Following up from last week, the based Boer known as The Aristocratic Utensil sums up the present state of the dispute between Academic Agent and Auron MacIntyre.
My take is simple: we are one week, nearly two, out from Trump winning and the Globohomo Thralls have not come to a consensus yet.
In the meantime, there are pockets of Thralls concentrated on immediate threats to their positions and privledges and not to the wider consensus-building effort. Once those immediate concerns are sorted, then we'll find out which way this goes.
I am skeptical of AA's Power-As-Primary position because being Le Donor Class means nothing without teeth, like a judiciary unable to enforces its rulings. This is why I find the useful labeling to be Merchants and Golems; the Merchants are the Power, while the Golems are the Ideology.
The problem with Golems is that they tend to run amok if not strictly controlled, something Merchants (not being Warriors, and thus lacking the character required to do so) turn out to be bad at doing as they consider it bitchwork. (They love themselves some automation for that reason.) The problem with the Merchants is that when they do yank on those very chains, they over-react and thus lay the groundwork for the next Golem revolt.
"So what are they going to do?"
What they did when the previous push flamed out: go back underground. Keep it quiet. Keep it out of the public eye. Bide their time.
"Be kind" is the code phrase for "keep it on the down-low".
This is not putting the Woke away; this is fallback to a prepared secondary position, rally there, and then come back stronger to retake lost ground and push further anew.
That’s not how this works.
They won’t disappear just because they are not in office.
There will still be drag queen story hour.
There will still be trannies trying to indoctrinate your kids to go on hormone blockers.
It's not over. Auron will, ultimately, win this bet because he's read the Death Cult right. There is no return to Fresh Prince. There is only the Death Cult using it as a skinsuit to try again.
This past week, the American Nation defeated the Globohomo Thralls' attempt to keep the God-Emperor away from the Golden Throne. Donald Trump won again.
The post-mortems are flying around furiously on all sides, but I want to focus your attention to Auron MacIntyre and Academic Agent. They have had, and still have, a difference of opinion on which is primary: Power or Ideology.
Below I'll embed their respective videos where they touch on this in the context of the election and the responses by the Globohomo Thralls of Empire. AA also cut an article for his Substack publication on the matter, which is worth a read.
As of this point, AA's explanation has the superior pile of receipts backing it up while Auron--aside from his valid point on non-falsifibility--was lacking until today's Regime Media clips started making the rounds proving Auron's point on Ideology being primary.
But AA's argument has a cornerstone that Auron not only cannot refute, but already accepts as correct and agrees upon: that what matters is the better-organized and supplied elite cohort, and the elite faction backing Trump was that cohort while the faction backing Biden was not. Furthermore, that losing faction acknowledged its inferior state by its action- by its deeds. AA's Jobber Hypothesis got confirmed by events.
What neither man mentioned explicitly, but Auron said implicitly, is that the Globohomo Thralls can accept the cost of replacing their man with a Jobber because they have control over the institutions of the United States and much of the Western world generally. They have a fallback position. From that position they can rally, regroup, organize, and execute a counter-strategy from a position of strength.
This is what people like Mike Cernovich, Milo, Douglas Mackey, Elon Musk, etc. are pointing out now consistently as the down-ballot races (and the fuckery therein) gets sorted. AA's position on Power being primary ignores the motivating and animating power of Ideology, believing ultimately that the end of Globohomo's Thralls is power itself and ideology is just a tool to use to get/keep/expand that power. Auron's position is that Ideology is primary because that determines the end, to which power is just the means to get those ends to manifest.
What I see is that these are, as AA implies, two rival cohorts dealing with a third cohort backing Trump and his coalition. The Power faction are the Zionists. The Ideology faction are the anti-Zionists, as that's how the Power/Ideology question is playing out between them.
The Ideology faction, when dominant, imposes its dystopian Theocratic regime upon those whom it subjugates. This is why you get all the humiliation rituals, the Friend/Enemy distinction so stark and obvious even Carl Schimdt says you're overdoing it (which is also why Muh Hypocrisy doesn't even phases them; you don't treat Friends as Enemies and vice-versa), the naked displays of petty power-tripping coupled by abject victim-performativism when they lose like they're Starscream out of Transformers. For all their performative Theater Kid bullshit, they are True Believers and thus religious fanatics so there are no brakes on their train
The Power faction, when dominant, plays Good Cop (them)/Bad Cop (Ideology) with the subjugated population. This is where AA gets "The Woke Gets Put Away" and thinks that Power always wins and Ideology is just a tool- for Power it is and they do "If you don't do as I say, I can't guarantee that these insane lunatics won't harm you" in the most naked form of Protection Racket fuckery around.
What Auron doesn't get is that Ideology fumbles power because they are driven by their fanaticism to pursue its ends no matter the costs, costs which squanders power when they have it. Because it wastes power like a teenager handed an inheritance of billions and no one around to stop them from going on a massive spending bender, Ideology rarely lasts in power if there is a rival cohort ready to pounce and able to succeed- and martyrdom, believe it or not, is not the trump card believers think it is.
What AA doesn't get is that Power gets seized by ideology when it misreads its ability to contain and control it, ending up being eaten by their own pets, because naked pursuit of power as the end in itself only appeals to Psychopaths and Sociopaths and most people Just Can't Even into that so they end up taken by ideology because of its greater power to justify action and thus power.
Yes, you need both, and that means you need an elite cohort that comprehends what Power is and how it works as well as what Ideology is (i.e. Narrative) and how it works- and why any ruling elite must have mastery of both to take and hold power long-term.
This is not a question of "Which matters?" but rather a question of "How do you mix them together to get the synthesis that is required to achieve long-term success?"
Until AA and Auron come to that point, they will continue to talk past each other and both will end up falling short of achieving the mission that they set for themselves.
N.B.: The reason martyrdom isn't a trump card is that it relies on the ability to report the events leading to that event to others. In short, it is wide open to Narrative Warfare, and if you think such events can't be recast by enemies to--at worst--not serve believers' interests then I remind you of how many who died for their beliefs are regarded today- with scorn and contempt. That, however, is worthy of a massive post to itself as control over the narratives of martyrdom is itself a theater of war.
This past week one of the many channels on YouTube that tracks Hollywood cut a video about Ryan Reynolds and Bob Iger. This video turned out to be a fantastic example of how Narrative Warfare works in action, so let's take a look at it.
The Channel.
You know by the name that you're not getting someone pretending to be wholly neutral, detached, disinterested, and objective. This is good; a channel that does not hide its point of view in the least is far more honest than someone that fronts as neutral but instead presents a propaganda piece.
This channel is against Globohomo's influence in the Hellmouth and therefore is aimed at attacking Globohomo-held institutions and the individuals that control as well as key subordinates under such command.
Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that a channel like this would, in fact, be a vector for enacting Narrative Warfare attacks against enemies. Don't take this video, or any other on this channel, uncritically; there's stuff here that sounds like hopium mixed into the verifiable facts that mix together to set and frame a preferred Narrative.
The Video
Effective Narrative Warfare attacks work off a core of fact and substance, and what is said here about Reynolds and Iger is not new. It's been all over Hellmouth media (formal and otherwise) for years. Jackman backing Reynolds is also not new. The new part is the possibility of this being the basis for a successful ouster of Bob Iger and his gang.
With how much everything about the business is changing AND how weak the Devil Mouse and Iger Gang are (and it is not getting better), coupled with the general discontent in the public, and you have the possibility of this going from Narrative to Reality quickly if this seems to get sufficient public reception. That's what this is really about: seeing if the idea is attractive enough to execute upon. It's A/B Testing.
Pay attention to the presentation. There are facts put before you, but framed in a manner that creates the intended narrative: a counter-elite willing and able to rally the audience against the ruling elites in charge, because that is necessary to kill the DIE Regime that Globohomo's pushing worldwide in all things.
The Objective
This is not done by Reynolds or anyone in his camp. This is an attempt by parties who are against Iger Gang trying to pressgang someone already known to be frustrated with Iger Gang into a position of leadership by using media manipulation to manuever Reynolds into taking up the proffered role of Public Hero against Iger Gang, knowing that (like all of those business successes mentioned) he is not the driving force- just the front man selling it.
Look at the framing. Constantly mentioning Iger Gang pushing deeply unpopular moves. Constantly mentioning Reynolds' fantastic treatment of the audience, and his successes in other business ventures contrasted with Iger Gang taking the profits to finance unpopular moves as it if were theft, to get the viewer to view Reynolds favorably via sympathetic framing and playing up the potential of Reynolds unfucking Marvel (and Disney) by taking it from Iger Gang as the solution to the present problems.
This is not news. This is propaganda. This is is an advertisement trying to sell you on the idea of Reynolds as a real life cultural hero to save Pop Culture from a known and proven incompetent and/or fanatical Death Cultist by a rival would-be elite that is opposed to Iger Gang such as Nelson Peltz or Bob Chapek.
If this sort of video keeps coming up in different channels, that's when you know it's an organized Narrative Warfare campaign for certain. If it starts getting popular, that's the tell that it is succeeded, and Reynolds' reaction will tell you if he's involved or not.
Conclusion
At this time, I don't think this is Reynolds; maybe someone a few degrees removed are testing this to see if there's demand, and then (if so) Ryan gets tappped and brought in because you don't let the Face run the show if you can help it. Ryan's not stupid, however, and will see the value in doing things like this because it's how he rehabilitated his own image-branding failures years ago into what he is now and others in the Hellmouth are just as savvy. If this goes somewhere, you'll know when others opposed to Iger Gang in both Marvel and Lucasfilm as well as Disney proper start aligning themselves with it (and him).
But, until then, this is just a trial ballon. It's a pilot episode, a pre-vizualization video, a test- an A/B Test. If the target audience likes it, they go with it; if not, they drop it and do something else. Simple as.
That's how basic Narrative Warfare works. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
Now try this with all that talk of North Korean troops in Ukraine, the atrocity claims in Gaza, and especially all sorts of election coverage (US this week, UK and EU recently, others to follow). You'll soon see what is there to set a narrative vs. what is there to merely observe and report in a detached and disinterested manner.
