I've been having this weird thought since Saturday. Is this entire thing scripted? I don't mean all of it, but the response and slow Revelations feel a bit awkward.
We knew the virus came from a lab in China. But only recently this is revealed to be true. The entire discussion seemed like someone was stretching it out and padding for a long amount of time.
I thought about this with prince Andrew. The slow drama of whether or not he was at an island and if he participated with the activities in it. The only person being convicted and all of the press seems to be aimed at him, for some reason. This looks way to hackneyed and set up to not be some weird event prepared by a bad script writer and producer.
Imagine a TV show drama/soap opera style show. The Revelations and twists are what everyone is watching it for. They make characters that everyone is divided about. Then they slowly tell stories over years of episodes, and no real expectation that everyone walks away happy. Then imagine a bunch of networks who make those shows are also in charge of the news, and they know this style of storytelling works best. Especially since those who watch soap operas are the same as those who watch the news. It's something to do while waiting for life to be interesting. They want drama because they have none in their own lives.
When you become a historian, you find out most of the big drama was actually pretty dull. Yet, here we are caught up in the quagmire of which honks are more important? No reference to previous drama, just the now, and who is what, and especially no resolution.
This just feels more like reality is happening, and the news and politicians are trying to make the drama last longer for better ratings.
No, you're just an intelligent person in a world run by really, really stupid people.
The moment Soros changed his story on China was the last straw. These people are literally Surprised Pikachu grade stupid.
That's my other fear.
Why would that scare you?
The only reason they're in charge is because only somebody that stupid would want to be in charge. We only get competent leaders when the stupid fuck things up so badly that intelligent people decide that the downsides of being in charge are outweighed by the downsides of letting the stupid remain in charge.
Which is what is starting to happen now. We'll get a couple good decades and then it'll go to pieces again.
It comes down to Hobbes vs Rousseau.
Your question comes from a Rousseau frame that people are basically good until proven otherwise and you're saying their failure to act shows them to be not good.
I operate from the Hobbesian frame that people are essentially bad. The intelligent know that everyone is bad (or at the very least, know that they themselves are bad) and that being a public figure is risky. The stupid lead because they're too stupid to anticipate the risks of being a public figure.
Because they only think of the fame, money, sex and/or power (well, the power to command all these things and more. What is money but a physical representation of power?) They might start out with good intentions, but then the Defiler creeps in eventually, or they get that one taste of power and go nuts with it.
Do you know what a "heel" is in professional wrestling terms?
You're going to claim that they're a bunch of directionless clowns, instead of simply creating new storylines to achieve greater successes in the long and short term?
Not at all. They have plans.
It's just that their plans are fucking stupid.
You know how women go to college and get careers with the plan of having kids "eventually"? That's the level of intellectual depth these people are working on. I'm not going to go all biological essentialist on you and make wild claims about their testosterone and estrogen levels and what it does to the brain's capacity for long term strategic planning, but...
Well, there's a lot of coincidences.
Owning and running the only planet in this universe known to contain life clearly means you're really stupid...
If he did, he wouldn't literally be surprised pikachu at Chairman Xi.
He lost virtually all credibility as a mastermind super villain when he did that, and became Cobra Commander in a suit.
That's not things being scripted, it's a tactic meant to soften the response to what should be unforgivable acts.
That's sort of what I meant. They are aiming the narrative and prolonging parts that would damage them. By releasing the info now, they can control it their way.
I think it's the opposite: they can manage the slow boil of discontent, but if everyone finds out at once the hardliners might rally the normies to go do something about it. Propaganda can mend a reputation, but it can't reattach a severed head.
So they're doing this because it's all they've got to survive? Or all they need to do to win?
No it is a bunch of relatively independent individual actors programmed in such a way that they make what looks like a large, intelligently designed, pattern when viewed from a distance.
here is a good example of how that works: https://youtu.be/X-iSQQgOd1A?t=628
I love a good simulation.
I feel like I'm in the matrix but nobody will help me get out of this fucking pod probably cause all the real people are dead
The next question I have is how long has this been going on? I know Kennedy had something like this.
Scott Adams would say you're seeing the S I M U L A T I O N hard at work
Or I worked in TV too long...