I don’t need a lot of your time to communicate this message. If you’re a regular reader here, or listen to my podcast, you know that I talk about the concept of the narrative endlessly. Who controls the narrative? Why do the “common folk” buy into the narrative? Does the dominant narrative have to contain a sliver of truth?
Take the narrative that the US is a country filled with white supremacists based on the “logic” that any “good” person should easily recognize that Donald Trump is a white supremacist, hence, the 70 million plus who voted for him endorse white supremacy. Makes sense, right? Of course it doesn’t. The premise that Donald Trump is a white supremacist can’t be proven, therefore the narrative wielder’s “logic experiment” is flawed. You and I recognize that, but those who either believe it, or use it for their own purposes, aren’t budging on this stance.
The logical and consistent person is forced to accept the fact that truth is indeed dead. The narrative makers know it’s a lie, but their acolytes don’t. The followers are just running with the story spoon fed to them. Narrative “lies” dominate the day and those who see through their charade are mostly powerless to do anything about it.
I’ve said for some time that we must find a better narrative to defeat the false ones being circulated and pushed by the corporate press and corporate academia. In the end, we may just have to find a better lie. One that isn’t harmful to believe but moves the emotions of the masses to rethink their positions and take action. It may be as simple as “we hold these ‘truths’ to be self-evident.” The Declaration of Independence made claims that can’t be proven, bit it still motivated enough people to cause a change in western history. Maybe it’s time to unleash a little magic of our own.
We're never going to have an effective narrative until we are on network TV. It seems to me that broadcast stations would have to carry federal LP candidate TV ads which attack the station, the "talent" and call them the liars they are. That can't happen with Fakertarians controlling the party. Those are people whose every reaction to every phenomenon in the universe is just wrong.
Moral righteous narratives move the needle. The wokists have developed a (sick and twisted) version of it. The founders had theirs. The spiritual realm is where this war will be won. Some of us have been indoctrinated since birth to ignore this dimension as it is all too mystical in favor of logic and reason, determined strictly through philosophy and the scientific method. Of course this is a mistake, not indicative of describing how little of the natural world we understand. What we measure is dwarfed in comparison to what we don’t measure and that maps onto what we understand and what we don’t. So the certainty they have is what is immoral in many respects. That is just speaking about what “is” and can be completely orthogonal to what “ought” to be done. The bottom line is their is plenty in the masses that are fed up with the constant string of garbage thinly concealing the obvious self and special interests leading to corruption. Enough to created a firewall anyway. Big Defense, Tech, Science, and Education are all comprised. Careerists drawn to more power and using their moral kernals of protection, innovation, understanding, and teaching to justify their failing bureaucracies and inadequacy. We need to build functional alternatives to all of these not matter how small, distributed or hidden. We just need that concise rallying framework to evangelize those capable of such a feat. May it be glorious when it manifests!