A Breakthrough From Unexpected Avenues
In addressing a Narrative Warfare outbreak in a cultural niche (see all of last week's posts at the Retreat), the recurring pattern of these events crystalized before me.
This pattern is fractal.
This pattern applies to far larger cultural and political issues. The pattern is all about Narrative Control. If you hold control over the Narrative regarding the issue, then it is far easier--to the point of triviality--to seize power, hold it, grow it, and exploit your enemies attempts to combat you to do just that.
This is what Mike Benz tried to communicate when he took up the psuedonym of "Frame Game Radio" those few years ago and explain the concept of Narrative Warfare and how it is applied by setting the Narrative framework regarding what the issue is, what the socially-acceptable range of opinion is, and how to shift that opinion (i.e. the Overton Window) away from your enemies and towards you and yours.
The problem with the specific cultural niche is that it is all about something that is inherently decentralized by its nature, and as such centralization by various parties has been a fragile affair that's easily broken and not so easily rebuilt. This is not true across the board, but it's a lot more viable than it seems.
Learning how the Frame Game works has been a massive breakthrough, as it is a game of pure Rhetoric; there is not one scrap of useful information to be had (i.e. no Dialectic). It's all about manipulation of the perception of status: who has it, who lacks it, and therefore who determines what and whom is in and what/whom is not.
Centralization of information transmission is vital to making this work; if you don't have a mass media apparatus that works, then you don't have the mass mind control necessary to wage Narrative Warfare effectively.
What centralized media outlets trade on, therefore, is legitimacy. Or, rather, the illusion that they have it and others do not. Nowhere is this more obvious than with the New York Times, "The Paper Of Record", but the entire mainstream establishment (across the Globohomo empire) plays this magic trick on the populations. When it is in full effect, it can make a population believe anything- no matter how impossible. Yes, down to believing that black is white and gravity is optional.
What happened this past week? A British game publisher pissed off their fans to include Death Cult poz, and as a result the most connected and influential hobbyists started a revolt. I argued for the expansion of that revolt to remove ALL centralizing actors in this cultural niche, and explained how and why to do it. In comparing specific events, the pattern emerged; I compared the pattern to events outside that niche and it held. I extended backwards; it held.
And now I see why the Death Cult blames #Gamergate for ruining everything. Because it did. How? By shattering the legitimacy of journalism to a critical mass of people ALL AT ONCE. Everything started cascading from there, but in a manner that showed a lack of deliberation and coordination- a potential that the enemy (who relies on both) saw and sought to put down for good.
They failed.
Which leads to solutions.
A Solution Of Unexpected Simplicity
The solution for most of these pattern occurences is "Decentralize, decentralize, decentralize!"
The distribution of agency, authority, information, resources, and accountability to the local level--while maintaining a network capacity to allow for necessary larger-scale collaboration as required--is the way out for most of these matters. Less looking to the Big Man, and more looking to the neighbor and the mirror.
This requires a paradigm shift. We are already seeing that shift occur with regarding to journalism; centralized outlets are plumetting in legitmacy with the public at-large, as smaller outlets take their place- some being literally one man with a smartphone streaming live and talking over it as it happens.
Is this a sureshot panacea? No, it is not. The enemy is at liberty to use the same tools, and does so to mask their own fronts (e.g. Unicorn Riot and other Antifa fronts, which are tied in to Globohomo via deniable Intelligence cutouts), but despite the increase in noise (to borrow radio speak) the signal strength and variety is also far greater than it was before 2007 and the introduction of the iPhone- just ask Richard Grove, The Syrian Girl, or Luke Rudowski.
The thing to learn and master for now is the Frame Game. This is no longer about loserisms like Ben Shapiro's Facts & Logic. Feelings do trump facts, and most people are wired to bend the knee to Status over everything else. Find out what High Status looks and sounds like, then perform that until you seize the high ground; once in the high status chair, change the definitions of High Status to conform to you and yours. That is what Globohomo's Thralls do to us, and have for over a century.
No more debates. No more discourses. They always engage in bad faith purely to do Frame Game attacks on you. It's a status dance, and you need to learn how to lead.
That's the trick; their claim of legitimacy is based on their claim of status- equally illusory, so it's only real if others believe it is.
Bully, mock, and mog them until they submit (or better); they are the killjoys, the life-destroyers, the kid-rapers, the Forever Warmongers, the Normie Haters and Destroyers Of Grills. This is how and why Trump won in 2016 and forced the election theft in 2020; he was too popular and high status to defeat.
Show them as cringe, lame, boring, shrill Karen Killjoys that hate you and want to rape your kids into killing themselves. Show yourselves as cool, awesome, exciting, life-enjoying fun-loving folks that love your kids and want them to be even more fun and awesome than you. That is how you win the Frame Game.
Do this and the Thralls fail, Empire falls, and the world becomes better. How? By breaking their Narrative framework, the audience (the prize you're contending for) loses allegience to Globohomo and becomes open to what you offer via coming into your Narrative frame instead. Explain nothing until they buy into your frame. Dialectic is for Ingroups, not for Outgroups.
That's how you win--how we win--and I can't believe it took 15 fucking years to finally get the answer to how to win against Empire.
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