Hibernation Theory

You Can Learn a Lot, Watching Things Lie

We’re just a week away from a shift to a new phase of the Info War, which is another way of saying, while theories abound, we don’t know what’s going to happen—rather, we don’t know what we’re going to be TOLD is happening, and yet, we all recognize November 5 represents an inflection point in many theaters at once, from the Actual to the Narrative, the Political to the Clandestine.

And yet, for all the anxiety in the MAGA base, and in the American electorate at large, I think the better part of fear has been reserved for those creatures of the dark that have been drawn into the blinding and, for them, burning light of the awakening era.

And they are frightened. No doubt you’ve seen it.

From breathless cries of Nazi rallies at MSG and the (this time for real!) formation of an American Fourth Reich to the exhaustive and tired sounded alarms of a revenge tour and the end of Democracy as we’ve known it replete with collectivist taint, the machine somehow seems less assured of their victory than they did in 2016 … even 2020, when they first brought the full weight of the fraud apparatus to bear.

In short, amidst all of the noise leading to and following from the fifth of November inflection point, I would appeal to you to remember that the awakening era has already gone too far to be stopped, and the collectivist rot of the Deep State stands permanently exposed, if not defeated, which is closer to the same thing than you might believe at first blush.

Just as President John F. Kennedy once infamously said that “the very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society,” the very secrecy that bound such evil together also stood as its key vector of power projection, one that has been stripped from them, and cannot be returned absent the complete and total annihilation of the awakening nodes—the minds in this movement and in those awakening around us by the millions and by the year—that have already taken that first step into discovery that cannot but lead to many more.

As it was for each and all of us.

“Donald Trump has been the catalyst for the awakening,” my friend and peer

Chris Paul

recently said on an episode of his fantastic one-man podcast.

But how?

By being a cognitive cypher, and a narrative fulcrum, as I’ve detailed exhaustively throughout ‘The Master’ series and many other writings at Burning Bright.

By becoming a symbol, much like the Batman character some of us believe is much more than an analogue to Trump.

Trump was a catalyst for this exposure that will and is leading to the sort of justice and absolution we desire, that we’re helping to bring about, and the machine has been happily supplying the accelerant to its own death by conflagration for the better part of a decade, ever since he came down that golden escalator to help the American people see that a new golden age wasn’t just possible, but inevitable so long as we remember ourselves, and the mandate that once animated our lands with our collective sovereign will, the perfect paradox that has long stood as the hallmark of what it means to be an American.

Like Gandalf the White, returned stronger than before his fall in the halls of Moria, Trump has drawn them like poison from a wound into the light of the day’s discovery, perhaps more so during his seeming absence in the early days of the fake Biden Admin than during his first blazing term, so that now, with the benefit of hindsight, even many former sleepers and cynics recognize the truth in Trump’s once-memetic declarations of the media as the enemy of the people, and no longer balk, but rather nod at once-vague, now commonplace mentions of the enemy within.

Kamala Harris isn’t the leader or even representative of this enemy. She’s merely the current host in a long line for a decaying parasite that feasts on life energy, which is to say, on us.

And Trump himself stated as much better than anyone else could at his already-infamous, legendary rally at what might as well be the modern day American colosseum, Madison Square Garden.

What Trump is signaling here is what the MSM knew before most normies did—that Kamala Harris simply isn’t it.

But they also believed the central narrative had become so entrenched in the American mind that they could simply keep telling the story of Kamala the candidate en route to another run.

The thing is, Kamala has been far worse than any of them could have imagined, which is to say, she's been far better for the continued process of awakening than even the dried out husk of a Deep State politician she was thrust into a de facto coup against in the waning days of his fake administration.

When Trump refers to Kamala Harris as "purely a vessel," he's branding her with the sort of permanent precision with which he's branded all of his other vanquished political enemies in the interim.

It's not that Kamala is evil, or corrupt, or hateful, though she is all of those things.

It's that Kamala is empty, vapid and disconcertingly inert.

She lacks anything to build a story around.

And in a war made of them ... that's not a great plan.

And so, it makes some sense that, in the waning days of an election cycle that seems unlike any other in terms of pitch and collective fervor—mostly for, but by a select few, existentially against—we’re seeing a range of behaviors manifest among the signal setters as the ultimate and unifying signal of truth breaks through all the noise that covered it up for so long.

And that signal doesn’t emanate from, but is absolutely amplified by mass culture events like we saw on Sunday night, when Trump and his whole cast—quite literally, if you believe in the movie of it all—of America First characters put on a show for the ages before just a small, but no less considerable portion of an electorate that sees the future of this country no longer in terms of party and politics, but manifest destiny and reclamation.

Which brings me to the meat of this piece … on things once hidden trying to do so again.

My friend

Patrick Gunnels

spawned an interesting sub discussion during our live commentary stream of the Trump-Rogan interview on Friday night.

In essence, he was wondering aloud why Rogan, whom he considers “accepted” by the central narrative and therefore establishment, even if he made his name as an infamous “counter-culture figure,” would choose NOW to turn in favor of Trump, to lend him this platform, and to frame his conversation so favorably.

And it’s a fair characterization.

Leaving aside your personal view on Rogan’s past or present intentions, the shift in Trump coverage is notable.

While the most extreme never-Trumpers of the last decade screech more  loudly and desperately than ever, we’re seeing capitulation and outright self flagellation in others, as everyone from the alt. media that is really the new MSM given their reach and inherent centralization appearing as anything but, and in the Con Inc. Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing I’ve been writing about since November 2022, when the conservative caricatures that once called us akin to Nazis along with the rest of the media establishment turned once more, caught as they were in the honey-laced fly trap that was Trump’s “too early” announcement for candidacy, are now full speed ahead on the inevitable MAGA train.

(My friend

Jon Herold

often points out a 2016 gem from one of these MAGA pretenders, who's made a name for himself by being suppressed en route to the most talked-about documentary of 2024, and all the profits that come along with it.)

Many of these creatures and cretins even seem to be gearing up to take faux MAGA victory laps in the event he “wins” the fraudulent election, while prepping the knives to effect their final turn on him should the machine BE ALLOWED to come out on top once more.

I’ve often said that you can learn a lot, watching things lie, but I’m most interested in tracking HOW the things lie, all the better to catch them in the act, and map the perceived resting points in their rhetorical retreat.

So, while we’re seeing the same old ‘Trump is Hitler, MAGA are Nazis’ rhetoric being deployed by the usual suspects—ironically acting as yet more accelerant for their own ideological demise in keeping with the age old ‘boy who cried wolf’ truism—there has been a change in other vectors, as the media machine devolves—perhaps in more ways than one?—into an archipelago of anti-American sycophants.

And yet, the change hasn’t just been visible in either conservative or “independent” branded alt. media, but in the broader media landscape as well, from WAPO and the LA Times refusing to endorse a candidate for president, which counts as de facto condemnation of one, to CNN and FOX talking heads holding the opposition’s feet to the fire by asking them, you know … questions.

All in all, it’s a veritable seeming common sense cascade across the digital landscape, best exemplified by three pieces emanating from Bloomberg, Axios and the infamous Washington Post over the course of the last week.

The picture would be worth a thousand words, but Amazon owner and self-described elite Jeff Bezos did us one better, and actually WROTE 1,000 words to defend his decision to NOT interfere in an election.

Within these Op eds and scores more like them that have been flooding the Info War, the screeching communist harpies that have decreed themselves official narrative-setters for the entire country realize with mounting dread and panic that they've lost complete control of the story, which, as I have been saying for over two years, IS the war.

Bloomberg actually referred to the media death spiral as a "doom loop," while Axios put it so directly in their own panic piece, it could have been written by an Anon: "the mainstream media's dominance in narrative and reality-shaping in presidential elections shattered in 2024."

Now, we have Bezos being swarmed by the very communist worker bees he once lorded over.

In Game Theory, chaos begets control.

Ah, the great irony of watching the communist machine that propped these very elites up in the first place now attempt to conflate them with Donald Trump.

Some narrative setters are even calling this the official (and, again, for super real this time, guys!) death of democracy as we know it.

And to that I say … the democracy as we’ve known it hasn’t been all that great, in my estimation. So … good riddance?

Either way, we’ve all seen the pattern, and we’ve also all begun to see some break ranks, or else massage their exits from the very same, should the machine in which they reside fail to wield the same sort of collectivist, fraudulent and narrative control over the story of the 2024 election the same way it did the last time around, with so many still caught fast in the liar’s sleep.

Observe three quick-hit examples of the trend, from Anderson Cooper shocking the seemingly-divided nation by asking a presidential candidate questions … and then holding her to account for her answers …

To the withering, rapidly-graying husk of CNN ‘straight man’ Jake Tapper getting his rhetorical doors blown off by the surging VP of reasonable debate, JD Vance on primetime …

To the disgraced—now more officially—populist shell of Chris Cuomo ironically encapsulating the rebellious, but significantly more logical core of initial Trump support seven years too late …

It all represents a pattern, and that pattern of rhetorical retreat is representative of defeat in the Mind War, as I catalogued in detail in one of my more popular features, Overton’s Goalpost.

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Still, I’m most interested in the manner of said retreat, and I think our own Donald Trump summed it up quite well in two words on the aforementioned episode of the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, which I wrote a long-form on to kick off the week.

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“They’re survivors.”

Trump said it in reference to establishment hacks who stand to benefit by years of private corruption masquerading as public service … the Deep State charlatans this era has been all about exposing before (hopefully) bringing to some cathartic and satisfying measure of justice.

But it also goes for the media protectorate that have formed a mesh around our would-be and have-been rulers like a collectivist praetorian guard.

And so, that reading of the current narrative trends and anti-trends playing out in the War of Stories inspired the hibernation theme of this piece, but it isn’t the only possible reading of the informational, fifth-generational game board.

So, what about that other theory?

What about patriot control, and ghosts in the media machine?

Well, I believe Trump also brushed up against this one in his wide-ranging sit-down with the world’s most famous podcaster; it’s a statement that flew under the radar over the weekend, but it’s one I’ve been chewing on ever since I heard it.

“Go ahead,” Trump said, “be negative about me.”

He said it in response to the current lay of the media landscape, acknowledging that so many former friends, colleagues and even appointees seemingly ‘turned’ on him following their short stints in his first administration. And yet, there wasn’t any bitterness in his tone, only a pregnant sort of knowing, and one that should strike this particular audience with ‘infiltration instead of invasion’ framing, inversion, and counter-insurgency.

From supposed Trump ally David Zaslav taking over Warner Bros. Discovery in May of 2021—they own CNN, by the way—to the Patrick Soon-Shiong-owned LA Times and Bezos-owned Washington Post backpedaling on their collectivist accelerationism on the eve of the election, the coordination that defines ‘ghosts in the machine’ theories doesn’t have to go far—if at all—below the absolute TOP line, which might tell you why we’ve seen a cascade of pitiful and manic resignations from senior staffers and editorial management in the self-same publications in the wake of said capitulation.

Where, exactly, do these cretins think they’re going to go next, when they realize the media market they once dominated with their system-protecting deployments was illusory the whole time?

The Q Drops suggested the existence and ubiquity of the ‘4am talking points,’ and no doubt we’ve been tracking the veracity of those comms and claims for the better part of the decade, observing even to this day how immediately on-brand and on-message a supposedly decentralized media matrix can become when it comes to branding one side the paragons of globalist, communist virtue and the other the precursor of late-stage empire fascism.

Well, I submit to you, if patriots know the mechanism, and if the mechanism can be seized, why not use the weapons of the enemy against them? At least for a time.

By merging the concept of patriot control over the media in a more literal way than some are willing to allow with the military concept of compartmentalization, we might begin to see how the very top-down structure of the system can be used to invert it … resulting in the Deep State Archipelago concept I’ve been writing about manifesting itself in various Pillars of the System of Systems for a few years, now, and that regime writers at Axios have tried to rebrand under the “shards of glass” phenomenon.

So, whether we’re seeing rats fleeing a sinking ship, or be called along to the tune of another piper’s song … one they can’t see and so, don’t think to question, CNN panel meltdowns following “hard-hitting” lines of questioning by their narrative fulcrums make entirely too much sense.

Moving on from the Narrative Pillar of the Deep State, which, though certainly counted among the Enemy of the People Trump references, are hardly the prize at the subversive mountaintop, even if there is some crossover between the narrative-setters and the system’s progenitors and heirs …

Amidst the hibernation-minded survivalists, there are a few striking, discordant voices that have been breaking with their fellows, and joining their sycophantic signal with a select few who seem determined to stand against the Orange Man and all his ilk to the bitterest ending.

From Joe Scarborough to Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff to Nancy Pelosi, and even the corrupt bureaucrats across the sea in Brussels, there are those who fear a second Trump Admin on existential terms … because they know the Hibernation Theory will only protect those who latched onto the system as parasites, rather than those who make up its bones and sinew.

This particular panic pattern is best exemplified in a Politico insider piece on the coming Trump Revenge Tour, authored by a former DOJ ‘graduate’ who had been IN the machine, before making his true living—and earning his collectivist flowers—in the private sector.

And there’s plenty more where that came from …

This panic is coming on the back of the true parasites within the System of Systems understanding that the game within the game is ending … or else, that they’ve simply been beaten at it, and by far better players, from a reversal of the public-private partnership templates represented by America First Legal, Elon Musk’s Twitter and Trump’s various alliances among a so-called renegade elite that stands opposed to the agenda of the … darker variety, to Trump’s masterful—and quite serendipitous—packing of the Supreme Court for the true constitutional battles to come in the wake of next week’s electoral inflection point.

There’s a lot on the line for some of these people.

And so, panic might come in many flavors, but it all has the same scent, and it all comes back around to one singular word used with frequency in the drops … “knowingly.”

Think of that word, just like they have been, and I think you’ll begin to recognize why battle lines are being drawn not for the election … but for what comes after. This allows you to draw a line of demarcation between those who supported the establishment by hook … and those who are part and parcel to its success. (Those are the crooks, people.)

The machine isn’t preparing offense … the smart ones are preparing defense, and those who scream the loudest seem to be building the biggest walls.

I’m not so sure it’s going to work out for them.

And that looks an awful lot like the beginnings of justice to me.

Thus, Hibernation Theory is so named because it marks perceived intent … not perceived success, which is why the media apparatus is beginning to shift their panic away from Trump and some circles and into what comes next: decentralization they’re framing as fragmentation.

In short, there aren’t enough fish in the river this fall … and winter is coming; I think they know this is going to be a cold one.

Why?

They’ve lost the story, which means they’ve lost the mandate.

"We need a mandate in the vote, and we’re going to get it."

Donald Trump said this at the beginning of the month, and I think it stands as his most signal-based "branding" of the 2024 election push. Of the Great Awakening as a whole, actually.

For those of us who've been fighting in the Info War for any length of time, we already know Trump has the votes necessary to win in an epic landslide. Hell, he did the last time around, too.

That's not what this one is about, and Trump is telling you, if you choose to listen.

So, when you see the various Mind-Movers Trump has chosen as his public MAGA and America First representatives speaking to tens of thousands in attendance in "blue" New York, at the site of the biggest modern colosseum events of the last century, see it as a "proof" of public mandate more so than a show of political force.

Trump has warned everyone he needs to warn with his repeated Cease & Desists, and with four years of public statements on traitors to the US.

He just needs the people to get onboard.

We are.

Trump doesn’t need the votes for president. He needs the votes for what comes after …

He’s had mine for seven years, because the truth is binary, much like justice.

We’re coming out of an era that might as well be named after the long night. We’ve endured that era, but the things that made their homes in the dark cannot do the same as an eternal day dawns.

One that will define an era.

Justice may take many forms, and might not resemble what many of us thought it would when we first started our individual journeys to awakening … but if it looks an awful lot like a new era of accountability, abundance and yes, sunlight … that sounds good to me.

Whatever happens next week, rest assured it either marks the beginning of a new era, or the beginning of the end of the old one.

Remember to keep your head in the chaos, as chaos is something truth thrives in, ever seeking—and eventually finding—its own level as the crumbling edifices of the false reality give way to the bedrock real it was layered over.

Scared things are stupid things, and there are a lot of scared things in DC right now.

But don’t take my word for it.

Take theirs.

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

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Bright Retrospective …

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Among MANY juicy bits of signal Trump dropped in what will be his most-watched interview followed by his most-watched campaign rally to date, he also claimed that “America’s new golden age” was just around the corner, and that the change would happen “quickly, too. Very quickly.”

But … how is this possible?

Well, a trip down recent memory—and distant memory—lane might serve your conscience well as you navigate the mass psychological storms ahead, as the Weapons of the Future series, from ‘The Bridge’ to ‘The Switch’ to ‘Amerigeddon,’ with another entry in the works, seeks to explain the HOW behind the rapid, some would say, WARP SPEED transition from the dark to the light.

Read it in the days ahead, and stoke the fires of logic-based hope, and please consider supporting the work I do if you find any of your travels through the Bright Archives worthwhile.

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