I ended last week with a mention of the Secret Kings.
That is not a formal group. It is an idea, an archetype, an abstraction.
It is the concept that there are people who exert power covertly, whom you do not know and therefore would not recognize if you encountered them in everyday life.
They want to think of themselves as this:
Those more accepting of what they really are see themselves as this:
In reality, they are this:
Because real kings are like Alexander and just come at their objectives openly, rather than scurry about like rats, and when they become aware of Thralls in their midst then what Theoden did to Wormtongue is the best that can be expected. Instead, more often, you get this:
This is why they act like rats, focus upon corruption and blackmail, and are so big on surveilance. The smarter among them know that a network of mediocrities who know that they succeed only because they do what the Spooks tell them is far easier to cultivate, curate, and control than trying to plant a Wormtongue into every true king's ear.
They know that, compared to the masses, they are few and ready to be purged good and hard if they are exposed. They know that only so long as they can mantain superiority of information that they can maintain power, and that means the core staying in the shadows while working through disposable cutouts to work the levers of power, but due to the spiritual root of their power they have to pay tribute to their master and that's how you get mask-off moments like this.
Not a single bank has dropped Balenciaga. Chase credit shut off a generals accounts because they didn’t like his politics. JP Morgan froze conservative activists’ accounts. But every bank is fine with taking money from #Balenciaga who uses ads with children in bondage gear.
— Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyMMA) December 18, 2022
Many over the years said that those who rule the West adhere to a weird code where they have to tell you what's up before going hard on it.
Think of it as being like someone that expects you to read their minds and just know what they are thinking as they hint and gesture while you are focused on doing something useful, then get mad at you when you don't do what they want so they find some way to punish you.
That's this concept in action as the Spooks do it; they use symbolism, knowing that you're not literate in their symbolic language, to tell you and then when you don't do anything they punish you and say "But you consented" when you point it out.
If that sounds like an abusive spouse or parent gaslighting a victim, that's because it is.
They give you illusions, making you think you have a real choice, then fix the outcome to whatever suits them best.
There are no markets, only rackets. There is no democracy or republicanism, only a shadow oligarchy that operates as a dictatorship. There is no truth, only propaganda.
If you think this sounds like live under the former Soviet Bloc or the present Chinese regime, you're not wrong- it's just that the Spooks of Globohomo do all of it better.
And yet, for all their glamor and tale-telling, they can no more change reality than they can defy gravity- and reality always breaks through.
The Rule of Spooks is fragile, and their need to more overtly flex what power they have is a defensive move of weakness. Going hard, despite popular opposition, to control over movement and capital in the name of "climate regulation" or whatever bullshit it is this week--complete with media blackouts that make said Communist regimes look tame--and as such their Invisible Empire is shuddering just as their counterparts elsewhere are.
Empire falls.
Be ready.
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