The Unreality Paradox

The News is Fake ... The War is Real

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The subhead of this piece bears repeating.

“The News is fake. The War is real.”

No doubt many reading these words have also read those ones, albeit in a different context. While I don’t know if the twin phrases originated in the Q Drops, that was the first place I saw them, and while responses to and impressions of the Q Drops range from staunch adherence to derisive dismissal to the somewhat curious, albeit agnostic in between, there can be no argument disputing the fact that, for better or worse, those infamous and anonymous coded messages that first started appearing in the waning days of 2017 represent one of the most ubiquitous and impactful psychological operations in American—perhaps world—history.

Instead of delving into the veracity and legitimacy of the Q Operation, however, my purpose here today is to dissect those words and to pass them through my own cognitive filter so that I might present one of the key paradoxes at the heart of the Fifth-Generation Psychological War we’re all engaged in—either passively or actively—so that some might better orient themselves on an intellectual and even emotional level when parsing the chaos that is the modern Information Blitzkrieg.

When I first came upon that twin refrain, I took it quite literally.

The News is Fake.

Well, of course it is. Most of us in this community have known that the Media Industrial Complex—dubbed the ‘Fake News’ at turns affectionately and venomously by Donald Trump—has been weaving a complex, obfuscating web of lies for decades as they have wielded the considerable might of Mass Formation Psychosis (h/t Dr. Robert Malone,) en route to effectively programming generations of Americans into various paradigms, from pro war jingoism periods to the ensuing—and heavily guided—socialist backlashes to the very same.

I don’t need to spent any time preaching to this audience on the dangers of blind trust in or adherence to any information source, much less the Media Industrial Complex, but I do think that my initial impressions of the phraseology were just a hair off, and I attribute that to a misinterpretation of the second part of the twin refrain.

The War is Real.

At the time, I took this quite literally as well, albeit in a different manner. Taken in concert with the preceding line, I took this to signify that, while ‘Normie’ Americans were passively absorbing mind control-inducing lies fed to them by the Fake News Media Complex, a very real political, administrative, clandestine and even sometimes-kinetic war was playing out in the background. We often refer to this particular theater on the modern game board as the Shadow War, and I think the term is apt.

While nothing I have seen in the ensuing years as I have delved as deeply as many of you into the matrix of communications, obfuscations and Narrative and Actual Deployments in this Fifth-Gen War has disabused me of that notion, I do believe that my literal interpretation of it caused me to miss at least a piece of the forest for the trees.

While it is true that ‘The News’ is fake and that ‘The War’ is real, I think the two lines fit together much more snuggly than I first thought.

For those who have been following my writing or any of my appearances on various shows on the Badlands Media Network, you’ll know that I’m borderline obsessed with the concept of Narrative Warfare. Of course, some part of this obsession is rooted in my innate and long-formed passion for the written word—a passion that sometimes causes readers to groan at my tendency to wax poetic, while others praise it—but the greater part of this interest lies in the fact that I believe we are currently in a war of stories.

Stories of history unfolding before our eyes. Stories of culture depicted in mass media, both ‘real’ and fictional. Stories of politics, war, society and all its permutations.

Whether these stories are true, false or some mix of the two, they provoke reactions within their target audiences—us and our fellow Americans—and by provoking said reactions, we see changes in thought process, examinations of underlying value systems and even deep-rooted beliefs. That said, the content of the Narratives being told to us or sold to us are less important to me than the sources of those respective Narratives.

While some play a bit of a binary game when it comes to ‘sourcing’ the Narratives they are engaging with, dismissing sources they categorize as belonging within the ‘Fake News’ matrix while heartily embracing those spun by those we consider to be patriots of the highest order, or even thinkers in this vast and growing decentralized citizen alliance of journalists, writers, thinkers and readers, I think such a black and white approach is as detrimental to our full appreciation for and understanding of the Mind War as the ‘White Hat-Black Hat' cyphers many in this community apply without the needed context to do so with any confidence or surety.

In short, when I reexamine the ‘Fake News-Real War’ truism that seems to lie close to the heart or foundation of the Truth Community in light of all I have discovered and observed in the War of Stories I play some small role in, I believe we are looking at a paradox, and I believe the seeming contradiction inherent in that paradox was highlighted for a reason by minds far more knowledgeable of the foundational truth underlying this war than any of us are privy to.

While it IS true that the ‘Fake News’ Media Industrial Complex spins webs of lies, and while it IS true that there are Actual operations that have and continued to be actioned by all sides and factions on the proverbial game board, it is ALSO true that the ‘Fake News’ is a part of the ‘Real War.’

In short, by dismissing the news as being ‘fake,’ and therefore, unworthy of one’s respect, attention, time or intellectual capacity, I believe one takes the risk of failing to engage with—and thus to understand—the short, medium and long-term intensions of the weaponization of Narrative this illusory—and yet, very real—psychological apparatus seeks to further.

As I explored recently in ‘The Master,’ I believe that we have to look no further than to Donald Trump himself to find a key figure in our movement who understands this concept like few others. In fact, Trump himself wields control of the public Narrative with such vigor and surety that he is sometimes capable of getting even large swaths of his own voter base to criticize him in line with the very Fake News Media Complex he seeks to provoke by forcing them to engage with, and then ultimately promote and highlight the very stories he wants at the forefront of the Collective Mind of American Society.

This practice is why I often refer to Trump as a Magician of sorts, albeit one that offers a diametrically opposed mirror to the Deep State illusionists so many of us track. Rather than using the power of Narrative, Storytelling and Obfuscation to hide the truth, I believe Trump uses misdirection, rhetoric and dichotomous and paradoxical thinking and verbiage in order to reveal core truths that will be pivotal to our collective escape from the enemy matrix that is the System of Systems.

No doubt you have observed—very recently, perhaps—the way that Trump’s chosen Narrative Deployments often appear one way when they are initially actioned before evolving, twisting and turning en route to appearing far different and suggesting far more consequential—and often encouraging—revelations and even core strategy with the natural wisdom inherent in hindsight.

While the ‘War of Stories’ refrain I am prone to is usually applied to the Media Industrial Complex and all its vectors and clowns, Trump is a shining example of how it can and has been turned around on them, as he uses Narrative Vehicles, Templates and sensationalism in order to reverse and ultimately weaponize their own psychological and informational deployments against them.

This practice often plants seeds of topics within the Collective Mind that are later germinated by Actual Events. For example, Trump’s presumed innocence in the Russia Collusion Narrative later serves not just as an exoneration of him and his Administration, but also an educational model his own base can engage with when it comes to exploring and dissecting foreign collusion allegations—with significantly more evidence—that continue to surface regarding his and our enemies.

Follow this same line of thinking with regards to Trump’s ‘Perfect Phone Call,’ with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the auspicious—some might say, planned—timing of the Media’s then attempts to frame the conversation as being laden with Quid Pro Quo in light of the current Pretender’s Actual version of that little movie.

From cries of election fraud that [they] howled from tin rooftops while dismissing and decrying it later on to projections of MAGA-induced and engineered violence while ignoring or even glorifying the very real violence of sycophantic followers of the Modern Marxist ideology, Trump and his Anons—all of you—have managed to turn this War of Stories around on its originators, which is why I often say that, while we are indeed in a War of Stories, we have better writers.

The concept of the ‘Fake News’ suggests and even reveals the Men Behind the Curtain, but while some feel we should disengage from [their] paradigm completely, I feel that we should tear that curtain down and examine the scripts their gnarled fingers type up so that we might better understand how they plan to warp the Collective Mind into their latest mass psychological deployment, thereby determining how best to thwart it.

After all, the very prospect that it is possible to engineer Mass Formation Psychosis reveals a rather disconcerting truth at the heart of the shared human psyche—that being that we can be and have been controlled, guided and influenced by powers that slither beneath our conscious understanding, and as I also often say, you cannot defeat an enemy you don’t see in the first place.

We might explore in detail how the process of Narrative Seeding works in a future entry—how it has been used for both nefarious and altruistic means—but my purpose today has simply been to remind you—even to shake you—into the conscious recognition of and hopeful engagement with the Unreality Paradox.

Only by observing the Magician’s hands while ignoring his lips might we see what tricks he has up his sleeve, and while obfuscation and trickery might seem unbecoming for children of the light to employ against the darkness, the truth is that stories matter, and they can be used for good as well as ill.

We should never have lost control of our ability to tell them—stories of inspiration, of heroism, of dark and necessary chapters to revisit in human history, and of truth—and should never have forgotten the Men Behind the Curtain.

The News is Fake, but [their] War on US is very real.

So the next time you find yourself tempted to roll your eyes and ignore the latest spell the weavers begin to spin just because you have developed an immunity to it, remember that so many of our fellows are still caught in the grips of the Liar’s Sleep, and that each of us might yet provide a torch to light their way in the wandering dark, if only we have the will, the fortitude and the patience to stand in the dark of [their] illusion, and light candles of truth to dispel it.

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

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