What is culture today? Am I the only one who thinks this deserves more critical thinking? I used to know where ideas came from. It felt like real humans were creating it, and groups with agendas were identifiable. Now it's a chaotic onslaught, like trench warfare, winning and losing intellectual territory by the yard against unseen enemies. You go away for a week and people suddenly believe the Sun is a hologram created by elves inside the hollow earth. What happened?
We now live in a never-ending psychological warfare operation, which is growing in efficiency and scope. Culture doesn't exist anymore. Military intelligence units, federal law enforcement officers, astroturfing marketing teams, and billionaire-funded interest groups have turned our world upside down, not for profit or patriotism, but for the civilization endgame. They want a hall of mirrors before the Big One. To appreciate the logic behind this, we have to go back a little.
Millennialism
It’s almost hard to remember, but Internet culture used to revolve around people not taking things seriously. For about two decades, Millennials like myself grew up with libertarian sensibilities suited to the world wide web: the co-existence of opposing views, minding your own business, and a collective rejection of centralized authority. We liked to laugh at dumb things together while getting serious only in our own quirky communities, which we knew weren’t very important. Mainstream culture was accepted as the important side of society, so the Internet was where people went to take a break from important stuff.
But that changed. As Millennials became the prime demographic, they invested all of their time in online communities, and the balance of power shifted. Not only did mainstream media find itself irrelevant, but even the professional bloggers and online journalists couldn’t rival the ghettos of gaming culture. In a perfectly organic way, piece-by-piece, controlled narratives were being phased out as young adults spent time in places they enjoyed, where nobody was in charge. My first two books deal with this subject explicitly; The Kojima Code and its sequel, A Stealth Game. And since 2008 I have written about it on my website, Mr. Wolfe’s Meta Gear. So as somebody who has been paying attention the whole time, I am not surprised how we got where we are, but I have yet to see people realize just how backwards things have become, because of how much the establishment hates Millennials, and is trying to undo the progress we have made.
The Narrative-Investment Complex
You’ve heard of the Military-Industrial Complex. You can think of what I’ve described as even more broad and foundational: the “narrative-investment complex.” The market wants politicians (and by extension, the public who influences them) to be neutered, ineffective, and totally unable to regulate and interfere with their private plans for wealth generation, or else be corrupt and easy to manipulate. Investors need to lobby, pressure, bribe, and control as much of the political process as possible. The corruption has no limits. In their view, a perfect world would have no regulations except against their enemies, and the media would only report things that help the private investor class. It’s not a mystery why billionaires fund the most crooked politicians and hope for a green light to rape the earth. It’s not surprising that the head of the CIA almost always has a background as a Wall Street insider. Think about what the CIA does. They create elaborate hoaxes and society-bending propaganda to affect the public, whether locally or abroad. They are invaluable in this narrative investment complex, and they do their job continuously by infiltrating news organizations, political campaigns, courts, legislative bodies, and everywhere else. Name an aspect of modern society and you should be able to quickly figure out how the paradigm of the narrative-investment complex gives it new significance.
Although it was devastating at first, it’s now considered most beneficial for Millennials to be ignorant and asleep. If we use the Internet to watch pornography and idle about with distractions, or become ambitious in a meaningless way by wasting our prime years building up a Minecraft YouTube channel for piddling pennies, that’s great. Keeping the public distracted from the real business of the world and its cynical interplay has completely replaced the old idea of engaging the public with big ideas and getting them on board with the future. Just let them sleep while the technocrats do their thing. This becomes as self-affirming cycle. Normal investors, reporters, and politicians steadily turn into predatory elitists by watching how lazy and predictable the average person is. You can’t sympathize with a person who’s sleeping to their death. Investors—mostly Baby Boomers today—feel justified in lying, cheating, and stealing to their hearts’ content because younger people don’t even care if the world burns down around them.
However, as Millennials stop being so comfortably numb and start waking up to the situation, very strange things happen. It throws off all their calculations, and the system must recalibrate. New collapses are inbound, and the narrative-investment complex has to quickly steer a different way. This is also a logical progression, not a cunning plan on anybody’s part. Generation X relied on observations of their own children for clues on managing our generation, and they built the world around us with the utmost care, but we’re now hitting our thirties and becoming independent. We’re starting to take on a little responsibility, leave home, and care more. Their crystal ball doesn’t work so well anymore. The narratives begin falling apart faster than they can create them, and once again Millennials are making investors very upset. Thus, narratives must attack us again.
[The above three paragraphs are from my book A Stealth Game, which I wrote in 2019, and published in 2020.]
Commercial services, brands, every kind of celebrity, and political figures began to make appearances online, and mainstream TV had to cope with the fact that they were now playing second fiddle, commenting on online drama instead of the other way around. And so the Internet became the opposite of its former self. Instead of being the least serious thing in the world, it has become the nexus point of reality, steering global consciousness, and with it, the goals of the investment class.
Let’s be even more clear. Even in the free market capitalist system, customers do not determine what succeeds most of the time. Regulators and investors do. Regulation can destroy an industry in the blink of an eye, or open it wide up for investor frenzy and exponential growth. That’s why politics actually do matter a lot. But it’s the investors who drive the action of global forces, by betting on the horses, and pushing the thing into our daily lives. Whatever the thing is. Products and services, but also, as I explained in my recent article on patriotism, studies, reports, and awareness campaigns.
Unleashing “truth”
There’s a very good reason why my choice of video game was the Metal Gear series, by Hideo Kojima. His stories were decades ahead of the curve, and they remain one of the most underrated, prescient commentaries in modern history.
In the 2001 game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Hideo Kojima presents a Tom Clancy-esque world of espionage and double-crosses, where it turns out that the former US President is leading a terrorist crusade against America’s shadow government, which is bent on controlling the flow of information on the Internet in order to shape human evolution.
By the end of the game, the main character is confronted by an advanced, personified Artificial Intelligence who is teaching him why such a plan is necessary. Keep in mind this was written months before the 9/11 attacks even occurred, much less the Patriot Act, and it was a half decade before YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter even existed, much less became controlled and censored by AI:
The most relevant part is quoted below:
AI: But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander... All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution. Raiden, you seem to think that our plan is one of censorship.
Raiden: Are you telling me it's not!?
AI: You're being silly! What we propose to do is not to control content, but to create context.
Raiden: Create context?
AI: The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards the development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the strange juxtapositions of morality around you. Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other humans. Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their victims. Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations are made to protect endangered species. Everyone grows up being told the same thing. “Be nice to other people. But beat out the competition! You're special. Believe in yourself and you will succeed.” But it's obvious from the start that only a few can succeed...
You exercise your right to "freedom" and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems. Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever “truth” suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large.
The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in “truth.”
And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper. We're trying to stop that from happening. It's our responsibility as rulers. Just as in genetics, unnecessary information and memory must be filtered out to stimulate the evolution of the species. [Emphasis mine]
This is what’s happening today. Somehow, Hideo Kojima saw this trend coming over twenty years ago, and tried to warn us.1 Algorithms are now adjusted to filter out information that the shadow government (the Narrative-Investment Complex) thinks is counter-productive to their great plans for us. They claims to want a sustainable future, universal peace, and the evolution of the species, and they are using censorship and “context” to do it.
As this game’s story predicted, our overlords do not think it is enough to simply remove content that is problematic. They invent their false conspiracy theories, harebrained jargon, false flag movements, and all manner of emotionally-charged idiocy in order to hijack our psychology, exploit our instincts, and trigger cultural reactions that erode our ability to see the real agenda. Take the vaccine hysteria, for example. How many half-truths were invented around it, pushed by “truthers” to trigger a hysteria response, rather than a measured and scientific opposition?2 Or what about 5G networks, which were quickly absorbed into that narrative, painting all skeptics of untested radio-frequency signals as wackos who believe it caused the pandemic, or will turn vaccinated people into zombies. This is more than censorship. This is the Alt-Truth Movement.
Consciousness evolution
Culture is synonymous with collective consciousness. Collective consciousness is the obsession of a very specific subset of social engineers, who could be called Spiritual Technocrats. They derive from the philosophy of the scandalized Jesuit priest of the turn of the previous century, Teilhard de Chardin, and the psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Teilhard said that history was moving towards the “Omega Point,” which is a reference to Jesus Christ saying he was the Alpha and the Omega. When humanity reaches the Omega Point it will have “Christ consciousness” and become unified with God, who is not an entity outside of Creation, predating it and infinitely superior to it, but the Creation itself, ever so slowly and painfully ordering itself through experimentation and selection to manifest the greatest good. God is the end point of history, and evolution, said Teilhard, was not at all a random process, but God drawing all things to Himself using mystical processes that appear to be natural. Carl Jung emphasized the idea of universal mythologies, archetypes, and the mystical connection between the human psyche and the universe. He believed that dreams and schizophrenic delusions were a way for our mind to break free from the limited, rational, repressed, blinded self, and explore the grand mysteries of the cosmos.
When we look at the Alt-Truth Movement, we see the work of Teilhard and Jung. The New Age movement in particular takes it to the limits, condemning rationality in favor of intuition, trances, drug-induced altered consciousness, and a rejection of divisions. They celebrate impossibilities, contradictions, and incoherence because it proves that truth is not objective, and all belief systems can be reconciled emotionally, without being reconciled logically. “The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right,” as Metal Gear Solid 2 presaged. Just a few months ago, Alt-Truth insiders David Icke and Alex Jones spent an hour exploring how faster-than-light travel is possible through meditation, to break free from the illusory Matrix we call reality, and how lower vibration aliens are a dangerous force trying to trap us in rational thought. An hour later, Alex Jones switched to his other guest that day, Steven Greer, to hear about how aliens were actually enlightened spirit beings from other dimensions, inviting us to higher planes of consciousness and warn us against global nuclear apocalypse. Alex Jones nodded along with both of them, shedding tears of intense emotional hope, calling the Bible a science fiction book about UFOs, ignoring the flagrant contradictions and lies.
The Alt-Truth Movement is not random. It is psychological warfare, aimed at the men and women who are trying to find truth and expose lies, to get them invested in false narratives that ultimately lead to the New Age. Humanity’s unification in the Omega Point is the untold secret behind it all, and even death is just our opportunity to detach from the body and explore the other side. The Holographic Universe, by Michael Talbot, underpins and legitimizes much of this thinking in pseudo-scientific terms. All manner of Eastern mysticism is placed above rationality, objectivity, or Christian teaching. As with all New Ageism, it tries to swallow Christianity whole and not even stop to admit that there is a conflict. They want Christians on their side.
They picture a universal conflict, not between traditional notions of God versus Satan, or their angels versus demons, but of Spiritual Collectivists versus Identity Supremacists.
With us or against us
At the heart of it, the Alt-Truth Movement is designed to demonize Biblical fundamentalists who insist that God’s Word is supreme, incomparable, and authoritative, to the exclusion of all other cults, superstitions, traditions, and ideologies. The worst thing you can be in the New Age is judgmental, exclusionary, and certain. Certainty itself is the enemy, to the Alt-Truth. As we see everywhere in “culture” today, anything goes except for staunch, fundamentalist Christianity, which refuses to compromise for the sake of getting along.
The rise of the great global evil, the Great Reset, is used as the Common Enemy we are all supposed to unite against. Who cares whether our leaders are drug-pushing alien worshippers who believe the earth is flat? They’re on our side! We have to stop the Common Enemy! We either join together, or die.
But Christianity has a different message:
And do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even expose them. (Ephesians 5:11)
Jesus Christ is the true light, exposing all wickedness. The works of darkness is anything that hides this truth. So we know that the Alt-Truth is Satan’s false light, hating Jesus Christ and hiding his supremacy. We are set apart, divided, specially called, chosen, sanctified, and purified from the world. “Holiness” literally means being separated from that which is common. Ecumenism, pantheism, and this Great Awakening attempting to break down the divide between Christians and the rest of the world is unholy in its very essence.
If you want to know his biography, and how his own games are a social experiment to screw with the player’s mind and force them to make weird, compromising choices that prove Kojima’s point, you’ll definitely want to read The Kojima Code.
Alex Jones reported in all seriousness that the allegedly bioweapon virus would disintegrate a man’s testicles and leave him mutilated.