Bright Brief - Shark Fins and the Penrose Paradox

Justice is Silent-Running ... And Inevitable

Bright Army!

I hope you’re all keeping your head about you when all others are losing theirs.

After all, when even those of us who spend most of our waking ours attempting to parse the Information War find ourselves disoriented amidst the constant flood of Narrative, Political and even Kinetic Deployments, simply remaining calm in the chaos is a boon, and a virtue.

Additionally, when you do cultivate that sense of calm in stormy seas, you may just recognize that, while the boat is listing and leaning, you’re no closer to sinking than you were when the waters were calm as mirrored glass.

That is the way of awakening, and in this week’s Brief, we’re going to take a glance at a few percolating stories in the war named after them, and see just how stormy things really are. And for whom.

Now, onto the news …

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The Fin of Justice

Those of you who’ve been following my work for some time know that, since I have a penchant for stories and a fascination with how they’re spun—and more importantly, who’s spinning them—that I also have a tendency to employ metaphor in my writing with frequency.

While metaphor and allusion can be entertaining, making what can otherwise be mundane or banal Narrative Deployments significantly more interesting and engaging by reframing them, I also think there are practical reasons to bend the real toward the poetic and lyrical unreal at times, and that is because we are creatures both informed and largely defined by stories. The stories that make us. The stories that inspire us, frighten us, prompt and provoke us. Even the stories that paralyze us.

But that can all be turned around, and I believe that it has been, and is being turned around by Patriots on the Game Theory Game Board, who, along with guiding the arc of history toward justice through myriad legal, political and yes, military tactics and strategies myself, many of my peers and all of you track and trace, are also remolding the Collective Mind of American Society in the image of the sovereign citizenry a Constitutional Republic like ours requires … deserves in order to function as the gleaming collective city on the hill this nation was always meant to be.

I refer to this ongoing Macro Strategy as the ‘Good Reset.’

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One of the metaphors I’ve been employing on recent appearances on various Rumble shows, from Defected to the Devolution Power Hour is that of the Shark Fin as it relates to the long, inexorable and inevitable march of justice that my friend and peer Just Human is as skilled at tracking in an Actual manner as others are in a more Directional manner.

Over the past few weeks in particular, we have seen old stories resurfacing—not in the Anon world, since we never lost track of these particular topics—but rather in the War of Stories playing out both above and below, and even within the Media Industrial Complex.

From Hunter Biden being back in the news in all the worst ways two years after US (Deep State) intel agencies suppressed damning information about him that likely affected the 2020 election cycle, to the cascading domino effect resultant from the ongoing disclosure campaign Senators Chuck Grassley and James Comer are engaged in when it comes to the protection racket engineered by and on behalf of members of and allies of the incoming Biden Administration, everything [they] have sought to suppress is coming back around, and with auspicious timing.

Add to this the fall surfacing of John Durham, himself still conducting what many of us believe is the largest RICO criminal case ever compiled—and likely one of the largest criminal conspiracies ever unraveled—and you might begin to see the march of justice on the corrupt criminal cabal we haunt and hunt less as an upward climb and more as a Great White circling its prey, only allowing that gray, scarred fin to surface every so often, but long enough to remind those sheltering on the slick and slippery rocks what awaits them should they lose their footing, or grow desperate enough to make for shore.

But even if they wait, the shark is patient, and we should learn from it. Because the tide’s coming in, and all the crabs and cretins have choices to make.

I don’t envy them their choices, but I don’t pity them, either.

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Proxy Penrose

I’m obsessed with the concept of paradox.

For some, this has likely been apparent in the writing of some of my most popular features at Burning Bright, from ‘Bicameral Brilliance’ to ‘Layer Cake.’

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Again, borrowing from the treatise above on the practical use of metaphor and allusion, I am not fascinated with paradoxes because they’re inherently contradictory, but rather because I believe a paradox—a perfect paradox—is one that reveals rather than obfuscates. A perfect paradox is like a penrose stair, to me, one whose very illusion makes up its reality. What [they] have used to obfuscate, to confuse and to misdirect for decades—perhaps for centuries—is a concept, a power that we can use to reveal, to trap and ultimately, to free.

There is no theater in the ongoing conflict—psychological, kinetic and spiritual—that embodies this tenet more so than Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine, and all the various deployments to emerge from it over the course of the last 15 months.

Far removed from whatever kinetic action is or is not taking place on the ground, in the alternatively frozen and thawing mires in Prussian Ukraine, and in the blasted, scarred and scorched lands of Russian suffering—now freed—known as the Donbas, the most impactful and encouraging effects of this paradigm shift on the global and globalist stage have been seen through the seismic ripples it has visited upon the bedrock of the Collective Mind of the western world.

From exposing the toothless sanctions of the Globalist West, the weak snap and bite of the yipping pup that is NATO and the European Union, the utter futility of the weaponization of power projection—from waging an energy war against one of the most energy-rich nations on the planet, to waging a monetary war on the emergent and now accelerating BRICS coalition formed in direct opposition and answer to it—the West has been revealed like never before, as the porcelain mask slips below the wolf’s eyes, and threatens to shatter like the eggshell sheen it reflects should it tumble to the marble below.

In short, the West has been reminded that Power is Power. Not the threat of it. Not the illusion of it. The thing is the thing.

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Over the course of the last week, I believe we saw the strongest series of hints yet that everything we are watching in the Russian theater-turned global has been arranged by players on the Game Theory Game Board that we will all be glad are in control as we continue to guide this world further and further away from the collectivist clutches of Globalism and toward the freedom embraced and defined by sovereignty.

On Monday, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby made the startling and laughable assertion that well over 100,000 Russian troops had been killed in the Bakhmut fighting alone. Not only is this figure impossible to quantify or confirm using any real-world Open-Source Intelligence, but it flies directly in the face of what anyone with a modicum of reasoned discernment has no doubt taken from the increasingly-sheepish demeanor of Ukrainian leadership, Western cheerleading and even the American Cultural machine that was propping it all up on marionette strings just a year ago, but has now given up the globalist ghost.

I am not here to suggest that Ukraine is LOSING the conflict in the Donbas. I am here to tell you, as I have been telling you for months, that they have LOST the conflict, both kinetically and psychologically—the mass variety, mind you—the moment they decided to engage the Russian Federation with their CIA proxy forces in Mariupol.

Of course, the response from the Russian leadership to Kirby’s claims was both humorous in an unironic way, and deeply humiliating to current American ‘leadership’ on the world stage.

But most importantly, and most relevant to our purposes today, was Wednesday’s far more serious—and yet, even more laughable and desperate—deployment, when a drone strike ostensibly emanating from Ukraine—or the factions puppeteering Ukraine against its should-be brethren—scorched the bricks of the Kremlin itself.

While unsuccessful from a kinetic standpoint, this kinetic deployment had the predictable effect of forcing Volodymyr Zelensky into an immediate public denial, while provoking the usually-stoic Russians into uncharacteristically—and tellingly dramatic—threat responses in the international political and military zeitgeist.

Add to this the recent seeding of the CIA as direct or indirect party to everything from the Assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963—a fact most in this community have long presumed—to the 9/11 attacks that ushered us into a would-be Forever War before the Deep State tried to spin Ukraine into its continuation, and combine said resurfacing narratives—now with more evidence—with the percolating, simmering certainty that the Azov battalion, along with whatever is left of Ukrainian insurgency in the near east, have been trained, funded and perhaps directly supported by the CIA, and such an attack takes on a whole new meaning.

I explored all of this in the recent ‘False and Flagging’ feature.

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And all of this is to say nothing of the recent accusations made by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Leftist that the CIA was used as a proxy militia to sabotage the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, representing an Act of War by the Biden Administration on both Russia AND allied Germany.

In short, the U.S. State Department appears to be caught on the world stage with its pants down … and I don’t think they’re going to like how this movie ends, while the rest of us grab the nearest tub of popcorn and start munching.

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Revenge of the Based

Vice News.

What a name for what is ostensibly meant to be an information dissemination—or ‘news’—organization, right?

I’m not quite as quick to jump to some of the conclusions many in this community are regarding our subversive enemy’s need or desire to flaunt their evil in our faces, although I do see it in certain cultural theaters of the war, but when it comes to the New Media represented by Silicon Valley-adjacent propaganda arms masquerading as hip, irreverent and trustworthy anti-Establishment types, it’s both uncanny and impossible to ignore.

Vice News is the latest in a growing—and still to grow—line of New Age internet-based media platforms to sink under the weight of their own inadequacy as the era of easy money comes to an end, which is both a boon for humanity on the whole, while also being yet another tantalizing and encouraging hint that much of the economic hardship this nation is currently experiencing is visiting FAR more significant harm onto [their] system of falsity lacking value than anything America First patriots have a stake or a hand in.

I have explored my somewhat maverick, but increasingly popular take on the ongoing financial situation in ‘Too Small to Fail,’ and ‘The Spider-Man 2 Effect,’ and I implore you to read both if you’d somehow like to be seeded with the strangely contradictory, and yet logically consistent idea that the very grocery prices that make your face flush when you’re walking through the store are indicative of the end of the key pillar of the Deep State’s System of Systems.

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While Vice is the most aptly-named of the recent disasters afflicting Silicon Valley, the seat of cultural, fiscal and communistic rot in the United States, it is far from alone, as BuzzFeed News added its bones to the pile just a week ago, while Vox Media, Disney, Big Tech and Big Finance continue to go through the largest forced restructuring since the 2008 Financial Crisis … only this one is affecting [them] far more than us.

There are some in this community who believe that engaging with cultural narrative tentpoles such as the Bud Light Transgenda campaign should be below the interest and attention of this community, but I disagree. While we should always take care not to get too low in the face of cultural subversion, and while we can never get too high when we see such subversive attempts fail and originators collapse, tracking mass cultural deployments are as important—sometimes more important—to formulating a picture of the current American sociopolitical zeitgeist than anything being filed by the Department of Justice or heading to the desk of would-be legislators in the Council of Crows in Washington, D.C.

For years, we as a culture and a community have been forced to sit idly by, perhaps to comment, to shout and to lament the subversion of the greatest culture in the world. But lately, even the most doom-tinged among this movement MUST admit that the backlash to all things woke is picking up steam as the boomerang comes back around.

It all comes out in the wash, as they said … and we haven’t even hit the spin cycle, yet.

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

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