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This is going to be offensive to some people, but... Conflict-avoidant women and emasculated men are the root cause of this.

Most know the type - they're all over the media, HR, and marketing departments. Very good at message alignment because consensus is viewed as the goal. Absolutely terrible at dealing with objective reality because any idea that deviates from the consensus (however false) is viewed as a threat.

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Once the "current thing" (aka the "authorized narrative") is established, just about everyone knows what it is ... and that if they challenge the "current thing," their lives are going to be quite unpleasant.

So it's too late to change things once The Narrative has been established. The key would be to NOT let false or dubious narratives become sacrosanct or infallible ... but that would take the Fourth Estate doing its most important job. It's "skeptical" journalists who can/could harpoon false narratives ... but that's not how they view their jobs these days. They view their jobs as supporting The Narrative ... and attacking those who dissent.

Still, the "Law of Unintended Consequences" is kicking in ... so at least we have massive and rapid growth of Substack and a few other excellent alternative media news sources.

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Going against the current thing is indeed unpleasant. The vax lies damn near destroyed most of my familial relationships.

But this started well before that. My bridge too far was the Google engineer's memo who stated, in polite terms, that equality of outcome between men and women in tech is not feasible, and suggested some alternatives.

But NPR (financed with my paycheck) and the MSM lied about what he said and why he said it. Because feelings and a need for the sweet, warm comfort of the false consensus that comes with ignoring reality.

Once you see it, you cannot unsee it. It happens over and over again, and the same kind of people are responsible for it - neurotic leftists, mostly women, who choose their moral impulses over confronting and dealing with reality.

All of this is catching up to us, and it's not going to be pretty.

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Another big question is HOW or why "the current thing" becomes the current thing in the first place? Who tells us what "the narrative" is? Someone does.

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In that particular case, academia - social constructionism. People "learn" this stuff and can't believe it's nonsense because otherwise it wouldn't be taught. Same with Fauci - he's a scientist, you know, so he can't possibly be BSing people.

It's both hierarchical and organic. Hierarchical because it comes from positions of authority (which one doesn't really matter - the CDC, gender studies profs, intelligence officials, whatever)... Organic because it follows incentives - monetary incentives, psychological incentives, political incentives, or all of the above. This neoliberal bureaucratic puppet show has no master puppeteer.

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Great post, but they might have a master puppeteer or two or three. They know how to use psychology and sociology lessons to get what they want. For example, they made it a goal to stop "vaccine hesitancy." They knew from studies that doctors were the most respected profession in the world ... So they got all the big physicians groups to sign off on the lockdowns and then vaccines. "Consult your physicians," they said. They didn't say this but they might as well have (it was implied): "100 percent of doctors support safe and effective Covid vaccines."

Once all the doctors - with their white lab coats - were on board, almost everyone else was going to follow. If you pay attention to some of these planning events - like Event 201 - you can see that much of the "planning" was brainstorming ways to manipulate the public into getting the behaviors the "puppeteers" wanted.

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Yep. You can see their strategy here. It calls for just what you said, as well as getting some "ins" in the media who will "help out" when you need a scary story or to spin the vaccine injuries.

Edit to actually add the URL:

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/352029/WHO-EURO-2022-3471-43230-60590-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

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In that particular case, I think it was Fauci, Gates, and the intelligence community. All the psychological nudge and psyops stuff was done after the fact by sycophants.

To go back to my OP, this is the same thing marketing departments do. They don't decide on the strategic direction, but use what resources they have to go in that direction - they pick the branding colors, the stories to use, the tag lines.

It's sophisticated, yes, but in the same way a 10 year old using an IPad is sophisticated - they're standing on the shoulders of the people who developed the techniques but have never really considered the implications of any of it.

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I agree. I'd go back to who organized these events - people like Bill Gates and probably the CIA and Department of Defense. Why did they organize these events? My answer: To get advance "buy in" on all the coming agendas. Bottom line: The were creating "the narrative" of the future. They were also identifying all the measures that would have to happen to get people to go along with the "current thing." FWIW, in all of these planning events, key members of the press were participants.

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That's certainly RFK Jr's stance.

I just happen to think that it is mostly people in the service of ideas they don't understand, being constantly played by an ever-changing cast of malicious characters, not a fixed set of Bond villains.

Useful idiots are like a bunch of gravel lying on the road that almost anyone in a position of authority can pick up and toss.

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Most people will just go along with whatever the Current Thing is. They certainly won't question it once it's been established. This is how/why you don't need a massive conspiracy ... to actually get a massive conspiracy. You just establish the narrative and everything else follows. Another way to put this is you need to go ahead and recruit a good corp of "stakeholders" at the beginning of your project. Once they have a "stake" in the narrative, they'll fight for it. Or they will fight to make sure the lies are never exposed, which would of course expose them.

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