Script Rhetoric & it’s Discontents

Trump's absurd Ukraine blather through a three-part audience lens

Tatjana Strezhbetskaya, Buffoons: Funny Jester, Sad Jester, 2020s

A pleasure of Substack is being able to share connections between posts as they occur. Like recent ones on the three body problem, Script edits, and CLI/informationless communication. Nothing too complex, just a visualization bringing them all together with a bunch of art. Things often get clearer when seen in relation.

The themes have all been discussed recently so no need for a big recap. The important thing to recall is that The Script learned from Clown World to communicate with NPCs rhetorically. Emotionally pulsing reactions out of a preconscious base code. Any information content is incidental, not processed, and soon forgotten. It’s easy to see for yourself.

Detail of Charles Robertson, Bazaar Gossip, around 1886, watercolor, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

Note how often people have the same conversation. Not occasionally forgetting you told someone something. Whole narratives over and over like old time pull-string dolls. It’s mind-numbing to endure and always seemed baffling. CLI explains it. Without adaptive memory, that same back and forth is evergreen. For conformation, note how changing the expected reaction or adding new information is received …

The process isn’t complex, but base code assumptions take time and immersion to imprint. Everybody has those - they’re enculturation or socialization or whatever growing up in a context is called. Screens let them be shaped centrally. Premodern base codes were organic, IRL experience. Bursts of targeted rhetoric can then activate the desired assumption or reaction as needed. Via screen or IRL.

James Hardy, Jr., The Pedler's Tale, 1863, oil on canvas

This sounds terrible, but it’s just the nature of existing in time. Imprinting structures is how we mature and learn to survive. Animals do the same to the extent of their ability. And the preponderance of NPCs means some sort of direction or leader is needed for their sakes. My younger self first saw Clown World through Enlightenment goggles. To the extent that I cared, I thought the slaves should be freed from their illusory caves or matrices. FTS-2, NPC, CLI, and so on put that hallucination to bed.

Put bluntly, “The People” are pneuma-somatically incapable of self-rule in any sort of complex system. No benefits of civilization even exist to be enjoyed without leaders keeping the social order. And the order is what establishes the base code through repetitive imprinting. When leaders, culture, and morality align, it works fine.

G. Harvey, The New Range Boss, 1978, oil on canvas

The point is human nature makes mass “freedom” blather impossible. There’s always going to be some leadership structure. What actually matters is how closely leadership faces reality. What is true. CLI and NPC are observations, not moral judgements. They do raise ethical responsibilities for FTS-1 but they’re not ethical choices in themselves. They just are. Aristotle saw it. Jesus warned of sheep and deceivers.¹ Tl,dr: the reality-facing have to allow for NPC direction in mainstream communication.

There’s no other way to move them productively. For society or themselves. This is not an endorsement of idiotic tweets and so on. They’re actually super irritating. But it’s reality. And as such, I’ve had little interest in Trump’s rhetoric. Because it’s obvious it’s not intended to function informationally. A necessary evil whose value only becomes clear in what it accomplishes. By the fruits.

Frans de Momper, The Tower of Babel, before 1660, oil on canvas

Keep in mind the House of Lies is an integrated web where certain falsehoods become foundational. Huge towers of illusion can rest on the most ephemeral nonsense. The last post looked at this if interested.

Is there a Script Doctor in the House?

When considering false rhetoric, the particular narrative frame matters. The base lies making up the foundation that the false narrative rests on. Because that’s where the base code impulses are mainly coming from. Once you can see the larger narrative frame, you can see where it fits in relation to the House of Lies. Trump’s recent Ukraine blather fell smack into the living room. And Clown narrative acceptance is a more significant data point than any one scrap of gibberish. I’ve noted from the jump that maintaining House of Lies structures while trying to reform internally imposes limits. Then consider it’s not a binary audience.

Third Body Problems

Dividing the narrative huffers into camps creates three groups with various overlaps and oppositions. The deepest divide is FTS-1 and [both 2s] - who does or doesn’t learn from information. But Trump supporters consist of Cucks & FTS-1. Emotion-driven NPCs and reality-facers who prefer The Script to the Clowns. And these have totally different response patterns and expectations.

Break it down using some particularly moronic recent bleats that take up the Ukraine theme from the last post. The reaction types - positive emotional, negative emotional, and rational - become easy to see.

It’s unclear what to make of something like this. On the surface, it’s total inversion. Russia won the war with fewer than half the losses. Even my House of Lies sources knew that. And sanctions are as impotent as NATO’s outdated arsenal. But at the same time, it’s so cartoonishly stupid that it’s hard to rule out a larger purpose. Misdirection or some such. This is where theories that he’s stalling for Putin get their pull. The problem there is that [ignorant lying ineffectual dolt] is not an effective rhetorical posture in any scenario I can think of. And [fugazi getting pantsed] doesn’t even play well with the Cucks long term.

The part about avoiding war isn’t false. That was 1.0’s biggest achievement. Where it crosses over into repulsive when FTS-1 memory calls up 1.0 crowing about arming Ukraine. But the Cucks have fruit fly tier memories and can’t care. Their only “moral outrage” is a screen-directed emotion dump. In reality US has remained an active participant for the duration of The Script. It actually was “Biden’s War”, up until Trump voluntarily interjected as a fake impartial party. Obsequiously lying while gaslighting your victims’ mental health is Clown World 101. Doing it in a public statement allows moral judgment, by the fruits.

Incidentally, the desperation to salvage something of Ukraine by all Western parties underlines that weird importance that jumped out from the start. I suspect The Script can’t cut ties, for reasons that aren’t beyond me. Like the Rules of Concession, maybe. Or just preserving the House of Lies.

And so on. Only one of the three categories pay attention to reality. The huffers respond emotionally to pre-programmed base code associations. FTS-1 does register the content because we can’t help it. Words have meaning that transmit intuitively. We don’t have to focus carefully on the tweets. A quick scan makes the content crystal clear. A hard commitment to living in the inversions of the House of Lies. Some qualitative improvement, but no solution.

Not yet, anyhow. That’s probably next.

Yuri Mikhailovich Arsenyuk, The Oath, 1989, oil on canvas

1. Low Deltas trend NPC and they’re extremely useful. Because their base code contains practical knowledge.