I haven't been able to find any perfect metaphor for what we are actually dealing with here
And in its plain factual form, my brain just doesn't seem to have the capacity to gather it, and organise it, and clearly lay it out
So, for now, I just.... can't write this down. It's frustrating.
(I absolutely won't claim that I understand/see anywhere near the whole array of it, in anywhere near full detail and full workings, I don't know if that's even possible for one brain to hold every strand of that much information, and plus in various areas of more generalised knowledge my broader general knowledge is not that strong - I tend to learn strange specific niches and sift through and dig into who are vested interest sources vs indepenent, who are genuine experts in the domain and who aren't, and why, etc - much more dedicatedly than my efforts with broad knowledge of certain wider broader average stuff
but having grasped now at least, WHY it is this infinite labyrinthine structure, an almost INFINITE MACHINE (a figurative machine), churning out almost INFINITE MESS, over DECADES, maybe LONGER THAN DECADES, but absolutely accelerating up to a flashpoint for sure, and even creating a wacky bullshit idea that some people can look at and point to and fold into their own experience of this insanity machine,
now that I am grasping a bit more, WHY that is, WHY that and its infinite labyrinths and mazes to perfectly trap infinite levels and groups of different people in, even powerful people and the forces that are supposed to inform us, protect us, should know much much better, etc, and to separate infinite splintering groups of people into, WHY all of this is the required/best model to entrench your power the most strongly/permanently, and the way you have to branch that model out and vary it and tweak it and customise it, in order to gather/mint more oligarchs and dictators and servants and cult loyalists and powerful useful idiots and apparatus and people and groups and area and resources under that model,
and once you can stand back, and see that overarching structure, and so many layers and branches and sort of roughly how they work, and yes, proliferating tools being added now, more actual literal machines assisting now with the functions of the Figurative machine. But once you stand back and see this larger structure and what it does,
you at least feel less ....insane
It is CRAZYMAKING knowing that almost all of the people who should be working together to dismantle it,
I hope lots of journalists and researchers and scholars etc can just keep spreading out all the pieces of it and I'm grateful they can do it so much better than I can.
It is so, so utterly brain-frying, wellbeing-hazardous, and soul-destroying living in it
An endless, endless, infinite epistemic and moral abyss
It is going to take a long time to look back and fully understand every piece of this, and find every crime, and actually really really end it
we really really just have to
And you will become a figure of history
Every single journalist or researcher who does good work on any tangent of this (and is careful to get their nonspecialty stuff right too and not add to misinfo) will be an eternal part of history
It is quite literally the biggest story of all time
The biggest crime of all time
Huge thank you to all of you for all of your work
And it will be known forever whether you were part of it,
or whether you were genuinely and effectively fighting it and dismantling it
And the time when you face the world for what you did,
is coming along now sooner than you think
If Disney's showing signs of seeing the writing on the wall,
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