Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer
One more time for the left hand side of the Bell Curve.
Everything they say- those who construct The Narrative-is meant to play on more than one level.
For people like us, it’s to remind us that you cannot fight the system as it is constructed because it is firmly in their control, so don’t even bother. They can do what they want, they can re-write the laws, they can change definitions, etc.
For the dolts in the middle it’s that they are busily “working”, for months or years, looking into things, getting to the bottom of them, writing briefs and reports and summaries, taking notes and doing interviews and whew! It’s exhausting all this industrious scurrying about looking purposeful to some illusory end that never comes.
And to those who work within the system it tells yet another story, that We control the horizontal, We control the vertical. Out of ways to obfuscate the obvious, make up new words with vague meanings that sound technical but mean nothing- de-duplicate, metadata- poopytalk. If you get in a jam and do something that would have any other biped doing 6-10 in a cell the size of a sheet of plywood, we’ve got your back. We’ll drag this out so long no one will remember what it was even about.
It is a criminal syndicate, running the most powerful apparatus of State ever imagined with unlimited power and no fear of consequences. That’s all it is. It can’t fix itself and it doesn’t want to. All it’s doing is running out the clock on the current roadblock until they can get more of their own people back inside and then it’s the perpetual frog-march to bondage that mankind has been running since we put down our atl-atls and took up the hoe.
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