Inflection Point

An 'Eventful' Start to the Year

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I don’t think it’s a particularly risky or dramatic take to suggest to you that those who’ve found their way into what we ostensibly refer to as the ‘Truth Community,’ be they writers who contribute to this very platform, thinkers we all follow on social media and beyond or the tens of thousands of eyes scanning these words as they’re spoken in the magic of your mind are blessed with greater observational abilities, discernment and even general situational and Macro awareness than the general population.

If you’re reading this publication and following many of the minds I do in this community—from public figures like Donald Trump to Steve Bannon to prominent Anons such as Praying Medic, Julian’s Rum, Just Human and so many others—you’ve either broken free from the Matrix the Media Industrial Complex and the powers that would be have attempted—and at least partially succeeded—in ensnaring so many of our sleeping fellows in, or you were never movable, coercible or malleable enough to fall into the Liar’s Sleep in the first place.

While there is a great diversity of thought in this movement, from those who write to those who read, most of us possess an innate ability to dive into the Micro of given deployments on the ever-shifting battlefield represented by Fifth-Generation Warfare, as we engage with political, media and kinetic or military deployments with the rabid attention that others pay to sports, entertainment or their professional pursuits.

This attention to detail allows individuals within our community to pick out data points others miss, key in on contradictions that never occur to the unawakened mind and form a sort of open-source hivemind of decentralized citizen intelligence that is able to parse, process and dissect impossibly-complex sociopolitical situations in a manner that makes us a persistent, gnawing and growing problem for the powers that would be—a hateful collective of collectivists we tend to refer to as the Globalist Deep State.

In short, we are [their] worst nightmare.

That said, while this ability to apply our cognition, intuition and intellect to the analysis of the Micro on the Game Theory Game Board we’re all trying to parse on a daily—these days, an hourly—basis is valuable, I often implore my readers to zoom OUT as often or more often than they zoom in.

I would submit to you that, in a war whose key objective is to locate the signal within the noise, digging in can actually get us lost in the very informational obfuscation matrix we’re attempting to bring down in the first place.

This paradox at the heart of the Mind War, the Shadow War or the Information War—whatever you want to call this little dance we’re engaged in for the future of humanity and of sovereignty—has never been rendered more readily clear than it has been by the ‘eventful’ start to 2023.

Whether you’re talking about the ongoing political fiasco that has become of the nomination for Speaker of the House for the newly-formed U.S. Congress, the threatened continuation of Elon Musk’s enigmatic and highly-contentious Twitter Files series or a cultural touchstone event like the public, dramatic collapse of a young athlete in one of the most-watched sporting events of the past six months, we seem to be poised on the tip of a knife’s edge where it concerns the Collective Mind of American—perhaps of world—society.

And I’m not the only one who thinks so.

That said, before we dive into what exactly we mean when we use the term in the context of the Information War, we should gain some level of comfort with the literal definition of it in the first place.

Depending on the source, an ‘inflection point’ can be described as one of the following:

1.     (in mathematics) a point of a curve at which a change in the direction of curvature occurs.

2.     (in business) a time of significant change in a situation; a turning point.

Instead of simply choosing the second definition for the sake of expedience, I would posit to you that the mathematical definition of the term is the one that strikes me most about the current situation we seem to find ourselves in from a sociopolitical perspective.

If you’re reading these words, you are more aware than the common man how contentious the past few years have been when it comes to the national zeitgeist. Whether we’re talking about Trump’s initial—and, most of us would argue, long-planned—foray into the realm of politics to the backlash by the Media Industrial Complex and the powers that would be, the culture war represented by the New Left’s assault on traditional gender norms—some would say, on reality itself—to the weaponization of identity politics in order to render the realm of political and cultural debate indistinguishable from a gladiatorial arena, this era has largely been characterized as one of immense, dramatic and stressful change.

That said, where I differ from some other writers and analysts is in the belief that the very mass psychological tension of times such as these is not only a necessary side effect of the mass transition or migration we are undergoing as a species into a new paradigm built on the tenets of sovereignty, freedom and morality, but I would suggest to you that this stress is itself a key component and engine OF that transition.

Appeals to analogies of birthing pains may be tired or rote to many, as they are often employed, but I would posit that there is no greater way to conceptualize what we are going through both as individuals and as a collective as we attempt to shed our old skin of subjugated serfs and emerge into a new world made for and by the American people, as the founding fathers intended not so many years ago.

We may not have been able to keep the Republic our forebears set up for us, but I think many of us are resolved to take it back legally, peacefully and constitutionally, or to die trying.

All of that said, my appeal today is not simply to examine the Micro of the various events—be they Actual Events or Narrative Events swirling in the ether and beamed into our brains every waking moment of every day, by each and every side on the Game Theory Game Board—but to zoom out and take in the Macro.

The big picture.

And to do so with this term, ‘inflection point,’ in mind as you do.

Recognize that, when writers such as myself on this platform and in my appearances on the Badlands Media Network discuss the prospect that we aren’t even close to done with the ‘pain’ of the Great Awakening as we continue to awaken more and more of our sleeping fellows by the day, we are not attempting to engage in ‘dooming’ or to spread cynicism and despair.

Quite the opposite, in fact.

An inflection point either in the Micro or the Macro sense does not signal an ending, but rather a midpoint. Not the midpoint of an agonizing climb up a steep mountain, but the moment in time when the hiker—the adventurer—reaches the summit, looks out across a vast landscape that is now changed not just for his newfound visual perspective, but rather for the change he has undergone during the climb.

And what comes after this respite at the summit—this eagle-eyed vantage point from which all lands in all directions are rendered more clear, even if their details are washed out in the watercolor the skies paint them in—is the descent.

If you will grant me the indulgence of continuing with this analogy, and applying it to the Information War and the very concept of Fifth-Gen Warfare itself, wars such as the one we are all consciously engaged in are not won simply by dissecting the mechanisms behind allied and enemy deployments—be they in the realm of the Actual or the Narrative—but rather in projecting the net effects of those deployments on the Collective Mind, which I always say is the ultimate prize at the heart of the Information War in the first place.

This is the prize that one side seeks to control, to chain even as the other seeks to free it.

As we enter the already-roiling waters of 2023 with an awareness that things may get worse from an optics perspective before they begin to get better, I believe we are crossing a threshold in that Collective Mind. With the topics that are swirling in the ether of open public debate in a way they have not been permitted to for much of this time period, many genies are being unleashed that can’t simply be put back into their respective bottles.

An Inflection Point carries with it a promise of a temporary increase in the very tension we all wish to be free of, and yet, it also signals that—on a directional level, at least—American Society has been guided along its current trajectory as far as it is going to go.

We have reached the zenith of the arc with regards to the pendulum swing in the Mind War, by my reckoning, and that pendulum starts to swing back now. Back in the direction of truth, discernment and ultimately of the justice we all want to see visited upon the enemies of humanity.

I do not pretend to know how quickly the pendulum will swing back, but if you are already getting an initial impression from 2023 that the year ahead is going to make those in the rearview mirror seem tame by comparison, do not take it as a sign that we are losing.

Take it as a sign that we and those patriots fighting on our behalf in and behind the public levers of power have reached the summit of the Information War, taken in the lay of the land and have now taken our first steps into the descent down to the valley that rests on the other side.

The one that we’ve been dreaming about for years, for decades and—as a collective and as a country—for generations.

For the valley we venture into isn’t just going to be a mirror of the paradigm of sovereignty this nation was initially founded on, but a new and lasting vision for peace, prosperity and goodness, and it will have been built on the very difficulties—on the very struggle and strife—we experience now.

Take heart and take hope.

For the best is yet to come.

Until next time, stay Positive, stay Based and most importantly … stay Bright.

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