I believe this phenomenon is related to one called "egosyntonicity" and several others, and that all are manifestations of the functioning of a certain type of human consciousness. Thus far, psychologists, brain scientists, philosphers, and studiers of human consciousness have done a completely shit job of unifying and clarifying it.
The basic idea is the imperative for security, and in this sphere that entails something along the lines of "being right", "being the expert", "knowing enough to criticize all others", and so forth along those lines. The sense of superiority fulfills the requirement.
This phenomenon has never been on display more clearly than in recent times, but still no one sees it. Tucker Carlson is more worldly, rational, and even-tempered than most, yet he has been driven to a form on insanity by this. An example:
Tucker Carlson criticises Trump administration and claims 'American empire is over' (indy100 4/6/2026)
Tucker has become anti-Trump recently, and so his rationale is that this all a very bad thing. But can Tucker possibly be ignorant of reports like this?
Study: US regime has killed 20-30 million people since WW2 (Sign of the Times 4/24/2007)
And that was almost twenty years ago, so you can add a few million to those estimates. The US Empire was an industrial-scale mass murderer, yet Tucker mourns the end of it?
Well, the thing is, he doesn't even see that. It has all vanished from his conceptual world as he focuses on how right he was all along about Trump. He's light-years from asking the question, "Hey, was this the plan all along? The thing that so many dreamed about for so long has finally come to pass?"
It's never been more plain that rationality vanishes when the conclusion threatens to kick your ego right in the nuts.
On a personal note, over the last decade or so, I had to throw out about 95% of what I thought I knew about the world. I never felt it threaten my ego. In fact, I saw clearly that it was the way to advance my state of knowledge. One of the things I pitched overboard was the idea that everyone else was like me.
The "US war in Iran" is mostly fake.
everything is fake narrative....
I'm glad when people take the effort to carefully examine what I write, because I put a lot of effort into it. It's particularly gratifying when they make it all the way through the first sentence before it gets blurred into whatever is going on inside their head.
You know what disappoints me about conspiracy theorists? Given the rise of generative AI and the incredible amount of attention and controversy it has generated in conspiracist circles, I have yet to see one post questioning any of the numerous videos of purported US airstrikes. A couple of points to be made about that.
First, even if they were all authentic, how could no one even raise the question? You can't tell at a glance, that's for sure. Frankly, even at a glance, they all look like they came out of de-rezzed video games.
The second point is related to the first, and is even more vital. I've come across uncountable fakes in history that are as obviously phony as the walls of a house in a stage play. The only way They get away with it is that no one is actually looking to see if they're fake.
I think normies simply cannot comprehend that these things might be phony, and almost all conspiracy theorists are focused on being right about whatever they think they're right about.
What a world we live in, when you actually stop to look around.
Extreme minority opinion (of one, so far as I can tell): The "US war in Iran" is mostly fake.
The whole thing is absurd from a military standpoint. Iran's air defense is probably 2nd only to Russia, and they can barely get a shot off? Every reported shootdown is extremely mysterious with zero details. The US claims to have completely suppressed air defenses in a few weeks, while Russia is still working SEAD on their next door neighbor 4 years on. It's all ludicrous.
The only destruction I would surmise is going on in Iran is of two types. One is Israel firing a small number of missiles and drones, then letting it be blamed on the US in hopes of antagonizing Iran. The other--and this would be extremely limited--is the US military going after rogue elements of the IRGC that did not and will not adhere to civilian authority. Shit, they're probably run by Mossad officers.
In the meantime, "The Jewish State" is getting systematically worked over by Iranian missile and drone strike. We're up over 100 waves, averaging at least 100 projectiles. Israeli air defense is for display only.
That's a lot of blown up things on the ground and it's why we're getting essentially zero information about damage. This is going to be their last dance and they know it.
You know what's funny? I came across that too in all the research I did for the six (!) Charlie Kirk posts back in the fall. I was like, "Oh, c'mon, whaaaaaaaat?!"
I looked into it and the company originated in Winston-Salem, so that's where the name came from. I tried to tie the people behind it to the Salem Witches and failed at that. I tried to tie the Salem of Winston-Salem to the Salem in MA but failed at that too.
HOWEVER....
Living and learning, I now see that Salem Media Group was founded by Stuart Epperson. His middle name is Watson, which is a pretty unusual given name. Seems more like the surname of his mother's bloodline, right?
Welp, sure as shooting, here are the "Case files referencing John Watson" from the records of the Salem Witch Trials. You look at this stuff long enough and you inevitably start to develop the same eye, huh?
Well, as far as the next chapter, this material just goes on and on and on and as much organization as I've put into my notes, there is still an avalanche of them. One of these days I'll be able to make a more coherent case about any of it.
As far as Heiser, though, I wanted to relate the narrative of the minuscule amount of contact I've had with his work. It was very early on and I heard that he was the most prominent "debunker" of Sitchin. I mean, his website is sitchiniswrong.com, so that pretty much puts his thesis right out front.
Attempting to be a careful researcher, I thought I should consult it, if it was all that obvious. A note of preface: I have never actually studied Sitchin's work, read no more than a couple of paragraphs and watched a couple of short videos. I heard his main thesis, set out to debunk it myself, and... here we are.
Anyway, at that time, years ago, there was a short video presentation right on Heiser's home page. I never saved the link so I'll have to describe it from memory. He basically said, "The Sumerians never mentioned the Anunnaki. Sitchin made it all up and I can prove it. Go to the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, run by Oxford, and type 'anunnaki' into the search box. There will be no results."
That's absolutely true. Works just like he says. The Sumerians never once mentioned the Anunnaki in any of the numerous texts that have so far been translated. Debunked. EXCEPT....
The Sumerians did not refer to them as the "Anunnaki", they referred to them as the "Anuna" or the "Anuna gods". As I understand it, the term "Anunnaki" did not come along until the Akkadians, who were the successor civilization of the Sumerians, but they were clearly referring to the same group. The Anuna are all over the writings of the Sumerians, of paramount cultural importance.
Well, Heiser should know this. It's basic. I just picked it up along the way. The question which you can answer for yourself is then: is he that ignorant, or is he deliberately lying to prove his thesis, or is he perhaps--so to speak--deliberately ignorant?
That's as far as I ever felt I needed to look into the work of Michael Heiser.
There's a particular reason that led me to conclude the Phoenicians were the main followers of Satan in the area (although there were many other groups) and that it was the center of his power. I'll get to where that connects to the Bronze Age Collapse in a second but we have to back up a couple of steps.
Well, farther than that, we have to back up to the paradigm itself. Feel free to stop reading any time because I have long since given up hope that more than a handful (at best) would ever venture so far out as to disagree with pretty much every scriptural, religious, and historic authority on this.
That paradigm is that the Anunnaki were indeed as Sitchin described them. Under that paradigm, the Bible is not a "grand book of all truth" but rather a (corrupted and distorted) snapshot of one group's interactions with a few of these entities.
The last person to say such a thing was Mauro Biglino, and only up to a few years ago when he was "turned", suddenly dropping all his most profound claims. Even Sitchin could not follow it all the way through, which I believe was due to his religious convictions although I have not studied his work.
One of the main pieces of evidence in this concerning Phoenicia is Ezekiel 28, which has presented a historical conundrum. It seems to involves both Satan and the human king of Tyre. Scholars try to square the circle in various ways and with much hand-waving.
I took the direct approach of the Anunnaki paradigm and cut the Gordian Knot: the king of Tyre was Satan, present and ruling in his alien flesh. There is additional evidence solely concerning Tyre that would take several pages to write up.
But to get to the point, there were two further conundra about the Bronze Age Collapse that this solved: how sudden and complete it was, and why no one wanted to talk about it.
As to the first part, rather than the Phoenicians out of Tyre conducting a program of conquest and expansion, the power dynamics of the Anunnaki had changed, and Satan was consolidating his empire in the Mediterranean. IOW, serving the world's harshest eviction notice. I found this sentence deep in my notes:
Already mentioned, Byblos and Sidon remained very prominent centers before and after, while Jerusalem and Tyre, both apparently minor settlements before LBAC (and not destroyed) will become increasingly prominent in the Iron Age Levant.
Well, as I would explain it, The Boss was already living there. And the suppression of all this is so that no one ever puts the pieces back together, and two and two begin to add up to four.
Again, for any of this to make sense, you have to abandon almost all previous scholarship. Or, to be more precise, you have to do as I just did: cut it all up into tiny pieces and paste it back together in a sensible way, although it leads nowhere but far from the pack.
There is a "meta" point to be made about the Bronze Age Collapse: For anyone watching the video, if this is the first you've heard of it, you're in the nearly universal majority. This phenomenon merits scrutiny.
The thing is, when you judge that you should have been taught about some historical event--or at least heard of it--but have never even heard it mentioned in a classroom, a movie screen, or on TV, this indicates something of great importance is being suppressed.
The same thing goes for the Napoleonic Wars, and the War of 1812, the Bank War, the Era of Good Feelings, the Axial Age, etc. Few could give more than a couple of sentences on them, if any at all. This extends to "Babylon", which is often mentioned, but mention is a far as it goes.
So what is being hidden about the Bronze Age Collapse? Looks to me like the "bad guys" took over, then proceeded to erase there ever having been a conflict. Same thing goes for the global Tartarian War of the 1800's. And I don't have any evidence, but I think it was the same people.
Who were those people, who in that era were called the "Sea Peoples"? My best guess is that they would trace to the Phoenicians and from there to (dun dun dunnnnn) Satan himself. But that's a much longer story.
I see it all the time now on the conspiracy "podcast circuit". There's a word that has gone out of fashion over time and that's "charlatan". Conspiracy podcasts have been artificially pumped full of them.
They shout all kinds of provocative and enthralling things. You're free to agree or disagree, but there are a couple of things that will never happen. One is that nothing they say reveals any important truth, or will ever lead you to any.
The other, more important, is that nothing they say will frighten you. The truth really is quite frightening, in a certain sense, which is why almost everyone rejects it.
The subconscious recognizes all this material as--regardless of its factuality--no more than entertainment, so the overall effect is to have the audience wandering around in a comic book store, pulling those books off the shelf which have attractive covers. No one is disturbed by what they find in comic books, are they? There are also few important truths in them.
TrineDay seems to be one of the highbrow alternative publisher pumping their authors into podcasts. None of their highbrow authors like Jay Dyer seems to have noticed any of this. He also hosts the Alex Jones show from time to time, which tells us what "highbrow" really means these days.
I mean, "They" paid Rachel Maddow $30M/year for a 1 show/week gig, but it somehow did not occur to "Them" to take over TrineDay and all other such operations? I thought of it but "They" did not? Really?
I'd say the stags are good old Cernunnos.
When you look up the history of CERN, there came a time in the development when they should have changed it. The acronym originally referred to the "Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire". That organization went defunct and the one that runs the collider now is the "Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire". So they should have changed it, right? Nope, they kept the old one (for some reason, eh?).
You find researchers talking from time to time about the unusual amount of "bee" symbolism that comes up, particularly in ancient cultures of the Middle East. They just mark it as notable because, you know, why would people get hung up on bees?
Personally, I agree 100% that a bee colony is what "They" are intent on creating, with everyone transformed into mindless workers of the various required classes (see "Brave New World").
The symbolism survives to the modern day, although few recognize it. We get this from "Deseret (Book of Mormon)":
According to the Book of Mormon, "deseret" meant "honeybee" in the language of the Jaredites, a group in the Book of Mormon that were led by God to the Americas....
Deseret was proposed as a name for the U.S. state of Utah. Brigham Young... favored the name as a symbol of industry. Young taught that Church members should be productive and self-sufficient, a trait he had perceived in honeybees.
For example, the state symbol of Utah is a beehive; this emblem is represented on both the state seal, state flag, and marker shields for state highways. The state nickname is the "Beehive State" and the honeybee is Utah's official "state insect"
Shit, they really kind of spell it out when you recognize what you're looking at.
This is most definitely part of the plan.
It plugs into transhumanism, which is to get people to behave as predictably as machines. That couples with technocracy, which is where society is run by experts as if they were programming a machine. The combination produces and in fact originates from cybernetics, which is to control human society as if it were one giant machine.
Most people already appear to think like machines, but this is somewhat deceptive. Left to themselves, people can figure out much of what's going on but it is overridden by those they accept as "authorities".
If an authority other than one controlled by "Them" appears and starts telling the masses the truth, then the masses will believe the truth. This is why "They" are so shit-scared over Trump. It's also why Trump still bothers appearing with all the lying liars on mainstream TV: to get in front of the masses.
An alternative vector of attack is to get people to accept AI as the authority. Then "They" can simply control the AI. This is what's happening now and They are having some success:
I had a terrifying conversation with an 11-yearold today (r/conspiracy 9/25/2025)
I was working with an 11-year-old client today who was wanting to copy down homework answers from chatgpt. She asked me, "Why should I think if chatgpt gives me all the right answers?" God help us.
Note: If anyone was wondering, all of this indeed comes originally from the Salem Witches. The birth of the push for cybernetics can be traced back almost a century to the Macy conferences. Yes, that's "Macy" as in both the department store and William H., but more importantly it traces back over three centuries to Thomas Macy, one of the original proprietors of Nantucket. That island is and was probably the most important outpost of the Salem Witches. Also note:
The Macy Cybernetics Conferences were preceded by the Cerebral Inhibition Meeting....
I think "cerebral inhibition" is pretty much exactly what we have on our hands a century later.
Hollyfeld did it the right way:
Real Genius | Frito-Lay Sweepstakes | Jon Gries as Lazlo | 1985
They never say, of course. It's like I advocated attacks on Tucker Carlson simply because of his identity as one of those... Tucker Carlsons. Makes no sense
The real question is what finally tripped it. As I mentioned, there was no revelation of any dire secret. Tucker just isn't that important, pretty much anyone would be baffled reading what I wrote, and no one was reading it anyway. There's not a lot to go on, but....
They've been cranking up the "dead Internet"-style fake AI content on that sub. It was like 95% and headed north. If you read the linked OP, it doesn't quite make sense and I don't think a real person wrote it.
Best guess: TPTB finally decided to take it to 100% and get rid of the few remaining real users that were doing any substantive posting. They would leave a Potemkin village for the slack-jawed noobs to wonder at, thinking they "just don't get it" if what they read doesn't make sense. Like when I used to listen to the Fed chairman speak, thinking I didn't understand when it was all just bullshit.
I felt like I "got through" to a real person like 1% of the time, so it isn't a big loss. On the upside, I consider it a strong indication of how freaked out and desperate They're getting as They feel it all falling apart day by day.
This may not be what you're looking for, but a more efficient approach in my mind is to short-circuit the entire thing and realize that Scofield was merely a dirtbag tool put forward by generational Satanists, and may be safely ignored unless you happen to like studying the works of the dirtbag tools of generational Satanists.
Otherwise it's like arguing the merits of gun control after a phony school shooting, which is precisely what the generational Satanists have everyone wasting their time doing.
You can also quickly connect this to another phony Christian put forward by the same people, Charlie Kirk. Well, whatever the sincerity of Charlie's Christianity, he was another of their tools they put forward. It looks like when Charlie went from Zionist to anti-Zionist he sealed his own fate.
The key connections are these: Christian Zionism -> Scofield Reference Bible (1909) -> Cyrus Ingerson Scofield (1843-1921) -> Dwight L. Moody (1837-1899) -> Edward Norris Kirk
The full story is huge, of course, but the case expanding on the context of those links is in my old post:
Regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk (4 of 2): Charlie the Salem Witch (conspiracies.win 10/3/2025)
Here's one no one talks about: rayon.
I thought for the longest time it was made out of petroleum because it has a sci-fi name, but when I finally got around to looking it up, it has nothing to do with petrochemicals. It's been around since 1885, and involves a chemical treatment of cellulose. Among other sources, you can use bamboo, which grows like a damn weed.
They badmouth it through the entire article, but here's a flat-ass lie in Wikipeda:
The durability and appearance retention of regular viscose rayons are low, especially when wet; also, rayon has the lowest elastic recovery of any fiber.... Recommended care for regular viscose rayon is dry-cleaning only.
I have shirts that I've machine washed hundreds of times and they have no holes and show no wear or fading. The material feels like silk, which they admit on wiki. The shirts are no more expensive than pima cotton.
I thought all clothes were going to get made out of rayon, but in all the years I've known these things, I've never heard anyone mention any of them.
One of the very common techniques to "keep someone alive" is to use old stock photos. Seeing a picture of the person is enough reinforcement, the most gentle of nudges, because that's really all it takes. For example, that Reuters article includes a photo captioned:
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks during the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations, in Jerusalem, February 15, 2026."
Does anyone really give a rat's ass what he was doing a month ago?
This was a mistake, but the subtle reason reveals much.
First, Netanyahu has been dead for a couple of days and this video is AI. It was all over r/conspiracy last night showing a screencap of six fingers on his right hand (what a classic!):
Benjamin Netanyahu is dead. His last video was all AI. Iranian media claims he has been killed via missle. (r/conspiracy 3/12/2026)
The problem is that it was not Jews who created the video, but some Christian Zionist "Friends of Israel". As hard as the mistake was to pick up, it would be even harder for a Christian making this video to remember that an actual Jew would never ever say that.
This is very interesting, but not unexpected. There is something that even the committed Jew-haters never talk about, which is the origin of "The Jews".
There is this cloudy and contradictory "understanding" that on the one hand, "The Jews" are the same ones Jesus called out repeatedly and who killed him for it, and on the other hand "The Jews" are actually Europeans who are actually Khazarians.
In that model, Zionism is seen as a political movement that grew out of religious Judaism. Basically the opposite is true. Zionism is a social engineering operation, and for that purpose "The Jews" were invented. (See the work of Shlomo Sand, although he does not go nearly far enough.) Since it came out of Europe, Europeans Jews--the Ashkenazi--were used.
All other people of the Jewish faith, primarily those around the Mediterranean, were swept up in its wake. Since much political and military power resided in the US, the main thrust there was not through Jews but through Christian Zionism.
Recall that as recently as WW2, boatloads of Heeb refugees were getting turned away from America. They were and are simply pawns in this game. Whatever their faults and sins, these are the very levers used to manipulate them.
In any case, the Sephardi and the Mizrahi ended up out of step with all this since the social engineering was incomplete and imperfect. Iranian Jews see the evil of Zionism as clearly as any other Iranian, since there was no social engineering there.
Christian Zionism controls US politics, but it is not so in Spain. They were calling out the genocide in Gaza two and a half years ago:
NATO/EU Member Spain Petitions ICC for Warrant to Arrest Netanyahu for Mass Murder and Other War Crimes (The Intel Drop 10/16/2023)
Even the idea that among Jews, Sephardi > Ashkenazi does not come as a surprise. The Ashkenazi are surely seen as foreigners, newcomers and interlopers, and probably even manufactured residents of the Holy Land (which they are). The Sephardi and the others have been in the Med Basin since Rome stomped out Jerusalem.
If anyone's wondering why it is that so many high-profile people are freely bashing Israel now when they didn't before, and that they seem to fear no backlash whatsoever, that because "The Jewish State" is considered a lost cause. These plants can get cred for their ongoing efforts without doing a single iota of harm to the fate of Israel.
Just imagine if you and another spy had infiltrated some foreign organization, then they caught up with your fellow agent. Do you say, "Hold on now, let's just take it easy on him"? No. You say, "Fuck that guy. I never liked him and I thought he was dirty for a long time."
And if you thought somebody was now on to you too? You add, "Yeah, and you know who that dirtbag spy was good buddies with? That guy right there."