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Levi of Siluria's avatar

I liked your post, and it demonstrates good sense, but I veer away from your mark here. I could fairly be lumped into the camp of swivel-eyed omni-skeptics I think; though I might dislike or disdain much of my company, I can't help but feel that they're edging in the right direction. I am agnostic of and largely uninterested in conspiracy interpretations of topical events, but I believe that the deepest "alternative" readings genuinely bear out a very surreal reality. I very much agree that even at the outer fringes/uppermost echelons all must yet be qualified and little be simple, but I think also that it is necessary to comprehend an actual, operative plane of power which is practically inscrutable to the normal mind. It may be that there is little "practical" usefulness to such a conviction, at least not directly; but I do believe that there is something necessary in the challenge, perhaps necessary more for the proving of the soul. It seems akin to the "flatlanders" idea- two dimensional stick men trying to reach a conception of depth beyond all of their native powers of thought, but which is the only way that many quite real occurrences in their world can even be framed, except in superstition or ignorant rationalising. I am fool enough even to believe that the schemas of "power proper" are actually penetrable, though I think that such perception cannot ultimately be distilled from any amount of clever research, and probably cannot be publicly conveyed because the definitive factors of discovery will arrive by inspiration and therefore be indefensible through argument. We're like all those enthusiasts in the twenties gazing at the model of the "hypercube". We may come out with all sorts of facetious or pretentious or simply wrong things about the hypercube, but the principle is sound and warrants study, and a million failures don't prove the effort hopeless- the game is worth the candle.

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Jane Harry's avatar

This is hands-down the best take-down I’ve ever read of people like me: the ‘those who think it’s all a psy-op, Deep Fake, crisis actor, holograms, Hollywood, staged, Trump wasn’t even there, there is no Trump, etc.’ contingent. The humour and insight is beyond brilliant- love the ’shit-tier shoe-pervert security detail’ - but I will return to it tomorrow when I am less tired than I am right now.

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