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Bash's avatar

I cant quite put my finger on it, but the overlap among the rainbow ideologues, the covidians, the climate taliban, the permanent bureaucracies, and of course the legacy media...I'm not sure how they all feed off each other but they all seem to be inexorably driving things in one direction. And most of us are powerless to resist, aside from turning inwards in some hermetic defiance

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There is a common undercurrent among the elements of the new priesthood. This, I perceive, stems from the fundamental idea that reality stems primarily from the human mind and not from an external observer.

In other words, the rabid emphasis on narratives hemming us in is not an exercise of social battlefield shaping, nor of narcissistic habitual lying, nor of calculated self-defense; but it is literally the point: belief in the narrative creates a new reality. Obviously, a new reality that benefits the narrative-creator.

It is, if you will, the logical extension of Karl Rove's sinister quote: “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

The idea of fervent belief in a lie--accompanied by the right actions, creating a different reality is of course not new. We even have a word for it: sorcery.

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