“It does not help that dissidents have not been typically sensible and centred people, but rather comprise fantasists who live in an online hyper-reality that has totally lost the ability to parse reality” shouldn’t be overlooked. Neither of us would consider J6 or Ye actual counter-elites. Without dismissing your well-founded concerns, spectacle executed in the right fashion by the right people can still be done. Not difficult to be more charismatic than Regime- the fact more progress hasn’t been made here is indeed pathetic, but failures in past can inform successful decisions in future
If one were paranoid one might think that Ye2024 was a false flag, controlled opposition or however you want to put it. The whole I love Hitler thing and the stocking over the head was so over the top.
The humiliation ritual and it’s ability to make the wider nominally conservative public requires more study, it one of the key strategies of power in our age.
Certainly power wants to be seen, though it seems GAE power always wants plausible deniability on top of that.
Or more cynically, completely removing boomer truth from our eyes, the current regime is entirely unaccountable to us, and it views us as slaves to which it owes nothing, as opposed to its chosen non-ruling elite. The plausible deniability is to make it easier for people of all strata to lie to themselves and others so to remain apathetic.
In regard to the spectacle (I'm immediately reminded of Guy deBord) of the Nordstream sabotage and the steady Chinese Water Torture drips of almost but not quite admission by the GAE that yes- they did it to kick the miserable cur Germany back onto the path of righteousness, my keen interest in synarchy compels me to offer this thought: Power, does indeed want to be seen. But my question is: Power wants to be seen...by whom? Power has always existed in a multilayered hologram. When Roberto Calvi is found hanging from Blackfriar's Bridge, this is power wanting to be seen. But the average low information mope doesn't even register who the man was or what the significance of the event may be. But someone was flexing to someone else. Keep that example in mind and then contemplate whatever might be going on when a pathogen that is first described as 'deriving from nature' is heralded as a world destroying disease we must all hide from. Dissidents within and without the Sistema reveal it to have been the product of research begun, originally at Fort Detrick MD. To me, the question has always been 'what game was being played where American freelancer Peter Daszak is conducting gain of function research in ... mainland China-and authoritarian society which -one would think- keeps weaponized pathogen creation under very tight control? So my question to our host is: Who is flexing to whom in that regard? Is CIA signalling to China "We can do this kind of thing right under your noses"? This may go some way to explain the stochastic Covid lockdowns in China subsequent to the initial panic.
In the past, AA has talked about how “return to fresh prince” is a strategy that the regime should adopt. Is the idea that strategic use of spectacle and fresh prince is the ideal governing strategy?
“It does not help that dissidents have not been typically sensible and centred people, but rather comprise fantasists who live in an online hyper-reality that has totally lost the ability to parse reality” shouldn’t be overlooked. Neither of us would consider J6 or Ye actual counter-elites. Without dismissing your well-founded concerns, spectacle executed in the right fashion by the right people can still be done. Not difficult to be more charismatic than Regime- the fact more progress hasn’t been made here is indeed pathetic, but failures in past can inform successful decisions in future
I see the Canadian trucker protest as both a failure and a success.
Latter depends on how effectively those lessons can be internalized and adapted from, but generally agree
If one were paranoid one might think that Ye2024 was a false flag, controlled opposition or however you want to put it. The whole I love Hitler thing and the stocking over the head was so over the top.
The humiliation ritual and it’s ability to make the wider nominally conservative public requires more study, it one of the key strategies of power in our age.
if we can't use Spectacle, what do you recommend?
Certainly power wants to be seen, though it seems GAE power always wants plausible deniability on top of that.
Or more cynically, completely removing boomer truth from our eyes, the current regime is entirely unaccountable to us, and it views us as slaves to which it owes nothing, as opposed to its chosen non-ruling elite. The plausible deniability is to make it easier for people of all strata to lie to themselves and others so to remain apathetic.
Dissidents need to learn from the Amish.
Power is best kept as a secret and does not want to be seen.
All dissidents can generate their own power outside the regime, out in the fields and pastures with livestock and crops.
In today's wayward and lost culture, power can only be gained by existing outside of it.
The Amish could care less about the latest trainwreck happening in our fake reality.
In regard to the spectacle (I'm immediately reminded of Guy deBord) of the Nordstream sabotage and the steady Chinese Water Torture drips of almost but not quite admission by the GAE that yes- they did it to kick the miserable cur Germany back onto the path of righteousness, my keen interest in synarchy compels me to offer this thought: Power, does indeed want to be seen. But my question is: Power wants to be seen...by whom? Power has always existed in a multilayered hologram. When Roberto Calvi is found hanging from Blackfriar's Bridge, this is power wanting to be seen. But the average low information mope doesn't even register who the man was or what the significance of the event may be. But someone was flexing to someone else. Keep that example in mind and then contemplate whatever might be going on when a pathogen that is first described as 'deriving from nature' is heralded as a world destroying disease we must all hide from. Dissidents within and without the Sistema reveal it to have been the product of research begun, originally at Fort Detrick MD. To me, the question has always been 'what game was being played where American freelancer Peter Daszak is conducting gain of function research in ... mainland China-and authoritarian society which -one would think- keeps weaponized pathogen creation under very tight control? So my question to our host is: Who is flexing to whom in that regard? Is CIA signalling to China "We can do this kind of thing right under your noses"? This may go some way to explain the stochastic Covid lockdowns in China subsequent to the initial panic.
In the past, AA has talked about how “return to fresh prince” is a strategy that the regime should adopt. Is the idea that strategic use of spectacle and fresh prince is the ideal governing strategy?