I am a Big fan of George R. R. Martin's fantasy book series A Song of Ice and Fire and the show on which it was based (Game of Thrones) before it turned to shit, that is, at the hands of Dumb and Dumber. Although a lot of people like to blame D&D for ruining the show and rightly so, here's why I think GRRM is going to be incapable of finishing his book series with still two books to go for the conclusions.
-First: GRRM lives in a liberal echo chamber / swamp. It's become clear now that no one is safe from cancel culture. Apart from being pilloried for continuing his book series faithfully and as originally intended because everything is x-ist now. I think this goes deeper than just online fake backlash. In my estimation and maybe i need to do more digging to prove this, that most of not all of GRRM's personal relationships are with people who are overwhelmingly liberal that he would naturally fear being ostracised from his friends, family and acquaintences for doing what he has been already doing for ages. Cancel culture isn't online anymore it's a way of life. Not even J.K. Rowling was safe. But that's just the first and most superficial reason.
-Second: GRRM has lost touch with the muses. ASOIAF has always been a literary artwork that has always been in touch with a deeper reality. It's heavy use of symbolism and imagery echoes many religious stories and mythology, similar to Lord of the Rings or many other great works of art. Good art is good because it opens a window into the deeper realities and mysteries of the human condition. Call it spirituality, collective unconscious or anything else. I do happen to believe in a certain idea that the artist is merely the tool or executor of that mysterious force we call inspiration. A good artist regardless of their personal beliefs is capable of producing great works of universal values if they merely do the work that the muses channel through them. Once ego gets in the way the artist is blocked and unable to produce or continues to produce but it's garbage. I think GRRM has lost his connection with the deeper mysteries, i can only speculate why, but i happen to think his ego, fame, fortune, politics and the people around him might be factors in this.
-Third: He doesn't know how it will End. I happen to believe in another certain set of ideas which I learned from Jordan B. Peterson which posit that artists are usually spiritually sensitive neurotics. They see the world around them and draw inspiration from it and by allegory or other artistic tools communicate something that is not obvious at it's face value but with immense spiritual importance to understanding the current Zeitgeist. Starting his series in the 90s i do believe GRRM was glimpsing unconsciously through a lot of the bullshit and whether he knew it or not was giving his readers a tool of understanding the world we live in today differently, think of it as a subtle dose of red pills administered by analogy, familiarizing his audience with the brutality and wonder if the human condition. He doesn't know how his story is going to end because he doesn't know how the ongoing spiritual battle of our time is going to end. In a way no one can be sure. Will we lose everything and become slaves to the new world order? Great reset? Great awakening? Mix of both? A completely new paradigm no one saw coming? Anything could happen and we do have faith in certain things such as Qanon or Trump's hopefully inevitable victory but so many things can happen in the chaos that there's no 100% certainty in life. GRRM losing touch with the deeper spiritual context means he is incapable of mustering the clairvoyance to finish his story in a way that will satisfy him or his fans.
-Fourth: Sabotage. This is probably the most far fetched reason and I don't even know if I do believe it but I'll throw it out there anyway. A work of spiritual significance that can redpill and inspire millions is surely to be the target if the kabal in their ongoing March to dominate culture and art. Nothing was safe from them: Star wars, Star Trek, doctor who, and countless other works of art. Why should ASOIAF be any different. He might have been coerced: blackmailed or bribed to grind his work to a halt, or he might have just been corrupted with his success in hollywood (my buddy calls it the hollywood effect). In any case I out forward the theory that GRRM and his work were targeted for elimination by the evil forces in the world precisely because of the spiritual significance of ASOIAF.
I do think GRRM is one of the great authors of our time, and generally hope that my thoery is wrong and that he finishes his story faithfully, but at this point he might be a victim of the spiritual disease and battle that is taking place in our culture and our hearts and minds individually. He will either die without finishing it (and we can hope for posthumous releases of unfinished works) or he wont be able to stick the landing and it will be another series ruined.
I remember watching this so called documentary based on the recommendation of an acquaintance of mine after telling her about the obvious gaslighting the media does. It was also all the hype when it came out earlier this year on social media and among co workers and other acquaintences. Here is my brief analysis on The Social Dilemma as well as the Joe Rogan interview with it's creator during the publicity your.
First suppositon: The best lies always contain a grain of truth. The Social Dilemma likes to portray itself as very critical of Big Tech and how it manipulates people to monopolize their attention. In many aspects this part of its critique is mostly true and the issues it addresses like depression and self harm also seem to check out. Although all the normies that recommended it made it feel like some sort of hidden revelation. To me and to many other critical thinkers I'm sure, this did not come as a surprise. I've been reading about these issues and abuses by Big Tech for years. This in my opinion is to establish some sort of credibility in order to build the propaganda narrative explained below in top of it.
Second supposition: "Big Tech coming clean". I know liars and addicts and I've done my share of both. One effective technique I learned as a teenager to regain someone's trust (via manipualtion) is to come clean about something small such as smoking tobacco in order to draw suspicion away from something bigger such as smoking weed. By admitting to the lesser my parents thought that explained all my suspicious behavior and I got off the hook for behaviour that was in their eyes much worse. By admitting the small stuff mentioned above they try to absolve themselves from the deeper malicious activity that they are conducting. A classic bait and switch.
Third supposition: The Finesse. Two things jumped out at me while watching this farce. I watch a lot of documentaries about all sorts of different topics and rarely if ever have I seen this type of dramatization before. I work in Media, specifically video advertising, and studied film. Usually dramatization or dramatic reenactment is much more conservative, either serving purely as visual aid to help viewers imagine abstract situations such as burial rights of ancient cultures or some battle. Sometimes these are accompanied by narration or dialogue between historical figures which reasonably conforms to what one would expect of the situation. Never have I seen so muxh creative liberty taken. 1) personifying the algorithm in the film as three 'bots' in a command center with the human as a zombie responding to their nudges. 2) and here's the kicker: the narrative of the young man addicted to news and alternative media who then joins an eXtReMe protest movement called the "Extreme Center" with it's personalities being portrayed as caricatures of alex jones or other independent journalists. How insidious is it to plant the idea into the heads of normies of an "extreme" center. The center by definition is the opposite of extreme and that term is a well chosen oxymoron/double speak.
The Origin: So let's look at the source, a bunch of "former" big tech employees with sob stories about how they noticed the excesses of big tech and decided to become pure and good again, leaving to 'educate' the world about the evils of big tech. There is no reason Soy-Boy mcHipsterface, Fatty Blue-Haired Tumblrella and these other bozos should be trusted and their words taken at face value. Additionally this whole project is a production of netflix, another Big Tech silicon valley monster with this own proven track record of excesses such as Cuties, revisionist history and intersectional propaganda. Netflix as a company has clearly picked a side in the culture war, and to me it's a no brainer that they're in on it. Another example of one Big Tech company running cover/colluding with other Big Tech companies.
The 'Solution': at the end of this farcical mess comes the part with the optimistic music. The extreme center boy and his older sister finally reconnect after they get arrested in a heartfelt bitter sweet moment. The bots in the command center are wearing white now signalling they're angelic transformation implying "big tech is good now, see? We recognize how we fuck people up with depression and stuff" and the verified check marks doing the interviews tell us to spend a little less time on social media but it's ultimately a force for good and TO RELY ON AUTHORITATIVE™ TRUSTED™ NEWS SOURCES LIKE NYT, WashPo and the fact checkers. Big tech will regulate itself and anyone who's into conspiracies is just lost down the rabbit hole of the "extreme center". We end the film feeling a little bit better about ourselves without having to do much. Now that the information is out there society will somehow do something about it. Yay hugs and puppies for everyone.
Meanwhile in the real world we see how big tech censors, memory holes, fact checks, shadow bans and drives anyone out who doesn't conform to the approved narrative. They other abuses still go on with depression, addiction and the like and the election interference is the cherry on top of the mountain of dung that is silicon valley.
There's more I could say about it, but I'll save that for a video essay or review some day.
Interested in your thoughts... Do you agree with my analysis? Do you think I'm wrong? Please let me know and why.
The word 'Guidance' keeps popping up wherever the global agenda is at work. It seems to me like it's some sort of newspeak to avoid being specific or binding enough so that whoever used it is not legally liable for what they say, specifically politicians and government bureaucrats.
You see it with the various SOS, governors and election officials who issued guidance that facilitated their fraud.
You see it all over the world wherever governments are issuing 'Guidance' in regards to the wu flu and social distancing.
For as long as I can remember Guidance was something your parents did like telling you to do your homework or not do drugs. I've never seen it used so loosely before. Any thoughts?
