Command and Control Counter Insurgency

For Jacob Fenton 'Usufruct' at Carlye Packer Sept. 2024

Preface

I hardly have anything to say to people who don’t already think like me. Unfortunately, there is no convincing anyone anymore. Even if you encounter a new perspective in this piece, what is going to happen? A hypothetical figure. I’m so proud of you.

Command and Control

The advent of information technology coincides with a paradigm shift of the internal and external psyche of the West re:1934. The Holocaust. With a capital ‘H,’ Honey. This was not merely an event, but a continual process of technological acceleration that demands conviction now. A control group of managers reigns for the purpose of manipulating the psychology of a populace, testing conditioned returns through information channels, and manufacturing the contextual crisis to accelerate technology. The event ended, but nothing was dismantled. It was disseminated. The ideology that allows for the systemic fracturing and abuse of a psyche was added to a newly developed, globalized, technological framework for the purpose of mass manipulation, demarcation, and control. To break a community into individuals, to break individuals into rabid response nodes, to break nodes into flickering flesh points. The human mind is ground into the slop they are serving our children. Nazi ideology has spread through the last 80 years through the technology that was developed to decode it. The decoding further enigmated these codes. When the poles meet, it is never in the middle, but at the bottom, at the most extreme site. But the radicalized site is always shifting. There is no longer a battlefield. There is no longer an enemy. There are only individual patterns connected through multilayered traits with the purpose of obscuring the fractured nature of our individual reality. Things are bad, and they are only getting worse. There is no solution. Well. Pause. This is purely for your information. There is no prescription besides the ones unwillingly taken through your tap water consumption. If you believe your Brita is going to save you… find God.

Warships across the Atlantic hurl artillery shells into human structures. 1942. Nazi messaging channels lit up with communication around America's planned invasion of the Western front. Many transmissions were intercepted, but unable to be decoded due to the enigmatic construction of them. Ally forces are pushed back across Western channels. Trenches dug, lines are drawn and plundered. The sleeping giant is about to go woke. Onboard these naval ships, predating the contemporary computers as we know them today, the predominantly female personnel would do computational work. Despite their expertise, they were largely unable to decode these complex messages. Notwithstanding expanding staff and funds as a portion of the ‘at home’ war effort, advancement was demanded. Contracted and then created. Thank you, IBM. The machine operated through a series of pumps and pistons, a precursor to the noded infrastructure of the motherboard. Mommy is always watching you. These pistons ran a series of algorithms to decipher and code breakmore efficiently than the most expansive team of ‘computers’ a naval ship could host. This process was called cryptographing, the mapping of encoded information to make it renderable and thus actionable. Insert agency. Cryptographing code, coded language, the Allies are code-switching shipping routes to redraw the map of Western Europe ‘back’ to how it ‘should be.’ The process of demarcation is prior to the advent of advanced technology, an apparatus meant to induce the ‘fracture’ of the psyche of Europe. The psyche of a country is not the amalgamation of its individual citizens’ perceptions, which reflects the ‘soft power’ apertures seen in modern democratic exports and cultural generation, but to the actions taken by the ‘elected’ or socially constructed body of ‘officials’ along the lines of what is ‘hard power’ or the use of the manufactured resources to exert control. Drawing the distinction allows two different psyches to form, one of the individual as they participate in the collective unconscious and one that reflects the government's actions. These two psyches are locked in a tandem dance, but they are not dancing for fun. Byte Dance performance, Triller, TikTok adaptation to the death dance; death drive. The psyche of both the individual and the state takes us from the overcoding of the greatest act of violence in the 20th century to the ongoing factory farm of contemporary Western ideology. Get comfortable in the pen they put you in. A machine is about to pump and dump you.

With the state comes the rupture. With the state comes the state. Industrialization and globalization led to an increase in cultural exchange. The front had expanded and the trade routes were connected, leading to not only an increase of trade prosperity, but exponentially increasing competition. Competition over the same resources that are lateralized across Europe, hierarchies developed along the lines of ‘trade’ as a hard power. What were once expansive economic hubs of port cities were not tied to their export and import, but to the management of these operations. The export shifted from material goods to the process of export. From what would exist in the first layer or sequence of Marx's value theory to a diagonal flight to the mechanism that accelerates exchange, the third sequence. This economic change as a precursor to World War II meant that there had been time for citizens to internalize the paradigm of the newly formed ‘control society.’ Did you know we live in a society? Did you know Karl Schmidt was a Nazi? Schmidtian analysis defined the friend- enemy distinction for Western Europe. Psychoanalyzing the sovereign structure, he dichotomizes geopolitical action along the lines of ones taken towards friends and cooperation and towards enemies and competition. Upscaling psychology in the process of sovereign nationalism, a political science that has led to the development, though not linearly, of think tanks, consultant classes, Pentagon white paper experts, and the globalized process of the New World Order– through building a state that necessitates perpetual bureaucracy to function. Distinction methods create the conditions for otherization on a national, not racial/ethnic/interpersonal, level. The other state. The wrong one. Sorry buddy, you can’t come on my podcast. But the friend-enemy actions taken by these states work in tandem to enforce the bias of individual citizens, warped in the direction the state necessitates. Embargos on French goods by the United Kingdom due to ‘quality’ reinforces the basis to citizens that the French populace cannot produce in the ‘correct’ way that the ‘proper English’ worker does. Deploying feedback loops into the ‘electorate’ or voting class to empower leaders that continue xenophobic policies. It is not the chicken or the egg. The rise of this system of control was built as the hen house was erected. To otherize in the case of the citizen is to generate a distinction between those that have been approved or demarced into the in-group of acceptables and those, unbaptized into statehood, who areghettoized. Statehood accelerated otherization. Statehood in the context of both psyches becoming internalized. Codified individuality is more than semiotic and language differences; it is more than the budding enterprising of pre-Great War Europe. The dismantle, aryanization, of print media outlets and the expansion of the computer, radio, and expanded information channels created a new terrain of hyper-competition. Some are left behind. We are all going to make it, and it is the others' fault, cries from the streets of the poorly run states. Seduced and conquered, the psyche of the individual is fertile and warm for neoinformational colonialism. Welcome to the new free world.

20th Century e-girl

The Geneva Convention of the previous decade could not have predicted there was to be another equally damaging war being fought within European states. Private German media outlets were shut down almost entirely throughout the 30’s ballooning the once 3% state- owned press to a near monopoly on print. The Aryanization of news outlets to ‘reclaim the information sphere’ was an act of continual non-kinetic warfare. By the end of the war, there was a shortage of ink. Papers themselves became shorter. There was less printed word, but there was more information than ever. The streets were closed, and blinders were raised. The world was not in front of the occupied, not those in hiding nor those doing the seeking. Truth seekers closed their eyes and ears to listen to dubious ‘facts’ and ‘figures’ from the radio. The war effort had conditioned the brain to shut down to accept and listen. Disciplined without the carrot. Goebbels' engineered social stratification was not unique to the German-occupied experience. Soon-to-be virtualized infrastructure was developed. There was an invasion of America. The Bronze Night 2007 happened at home in 1942. The cyber-attack was on the airwaves, not the nodes, and there was no enigma to decode. Only the tempests of the informationatioanlized other.

From a German radio station in Berlin came a broadcast from the first-ever e-girl into the homes and trenches of American soldiers. Mildred Gillars began working as an announcer with the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG), German State Radio, before the war. Employment that expanded with her refusal to leave Germany when Americans abroad were advised to exit due to the increasing probability of warfare. She stayed with her German national (read; nationalist) husband who would later be drafted to die in combat. Red Scare precursor. She initially broadcast news domestically in Germany prior to America's invasion. Capitalizing on the development use of communication channels as not simply infrastructure for battle, but the battle itself. Leaders at the radio station provided her with a career-advancing opportunity. She would run shows directed at American audiences to induce defection not only from their posts, but their will to fight. I love the beauty to fascism pipeline; everyone listens when a pretty girl speaks. She resonated with many soldiers and their families due to the fact she could not only speak Americanized English, but imbued her propaganda with the language tropes learned in her formative years in Ohio. A voice that resonated with the mostly German descendant farmers' sons who were shipped off to conflict. A voice developed from her work as a playwright in Greenwich Villagebefore Peter Theil paid her off.

Many such cases. The worried mothers and fathers would lay awake at night on their farmland thinking about the life they tried to escape, invading them once again. The war did come home. Who in the trenches gets the e-girl? A memory of a farmer’s daughter in their wallets. The voice of an angel cackles through a war radio. Or is it the commander’s orders? The trenches are a lonely place. And in the absence of warm bodies, the warm buzz of a radio show. Home Sweet Home Hour – her first show premiering to ideologically capitalize off the male loneliness epidemic. Saturdays are for the boys. The trenches are for the boys. Following her break-out success and her husband’s missing in action status. She debuted her second show, Midge at the Mic. A hornier show, her foyer into ASMR audio reporting anti- Semitic remarks complete with personal attacks on FDR. You think you know a girl until you hear her voice recordings. EMPATHDOLL. Many such cases, her scriptwriter, Koischwitz, gave her a lot of her best material. Many such cases. He wrote her most famous work, or infamous, depending on what your view of the final solution is. The play, Visions of Invasion, premiered on May 11, 1944, just weeks before D-day. Visions focused on an Ohio mother whose son has a horrific death en route to the Western front. Grappling with the grief of sacrifice to the unknown enemy across the world, one that at this time was not universally condemned by the American populace. Despite the retcon through shilled media outlets such as the History Channel or Bill O’Riley’s speculative fanfiction recanting the greatest nationalist story of the 20th century, there were ‘Hitler’s American Friends’ a group that disseminated misinformation not to persuade the American populace to join Germany, but to confuse them into becoming passive. Friends in high places, nepo-babies, Ford automotive empire doing the dash on American Steel to develop cars powered by Standard Oil. The portrayal of Americans' sacrifices for the war that was kept and taught as nationalist propaganda to encourage populace participation in future wars. There is a reason why the only two women you know from World War II are Rosy the Riveter and Eva Braun. George Washington said in his farewell address, ‘do not intervene’ a statement that paths through to the contemporary constitutionalist founding logic of ‘soft conflict’, do not intervene directly. Do not intervene unless you control the conflict.

As more good boys were drafted to the European front, the citizenship was reinvigorated and there were more ears to reach, the other Axis powers capitalized. Manufacturing their own e-girl, Italy created a second Axis Sally. The clarity issues of the war radio made determining who was speaking a challenge. Introducing cohost of the Red Scare podcast Rita Zucca. Why is no one clapping for these Nazis? They are hot girls. See attachments. And she’s hotter because she’s racist right? Anna to the Dasha’s ‘Bitch of Berlin.’ They engaged in a diverse array of psychological attacks. The most common and important of which revolved around the idea of evoking memories of ‘the home.’ The idea of homesickness as a weapon of psychological disturbance invokes the same principle of denialism. One in which memories and feelings overcode the reality of trenches. Preying on the nostalgic state develops into a core tenant of psychological pacification. Did you know Walt Disney was an anti-semite? Just keep pressing buttons. She’s a ride-or-die bitch in Berlin until two days before the Nazi’s surrender, you went to Berlin for a couple months.

Tilting the axis further to the eastern front, the third e-girl named Tokyo Rose began broadcasting from imperial Japan, but she was targeting a different audience, not the homeland, but the high seas. A siren calling out to sailors not to seduce, but for them to abandon their posts. Preying on the communication channel difficulties of the American forces, emphasizing the concepts of troop loss and the difficulties of war, she encourages soldiers to simply give up. Not everyone can play imperial pirate. The psychological project of developing insecurity and distrust and confusion. Creating cognitive dissonance. A stunned and demotivated populace is not one that fights back. Insecurity is used to control patterns. This did not prove ultimately effective as it was not an individual troop that curtain called the Pacific Theater, but the dropping of the most destructive piece of technology after IBM’s invention. Insecurity was met with more insecure projection. This is not a warning shot, but a series of vibrational effects that would preconfigure the United States' domestic strategy. It was not just nucleoids that spread in Japan, but the decaying and corrosive nature of communication. While the ‘active testing’ information was imported back to the states, the lessons of subversion were as well. A ripe testing ground was now at home. Fertile and broken minds ready to be fractured.

Home sick or just sick. The home they fought for no longer exists. It was all a projection over the prairie. I do my oil paintings in the blood of the settled. My blood is filled with nuclides, individual particles that will lead to my untimely demise. Every moment I stare out of the window at the ship returning to America. There are talks of a bill to help all the boys that were out here. I know she's waiting for my return. I am excited to see her. My mom, of course, too. The future is bright.

Counter Insurgency

The spread of communism from the icy tundra of the newly formed Soviet Union to the sunny beaches of free love California in the wake of the newly collapsed European empire is followed by a wake boarder with a suicide bomb strapped to his chest aimed at the collective unconscious of the West. The trail of exports containing spoils of war to America was more aligned with soft power, individuals, diplomatic knowledge, technology, and strategic ‘know-how.’ Russia, in comparison, took the land. Stalin’s emphasis on the brute and hard power that won them the Eastern front translated into their geopolitical strategy. Curtaining off the territory that they had marched through and capitalizing against the weakend front, closing off routes east. Truman led initiatives that focused on the spread of soft influence. The influence and dividing lines of the closest regional power were obscured through a newly globalized democracy. Global institutions were created to ‘never let an atrocity’ like this ever happen again. What a wonderful time to unite all nations. A ‘good-hearted’ attempt at homogenizing and globalizing along the lines of Western values. State manufacturing, more exports. But, the state was no longer an isolated region or one with immediate trading partners. Social progress is so important, I am so glad to live in a democracy. The state was branded and marketized on the newly invented global exchange. Fractured companies and operations. Export-import advancements as countries were retooled to stand against a new threat. One that did not wield power through the bombing campaigns that destroyed greater London but ones that attacked the hearts and minds of the Western populace. Hard power is being submitted through globalization, which is not aneffect of the ‘equalizing’ power of democracy, but the control mechanism of the nucleiods spread.

Nazi technology and imperialist Japanese research were protected and imported into American ran agencies like the newly established NASA, World Health Organization, and CIA. Taking the ‘lessons’ learned from the gratuitous violence rendered against the ‘homo sacer’ dejected populations. Demarced for testing. Imperial Japan's Unit 731 research created the groundwork for the expansion of the medical-industrial complex. The WHO was constructed on the bones of thousands of ‘research experiments.’ Are you being experimented on now? The destitute carry the Red Cross. The UN relief packages are dropped from helicopters onto the heads of African warlords who, having recently been ‘freed’ from the European empire, were colonized by a new economic powerhouse. One that is not the pasty man on top the hill, but the entirety of the governance structure that is still-indebted to IMF loan programs. Loans backed by the US dollar, the only remaining ‘strong’ currency post war. A currency that eclipsed the need for reserves to back it, instead it is now the newly advanced military-industrial complex, America itself began positioning itself as too big to fail. The implications of rebuilding based on US loans embedded these countries with new standards for development. Goals for countries to meet in accordance with Western democracy and the neocapitalization. Forced opening of economies, the privatization of industries that had led to the wealth expansion in America. Vaccine testing programs, forced sterilizations, the open desert of medical adventurism. This place is the Magic Kingdom and it’s pharmatasmical. Inversely, these loans conditioned a corrosive element to soft power. Join or die mentality, swaying the original votes of the UN to double down on continued globalized initiatives and norms setting. There was no alternative to the loaning process or external organization to determine reasonability of it, as reasonable standards were not at the time, or even largely now defended as a bastion of protection for ‘developing’ countries. The declaration of these places as the ‘third world’, not of the civilized Earth, not allowed to join in unity, but pieced and parceled. This geopolitical block leads to a separation of the Western, particularly American psyche. Freedom is on the ballot, but not for the indebted.

“It’s inhumane what is happening here.” -A girl who just found out about the houseless crisis.

“I can’t believe I was denied from Dartmouth after spending every summer in Kenya.” - Someone recently denied from Dartmouth.

Phrenology devices used in medical imperialism, the adventure playground to determine the validity of rights. The import of eugenicists from Axis research centers in the fabric of determining the ‘viability’ of the project of equalization. This conceptualization in Africa was imported to the continued redlining and ‘ghettoizing’ of the black population. The first person to get the covid vaccine was a Black woman. What does that mean? Are we exploiting or equalizing? The racial biases embedded through phrenological logic transmute aesthetically, it is not only phobia, but philia. A lack of prosocial medical research done todiverse populations not only leads to disparities in care. But a direct understanding of how to destroy a population. Charitable action, the psyche wants redemption. The guilt of onboarding ‘dark arts’ allows the collective state psyche to project saviorism. Redemption will find us all. Broke, not broken. Forced broke. Buck breaking entire continents to promote the growth of US industry. The teet of the mother and the slap of the father hegemon. A split psyche. The hard power of the state itself and its exploitative mechanism, the soft caresses of the trauma adventurists.

“How many countries have you been to?” She asks me over a drink.

“I’ve been everywhere. We all have.”

The citizen is told to bear the burden of the state’s action, it is worn on your sleeve and flown above your porch. The technocratic American empire of human rights promotion, shell corporations asking for your signature outside of CVS. They are not working above board. Implore the use of direct aid funding for your social cause. The conspiracy is the belief in these forms of medical technology, denial is the truth. The trick is the mechanism of guilt association. You have to feel bad for the exploited to allow further exploitation to be guised. Any solution is a good one. The acceptable conspiracy here is that the government could have had malicious intent in the testing of a series of vaccines on an unconsenting population, but these vaccines worked, so no harm, no foul, right? The suffering would have been so much worse without the development of the Trove vaccine in Nigeria. Seeing the children of a country being ravaged by malaria as the perfect test case for an experimental operation. Flown down in 1966, after the craniology devices had been put away and data backlogged into a matrix to check against the potential of a citizenship. The trial killed a tenth of the unwilling participants. It had to be tested though, of course. There is no progress without sacrifice. There is no sacrifice without a logged data set of the results.

This is not an event in the American canon of conspiracy directly, primarily because it did not take place in America. The otherized distinction of the newly declared international ghetto the other to the America Real, a process described in the introduction, illuminates why, on either side of the conspiracy, it is okay. If it is a necessary sacrifice for medical progress, then it is worth it, if it was just American adventurism, then it doesn’t matter because those Nigerian children were not members of the in-group of the conspiracists. This logic pervades the duality of every conspiratorial event. The hard and the soft, the violence and the guilt, both sides are conditioned to not focus on the material event, but the symbolic impact. This begins the process of fracturing the psyche. The quick sweeping under the rug. The symbolic dismantling of the original 10 IBM machines, but they were not dissembled they were disseminated into what built the groundwork for handling this data volume. As the liberal international order continues the imperial march of data collection, the home front is unstable. The enemy is far away and ambiguous. Comfortable citizens are not easily controlled. They are not convinced to sacrifice again. The psyche is not allowed to heal, or it will not stay manipulatable.

Some people are still hiding in the jungle, pretending the war never ended. But it did end. Don’t get psyopped the war is never-ending, but so is the war. We aren't even there yet.Load your bags. Who are the neighbors you are now impressing? They have names that have been Ellis Islanded. What side of the war were they on? The transition of the Axis to a colder front. The ecstasy following the ‘victory’ of World War quickly turned to the withdrawal shivers associated with such drug abuse. A new national enemy was created. The war didn’t end, it simply shifted forces. There were too many newspapers, too much ink, too many eyes that had seen the trauma of the polita-state as a process of discriminatory action. Too many had been reduced and left at a juncture. These voices had to be silenced. Buying off the war-torn population began with stucco apartments in The Valley they were held at a spiritual gunpoint. Take the bribe or be declared insane. Medically classified and neo-lobotomized through industrialized medication. The closing of communal dining halls in New York, the city, to make room for the suburban sprawl of kitchen islands, kitchenware technology, and casing our favorite meals in Jell-O. Jellified the mind. Paranoia is brewing in the home.

I’d take a grenade for you.

Copy Jackie Onassis’s trauma in a screen print reproduction.

“Is that an original Warhol?” “No. It was probably printed by someone in the factory.” “I can’t believe Andy Warhol made his work in China!”

Well, during the Warhol era, China was not the production hub it is now. OPEN UP CHINA. Resources were extracted and exported along less accelerated verticalities. Were the tariffs ever implemented? Particularly for the spread of neoliberal production capacity. Convince the masses. Welcome to the psycho-cyber operation. But there is a long silk road to China's industry and we aren’t there yet.

Freelove summer. The bomb isn't going to drop. There are futures. JFK is about to die. Your daughter is on wave one birth control. Thank God you work a good job. Capulating wealth in American Standard Oil. Your son has an internship at Nazi-controlled Boeing. Commercial airlines; let's go on vacation. Who was the first girl to get flown out? Did you know the Nazi’s were contacting aliens through wunderwaffens?

Mystification of Nazi ideology as being adjacent to the spiritual world severs a dualistic front. It promotes the Nazis as the ‘greatest enemy of the Christian West’ as being demonically influenced both by Pagan ideology and a ‘phobically’ rooted form of racism America has ‘worked’ past. The acceptable conspiracy serves a dual purpose to promote Western influence and to curtail the spread of alternative forms of knowledge production. To continue with the pharmatasmic nature of Western medical industrial complex, the ‘taboo’ and ‘primitive’ forms of natural healing found in other cultures are forcibly sanitized and co-opted. The benefits of turmeric as an anti-inflation aid are not allowed to be the dirty orange dust found in the spice market, but manufactured into gummies and pills. Clean forwestern consumption, stripped of the bioavailability of nutrients so the consumer reverts back to the Johnson and Johnson, proven and prosperous way of ailment solution. The solution is the ailment, but knowledge production necessitates control and command over ‘its canon,’ the denial of alternative aspects of a solution inherently promotes the one that is not being denied. The only ethical solution left is to align with what works. Nothing works if you don’t – John Wooden. Natural solutions left the home with the husband. Well, you need to get in the catalog. Your trad wife is on a medical cocktail of hormone disruption, and you wonder why she is depressed.

The Cold War is not cold, your brain is just frozen. The speed of information is rapidly thawing it. You aren’t supposed to microwave frozen meat. You aren’t supposed to microwave. The computational nature of liberal democracy is influencing its citizenship. The sovereign commands top-down compliance with its values. The people adapt to the policy of the state and reinforce it. The modern American psyche's fracture is continuing. Dual narratives of every event spawn. JFK assassination ruined the reputation of Dallas. Relive conspiratorial events. Live events. Live action roleplay on Knotting Hill. The shot couldn’t have come from above because it didn’t. The over-analysis of the Zapruder film, false flag eyewitness accounts, the moving back of security. Forward, rewind, enhance. I don’t even see the code anymore. To me it's a visual description. I don’t even see the event anymore. It has all become signifiers of them. Your ‘based’ uncle says the CIA killed Kennedy to blow your mind. They did it, but it was justified because JFK was in the Illuminati, he continues. There was no longer an assassination, it wasn’t a body double, but he was never alive to be killed. He continues. Well, if you come down to my basement, you can see my recreation theme set. I think I went to sleep after that though. My throat kind of hurts.

The event can no longer matter. There are simply too many of them. ‘Who done it’ style mystery is not captivating enough. The meetings in Dallas social houses before the assassination. Lee Harvey Oswald was named and killed before testifying. The paper trail of mobsters who came down from Memphis for that very weekend. The passing of the guard to LBJ through the first inauguration on Air Force One. Perfect photo opportunity because it was manufactured. Preaching the good word of JFK’s resurrection through AI slop infographics. Andy Warhol didn’t even take his own photos.

With division following the assassination of the only trad cath president, America’s sweetheart was broken. Affirm a new enemy. Affirm the paranoia brewing across the white picket fences spilling into streets of the Fourth of July parade. RED RED RED flag waves from the new neighbors. There is a new coworker at the husband’s office, this was before the towers fell, uncomfortable to share the cubicle. They talk funny. They spell Evan with an I. There are new books being passed out at the son’s college campus. The introduction of socialist ideology into the outskirts of the curriculum. He’s such a good boy to organize the book burning. Your daughter is dating a soon-to-be revolutionary. It’s horrible what’s happening here. Every communist rapper pulled the spiritual trigger to kill Kennedy. Who told Damon Dash who the Kennedys were?

The soft power of American culture was given a channel to lash out, a release of paranoia and an ability to resist the changing infrastructure in front of them. The dual psyche of hard power needs a place to put these weapons. Investments need to be tested. The economic powerhouse of the military industrial complex that funded multiple sectors and sides of World War II. Do your own research. The investment of steel plants into military technology to fund the development of Russo and German weaponry and railways. JFK wouldn’t have been killed if he had bombed The Bay of Pigs. The money to be made was too great, the escalation of conflict. The enemy is manufactured. The enemy is unfamiliar. The enemy is in the jungle. But direct conflict is impossible. The development of these multipolar international organizations, even if run by America, force a subversion of hard conflict to the splintered others. The Cold War was not cold, but direct conflict froze over. Beneath the ice lake of stalled talks and escalating military budgets, Department of Defense contracting obligations, and the funding of think tanks to support the specter of American realism. The swarm of influence battles happened. Disenfranchised from the global participatory democracy, the USSR spread its influence through their own attempts at unifying and supporting uprising efforts. The downcycling of weapons to communist insurgent groups across Southeast Asia. These fractured enemies, the Khmer Rouge, the Vietnam 'shadow warriors’ as Spanos describes, the insurgencies across the soon-to-be battleground of the Middle East. All of these serve to redirect and confuse the war effort from the primary ‘enemy.’ The war never ends if there is always another. The novelty of the enemy doesn’t change, the concept of the enemy is necessary to keep the American psyche primed for the disinformation surrounding conflict. Maintaining fear and insecurity as a marker of the relationship between countries' cooperation efforts. The creation of NATO to form its own iron, or economically golden, curtain between the East and West. The specter of containment. If you love a butterfly, you have to let it fly throughout the garden and hope it returns to you. A butterfly dies in captivity. The primed and scattered, overworked and underused brain of the laborer is sent to the jungle death camp like his forefathers before him. He comes back traumatized and declared in need of medication. There is no telling of the horrors of war. This great power is a ghost that pervades our time. Not everyone believes in ghosts. Many believe in the wrong spirits. Even more walk around the woods dressed as ghosts, but that’s cliché. The cloth robes are made into a handkerchief worn at the [redacted] national convention.

“The bigger the lie the more they believe it.” – Joseph Goebbels

The turn toward American conspiracy of the idol of the Cold War was smashed into fragmented pieces over time and became increasingly disseminated. The boundless nature of fracturing allows microcosms to form. There is something for everyone and every event becomes a construction site for a possible future. This manifested physically in the spread of the Cold War from the singular front of the USSR where the tentacles of power spread. The sphere of influence is no longer the conspiracy itself, but who is wrapped in it. Faceless acronymic named organizations are formed to encourage the spread of these spheres. I say encourage the spread because, despite the idea of reducing the spread of misinformation, the route to propagandize certain narratives necessitates the construction of its own conspiracy against the conspiratorial forces. The acceptable conspiracy. It is important to be able toquestion the lie because then the platform is opened to defend it. The point is not to provide one enemy, not one thing to rally against, but a multifaceted front. Diversification allows more intellectual extraction, it is a data set, not a data stream.

There is no figure. There are only patterns. They are getting clever.

The Hammer

The broken veteran sits on the side of the road holding a cardboard sign as a businessman drives past him. Then, two white cars pass. One black. Two white. One red. The pattern repeats every morning. The vet sits and looks at a simulcast of what he has determined to be a message for him. In the jungle, you have to be observant. Constantly searching and releasing cortisol. The endless stress, all senses are made available to an individual, and they still cannot process the volume of datasets in front of them. Eclipsed by the computational power of the machine, the vet’s mind deteriorates within and through itself. The grey matter spills out onto the floor of the stucco apartment. The walls are scribbled symbols. Mapped sets of information.

The Gulf War never happened. Well, it did. Actually, I can’t go through with this paragraph. I’m sorry to my professors I wrote all the Baudrillard essays for. Excuse this intermission, there needs to be an apology in here somewhere and it isn’t going to be the content warning sentence one or a little note at the end attached. Sorry, Jacob. When the enemy escapes the single demarcation, the heroes of the conspiratorial mind palace are shattered. A new front. Vietnam war protests, a new wave of activism, legislative change, where do we go from here, they ask into the crowd after a wave of police assaults on students who occupied UC Berkeley. Is that microbus full of hippies or dogs? Horoscopes along the side, who believes in that shit? That’s not a conspiracy. This was all astral projected to me in a dream state. The world is an increasingly dangerous place and everybody needs something to hold on too and it's not someone in your bed.

“I know how to play the game. I can chat up the press, schmooze with politicians and get warm bodies to an event. But, as I've become a non-profit insider I've become an outsider to the community I intended to help and the future I wanted to create”. – Andrew Culp, Producing Pacification: The Disciplinary Technologies of Smart Bombs and National Anti-War Organizing, 2009, pg 50

Shawty not outside I wish things were different. I wish things were different. These threats are either real and you will never have your hands on the levers of power required to change any of this. Eat bugs, losers. Or, they are not real. I'm fear-mongering you and you just mogged. Loser. Unfortunately, it is the former. She is working hard all day to create meaning for herself. She came to stop disenfranchisement. She moved to DC to get slutted out by the democratic machine. It is hard to find an attractive Democrat, ask anyone who lives in DC. Working on Climate Change Impact Assessment. We are all going to make it. We are all going to make a difference. Difference is co-opted. I am a CIA officer with generalized anxiety disorder.

“The transformation... into the intelligible political form of civil society happens through disciplining, …eliminating antagonism, effacing differences, and producing subjectivities that have interiorized the generalized logic of the State … protest groups are … gradually becoming subject experts… redirecting the energy of the group toward very specific policy- oriented ends.” Culp, 2009, pg 49

Andrew Culp studies the control potential of technology within the political apparatus. Engaging in a similar but broader critique of the maluses of social technology to upend social relationships in the context of attempted legal and political action. Culp connects the ways in which ‘civil’ society demonstrates a capacity for antagonism and dismal use of alternative information, which is not a dismissal of what's being explored here. That conspiracy itself has been integrated. Rendered okay to question. Through the process of demarcation that allows further division against the acceptable questioning of the military- industrial complex, but excuses the denial of evidence against the medical industrial complex. These lines are all intentional. Are you watching the good news?

Tell me I owe you nothing. You have to say those words. I need to hear it or I will think I owe you something. Say nothing if the cigarette is free.

The Boston Marathon bombing perpetrators were found through Reddit threads. Jet Fuel doesn’t melt steel beams. See, if you understand the structural integrity of a building, especially of that size, it would be improbable that such a top-down collapse would occur. These individuals still focus on the event itself as the act of conspiracy. This is layer one or, L1, thinking. This doesn’t break the mind of the American in the dark room in Telegram cabal channels. When the event is the primary focus of the conspiracy and not the symbols surrounding the event, there is a tether to corporeality that maintains some form of grounding. This is what demarcs the questioning person between: le Redditor, based, Che Guevara shirt wearing r/communism poster and The Bakers logging and theorizing posting times and frequencies, tracking word count usage and username similarities. Welcome to L2. The layered is real. Serial Experiments Lain saved me.

There are too many possible events to keep track of. Schizo stroll through the Unicorn's Garden. We are flanked by the Hyborian River. The sound of music is playing. Praying for the Vandertramps. Thank God they escaped. When was the last time you really paid attention to what was happening around you? When you looked into the hand movements, symbolic pins, the pattern of cars in traffic. Quilting the mind. Baking the breadcrumbs. This is L2 psychological dissidence. The acceleration of the news cycle contributes to the lack of temporal space devoted to individual conspiracies. These questions can be left for the independent researchers. But the psyche is too overwhelmed for the deep dive. Iceberg conspiracy, it's only 10 hours to break your mental. Are you scared yet? Do you understand the portal that connects New York to Singapore goes through the flat earth and only appearsto those who are initiated? You want to manifest your reality. It’s already manifested. Once you step in, you aren’t able to exit. It's horrible what's happening here. But, here is security. The comfort of extreme nihilism. Community is built through gatekeeping. The constant trauma of displacement renders the psychologically vulnerable in a worse position. Liberal discourse over one missed paycheck and you lose your house, we need social services. Well. More than that. Your divorce over the lost house, your kids are gone. Who’s left. Someone is to blame, and I think we know who they think is to blame.

The American Second Amendment reclassification in Minnesota v. Carter, 525 U.S. 83 (1998) describes an individual house as their “castle.” An extension of the British commonwealth doctrine which determined the rights of the disseminated land offerings to the once serf population. Sovereignty has been redefined as the interpersonal experience of an individual, instead of being a shared understanding of reality for deviant individuals to rebel against. Everything is manufactured to be transgressed. This eroded over time from the housewife picket fence competition, where the mass individualization of the economy and a technocratic way of life began to codify, to the present moment of algorithmically curated information channels. There is no echo chamber. The world is happening on your phone and you are watching it happen live. The enemy is everywhere, the enemy is inside. Exporting the shadow self does not, in Jungian terms, integrate it into your creative psyche. Stop watching porn and start sublimating. Start watching the most extreme porn you can. Start choking out your partner until they go into shock. Toxic living situation, in need of housing. Join the list. This fear of ‘accountability’ within the actions of the great white American dream leads individuals to enter the arena. The castle has been invaded. The business was destroyed. The family never even had a chance to begin. Premarital abortion. Whoops, I did it again. Third marriage, third castle. Your trad wife is the leather baby on a Harley who looks like the undercover cop that got your CDL suspended. HOT. The expansion into standing your ground leads to the tragic death of predominantly Black individuals for ‘imposing’ on the sovereignty of an individual perpetrating violence. The castle moves with you. The walls are in your mind and they are about to be blown out. The back walls are blown out. The young bull American fucks your L1 conspiracy trad wife because you aren't schizoposting hard enough. She's cheating on you through Mike Lindell's phone network. Credit card debt to get her a BBL. Make my ass great again, MAGA.

Individually a single event does not produce this degree of psychological dissidence. Bankruptcy with solid interpersonal social relationships and a spouse happens, recovery is possible. Divorce with a friends and family discount at the local coffee shop, that's what Seeking Arrangements is for. But when events compound, it is not dissimilar to the compounding geopolitical events that collapse countries. An individual's psyche can become compromised. Security. Affirm. Guns. Affirm. Why is the suicide rate so high for the group that owns the most firearms in the United States? Both provide a sense of security. Why are there feds in my group chat? The news cycle terrorism notification. Security is securitized. I look in the mirror like Roseanne Barr off the Ambien and all I see is the other. My daughter who hates me is having a mixed-race baby, and I am posting about it online. I offered to bring black balloons to the baby shower, but that joke was lost on her. I am pro-abortion?

God is real, and he is actually talking to me on Twitter.com. Trump is the reincarnation of the Archangel Uriel. Trump is saved by God. We are all to be saved soon. Many apply, but few are accepted.

There is no figure. There are only patterns. They are getting clever. What differentiates pattern recognition from reactionary thinking is that a pattern is connected to the signifier while the broken psyche computes only the sign. The early human recognized blueberry bushes as blue bushes as edible flora, this in comparison to the veteran, tracking the frequency of different colored cars in front of him. As the veteran absorbs these seemingly meaningless signs, he creates a significance that’s not rooted in the material existence of an object, but ingrained in his perception of the object. This reactionary pattern recognition is not tethered to materiality, allowing for the duplication and cascading of more signs to be constructed upon each other.

The pattern’s frequency correlated with television adoption. Color tv’s were bought and installed en masse in America in the 60's and they never turned off. The home computer of the 90’s was bought and logged into for the first time. No one ever logged off. With an increased detail of every recorded moment the scrutiny began to increase. Every elite meeting could become the next Zapruder tape; did you see how Bill Clinton shook his cabinet members hand? The hand signals at a donor meeting. Individuals with a higher proclivity to symbolic understanding find themselves obsessed with instances of symbolic resonance. Numerology is induced on the population by the data matrix of the state apparatus. Technology is not these TVs and computers, but the manifestation of technocratic thought into physical entities that allow the command and control of insurgent actors.

A virtual railroad was built with data centers and network capabilities. The railroad is built with new blood. Semiconductor tariffs along a new horizontal line of their production. Isolation into the screen, microcommunties to digest information, streamlined efficiency. The ability to find individuals to deep dive into an individual's conspiracy does not mean that their information consumption tied to a specific conspiracy is more limited, but further unlimits their grip on reality. The rabbit hole effect prevents sticking to one’s individual worldview. Conspiracy is sold wholesale. One size fits all. Vaccine hesitancy is not isolated, but connected to the belief in greater malintent by the pseudo-government organizations. Codified skull size phrenology resurgence. You know the vaccine shrinks your skull capacity. Once you believe the government is no longer acting in your best interests, Pandora's Box opens up. I’m dropshipping Pandora's Box to the homes of stay-at-home- moms to have them ask some questions. They open it and it's empty. She looked at her Amazon payment history through a phishing link, and I drained her bank account. Her husband divorced her for irresponsibility. She’s isolated. I finally met her at the insurrection. All according to plan.

The phone rings and it never stops. Telecommunication is communication. It doesn’t run out of ink, but it has been co–opted. Your data is throttled. Dox yourself. SKT world champions. America back to back World War champions. There are cameras in your eyes. The camera stares into your eyes. The tracking of biomedical information, give up your face, show me your skin. Expansive layers become increasingly fragmented, more chains, shorter forms of content and information make it digestible, but information is not bioavailable it sticks to your stomach. The arresting officer grabs you by your love handles. The lack of metabolic activity. Your body isn't running hot enough. Overclock the brain with Taiwanese semiconductors and graphics cards.

Ends

A managerial class reigns for the purpose of manipulating the psychology of a populace, testing conditioned returns through information channels, and manufacturing the contextual crisis to accelerate technology. The event ended, but nothing was dismantled. It was disseminated. The ideology that allows for the systemic fracturing and abuse of a psyche was added to a newly developed, globalized, technological framework for the purpose of mass manipulation, demarcation, and control. To break a community into individuals, to break individuals into rabid response nodes, to break nodes into flickering flesh points. There is no prescriptive solution to the disenfranchised and broken Western mind. Does empathy pull someone out of the fog? Do they need more terrain to conquer, a massive government program that allows people to find meaning external to their social group? All of these things are Band-Aids over bullet holes. It’s the scene in The Matrix, but Keanu Reeves ends up getting fully clipped on the rooftop. The bullet holes are never ending. People are bleeding out on the street. The election was already stolen. Handbook Project 2025, it's good to do some reading. Think about what system has to be constructed to allow such blatant sexism, racism, queerphobia, and xenophobia to spawn in the deepest folds of our minds. Do not shut down the internet. The more fractured the pieces, the greater potentials we have. The next decade will look nothing like this one and that is a good thing.