviously it was appealing - self-deification usually is. 

But it’s also mind-bendingly stupid for reasons abundantly clear to readers. 

The emotional transmissions move in lockstep with the other pillars of the House of Lies. So that the media message always lines up with what the administrative and institutional sides are doing. This keeps the delusion bubble self-reinforcing even if the specifics are often nonsensical. The narrative can reverse but sequentially - it’s never contradictory. And the trusted authorities are always the trusted authorities, regardless of anything.

 No wonder debunking is irrelevant. A refutation is a logical argument based on … information. In other words, invisible to the FTS-2 feels-based impression formation process. The Chinese fear videos at the start of covid are a great example. They were unusual enough that learners were skeptical. But CLI ignores careful examination because that’s another learning process. Assessing something means building an understanding of it - learning from information - and comparing it to other things - functional memory, learning from information. Dead horse, but it’s important not to look past how alien and compromised their thought patterns are.

Covid messaging is a case study in herding dolts. A common liar's tell is doing what they accuse others of doing. The contrast between the poisoners' claims of scientific objectivity and their absurdly rhetorically charged and misleading images is striking. Not sure what is is about the unnatural fluorescent type lighting they love to use. Presumably it connotes "laboratory conditions" to those whose grasp of medical science is limited to ER. 

This one plays the fear of the cartoon sputniks [apparently a major trigger for stupid people] against the reassurance of the science-clad brown person hands. Faux futurism as threat and savior in one. Whether this makes you want to run or shoot poison is a litmus test.

We also saw a lot of pseudo-religious images. Here, the lurid artificial light is supposed to seem mystical. The reverential hands and cross orientation adds to this misplaced worship. Replacing God in the minds of the credulous is a long-running beast dream.

The tell is obvious though. It's an upside-down cross.

CLI means reacting to emotional triggers - by nature unstructured and unreflective. Powerful, even overwhelming impulses that fuel overreaction when unchecked by reality. Lust and desire leading the Gamma to ignore signs all the way to dismissal for harassment. Fear driving NPCs to cripple their children developmentally and physically. The list is endless. The result is a completely different communication pattern. 

It’s not the bad information content that → acting out narrative negative self-interest. It’s a fear pulse from the substructure

The NPC attitude isn’t based on applied knowledge or learning. It’s basically fight, freeze, or flight tier strategic thinking. The provided ritual controls the cortisol until the laser pointer lights up a new pulse. 

Stringing together words about what was “really true” is as relevant to this process as folk dancing proficiency. All they know is doing a thing was really important and it’s over now. 

An honest dealer might have asked any of the Enlightenmenteers how this sorry species was supposed to cast off the "shackles of authority and superstition" and self-actualize? They obviously weren’t. Any more than the Obamaphones unlocked untapped wells of urban creativity. Keep in mind that every peddler of humanist auto-idolatry tripe presumes the ability to learn from their information. To turn text string or picture into lived experience. How does this happen when the majority dance spasmodically from feeling to feeling without a second thought?

Spoiler alert - it doesn’t. But it is a choice...

The liars were - as always - satanic charlatans chasing some mix of atavism and power. The Band has referred to the beast system on occassion as the corner of Evil and Stupid. It would be more accurate to call it Evil and CLI. Self-deification and kumbaya equalism sound great. Contradictory, but feel good emotional pulses. And since noting contradiction is a learning from information process, irrelevant to FTS-2. So they’ll huff, and self-congratulate and piously intone impossible “principles”. And the engineers will proceed with their actual agendas. Just making sure the string of pulses always matches up with current priorities.

A cursory glimpse at Aristotle clears up the mechanism of the beast system. The Band identified the FTS-2s and their symbiotic relationship with House of Lies. But the phenomenon is so objectively bizarre it demands some investigation. Lazy, r-selected sloth-seeking is certainly part, but not sufficient. Fruit-fly tier memories are part of the process, but are weird enough for further questions. Even NPCs remember how to drive a car, so there’s more to it. CLI nails it. The vapidity of beast culture is irrelevant if the information content isn’t assessed. A lot of Pedowood makes more sense as a series of pulses than a crafted plot. And a brain that only reacts to feeling with a rudimentary capacity for instruction will seem fruit flyish. 

Ransom Gillis Mansion, Detroit

The beast system, its House of Lies, and the Clown World metastasis evolved over time. The Band believes it's orchestrated, but from a metaphysical source. It’s the only rational explanation for the complexity and timeframe. Human agents are more reactive. The engineers can learn from information and keep reacting to how the last beat went. 

Layers of inversion and deception pile into a thick putrescent crust. It’s why the narrative can zig zag but always drifts further from reality. And where the boiling frog analogies come from. 

What the frog metaphor misses is CLI. The metaphor’s meaning is go gradually so the dupe doesn’t notice. Pickpockets can do similar. The implication being a quick jump or movement will give the game away. That presumes learning from information. That a certain kind of data will → informed reaction. Bailing out or slapping the hand away. The temperature rate or hand speed is irrelevant to FTS-2 because they can’t learn that way. Recent events have made it easy to see. The NPCs jerk spasmodically from one absurdity to the other with no lead time required. There are lots of logistical reasons with the folkloric “spontaneous uprisings” never happen. Most people are cognitively incapable. New realities will be embraced when new emotional pulses force it. And for that to happen, the wheels have to fall off.

Jehoiakim Burns the Word of God from Jeremiah 36:21-32, Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company, 1904

Which explains why obvious fixes don’t happen before catastrophe. If the House of Lies media-institution web [substructure + impulses] doesn’t alert them to the problem, FTS-2 is utterly oblivious. No matter how many times they may nod along to an explanation. The words whirl around superficially, in the manner of a fictional story. Understood on the meaning level, but not applicable to anything further. Meanwhile the substructure presets float along unscathed. 

Breaking it down like this is clarifying, but also a little troubling. 2400 years is enough sample size - Aristotle’s CLI observation can be taken as fact. The Band suspects a psycho-spiritual root, but the mechanisms are is less important than the reality. The proof of which is seen in how perfectly it accounts for the rise of the House of Lies and the FTS-2 behavior in it. But it also means there isn’t a solution in the sense of a cure or consciousness-raising. They can’t be shown to think any more than a nematode can be taught to ride a bicycle. They will shift to the new order as if it always was, once emotionally prodded to do so. But until then, expect them to mouth narrative right off the cliff.

You'll know to go the other way.

Barrett Biggers, The Road Not Taken, 2024, digital print inspired by Robert Frost's poem