The War of Stories

The News is Fake. The War is Real.

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In a recent exploration of the effect of the Overton Window on the American—and worldwide—zeitgeist, I argued that public figures on the world stage have over the course of the last several decades increasingly taken on the likeness of archetypal characters more so than sovereign actors actioning their own sociopolitical agendas.

I often argue that what those of us in this community refer to as the Information War is more akin to a War of Stories, as Narrative Deployments by the Media Industrial Complex—which have been used to program and (mis)guide societies toward self-defeating ends in the service of unseen Globalist masters—are now being countered by an increasingly-engaged and awakened decentralized citizen intelligence network that you are all an active part of.

Of course, in order to engage in the War of Stories, which is really a war for control of the Collective Mind of American—of world—society, one must first understand the narrative techniques in effect, the patterns on display and the characters on the stage.

And one must also consider the prospect that both ‘our side’ and [theirs] are using many of the same psychological and informational tactics in this Fifth-Generation War.

While it can be a disconcerting prospect to consider that much of what we are witnessing with regards to the national and international news cycle, from Potential/Narrative Events to Actual Events is obfuscated by all sides on the Game Theory Game Board, the realization that we have more talented showmen, characters and crafters of narrative on our side lends credence to the idea that the Sovereign Alliance represented by Donald Trump and other influential figures pushing America First rhetoric or the exposure of the Deep State System of Systems are pushing the Overton Window of society back in the direction of freedom, one deployment at a time.

When you recontextualize the larger-than-life personalities of these public figures as Vehicles for the delivery of paradigm-shifting Narratives, the game board is rendered more clearly than before, and what can at first be mistaken for bombastic or overly-dramatic ‘scandals’ and public controversies are reframed as attention-grabbing—and mind-changing—strategic exposures and disclosures.

Of course, ‘our side’ is not the only side that has engaged in this weaponization of the Collective Mind’s pull toward the trauma and catharsis represented by dramatic storytelling, as [they] have long weaponized the cult of personality against various cultures in order to push the public mind in the direction of strife, conflict and ultimately collectivism as the proffered solution to engineered problems.

This practice is widely known as the Hegelian Dialectic, or the Problem-Reaction-Solution theorem, and while the minds behind the various Narrative Deployments that have resulted in everything from U.S. involvement in foreign wars to the potential—and potentially resurfacing—participation of U.S. intel agencies in some of the most tragic and influential inflection points in American and world history may never be known, the public faces are all too familiar to us.

For every Kennedy that was taken from us, we had a Lyndon Johnson to take his place. For every Reagan that stepped up to stem the bleeding of our nationalist zeal, we had a Bush to step in and ride the Republican Party like a Trojan Horse into a zeitgeist eagerly anticipating a post-USSR world order, only to weaponize that nationalism against the American people en route to handing the whole thing off to the Clintons, the Bushes again and then the Obama regime, each of which was groomed in succession and for succession, not of our empire, but of [theirs.]

As George Carlin famously said, “it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”

While that truism has always rang true to those of us in this community—and likely to a majority of even unawakened Americans—I would argue that Carlin wasn’t talking about the names mentioned above, but rather those pulling their strings, some of which our own Ryan DeLarme has been documenting for Badlands Media in recent weeks.

These are names, organizations and collectives that have thrived in the shadows for generations—perhaps centuries—placing their puppets in full view of the people and riding what I often refer to as the Patriot Pendulum in order to guide and then coast off of engineered public sentiment only so far as the current sociopolitical push will take them, before weaponizing the natural and ensuing backlash in the direction of an ‘antagonistic’ successor puppet they have waiting in the wings, one who publicly opposes the prior regime only to continue its work in the ledgers that truly matter upon seizing power.

There is perhaps no greater example of this engineered pendulum swing in American history than the transition from the Bush Jr. era to the Obama era, wherein Bush rode nationalist zeal in the wake of the (also engineered) 9/11 attacks into the War on Nameless, Faceless and ultimately Formless ‘Terror,’  while Obama rode the wave of the national backlash TO that zeal into the halls of power only to transition us from a War on Terror to a Forever War on … something.

A war that it took Donald Trump to pull us out of.

But that particular pendulum swing is a topic best left for another day.

This Pendulum Swing practice is largely done through the deployment of Narratives, which regimes ride into the public levers of power, and while I often refer to Narratives as ‘Potential Events,’ there is nothing potential about the very real ‘Actual’ damage they can inflict when absorbed, regurgitated and ultimately actioned by industry complexes far more literal in their deployments than the media, such as the Military Industrial Complex, whose very real deployments over the course of much of the last century have only been approved under the guise of preceding narratives pushed by the characters we tend to highlight and refer to as the Globalist Deep State.

Still, while the Hegelian Dialectic has undoubtedly been a powerful tool for the capture and tacit control of American society for decades—and foreign societies for even longer—the very genius of the technique means that it can and has been reverse engineered.

You see, while the Hegelian Dialectic as the Deep State Globalists or the powers that would be have used it relies on obfuscation and misinformation as its core building blocks, the version that patriots in the east and west are using to first expose and eventually bring down the Deep State’s System of Systems has one key advantage making up the foundation of their own Reverse Hegelian Dialectic:

The truth.

For every false and misleading Narrative Deployment the Media Industrial Complex has launched against Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Kari Lake, and yes, even Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban, Jair Bolsonaro and others who don’t quite ‘fit in’ to the framework [they] would have the world molded into against its collective will, patriots ultimately counter with exposures that are built upon evidence that, while not always immediately disclosed to the public, grant them a distinct advantage when it comes to heading off and neutralizing enemy narratives.

This is why the Deep State’s chosen characters—the cyphers and figureheads through which their Narrative Deployments are delivered to the Collective Mind—have undergone a steady and—with the clarity of hindsight—quite rapid decline in terms of ‘good standing’ within their respective populaces, while truth-tellers such as Trump, Musk and even the more controversial figures we discuss around these parts continue to carve out larger slices of the psychological pie.

Of course, Trump’s version of this has been as contentious as it gets; that is the role of the vanguard—to wade into the battle ahead of the occupying force, taking the heaviest casualties, but also inflicting them in equal or greater number. While it has been difficult to witness all the narrative slings and arrows Trump has taken since coming down the escalator those years ago, the bite of the collectivist vultures and media talking heads aligned against him has lost much of its force, and many of Trump’s most vocal critics have been rendered irrelevant in the public mind—even to their own bases.

This has less to do with the fact that Trump is ‘better’ at Narrative Warfare than the Globalist charlatans that have been used in competing fashion to him—though he IS far better at it than them—and more to do with the fact that he simply speaks the truth, and while that truth is typically buried under a mountain of false deployments (ie: lies) immediately after its birth, time heals all wounds, exposes all lies and ultimately reveals all truths.

Along with those who told them.

Elon Musk has recently entered a similar position in the Collective Mind of American society, taking on the position of bombastic, dramatic and clever Cypher through which controversial, contentious and—not coincidentally—true scandals are breaking on a daily basis, rocking the reachable middle of society in a way that the ‘Trump character’ cannot at this stage of the game. Through his pre-planned takeover of the largest civilian communications platform in the world—a role his standing as the Department of Defense’s biggest satellite infrastructure contractor puts him in an uncanny position to execute—Musk is acting as one of the most direct and obvious disclosure operations we have seen since we began tracking the moves and counter moves of this evolving and escalating Fifth-Generation Information War.

And these are just a few of the examples of the public figures—the public cyphers—through which Narrative Deployments are taking place that are influencing the Collective Mind, which is the cognitive keystone to the ultimate salvation of humanity. For without the tacit or direct mandate of a great plurality of that Collective Mind, a long-term, stable vision for this nation—and for all sovereign nations—is little more than a pipe dream.

A pyrrhic victory. Good enough for one generation. Maybe more. But not built to last.

These American cyphers are not alone, and I have probably spent a little too much of my time delving into the Russian theater as I attempt to peer through the Siberian mists in order to get the measure of one of the most influential sovereigns on the game board, perhaps one of the only ones whose Narrative Deployments pale in comparison to his Actual Deployments.

Vladimir Putin is both a character in this global play AND a patriot fighting within the Sovereign Alliance—perhaps leading it at times—as I have explored in the Righteous Russia Series, just as Donald Trump is, and just as even the enigmatic and seemingly impenetrable Xi Jinping could be, as we have explored at length in the Badlands China Series.

But then, try as we might, we cannot see all ends nor guess at all intentions in a war named for Information—and its opposite—itself. Nor do we have to.

My appeal to you as it relates to these ‘personalities,’ these leaders on the international and the terrestrial game board is to observe the net effects of their deployments, not just on us and our agendas, but perhaps more importantly on [theirs.]

And observe the counter-deployments of the Media Industrial Complex and the waning, shrinking and seemingly culturally dissolving characters and cyphers the Globalist System of Systems give their shrill voices to.

When you do so, I have a feeling you will often come away from a reading of the Game Theory Game Board feeling that, while frustratingly slow to those of us who’ve been paying attention for some time now, the winds of change are only blowing in one direction, and the future of this nation—of this world—has a sovereign feel to me far more than a Globalist one.

At the end of the day, patriots in the decentralized Sovereign Alliance that has risen up to combat the centralization efforts of the Deep State Globalists are only marching in one direction: unerringly forward, taking more and more of the Game Theory Game Board not only with each of their Narrative Deployments, but also with each of the collective enemy’s, as the time between deployment and exposure is narrowing with each passing crisis cascade, whether real, narrative or engineered entirely.

I refer to this Reverse Hegelian Dialectic as the ‘Good’ Reset, and I believe it is in full swing.

From the exposure of Con Inc. and its blue check charlatans to the FTX money laundering scandal and its fallen crypto clown prince; from the Balenciaga Saga and its demonic celebrity endorsers and the resurfacing of Crimes Against Children narratives to the petulant child in a too-tight t-shirt ostensibly running the ‘heroic’ Ukraine against overwhelming odds while begging for funding from western nations whose people are experiencing the worst inflationary crisis in three generations; from the evils of the pharmaceutical industry, corporate greed, the weaponization of biological research and the perils of government oversight represented by a man in Anthony Fauci many in this country unironically referred to as a ‘Saint’ for two years, the System of Systems is being exposed not through its core functions and sins, but rather through the faces that lead its various hydra heads.

Its sinners.

And when you consider these hateful and soon to be hated faces—these characters and cognitive cyphers—ask yourself who injected them into the forefront of the Collective Mind, and then ask yourself why.

When the answer starts to coalesce in your mind’s eye, you should find yourself smiling, and you should leave this reading with renewed confidence of who’s really in control of the ‘movie’ we’re watching play out.

More importantly … how that movie ends.

At the end of the day, YOUR mind is a part of the cognitive keystone to the Collective Mind, which is the ultimate prize in this war to end all wars.

Guard it well.

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

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