Politics as Narrative-control and Deception

Party politics is based on a lie. It professes that we need coercively inclined people to take control of our lives for our own safety and wellbeing. The more overreaching the state becomes, the more it professes this idea. It's promoted through all available channels and at all times. Under tyranny, there's no let up.

Most people become in this way victims to the state. They take sides in a battle of colours, where each team present its own flavour of control. However, no team is without an agenda. By engaging in the battle of colours, we subsume the idea of control and need to subjugate dissent. Blinded by superficial arguments relating to the exact nature of various phenomena, people become dupes to the political elite who toss upon us all sorts of emotional nonsense.

This has become especially apparent over the last twelve months. There's been a torrent of facts related to Covid, as well as the climate and the virtue of democracy, all with a clear and singular message. Only by blind obedience to authority can we expect to ever become both free and safe. The narrative has been strictly controlled. So much so that it has revealed itself for what it is.

Impressed by my ability to predict the early developments related to the Covid pandemic, my stepdaughter wanted to learn more about my predictions. She was open to whatever thoughts I had on the subject, and I told her then that politics is best viewed as narrative-control and deception. From that angle, all sorts of things can be predicted and tested for validity. Case in point was the repeated mentioning of a second wave of Covid. I asked her what she made of it, and she replied that it might mean that there would be a second lock down after summer. Then, I asked her how many victims to Covid she would personally know by then, to which she replied a handful at most. As it turned out, she was right on both counts. There's currently a lockdown in place, and the only death in the family due to Covid was that of aunt Augusta.

This has been an eye-opening experience for my stepdaughter. Armed with a simple model of the state, all sorts of things become clear. Not only is she able to make fairly accurate predictions, she's also able to analyse the nature of political fads, such as the ever-present climate scare. The climate has not in fact changed over time. Every prediction of imminent disaster has come to nothing. Yet, the narrative is still in full force, revealing to her all the more clearly that politics really is about deception and narrative-control.

Not only has my stepdaughter taken my model to heart, my wife is similarly impressed by its power of prediction. She's gone from being a mindless consumer of news to a sceptic, always looking for the narrative and its likely implications. Even my nine year old son is catching on to this. When a politician complained the other day about people coming together in public parks, talking face to face, without a face-mask, I exclaimed: "Oh, the horror. People having fun, talking to each other. Without a face-mask!" my son rolled over laughing.

This general scepticism and model of analysis is now spreading through the social network of my stepdaughter and wife. They mention my model in various ways, influencing in turn their circle of friends. The fact that the model works well as a tool for predictions reveals the lie of the state while at the same time empowering those who adopt it. It spreads through the network because it works.

The big difference between a lie and truth is that a lie has no power of prediction, while truth has great power of prediction. This is how we identify man made global warming as a lie. Truth reveals party politics as a system of manipulation. It reveals the manipulative nature of media, including social media. We recognize the lie. We find ways to stay away from it. When we analyse data in light of truth, we see things coming, and we're able to avoid much suffering that would otherwise strike us without warning.

This is not to say that we can go lightly through the chaos, undisturbed by the nonsense tossed upon us. When the prime minister of Portugal publically pronounces anyone not wearing the face-mask correctly as an enemy of the state, it's clear that we cannot simply ignore it. We must wear the mask of the beast. To do otherwise would be to put ourselves and our family in danger of the mob who gladly take on the job as voluntary enforcers of the prime minister's will.

The mask of the beast