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When you see the matrix glitching like crazy, with senators doing insider trading, a stealth bidding war for ventilators, and Sean Penn rambling incoherently on CNN you realize: the narrative supply chain is just another piece of essential infrastructure that just keeps going.
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The manufactured normalcy field is kept inflated by a steady drip of information that’s titrated 4:1 confirm: disconfirm ratio even if that means pumping drivel
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TV news is surreal compared to twitter. 80% repetition, 16% confirmatory new info, 4% actual surprises. It’s a hypnotic drug that makes twitter seem like “the banality of reality”.
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No wonder Trump live tweets fox to people also watching fox. It’s TV on twitter. Twitter is just their chat channel. The loop is uncanny. Same 80:16:4 proportions.
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But mainstream center-left TV like CNN too has the same soporofic-hypnotic quality. It just lacks the phase-locked twitter echo. That audience suffers arrhythmia due to many uncoordinated signals. No dominant one to lock on to.
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I think this narrative collapse won’t last long. It was already threadbare from 4 years of abuse. Cartoon matrix designed only to fool the Jerrys. New ones already in works in the last year or so that are now on accelerated deployment path.
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Even if the economic recovery takes a decade, new narratives should be up and running within 2 years latest. This is a fairly mild narrative shock even though it’s a huge economic and social shock. It’s almost a logical aftershock to 2016.
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I mean, *of course* there was gonna be a pandemic in the world that got rolling in 2016. The narrativium had to flow that way. Zemblanity currents >> serendipity currents (technically, bahramdipity but let’s not get technical. Narrativium chemistry 101 thread next week)
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