“Then there are the most insidious problems — the ones as ubiquitous that you hardly notice them at all. Even if you look and feel fit, you live with the background hum of fear.” -World Health Association recommending more fear, published in – ‘how to distract the masses from decline and reality’ based off the 1910 edition of ‘Population Control, A Manual’.
Whatever is falling apart in the world today – it is not my problem. I don’t care. But, I can sell it all back to the public: a headline, a quote, a brief but cryptic anxiety producing quip, and make a fast buck and that’s how I became the local merchant of fear.
I set up on the corner at Corky’s, so people can get high-caloric snacks and the morning, caffeinated beverage and of course: fear mongering. It requires setup of course, but it’s so easy to traffic anxiety and fear, did you know 23 weather- and climate-related disasters topped $1 billion in damage? The climate is changing – and there is NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. That will be $5. Yeah, $5 asshole, I don’t do freebies. Okay….okay…you can have that for free but if you really want your brain to be wet-wear, invest and if you don’t have money, I trade in time.
New virus is spreading in China but they’re trying to hush it up, this one they’re saying causes intense pain but there is no vaccine or medication that works against it and it starts with a runny nose….I see that you have a runny nose today, been feeling tired? That’s how it begins…oh’ yeah, sorry, see this is my day job so sometimes I just slip into it. You want to see behind the curtain? Well, I guess it doesn’t matter, people buy from me just the same.
- Spaced repetition, just like learning a language. That’s why the stories repeat at intervals. You don’t ever really hear something new, but you may hear a variation, it gives your brain a handle to grasp. “History doesn’t repeat but it does rhyme” is the saying, but actually it does neither, it’s all imaginative AI generated slop.
- Dots to connect…but not too many. People like to feel they’ve “figured it out” on their own merit, but it has to be damn simple, like two or three dots. If they go, “research” then we just have the AI spin it out farther and darker. We make the only reality that counts is the one online. By the time someone has spent a month on our product they don’t believe their own lived experience and observations anymore – it doesn’t exist unless they read it on the Internet. At that point the dealers and hustlers can do almost anything, it’s like moving through the world invisible.
- Biomodulators are in the air and food to make people more suggestible. This is a little scattershot and is still in the testing phase but we should have a really solid coverage by 2030. We only need about 70% of the population to be under suggestibility for granular control. We have a tower every two miles and there is zero chance of anyone ever tinkering with them. They would kill each other long before they would take down a control tower.
And yeah, that’s basically it, we don’t even need to come up with anything original. I tune in from time to time to see what is being recycled this week and then I go deal it on the corner. The hardest part is staying warm in the winter. It’s so fucking simple it looks like even the dumb ones would catch on, but it feels good, so they tell themselves it’s real.
If I ask you right now, what is on Fox News, or CNN or any other mainstream slop station, you have an expectation right? You know what you will see. Are you going to tune in and be shocked by something you have never heard or seen before? Hell no, you know exactly what they’ll present. That’s part of how this spell works – it’s never something new. There is sometimes just enough novelty to keep people from wandering off but they carefully use fractionation to keep an audience.
Maybe it starts in school. I was bored as fuck in school. I never learned anything useful or new. How often do I use Algebra II? I never actually took Algebra II, I was always skipping school to go rock climbing or reading. I had a real obedience issue. Everyday in school I didn’t expect to learn anything and I fully expected to be bored so I skipped out, went to the library and checked out books and went out to the rock stack to climb. I’m a one-off dirt bag. I also taught myself three languages and small engine mechanics because instead of mindlessly consuming drivel, I read, studied, practiced, and day after day dug down deep to grind. It’s difficult, it’s painful, not socially or fiscally rewarding, and it’s not as soothing as laying back with a snack and getting your fear on. I live in a van – so don’t be me.
When you know all the fearful things you can mentally prepare, it’s a parachute.
Did you hear about the asteroid that barely missed earth? How about how we’re over due for an ice age? See this cute little furry baby critter? It’s habitat is being destroyed at a pace never seen before in history! The farm soil is literally dying, it’s only good for at most 3 more years…
Now that you know, you can prepare right? I mean, we all kinda know that life doesn’t work like that. The real catastrophes and disappointments are impossible to prepare for – there are things that will rip your heart out of your chest and drop you to your knees and there will be nobody to help you, no safety net, no second chances.
We inoculate the population against cold-hard reality. I’m a dealer, sure, but I have a useful purpose. So from K-12 and on the news and in the movies and on the television shows there is one over arching theme about consequences: they don’t apply to good people. They don’t apply to those who “deserve” a second chance, an opportunity, a ray of hope – there are *special people on this planet who deserve that rainbow. Star Wars rebels don’t get sliced and diced, they get a medal at the end of the movie.
This is so drummed into children from Disney movies to daytime television to school that practically nobody questions it. Hmm, actually I might get into trouble for talking about this one. It’s the most over arching and relevant with dozens examples in the news being shown to people over and over again, “they’re allowed because they are from the island of the retarded” – but yeah…I don’t think I should expound on the massive, ‘gotcha’ that is connected to it.
Look man, I don’t do anything new. Are you going to buy or what? Did you know we’re about to have a civil war? You want to know about that right? … I knew it, everyone has something they’re tantalized by…for $15 you can buy a scape-goat pack where you get 4 collectible cards of who to blame and one gold card of something or someone you get to hate. Here, I have a couple of copies of Jordan Peterson crying, I’ll give you this one for free and on the back is the Pareto principal along with the civil war – all for $15. Nice talking to you, see you tomorrow.
