Dread Carnival

The Hegelian Spectacle of Weaponized Empathy

I’d say that it goes without saying the last few weeks have been some of the most tense and contentious so far this year as the Info War rages on, but then, it feels like we’ve had quite a few occasions to forward that argument.

Perhaps the reason this time feels a bit different to me as the Anons, decentralized citizen journalist collective and Truth Community at large come to grips with the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict and, more in keeping with my interests, the stories surrounding said conflict, is the infighting I’ve witnessed within the community not just regarding what did or did not happen, but around the questioning of said storylines in the first place.

As I explored in both ‘Operation Trust’ and the even more recent ‘Everything is Fake & Fine,’ the asking of questions is what separates awakening minds from those still trapped within the engineered Hegelian tension of the liar’s sleep.

It isn’t so much that this community tends to have more answers than our sleeping brothers and sisters, then, but more so, that we engage with the world around us, and more commonly, in the stories we’re told about that world in an active, direct-path manner, while most are content to absorb information passively, a trend and a practice that I and many others would argue allowed the Deep State’s controllers to achieve such ubiquity and psychological dominance over the American sociopolitical zeitgeist in the first place.

So, when I penned my last, admittedly-provocative feature, exploring the difference between ‘real’ and ‘fake’ news wasn’t really my aim, but rather to draw a line in the sand between the earnest asking of questions some might deem some mix of ridiculous or even detrimental to the truth movement as a whole, and the blanket assertion that anything and everything ‘reported’ in the War of Stories is a complete fabrication.

One need not appeal to Kipling to understand the wisdom inherent in keeping one’s head when those about you are losing their own, and when we have an ‘event,’ be it real, false or (very likely, as is the way of the modern, 5GW world,) some impenetrable mix of the two that engenders such passionate (read: emotional) reactions out of the Collective Mind, and this community along with it, we must take special care to attempt to apply everything we believe we’ve learned as we’ve observed Narrative Masters like Donald Trump navigate what

Chris Paul

describes as the ‘Matrix of Falsehoods.’

After all, if the Truth Community that is meant to represent the ‘frame and support’ to the Collective Mind as a greater multitude wakes from the depths of their engineered spiritual, psychological and cognitive sleep, we sure as hell had better take care not to react with exactly the sort of emotional panic, fear mongering or, worst of all, doom mongering that the very enemy matrix we stand opposed to WANTS us to so that they might either demoralize us into paralysis or else guide us into the tacit or direct endorsement of the latest in a long line of Forever Wars, each of which seems to be burning out quicker than the last in this era defined by Escalation and Acceleration.

We must be thankful for all wins in this war for the future of humanity, and while it can be exceedingly difficult to determine the difference between Actual and Narrative ammunition expelled by the Deep State’s System of Systems in a given media panic cycle, what we can determine is that ammunition HAS been spent once more by the Finite Player on the Game Theory Game Board, while truth continues to draw strength from the increasing fragility and reactivity of the Hegelian Hydra.

All of which is to say, in order to defect from the enemy’s programming, you must first be able to recognize it. In order to beat the game—or, better yet, to break it—you need to understand the one that’s being played, and the rules by which it’s governed.

And while it would obviously be reductive to assert that there’s just one game being played in this Fifth-Generation War between the forces of collectivist globalism and sovereignty the world over, there are general trend-lines that can be observed, patterns that can be logged and core truisms that can be applied to the whole of the Info War as cognitive cyphers, many of which we attempt to explore around these parts, and to formulate and perfect together.

These cyphers together can be used in concert with a core governing philosophy: THAT something is the truth is of far greater importance than WHY it’s the truth.

I stand by that code, and use it as a steadying force when the Info War and the War of Stories spins up gale force winds, as is happening more frequently and ferociously this year than in any other we’ve observed.

Still, we wouldn’t be in a generations-long Info War if it was so simple to grasp what the truth is in the first place, which is why I tend to subscribe to Macro, directional thinking as opposed to Micro, detail-oriented analysis, though I think both have their part to play in the Great Awakening. Ultimately, I believe the fusion between Micro and Macro-oriented thinkers is the best path forward as we attempt to pull down the enemy’s System of Systems and usher in a new era of sovereignty and directed, rational and most importantly, moral thought and philosophy unto the American zeitgeist that WAS our birthright and IS our destiny.

Details, while important, can also be used as a means of leading one astray, and even ‘true’ or factual details can obscure a path that leads to false paradigms—‘real’ Micros being used in service of false or misleading Macros.

The enemy knows this, and the enemy uses this.

This is why, while it can sometimes strike people as crass or even insensitive for some thinkers to apply ‘extreme’ or shocking levels of skepticism toward the most dramatic and traumatic events playing out in the realms of the Real and unReal in this Info War, nothing could be more vital in order to ensure we aren’t guided into unwitting engagement with the very Hegelian doom loop that got us here in the first place, and that has guided us into virtually every kinetic war in human history.

After all, as I have argued time and time again, I believe that all Real Wars are the result of lost Info Wars, and while determining what IS happening is important, I believe it is often secondary to determining what is NOT happening.

When you apply this argument to recent ‘walk-backs’ by the Biden Administration, the Media Industrial Complex and even figures within the Israeli Defense Forces regarding some of the more viral stories to emerge from the Hamas-engineered chaos, you understand its importance.

Splitting the difference and allowing for some middle ground, while I believe it is true that, as

Just Human

argues, ruthless skepticism can prevent an otherwise-engaged mind from creating a functional cypher or foundation upon which to orient oneself in the Info War, it is AS true that accepting the Narratives surrounding major events as Actuals can be even more detrimental.

Since you folks seemed to like the inclusion of a show clip in my last feature, the following is a brief rant on this dichotomy between Actual and Narrative from a recent episode of DEFECTED:

Spirited debate on these grounds is not necessarily a negative thing for such a heterodox community of thinkers to engage in, as I believe it will ultimately result in the organic formation of more applicable cognitive cyphers to deploy in service of parsing the Info War. That said, just like questioning whether or not something represents a ‘False Flag’ event is secondary to determining whether or not it occurred in the first place, questioning whether something is real isn’t the same as asserting it’s fake.

The Central Narrative isn’t made up of lies alone.

Like the best liars, the Hegelian Deep State uses an overwhelming array of factual details—noise—to obscure their underlying aims, which should be obvious to any who’ve been toiling in the Info War for any length of time.

In the end, [they] want war. We want peace.

Every Narrative Deployment we engage with in this world should be passed through that core cypher, and reactions to said deployments should take it into consideration.

Thus, while every nation and every people has an inherent right to defend themselves, when the entirety of the Uniparty Establishment (that said Establishment called a conspiracy theory just a week ago,) comes out marching in lock-step, putting aside their illusory and petty differences in order to bow down to the international War Machine in framing reminiscent of the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, you simply MUST take a step back from the noise and focus on signal, and reset your cognitive cyphers accordingly, no matter—or perhaps because—of how traumatic the stories themselves are.

Any time open questioning of media—and by extension, government—Narratives is met with highly emotional counter-programming, labelling and ‘othering,’ you’ve got yourself a deployment, which is targeted at the weakest parts of the individual mind and thus, the Collective Mind—that being emotion, often through empathetic pathways.

In the end, the burden of proof for an extraordinary claim rests on the party making that claim; questioning the Central Narrative isn’t a side effect of being in the Truth Community, but the core, guiding philosophy—the tenet or code by which Info Warriors must engage with the ‘False Reality,’ (another

Chris Paul

term,) in order to tear it down.

So, then, how is the False Reality constructed, if not by those pushing the Stories that codify it within the Collective Mind, lend it legitimacy and de facto power that becomes Actual power due to our tacit endorsement through our passivity?

Through stories. Real, fake and very often, Frankensteinian amalgamations of the two. Real events can produce fake stories just like fake stories can provoke real events.

The War of Stories IS the war.

And if we are in a War of Stories, then surely the storytellers are those we must focus on most rather than the specific stories they forward.

After all, the Media Industrial Complex doesn’t lie to us because they think it’s fun.

They don’t lie to us because they’ve devolved, or fallen from previous journalistic heights of virtue.

They lie to us because they’re a formative pillar of the Deep State’s System of Systems. They lie because, put simply, it’s their job to lie.

It’s a feature, not a bug.

So, [they] never deserve the benefit of the doubt, and we should never apologize for questioning the emotionally-charged, Hegelian rhetoric they deploy, especially when every Globalist Regime talking head in the world echoes it with immediacy, while Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and every sovereign-minded leader worth his salt calls for calm amidst the engineered chaos, even while condemning the actions of the terrorist factions that appear to be active on the game board.

Something doesn’t have to be outright fake to be populated with false stories that could lead us onto faulty and reactive paths.

Such is the way of world history, and weeks like this last one—and like many to come—continue to show us why it’s so damn easy to accomplish, even if most in this community would love to think themselves above it, and I’ve certainly been no exception to that reality.

All of which is to say, you can admit to NOT knowing what’s Actually happening in Israel—or in any of the many theaters, both real and ‘fake’ in the Info War—with complete certainty while condemning reactions to the STORY of what’s happening, not in spite of, but because the most damaging and predictive stories disguised as reactions are emanating from ALL the usual suspects.

This community has an obsession with attempting to discern the identity and aims of the men behind the curtain, and there’s no shame in that. It’s our purpose, ordained or inherent. But don’t ignore the men in the spotlight—those who obscure the men behind the curtain, but whose plastic, demonic porcelain grins communicate their bidding and thus, cast their dread spells over the populace … the magicians who speak the words of the sorcerers.

And there is magic at play here, in this war whose aim is to provoke wars.

"Chaos is a ladder."

This is one of the most iconic quotes from Petyr Baelish, known as 'Littlefinger' in Game of Thrones, and it's essentially the political schemer's self-governing philosophy; it's how he elevates his standing within a sociopolitical 'game' of deception and obfuscation.

Littlefinger, himself one of the great storytellers of the realm, is a reprehensible character in the story, one who takes advantage of Hegelian programming, helps to engineer political crises in order to bring about voids in leadership and puts himself on the 'winning' side.

Whatever your thoughts are on the Actual of the Israel conflict and the ensuing political and cultural fallout of this circus and the many to come, I'll get no argument from this community that we're currently in a period defined by chaos on the international scene and psychological tension within the Collective Mind.

That said, I think this concept can be turned around on the Deep State.

In my first-ever feature at Burning Bright, I argued that hunting lies is not only more practical, but also more useful than seeking truth, because, while the latter represents the de facto end goal, the former represents the process or the pathway through which such an end can be reached.

This is the ‘process paradigm’ I often discuss when appealing to the logic-based hope that I believe is key to cultivating a constructive and beneficial mindset to seeing the sort of world we imagine in our dreams actualized.

What helps in the process of hunting lies is to recognize the liars.

Expose enough lies and liars, and the truth and the truth-tellers cannot but be revealed.

Light enough candles, and the dark has nothing to cling to save for the deepest corners and the forgotten depths, where we can let it rest awhile, cold, despondent and consumed in an Ouroboros pattern of the very despair it would have lorded over the light.

After all, as the pictured character in the header of this piece, Rorschach from Alan Moore’s Watchmen once said, “Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon.”

Never compromise on your morals. Never compromise on the belief that evil exists, and that it must be opposed, no matter how difficult.

Chaos has been a weapon used for programming, for seeding and, ultimately to forward the tacit or direct endorsement of terror disguised as its antithesis, but chaos is also an opportunity.

So, what are we to do with this chaotic opportunity … this psycho-emotional wildfire provoked by unseen hands and guided every which way by every narrative and political apparatus in the world?

Don't focus on the noise.

Expose it. Cut through it. Starve it. Distill it.

Defeat it.

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

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