About this episode
Warning: this episode gets a bit schizo. For some of you, this is right up your alley. For others, well, just think of all the things you once thought you knew for sure and how many of those narratives have since been exposed as sophisticated confidence tricks. I’m not asking anyone to believe or disbelieve anything I say. I’m just putting it out there because I have found it helpful and think it might be helpful to others, so if it resonates with you, cool. If not, that’s okay too.I discuss the latest “current thing” crisis, the USA getting involved in the war between Israel and Iran, briefly. I don’t want to dwell on it. There is little that I can really do. I have written to my senators and congressman urging that we not involve ourselves in any more needless foreign conflicts, even though I know that doesn’t really do much (the form letter I got back from one of them showed that no one in his office even read what I wrote). With such high-level geopolitical issues, the outcome is pre-ordained. The politicians are just actors reading from their respective scripts. I can determine that a red line for me is that I will not allow my children to be conscripted to fight and die for Jared Kushner’s real estate portfolio or Netanyahu’s government or anything else like that. The powers that be would have to kill me, and they would no doubt happily do so if I stood in their way of drafting my children, but that’s my red line. Otherwise, there is not much I can do about this escalating Middle East conflict, so I plan to NOT pay much attention to it. Because I have learned (better late than never) that there are spiritual costs when we pay attention and get emotionally invested in the social engineers’ narratives (either for them or in opposition to them). I was watching Owen Benjamin’s breakdown of the movie A Cabin in the Woods, which shows some profound truths about how social engineering works, and I was really hit with something: the social engineering tricks work only because, on some level, we want them to. If we didn’t want anything the regime’s confidence men were selling, they would not be able to convince us to buy it (especially not more than once). We do live in a realm of bullshit piled on top of bullshit, and we start getting hit with the magic spells and propaganda before we can even talk, mostly by people who have, themselves, been mesmerized and propagandized into believing these lies as if they were gospel truth. The social engineers are combining ancient techniques of advanced spell-casting with technological marvels that are even greater than whatever the public has access to. Like the devil these social engineers serve, they (usually) know us better than we know ourselves. Whereas we tend to lie to ourselves about our flaws and weaknesses, they carefully study these vulner
