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The Richer You Are The Creepier You Get: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

So the Facebook “whistleblower” all the mass media are loudly amplifying today is pushing for regulations that Facebook just happens to fully support, likely because the trillion-dollar corporation knows it will impose costs that make the emergence of future competitors impossible? Cool. That’s not suspicious at all. ❖ They said we need internet censorship because…

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So the Facebook “whistleblower” all the mass media are loudly amplifying today is pushing for regulations that Facebook just happens to fully support, likely because the trillion-dollar corporation knows it will impose costs that make the emergence of future competitors impossible?

Cool. That’s not suspicious at all.

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They said we need internet censorship because Russia.

They said we need internet censorship because Covid.

They said we need internet censorship because election security.

They said we need internet censorship because Capitol riot.

They said we need internet censorship because domestic extremists.

Now they say we need internet censorship because Facebook whistleblower.

Pretty sure they just want internet censorship.

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It’s so lucky how the political/media class and US intelligence agencies have been so very solemnly concerned that we have too much free speech on the internet and they just keep happening to get these viral news stories which show that internet censorship is a dire necessity.

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Chevron literally sentenced a guy to prison and a new Bloomberg article argues that Amazon and Facebook should be made UN members and New Statesman argues that “tech billionaires are the new revolutionaries” and the mainstreaming of psychedelics is driven by corporate investors.

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Corporations, politicians, media, military and intelligence agencies are all the same class, and they have far better class solidarity than the rest of us.

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Crazy how we learned the CIA planned to assassinate Assange and spied on him and his lawyers and the US prosecution relied heavily on false testimony from a diagnosed sociopath and convicted child molester and we’re still like “Man I hope the extradition case gets dropped.”

That’s how bad things are.

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Really rich people are creepy and they do creepy things. Billionaires spend a lot on media influence to manufacture consent for their existence and for the status quo their kingdoms are built on, but also because they need lots of PR assistance since they’re so fucking creepy.

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The richer you are the more divorced from normality you become. You don’t even know how a normal person acts. It never even occurs to you that people will think you look creepy devouring a baked lizard or buying up vast swathes of America’s farmland.

You lose the part of yourself that goes “Hmm, better not do that publicly, people will think I’m creepy.”

Before you know it you’re blasting off on a $5 billion carnival ride to space in a rocket that looks like a penis going “Yeah, this is fine. This is just normal stuff.”

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I mean, come on.

Just coming right out and saying you want to ship all the normal people into space to breed in giant rotating cylinders? That’s creepy. That’s really, really creepy.

And what’s even creepier is the ways they’re trying to cheat death so we’ll be stuck with these freaks forever.

https://twitter.com/ApprovedAmerica/status/1287752084645765120

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As soon as the subject turns to Israel AOC always loses all linguistic faculties and transforms into this weird babbling space alien.

https://twitter.com/queeralamode/status/1445508646956269582?s=20

This is the same kind of indecipherable word salad as her initial statement on her “present” vote on Iron Dome funding, and it’s the same as her word salading when she was questioned about Palestinian rights a few months earlier.

Word salading is sometimes called “narc speak“, because it’s a technique often used by narcissists to confuse, overwhelm, and exert control over their target.

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The farthest-left politicians in the most powerful government on earth just believe capitalism should be a little less abusive and the empire should be a tiny bit less murderous.

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If your country’s political moderates support war, militarism, ecocide and authoritarianism, it means you are governed by violent extremists.

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Don’t defend officials from your government. Just don’t do it. Do whatever you need to do to drive that power-worshipping, propaganda-instilled impulse from your mind and flush it down the toilet where it belongs.

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Calls for civility toward government officials are always power-serving and anti-populist in nature. They’re born of an elitist fear that the common riff raff may realize their true power.

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It is very revealing that western media never expose the malfeasance of the most powerful and destructive power structure on earth, and this most certainly distorts people’s worldview, and this is most certainly not an accident, and it is most certainly worth talking about.

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Futurists who predict an imminent explosion of innovation enabling a human biotechnology fusion which exponentially enhances people’s brains, senses and lifespans fail to appreciate that those technologies will inevitably be under the control of sociopathic intelligence agencies.

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Make birthdays about everybody telling the person why they’re glad they had another year with them. Make funerals about everyone telling the person why they’re sad they don’t get any more years with them. We’ll feel appreciated in life and have a better relationship with death.

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This believing we’re our bodies thing is driving everyone crazier and crazier in all sorts of ways and eventually we’re just gonna have to snap out of it and wake up to our true nature.

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18 responses to “The Richer You Are The Creepier You Get: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix”

  1. hodgicus Avatar
    hodgicus

    “This believing we’re our bodies thing is driving everyone crazier and crazier in all sorts of ways and eventually we’re just gonna have to snap out of it and wake up to our true nature.”
    —
    You are not a soul trapped in a body. You are a body with an awareness. The body dies, awareness ends. Facing this squarely and recanting the superstitious claptrap is necessarily the first step toward free adulthood for the slave class.
    —
    For a real psychedelic eye-opener, try eating the food your cells want, for a change. Your physical wellbeing, your emotional health, and your cognitive sharpness arise from the health of the microbes in your gut, and until they are healthy, you are a miserable, self-loathing plaything for anyone who knows how to trigger your penchant for self-indulgence. Try it, slave.

  2. Douglas Wayne Avatar
    Douglas Wayne

    Devouring an iguana, mmm!, so appetizing, could be a great poster for Whole Foods.

    And might the giant-penis rocket be a compensatory projection?

  3. WillD Avatar
    WillD

    The ‘default’ position for rich and powerful people is always evil in some form, even when they delude themselves, and you, into believing it’s good for people.
    At face value, many of the things these people do superficially appear good, which is their intention, but are in fact simply a means to an evil end.
    We are simply another kind of resource to them – to be used, abused and then discarded when our value has been extracted.
    They care more about money and power than people.

  4. Johnny Avatar
    Johnny

    What do they want when they can buy anything and almost anyone they choose?
    More.
    Pathetic pricks.

  5. Josh Avatar
    Josh

    Seriously, think about it.
    Where are all of these technologies deployed (in the greatest cohesive profusions)?
    What are the broadcasts from these deployed technologies transmitting to us?
    What is actually really happening (or trying to happen) because of what we do or do not believe and make real within the zones of the areas of influence of these technologies?
    Seriously, that’s a really big part of what they are doing.

  6. Josh Avatar
    Josh

    Optical and auditory sensory centers of the nerveous systems in the physialogical systems of human beings happen to be vulnerable to visual and auditory stimulii.
    Digital technologies that project auditory and optical stimulii directly into the human brain’s optical and auditory processing centers happen to be designed to do exactly that.
    It’a thing.

  7. Stephanie L. Webb Avatar
    Stephanie L. Webb

    As long as people keep relying on a maladaptive system to adapt, we’re screwed.

  8. Anonymouse Avatar
    Anonymouse

    Good day, I would just like to (respectfully) offer some minor edits to one line.

    From:

    The farthest-left politicians in the most powerful government on earth just believe capitalism should be a little less abusive and the empire should be a tiny bit less murderous.

    To:

    The farthest-left (not really) politicians in the most corrupt and ineffective government on earth just believe communism-for-the-1%ers, capitalism for everyone else, needs better optics, PR and messaging about its abusive and murderous empire.

    Yea, there it is.

    Great article, as usual.

  9. Anna Avatar
    Anna

    Newtons third law for all you Leftists

    https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/06/rachele-mussolini-wins-most-votes-in-rome-city-council-election?__twitter_impression=true

  10. Vozhd Avatar
    Vozhd

    amazing how you still manage to dance around these oligarchs’ role in creating & deploying a bioweapon that has permitted them to suck up what’s left of the wealth from the lower & middle classes while cementing their police-state control over same. it’s almost like you don’t see it. except you live in Australia, so clearly you see it. do you have investments in the pharma industry or something? this isn’t just an elephant in the room, it’s a damn dinosaur.

    1. Caitlin Johnstone Avatar
      Caitlin Johnstone

      Your faction is always telling me I never talk about things I mention frequently and accusing me of being some kind of paid operative for Big Pharma, Bill Gates and/or “the CCP”. Must be because you’re so interested in truth and facts.

    2. Variant23 Avatar
      Variant23

      VOZHD, I’ve been thinking that with the latest efforts of Empire to censor the Internet—i.e., the trumpeting of the FB “whistleblower” — we now have to communicate more often using coded language. In the same way that prisoners in cells devise ingenious systems of audible taps on the bars and walls to message other inmates, we will all need to figure out ways to get our messages past the online AI algorithms that suppress truth and harm the truth tellers (usually by threatening their livelihoods). So we are entering a phase in history where our communication will have to use sophisticated techniques like allegory, metaphor and neologisms, as well as old techniques like reading between the lines, winks, and wry smiles. So we may have to discuss your “dinosaur in the room” without ever mentioning the V word. Coded language is not a dodge, it is increasingly a survival technique. Tap, tap…tap.

  11. J. Rockhill Avatar
    J. Rockhill

    I saw that TV appearance by AOC on Sunday. It made no sense then, except for her to chicken out of explaining that she couldn’t vote against it because that would get her targeted by AIPAC and other Zionists. The whole time, I was just thinking, “Have some backbone. Fisrt, she ought to have voted against it. Second, she could better explain that by saying the policy reasons she was being mushy about in the ‘present’ discussion.”

    Disgusting.

  12. J. Rockhill Avatar
    J. Rockhill

    Units in the Gates Farmland Ownership map would be helpful. If it is acres or hectares, it isn’t a large percentage. If it is square miles or square km, it is a big deal. But otherwise, the map is pretty worthless.

    1. J. Rockhill Avatar
      J. Rockhill

      The numbers on the map match up with the acres reported in this msn.com story. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bill-gates-becomes-the-largest-farmland-owner-in-the-united-states-report/ar-BB1cNr00

      So it is in acres.

      1. NN Avatar
        NN

        Interestingly, a lot of that land is adjacent water. Water access can be bought one way or another. Probably another. This is the plan:

        https://www.technocracy.news/chinas-technocrats-forget-farmers-its-greenhouses/

        More on that from someone who is genuinely intelligent and sane:

        https://navdanyainternational.org/

  13. Vayu Avatar
    Vayu

    Almost every day I wonder why isn’t it illegal to be a billionaire? It’s really bad when an obvious proposition like that is deemed radical.

    1. NN Avatar
      NN

      Instructive quote from a meme: “People don’t have a strong intuitive sense of how much bigger a billion is than a million. One million seconds is about 11 days. One billion seconds is about 31.5 years.”

      There are way more than 400 billionaires in the USA alone. More than that in China.

      The old wealth doesn’t flaunt its magnitude. Family wealth and power which far exceeds that of what is commonly considered the apex as represented by the individuals whose names appear on the news every day. Lines going back to the advent of capitalism five hundred years ago.

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