The first indicator of a shapeshifting scam is there is always a kernel of truth, however tiny, that can expose the scam. Think of shadows. The object that casts a shadow can be very small but it can project a much larger shadow if it is close enough to the source of light. The same with a scam. So long as it is held close to the chest of the one spinning the lie around it, the truth does not have to be large. It is the holy grail for the persistent to chase after, the hushed whisper that infuriates, the trust me smile that is a smirk...vibrating silently like a quartz crystal deep inside a clock while the lie gets on with the show.
Second, the little nugget of truth is elevated to the unreachability of the divine and spirited away to a sanctum sanctorum. All attempts to locate it are brushed off, ridiculed, disappeared into a black hole. Even if the truth gives the slip to its guardians somehow and struts around the street stark naked, there's nothing to see, move on. Harold Pinter said it best in his 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech in reference to the war on terror: "It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn't happening. It didn't matter. It was of no interest."
Third, the engine of the scam is the 'blinding lie'. The lie is lit up with the celestial brilliance of the sun by ceaseless repetition, reinforcement, fine tuning and amplification. It has a firebombing mission in the finest traditions of Dresden, Tokyo, Pyongyang, Hanoi and Baghdad. The complete obliteration of reality through shock and awe, such that not a blade of fact survives. What gives it away is the immediate consensus on the central story line, at times even before the scam is triggered. And the uncanny synchronization of script as it gets written. Get it from a couple of mainstream sources, no need to seek them all. The narrative is near-identical across the spectrum except for cosmetic variations for local audience appeal.
Fourth, fear is the key, as Alistair MacLean aptly titled his vintage page turner. Fear and love are the most powerful human emotions. Honest, godfearing people often wonder why the world is not filled with love, why rulers prefer to rule by fear rather than love. Love takes time to strike roots. Love at first sight is the myth of romantics and poets, lust at first sight is the norm. Fear, on the other hand, is instantaneous. It can freeze even the strongest person on the spot in a split second and leave him/her shaken for a long time. It is the natural choice to seed the blinding lie with. Every one of the global wars against shadows invokes fear to bedazzle people and paralyze their capacity to think. The whole planet blowing up, suitcase nukes going off in our midst, banks with our life's savings going belly up, a virus stalking us on the streets and knocking on our doors like the grim reaper.
Fifth, the scam thrives by dividing people, not uniting them. There is danger in unity for the scammer as it can launch revolts, insurrections, even revolutions. Fear fits right in. It unlocks all the base emotions people are capable of -- anger, envy, suspicion, distrust, hostility, hatred. Graffiti-adorned us versus them banners of all color and size are mass-produced by ripping up the social fabric. Get the victims hypercharged to rage against one another, keep them distracted while the scam is under way. By the time they come to their senses, it's all over and done.
Sixth, there is one final piece, a detonator to arm the scam before it is triggered. Up till this point the scam is still a shadow without substance. People may wake up to it sooner or later. They need one or more live fire demonstrations to convince them the shadow has teeth. Some well-timed forest arson, mysteriously beached whale swarms, a couple of planes slamming into iconic structures, tens of millions suddenly made jobless, a plague snuffing out a few hundred thousand lives...you get the idea. We must remember these are 21st century cinematic creations using state of the art technology and techniques, and morals. Villains can step off the screen, stroll down the aisles, cut some purses, slit a few throats, eat a couple of babies and vanish to the horror and outrage of the audience. The price of the detonator is called conscience, considered trivial relative to the expected gains.
Last, the scam always, without fail, ends in a transfer of wealth and power from the bottom to the top. The size of the plunder is in proportion to the fear quotient of the lie. The duration of the scam is subject to the law of diminishing returns. At some point, the offtake becomes unprofitable or not worth the effort needed to keep up the scam. It is quietly retired and replaced by another. Others are left to simmer, so long as they bring in a yield above the breakeven point. Some might get upgrades without altering the story line if they have acquired a self-sustaining momentum.
If we had any common sense, we would not get chronically bamboozled by globalist scams which share the same pattern while putting on a different face each time. Getting fooled twice should have been the red line for us. But here we are, off once again on a roller coaster death ride, screaming our heads off in blunderland for the fourth world class scam in thirty years. If we keep going this way, there will be no one left to scam or scream. All of us will have been either brainwashed into slavery for the scammers or capitulated in dejection. It is one way to end our misery.
The other way is to upend a bucket of ice cold water on one's head and sober up. Stop resisting the resistance. Tell our avatars to cease and desist their frog-like leaps from one planted provocation to another as if prodded by electrodes. Ask them to hover over the forest instead of squabbling over leaves and twigs under the trees.
We do not have to become the new Luddites. That would be self-defeating. The digital revolution has brought us a host of benefits, most crucially a growing global community of disparate cultures, resources, skills, intellects and knowledge. It is our revolution, not theirs. We need to eject the globalists from our cockpit into the great void and regain control of our starship. It has light years to go to discover a myriad truths waiting for us out there. If we can liberate the truth on our home planet first.
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