The Narrative Episode 60 - The War That Wasn't

Exploring Every Angle of Donald Trump's Iranian Kobayashi Maru

Bright Army!

I hope you’re hydrated, because the latest episode of The Narrative makes up for lost time in a big way.

But before we get to that, I do want to acknowledge the outpouring of support I received last week when I said I had lost power during the snowpocalypse in coastal New England.

While I’m far more likely to downplay weather events than amplify them, I will say it was the most intense storm I have ever personally experienced, and I will also say that, despite 81 hours without power in the cold, huddling by the fire while preventing my pipes from bursting, and stashing Mrs. Bright and Baby Bright in a nearby shelter for over three days, God came through for us in a big way.

We’re all healthy. We’re all uninjured, and our home was spared.

Not everyone was as lucky during 80 mph winds and nearing 3 feet of snow dumped in 12 hours.

But back to the matter at hand, while I was out of the Info War for a few days, boy did the script writers have a BIGGIE planned for my return, and I just so happened to have the absolute best man for the job already scheduled prior to Operation Epic Fury.

On the latest episode of The Narrative, GhostofBasedPatrickHenry and I open the show with a sober assessment of the initial shock of Donald Trump’s blitz on the Iranian Regime, some of the negative fallout from it—including in our own minds—only to balance it out with several hours of Narrative analysis that I both think and hope will represent an absolute carpet bombing of white pills for you to keep in mind in the days ahead.

While few in my readership advocate for open war, most also understand that Trump has no desire to see it, either.

So, how is he set to navigate the ultimate Kobayashi Maru?

I think I’ve got a few ideas, and I hope you enjoy the attempt to parse them all in real time.

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The Week That Was …

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No new writing this week, for obvious reasons, but I did want to bring your attention to a not-so-oldie that—as I HOPE is the case with many a feature at Burning Bright—hasn’t just aged well, but may be more relevant now than when it was fresh off the presses.

To wit, last year, in the aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer, I claimed that Donald Trump had just executed a masterstroke of Narrative Disarmament.

And that said operation wasn't aimed at the Iranian Regime, in a classical sense, but rather at the true enemy, which is more exposed than ever before.

In fact, I believe that, if the headlines weren't included in this piece, you could swap it out in its entirety for the weekend that was, and the war that wasn't, and it would hold.

But I'll leave that to you:

"Simply put, I believe Donald Trump effectively disarmed an Actual War by waging a masterful Narrative War in the midst of the enemy matrix.

How did he do this?

In resetting the Iranian Nuclear Paradigm, he deprived the Invisible Enemy of their story.

And without a story, you have no mandate, as I’ve been arguing in these digital pages since I founded this publication.

All of this helps to further cement the ‘seeming reality’ or verisimilitude of the story being told, which is absolutely paramount to engendering the sort of mass belief (ie: reality codification) the War of Stories is all about.

Now, while I personally fall into one particular camp—those who believe the ‘war’ events we’re being told about out of Iran are either entirely narrative or augmented actuals being morphed through the hall of mirrors that defines fifth-generation warfare—there can be little doubt that the regime’s intent in aligning with that same path is in cultivating public mandate for the false premise of Iran’s designs on nuclear domination that provided shielding for Israel’s war in the first place.

In other words, if the people believe the conditions for an end to the war have been met, then they de facto believe the conditions for peace have been codified … woe be unto any who might upset the new paradigm.

So, essentially, the enemy matrix is now trapped in the highly unenviable position—for them—of speaking what they believe to be the truth … that being, that they don’t believe the story they’re being told to sell.

Trump has set the new paradigm, which means he’s placed the enemy apparatus into quite the pincer, as he’s wont to do.

Either they accept the peaceful path … or they choose the other thing.

Which brings us to the theme of this particular writing.

How do you catch an invisible enemy?

Well, first, you have to be able to see them.

Trump can certainly see them, and many in this audience believe they can.

And yet, how many have accepted that the Media Industrial Complex lies as a matter of course and yet, still defers to them when it comes to setting the very premise—the very actual—from which the ensuing political, cultural or, in this case, even the existential arguments to follow?

These arguments have consequences. Arguments Trump is ending by utterly and summarily demonstrating why there wasn’t a hint of hyperbole in his long-ago designation of the Fake News Media as the enemy of the people."

Consider a refresh on The Invisible Enemy, if it’s been a while.

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