Monday 7 October 2024

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.









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. 




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












Thursday 1 August 2024

Ideology, Organic Socialization & the Reality of What Things Are



Ontological clarity gets practical in the uncertain times that always accompany the ending of an era. 
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If you are new to the Band, this post is an introduction to the point of this blog that needs updating. Older posts are in the archive on the right. Shorter occult posts and other topics have menu pages above. 
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Robin Moline, Harmony Town, cover image for Just Shy of Harmony by Philip Gulley



Moving into the collapse phase of the current House of Lies brings a dizzying cascade of societal degeneration, weird cargo cultic behavior, and increasing narrative drift from reality. It's remarkable watching a parade of nonsense events and abject lunacy conga by without any apparent impact on the mass of FTS-2s. Beyond a mounting unease uselessly filtered through the old narrative channels. The Band has been watching larger patterns below the surface for some time now, and reality has never been this directionless and surreal. Late stage of civilization ennui gets the flavor but understates the pervasiveness. Readers are decoupling and uninterested beyond assessing materially real threats and opportunities. But when things are this fake, unmoored, and changing, even the surest seeming roads need careful assessment.




John Howe, ships leaving Middle Earth on the Straight Road, from The Grey Havens


A recent sub touched on the inorganic nature of the socio-political scene but only scratched the surface of how bizarre and detached mainstream discourse has become. The Band is completely disinterested in the absurd pantomime “politics” has degenerated into. The sprays of juvenile illogic and platitudinous lies, conga lines of grotesques, and complete lack of attention to reality are stupid and irritating. To the point where even hearing morons act like all this infantile jibber-jabber is real sets the temple vein throbbing. But intellectual bankruptcy doesn't rule out insight into mass behavior patterns. If anything, morons tend to be more bluntly revealing. The collective delusion that team-type competition is a good fit to guide an ideological space is an interesting form of FTS-2 narrative-huffing. With practical lessons for manifesting abstraction in material social contexts. 

Clarify. Start with the distinction between what we are calling team-based and ideology-based competition. 



Teams require some sort of pre-existing structure. Leagues, corporate settings, organizations, informal group dynamics, etc. They compete for rewards of some kind within that system. This may include control, as in the case of political parties. But the outcome of the competition doesn’t destroy the structure or the other teams. Competition resumes next "season".




Aleksandar Todorovic, Iconostasis of Isms-Consumerism, 2016, watercolor and acrylic gouache on paper

Ideology-based competition is looking to change the direction - or even the nature - of the system. Distinct or even mutually exclusive societal choices. 

In theory, political parties are defined by competing ideological visions for the direction of the nation [note the in theory. We understand the nature of democracy, civic nationalism, and party politics better than most]. In a smaller organization, ideological competition is for mission and identity.











Ideology is abstract and becomes materially real through implementation. Manifestation is always "imperfect" because it's an ontological translation. The [set of ideological precepts/beliefs] is existentially different from [a group of statements and actions]. It's why the cringingly stupid "not real Marxism" line of defensive retardery self-erases any stitch of credibility. There literally can't be a "real" socially manifest abstraction. Abstract conceptualization and Material enacting have no ontological being or substance in common. They are essentially different on a higher or deeper level - in kind not in degree.

Of course, lies are like magic when dupes believe them because they change reality - what the dupes do because of the false belief - with words. There's real value pretending temporal, contextual Material manifestation can be perfectly identical to timeless, constant Abstract conceptualizations. It reimagines inevitable failure [intrinsic to any secular transcendence where Abstract perfection is substituted for entropic, temporally sequenced Material Reality] as situational [failure to properly implement something claimed to be possible]. From an atavistic, sorathic, anti-Creation perspective, this keeps the dupes from catching on. And the perpetual progressive revolution/year zero going. It's simple. Anyone promising utopia is self-evidently lying. Amelioration of observable issues is the only place for ideological debate. Quality of life. Which has no magical promised land end state. 



Charles Newman, Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow, illustration for Barney Bracken & Friends, watercolor

Impossible ideological purity tests keep the dupes from ever grasping the promises are impossible. Never realizing the whole nonsense illusion is fake because each failure iterates as [still just another step on the way to Shangri-La]. 

It' s insidious.



And a pattern to be wary of in your own ideological investments.








The current party system is the team type. By the fruits, there is no significant ideological difference between beast talons. Hence the common term "uniparty".  Both are defined by globalist satanic inversion. Tactics and strategy can vary but the only goal is getting the league trophy for that season to run the clown car for a term. FTS-2s are given cardboard characters, meaningless symbols, and emotionally triggering rhetoric with no truth value. At all. On any level. Each sock puppet blames the other for systemic failures. And things like morality, tradition, and self-reliance can vanish from the Republican Party while the FTS-2s root on for the laundry. Or "the left" can go from worker protection to open borders while shrilling about higher morality.

Quotes are needed because words like "left" and "right" are completely detached from any coherent ideological frame. It's Celtic-Rangers in terms of meaningful impact. Personnel and identities come and go, but the team loyalty is constant. And with no more change in the decline of the Macro-Arc [socio-cultural pillars as qualitative vectors over time. Click the link for part one and part two of an in-depth treatment].


All aspects of the House of Lies reject reality for secular transcendence. So all its choices point in the same direction.


Thinking it through - it's like team competition, if the league were deliberately self-destructing. Sort of like the comics industry, Pedowood, "elite" education, etc. 



Vintage Texaco Dealer Service Magazine  Ad, 1948

When it comes to the House of Lies, team-type is a bit reductive. Leagues don't fundamentally change. Rules are tweaked. Cultures and styles shift. Technology and training improve. But sports from the 50s are instantly recognizable. 

Thought experiment. Imagine a young sports fan from today who's never watched old footage. Then show him games or matches from the 50's. He wouldn't need much time at all to pick up the different rules and then grasp the action with his normal depth of strategic understanding. A 5-4-3 triple play or right hook to the body, left hook to the head translate.








The House of Lies is an ersatz "socio-culture" that FTS-2 takes as reality. In that way it is like a league. But it is fundamentally changing. Degenerating. Declining Macro-Arc. A young political fan or culture watcher kept from old media wouldn't recognize the socio-culture of the 50s. And this decline is not random, though moral entropy plays a big part. The false ideologies of secular transcendence and satanic inversion are the drivers.

So the parties play the role of teams in an unrecognized "league" that is directed ideologically. By agents that are not only completely outside any "democratic" process - FTS-2 is unaware they or the meta-ideology even exist. 




The teams are the distraction/fly trap that sprays squid ink over the ideology. Declining IQ and other social fitness metrics pace the idiocy level of the charade. Synergistic threads in the downward Macro-Arc. 


Current parties are a hybrid - they presents as consistent teams in an ideologically guided league.


Next is ideological quality. Not all ideograms are equal. By definition, no things that are different are. Ideologies are abstractions and can be assessed as real or true on the basis of logical coherence. The internal argumentative structure and whether foundational claims about the nature of man or the world match empirical observation. Like how beast totems [equalism] and [genetic science] are mutually exclusive - the truth of one requires the falsehood of the other. Anyone believing both can be dismissed as too stupid for consideration. Functionally a second species. And the House of Lies is filled with these contradictions. We suspect pretending they're all true must cripple discernment over time.

Ideology comes in many forms - stick to "political parties". The rational assumption is that they are ideologically defined organizations that represent popular general directions. In the American case, within a universally accepted constitutionally determined framework, guided by public plebiscite. 



John Lewis Krimmel, Election Day in Philadelphia, 1815, oil on canvas, Winterthur Museum of Art, Wilmington

The image of a meaningful mass event is still implied, long after the reality changed.






This isn't an endorsement or a critique of the ideology, just ab observation of what the parties are presented as being in a party-based system. The other guiding quality is supposed to be reality - manifestations being where abstracts take materially real forms. 



George Caleb Bingham, The Verdict of the People, 1854, oil on canvas, Saint Louis Art Museum

The whole point of any kind of democracy being to make sure government reacts to the real needs and desires of the populace. 







In the House of Lies, the inverse is true. When a socio-culture built on ontological falsehoods, lies become metastatic. [Democracy in a theoretical pure state] is an intrinsically impossible form of rule because it doesn't exist qua itself socially or materially. It's why all the checks and balances of the Republic couldn't stave off degeneration into illusion and globalist kakistocracy if the manifestations started manifesting a different ideology. No one cared because MPAI and, as Aristotle pointed out, incapable of learning from information. 

One of the most subtly pernicious falsehoods of equalism is pretending everyone is capable of rational self-interest. If the current state of the House of Lies is any indication, a considerable majority are congenitally logically crippled. A substantial number of those incapable of imagining missing breakfast. FTS-2 vastly outnumbers FTS-1 so meaning narrative huffing will always override agency in if centralized liars run mass polls. It's not surprising that these puppets sell their franchise for a lot less than a bowl of pottage. It's inevitable.



Alexander Donskoi, Classified Stupidity, oil on canvas, private collection

House of Lies "democracy" perverts representative government  - despite that already perverting government in the popular interest. The process has reached a level of apparent Calvinball that whatever is writing The Script, it has no connection to the constitutional Republic.




















So instead of choosing between ideological directions, the people root for rhetorical chimera. Teams. While the ideological direction is imposed without public input to their detriment. Or maybe benefit, given how they can't even identify self-interest. Pods and cricket paste are more humane than mass starvation on couches. In any case, the FTS-2 condition moving from inevitably terminal to actively terminal. Ghastly on one level, long-expected on another, and interesting regardless. There’s a reason the Band has always advocates self-responsibility and agency. The future is much rosier for FTS-1. 

The core problem is at the corner of agency and ideology. We’re using ideology broadly here - basically any foundational or defining set of beliefs a person or body claims to follow. In other words, a manifestation of an abstraction. And like any abstraction, to prove real, or true, ideology has to be logically sound and coherent. Both internally and in its conception of material reality. That's in order to be true. Obviously truth value is irrelevant to what's pushed and believed in mass culture today. The House of Lies is an apotheosis of logically unsound and incoherent ideologies. For a party to switch ideological directions means the people leading it disbelieve its stated ethos. And the people belonging to it don't care or don't believe either. 



Jeff Christensen, Rivers Will Rise, 2007, oil on canvas

By the fruits.

That would sound unbelievable to readers had you not already seen it countless times. More pattern evidence for the functionally two species model. 






















Ideology in this sense is what sentient FTS-1s actually believe is real and act accordingly. The premise that you toss your religion or code of values or understanding of reality for no reason other than a liar on a screen is absurd. Prima facie. But that's what FTS-2 narrative huffing is. Uploading content from the glowing screens and endlessly rinsing fruit fly tier memory means "ideals" can literally reverse overnight. The last few years have made the necessity of thinking global/meta-narratively and acting personally beyond obvious. Covid blew out the floor, and it's been power diving since. There are no breaks on the FTS-2 train. The white pill is that you can just get off before it plummets into the abyss.

A few points on organic community building.



Most people are FTS-2

NPCs. Even in "based" or ideologically homogeneous communities. They will go with the flow. And the level of internalized cucking is literally astonishing. Many are technically capable and valuable when rightly guided. This is what makes leadership so crucial. 












Eduard Lebiedzki,
Aristotle and His Disciples, around 1888, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Organic groups need ideological direction 

Frame of reference. Culture or mission statement. What defines and unites them. There are different forms, but leadership - informal or formal - must embody the ideological frame. It's uncanny how often groups seppuku by promoting leaders that expressly want to change what the group is.



Rembrandt, The Night Watch, 1642, oil on canvas, Rijksmuseum

Direction has to be connected to or an extension of the group

A co-op, church group, neighborhood watch, and social group have distinct forms of "leadership". But they're all small scale and based on personal connections. Bringing in outsiders for direction is as retarded as atavists. Nothing wrong with consultants. But the lead must share the identity.




William Sidney Mount, Cider Making, 1840–41, oil on canvas

Everyone has to take responsibility

We're living the wages of coasting on passive assumptions of good intentions. The Bible has instructions for confronting wrongdoers. FTS-1s - whether in formal leadership positions or not - have to provide ideological mettle. Informal direction at least, in word and deed. 



For some, socialization is painful. But who cares. It's observable reality that leaderships are highly corruptible and FTS-2s useless to arrest decline. Moral entropy has to be constantly checked by those who can see it. In a small group, one positive example can make a real difference. As one "smooth" deceiver totally unprepared for the IRL Band recently found out. The point is not to seek aggrandizement or credit. It's to serve something larger than yourself with humility and relentlessness.

We assume readers are already on top of this, having seen the necessity some time ago. But there is new traffic, and some old timers may have thought us hyperbolic. So a practical point some have already figured out - when making organic connections, connect especially with other sentients. With FTS-1s, or K-selecteds, or non-NPCs, or whatever your preferred term. You all are the backbone, regardless of SSH rank. That will shake out naturally amongst yourselves. But as the aware core, you are responsible for keeping leadership keeping the ideological ship on course. 

 

John Harvey-Mayall, Heroes of the Sea to the Rescue (cropped), 1906, oil on canvas


Bringing us back to parties and teams. Lies and squid ink. When organizations get too big, centralization creates the [biggest psychopath grabs the brass ring] scenario. That's the House of Lies - narrative engineers programming FTS-2s through centralized channels with no path for player character intervention. And by extension, the current two talons, one beast uniparty model. Organic groups are small enough for direct contact to matter. From the ideological perspective, anchoring one is similar to leading a family. Logical consistency in what the beliefs explicitly are.

The party lesson is that truthful ideology is real. Material actions really have to be consistent with the beliefs in every case. Because moral entropy is also real - without constant maintenance of standards against corrosion, bodies drift from defining order [source - every Western institution]. The logic for any truth seeker is easy.













Which raises the question of why one adheres to a party that changes its ideological identity?

It's easy to answer for FTS-2s, but we are aware of sentient beings committed to the same kabuki. The same question came up in the substack post. Without facetiousness, what are the expectations for investing in this kind of distraction? We assume its some form if lingering cultural habituation. But who knows?

Truthful ideology is real, and Abstract reality is defined by logical consistency. It's why deviation from ideological direction - inconsistency - is self-erasing. But if the material entity zombies on as a rhetorical shell - a team - pretending to still be what it was... Well that's House of Lies country. The further the reality of something can drift from what the idiot masses believe it is, the more space liars have to do what they wilt. Some graphics from the sub show it nicely.



Abstractions have perfect atemporal consistency but become materially real through physical manifestation. For ideologies, by people acting them out in their lives. It’s why the surface appearances can change but the core principles don't.



The problem is that ideology has no binding force outside group buy-in. There's nothing to stop the manifestation from deviating other than the leadership and member responsibility mentioned above. Without that, liars can arbitrage the space between what a group or movement is and what the FTS-2s think it is. The bigger this gets, the more room for evil in the name of self-righteous dupes.









Thee foundational beliefs don’t change qua themselves because they're timeless abstractions. Liars can evoke them by waving old symbols around indefinitely. But the manifestation defined by them stops realizing them. It's the same rhetoric, trappings, even faces - laundry - reconfigured into something different. Change itself is fine if it's logical and transparent. But pretending something different is still the same is a core strategy of beast deception. And as we saw in countless art posts, an effective path to full inversion over time.

And when the entire game is fake...




This is not advocacy of radicalism of either anarchic or communistic stripe. Our degraded society is too system-dependent for sudden disruption not to be catastrophic. Revolutionary fantasy is the province of actual psychopaths or naïve little men unable to see the flaws in their own ridiculous projections. Let alone not be the first devoured by the first group. Even if the Band were given absolute power, rejuvenating this moldering carcass would have to be very systematic and incremental over a long period of time. We advocate personal betterment and organic growth. Disconnecting life from the House of Lies. Build anti-fragility and flexibility while it remains possible. Be attentive to big pictures to see which way the winds are blowing. And focus locally to best ride out whatever upheavals are ahead.

Alternatively...



Needless to say, the Band avoids contemporary politics. We have no interest in the activities of strangers that we have no influence on. Manifest fakeness and manipulation are repulsive, and the stupidity of the lies and tricks leads us to unproductive contempt for the dupes who believe. Narrative detail in the House of Lies is a figurative Tar Baby designed to emotionally engage and entrap. 

Think back over every hot-button issue the last 50 years - how it was narrated and what really came of it. 





Of course, we are aware of the charge that rejecting the kabuki lets "them" corrupt the system. Here's the thing. It's the House of Lies!!! The system is already terminally corrupt on the political-public messaging level. To the point where the total inversion is affecting other levels. There is no saving it. There is only granting legitimacy to its authority by agreeing to it. An act of consent. 

This is not blackpilling. It's rudimentary cognition 101. A failed system can't be repaired by doubling down on the failure. That's diametrically opposite directionally. Taking responsibility, personal agency, organic connections are real ways to raise the quality of your surroundings. The reality of politics and culture is circular. Power shapes mainstream culture, especially in mazes of mediated illusion like the House of Lies. And politics - leadership - is downstream from culture. The current level of retardedness and degeneracy was impossible earlier because it was culturally unthinkable. Degenerate and retardify the culture and it becomes first thinkable and then acceptable. 



The House of Lies isn't a natural or neutral state. Mass rejection of reality is something that has to be grown or moved into. Children are imprinted into it as the come into consciousness, and FTS-2s literally ego invest in its dancing lights. It is a choice, if not necessarily a conscious one. And it doesn't have to be chosen. 











Choosing empirical and logical reality pushes back against the moral entropy spiral that defines the House of Lies. It creates better culture on a grassroots level. It may even raise up an organic social group. Obviously this isn't systemic change. The reality is in the present, systemic change is out of reach. Clown World has to run its course and something else will follow. The more personally responsible, moral, organically connected people out there, the better the prospects. That's where standards, motivation, and leadership comes from. Better people with real expectations. Trust us - looking meta-narratively and acting personally is demanding enough that if you really buy in, there's little time for nonsense. 

Perhaps "not playing" is overstated. Just skip the teams and think about ideological direction as an aggregate of individual steps. Use that to thing about possible outcomes for your area and circles. At least That is playing in a way, just a long game with real stakes.



Alessandro Andreuccetti, Fog in the Forest, 2008, watercolor

Don't need perfect clarity to see which direction to go. Details clarify as they get nearer.










We shared thoughts on organic community - finish with looking meta-narratively/globally/big picture. Track the pattern of events over time - the meta-narrative beats -  instead of the details. That's the Macro-Arc approach that allows for some degree of rough long range forecasting. But it's not prescience. The beast isn’t a reliable narrator, and things can swerve suddenly. Reality or useful idiots can disrupt in unexpected ways. Sometimes it looks like things are going somewhere they aren't. Key information is false or missing. Consider motive. The point isn't to impress with flashy prognostication. Track narratives is to stay ahead of the tsunami.

Systemic fakeness has always been self-evident. Part A - mass obliviousness to obvious contradictions like [politicized judiciary] and [Justice as a concept] or how representative government can exist when campaign promises are non-binding was triggering as a child. How could adults not see the self-contradictions? In time it became apparent that for whatever reasons, they can’t. It became equally obvious as a teenager that Part B - some sort of systemic collapse is inevitable. Just from projecting unsustainable socio-cultural trajectories forward. 



No insight into how it would unfold, only that it was certain.

Since then, the process has been to track the hows as they happen to stay out of future blast radii.









Part C was the realization that the weird contradictions in Part A are inorganic. The whole acceptability of  "well, politicians lie" or assorted perversions of justice or morality seems “deliberate”. At least in the sense that they are obviously fixable but never addressed, and always trigger unresolved emotional engagement. This was where the Band checked out of the mainstream - other than that eye on what’s coming. But just checking out is hollow. Hotel California got that part right. But it missed the part where you can leave whenever you so choose. And check into reality. 

A bit of a rambling post to tie current events to some recent posts. House of Lies narrative has shifted and the Macro-Arc moved towards the x-axis since we wrote on them. A glance at the state of the human capital makes it easy to see where beast depopulation agendas and [live in pods and eat cricket paste] predictions come from. What can you do with the huge wealth transfer dependent end of FTS-2 in a time of imperial decline? A warning not to be dependent and old news for readers. The point for the future is to take the reality of ideology seriously. And not to compromise when not compromising can make a difference...



Edward Hopper, Gas, 1940, oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York


A non-dependent organic future will be more localized. Technical knowledge doesn't vanish, but opting out of beast infrastructure means opting out of its scope. Many of us have already started laying social groundwork while others are positioning themselves to do the same. And the beginning is where not compromising on truth is most essential. When things are fluid and the people you're dealing with are all under some House of Lies spell or another. Imagine if the first Defense Dept. "accounting error" was met with sackings and criminal penalties. Or if political liers had been mercilessly drummed out of office and blacklisted before centralization set in.

We're not considering anything so ambitious as rewiring society. But the point stands, even on the smallest scale. Compromising just to be more accommodating or permissive - not because of logical error or misunderstanding - is literally not being what you defined as. What's true didn't change. Don't open the gap for liars. The quality is its own reward, and your posterity will thank you. 



Spyros Vasileiou, Sunrise, 1973, oil on canvas, private collection








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