3 hr ago We may yet witness more twists and turns in this dramatic, administrative, cultural, memetic, legal saga between enigmatic billionaire Elon Musk and Twitter, one of the most influential and maligned corporations in the world, but for now, we appear to be settling into something approaching a climax in one of the most-discussed news items of the year—and that’s saying something.
This week, Musk reportedly agreed to consummate his offer to purchase the flagging tech communications platform for the original offer price after running them through cultural, media and even legal ringers over the last few months that revealed everything from suspected bot counts at the platform to the incompetence, pettiness and subversive nature of its leadership.
If there is a word to describe the entire ordeal from a public optics perspective, I would offer simply that it has all been rather strange.
That said, I personally am in the camp of believing the spectacle was quite intentional, a viewpoint that has only strengthened and calcified as the peak of the narrative deployment—and I do believe it was a narrative deployment—happens to align perfectly with the idea of Narrative Convergence we have been discussing in this community for months as intersecting, congruent and even forgotten narratives from the first Trump term seem to be re-entering the public consciousness with speed and intent all at once.
While some are positioning this agreement as a legal loss or face-saving opportunity for Musk, who bit off more than he could chew by getting into a lawfare pissing match with the tech giant, I see it as yet more tacit confirmation that we’re currently in the midst of a multi-front psychological war for the Collective Mind of American Society, and that the overly dramatic and somewhat cartoonish saga surrounding Musk’s Twitter acquisition was meant to garner a critical mass of psychological attention en route to a transition of the platform to new management as we enter the beginnings of what could be a new paradigm of public discourse and disclosure.
If you see that reading as overly optimistic, allow me to do what I do best and point out a series of directional data points that might put the whole thing in a new context for you:
For starters, Elon Musk himself, while an enigma from a personality and even an intent perspective is a known contractor with the Department of Defense under Donald Trump. This has been discussed at length by Kash Patel, who has explained that Musk’s Starlink satellite internet infrastructure has been a major component of ongoing DOD communications technology projects.
For those of us who’ve been following Q Drops and other narratives over the last few years, the idea of a communications blackout is not just some baseless conspiracy theory, but a very real and very possible concern as the powers that would be increasingly lose more of their grasp over the Collective Mind. As we discuss at Burning Bright, their own narrative deployments have lost significant steam as of late, evidenced more plainly by their need to constantly shift their narratives rather than playing them out and permeating the public mind space with. The acceleration inherent in this approach has resulted in exponentially-increasing instances of Narrative Whiplash, which is resulting in more of the populace disengaging from the former informational matrix and either separating themselves from programmed narratives completely, or, better yet seeking out alternative and decentralized sources of information.
Are we to believe it’s a coincidence that the world’s most culturally-relevant, anti-establishment technology billionaire has deals in place with the Trump-era DOD specifically focusing on satellite infrastructure BEFORE he decides to target the establishment’s most powerful and ubiquitous communications (ie: brainwashing) platform under the guise of a personal crusade or, more lightly an amusing distraction game between ideological sides within the otherwise-homogenous elite?
This week alone, it was announced that Starlink has yet more contracts being actioned alongside the Trump-founded and designated Space Force branch of the US Military, focusing once more on satellite and communications technology.
Add this to the aforementioned fact that we are a matter of weeks away from the most consequential election in US history (aren’t they all these days?) while a series of other controversial and suppressed narratives are re-entering the public consciousness, and a self-described free speech absolutist is primed to seize the reins of a platform that has been utterly dominated by Marxist, collectivist ideologues, to say nothing of their rumored and speculated intel agency origins?
If that isn’t enough for you, I often revert to the most baseline observations I can make, zooming out and trying to divorce what I believe from what I’m witnessing, and leaving projections to the side. Thus, if one were to only look at the collective reaction trends to this news by ‘our side’ and ‘theirs,’ one seems almost giddy with excitement while the other, symbolized most aptly by the ‘blue check Twitterati’ and Media Industrial Complex journalists are having public meltdowns at the very prospect of free speech returning to the internet on the eve of such a monumental election cycle.
In their own words, cretins such as NBC’s Ben Collins believe it’s a foregone conclusion that Twitter’s impending change in leadership will bring with it a change in philosophy and policy implementation—or lack thereof—that will ultimately affect the Midterm Elections.
I’ll give you one guess as to which direction he sees such a change pushing said elections …
All of us know that Silicon Valley is not only home to literal programmers of the software variety, but also social and sociopolitical programmers at a much higher level. Either through ideological subversion or more overt coercion, these elites and their respective platforms have come to define much of modern society and culture through the strategic deployment and—perhaps more often—the strategic suppression of free debate and honest disclosure.
In short, the public square has never been so siloed and controlled, and while it is beneficial to have powerful alternatives cropping up such as Truth Social and Rumble, even these platforms for now exist more as ideological bunkers in which banished and disaffected thinkers and speakers congregate with other like-minded patriots, ultimately forming ostensibly more truthful, but ultimately equally-siloed echo chambers.
To understand why this acquisition is calling up such existential dread in the powers that would be and their mouthpieces, we need to understand exactly what Twitter is to them and how it has been used.
Leaving First Amendment arguments to the side for the time being, we need only consider Twitter as a narrative and psychological weapon in order to grasp the effect it has visited on the Collective Mind of American Society. By fully controlling the largest communications platform in the modern age, one management and technology team—and a highly partisan, ideological one at that—has cultivated the perfect testing ground in which to germinate and workshop narrative deployments in order to foment and form new paradigms with which to guide the unwieldy ship that is American culture and opinion.
Ultimately, if said narratives are rejected even with the prodding of Twitter’s illusionists, the directive changes from consciousness seeding to bludgeoning, as strategic censorship and narrative boosting in a seemingly-connected, but ultimately segmented and siloed online environment results in the relatively easy manufacturing of illusory consensus, in which the majority viewpoint is suppressed and ridiculed until holders of that viewpoint no longer consider themselves ideologically ‘safe’ within the larger tribe of society. During this process, narratives are deployed and then artificially spotlighted through bot swarms and algorithm rewiring, and while the outspoken Matrix-denier is kicked out into the cold, those who stay on the platform or passively absorb its illusory effects are none the wiser.
We saw these techniques deployed in earnest over the last few years, from 2020’s ‘peaceful protests’ to the concept of election fraud itself, to the damaging, controversial and ultimately ineffectual lockdown and vaccination push that irrevocably changed American society, leaving it more firmly in the grasp of the administrative state than it has ever been before.
When used as an illusory cypher through which they can imprint or project mass consensus on given topics, Twitter may not directly reach a large portion of the US population, but it does reach a massive portion of academia and entertainment culture, creating a trickle-down messaging effect that, when combined with the MSM foghorn manufactures an illusion of mass consensus and ultimately grants its wielder unparalleled control over the Collective Mind we must reach and free in order to ‘win’ a Fifth-Generation War.
By breaking up this paradigm, Musk could not only be returning a powerful psychological weapon back to the people, but he could also be denying [them] one of their most potent psychological weapons as we enter this period of Narrative Acceleration and Convergence.
Should their echo chambers be opened up again to the rigors and crucible that is free debate, exposure and disclosure, the informational battlefield could see more free competition and parity of ideas than it has since the early days of Trump’s presidency.
What’s more, the would-be Controllers’ time spent puppeteering a closed-loop of artificial discourse has left them and their adherents and ultimately victims atrophied on a cognitive and emotional level, and unprepared for the sort of honed, forged and perfected logical and evidenced-based deployments this community is now capable of.
Many a wise Anon has taken to using the, ‘Where We Go One, We Go All’ mantra as a personal philosophy and a philosophical nucleus around which the Truth Community can coalesce.
But if we truly want to put that truism and those words into action … we can’t stay put forever, and it seems that new ‘where’s’ are soon to be reopened to us.
Exciting times, indeed.
https://burningbright.substack.com/p/bright-brief-to-tweet-perchance-to
Regarding the Musk/Twitter issue - good read.
Bright Brief – To Tweet, Perchance to Dream
Exploring the Implications of the Musk-Twitter Deal
Burning Bright
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That’s a good analysis. It was written well enough that I had to double check to see if it was written by Conrad Black, one of my favourite columnists/commentators.
That right there, is one long-ass sentence.