The Mirror of Desire

A Fundamental Question for an Inorganic Reality

Caravaggio, Narcissus at the Source, 1597-1599, oil on canvas, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

On different occasions I’ve referred to current political events as following a narrative. Not that everything is scripted - apparently disjointed, chaotic, and/or opposing events somehow falling into a larger pattern. And when something inorganic is posing as real, it’s a magnet for projected desires. And a reminder to pay attention.

The response to the Trump shooting is - among other things - a clinic on the power of visual rhetoric. People who hated him now wanting to vote for a photo. People who repeated “we’re not voting our way out of this” suddenly with born again faith in Schoolhouse Rock-tier civics. People deeply aware of the problems with initial reporting around 9/11, covid, Kennedy, and whatever else emotionally investing in “what really happened” with Trump. Even citing beast media as trusted sources. I have no idea what is going on, beyond an obvious meta-narrative swing from orange man bad to orange man good. But the change been remarkable. A short time ago, every mainstream wisp of “conventional opinion” utterly demonized him. To the point of censorship and deplatforming. Now, like magic, an establishment coronation. Whiplash on this level with no public change of position is self-evidently inorganic.

This is what I call The Script for want of a better term. Meta-script is more accurate since it seems to be operating on a level above specific events. No matter what the events involve, the outcomes all move in an inexorable, inorganic predetermined direction. Note that this is hierarchical thinking. Not a claim that every event is scripted like a play. That’s what makes it hard to spot. Specifics do appear to contain elements of randomness or internal factional opposition. The myriad court cases brought against Trump seem to have been sincere efforts. But the Supreme Court just broomed them aside. If projectiles were flying around his head, that’s definitely an element of chance. But it turns out to be the narrative apotheosis. Especially after Biden 5 had been allowed a few weeks to go full dementia patient - shucking off years of media illusionism. Given the demonstrated fakeness of elections, this is essentially an inauguration.

Henriette Gudin, The Bronze Horseman, 1892, oil on canvas

Obviously I have no way of knowing what’s going on with any degree of certainty. No one I know does. So I don’t bother with specifics. Because on a macro pattern level, all the events point in one direction and advance one narrative. It’s a form/content set-up. Individual events [content] play out with some organic unpredictability but with an overall organization [form] that is teleological and inorganic. I have no idea how this works or what is behind it. It seems to overwrite everything. It does make me skeptical that the assassination narrative is as presented. But that’s irrelevant when The Script just rolls on. Unless I’m wrong and it derails, I’m aggressively disinterested in the “political process”. And even then, my interest would be limited to why I went wrong. The Script has made it obvious for some time that Trump will be installed. But without knowing who or how, it’s impossible to predict what happens next. Here’s a marker - nothing pertaining to “Biden’s” dropping out will effect Trump’s installation in the White House.

It is worth noting that the narrative beats are Scriptural - an interesting choice given the absence of anything Biblical in the whole movement.

Montezuma sighting the comet in 1519, folio 182V of Fray Diego Durán’s La Historia antigua de la Nueva Espana (Durán Codex), 1579

Looking back, The Script was foreshadowed in some Q stuff from 4-5 years ago. I was always agnostic on Q [see the Band at the time] beyond noting it was closer to observable reality than any official organ. I now believe “Q” is best understood as the Scriptwriters foreshadowing The Script. The tells were the enjoy the show/watching a movie comments and things needing to get worse before [something] is possible. “Something” because no one has clearly articulated what the vision/endgame is. Rhetorical generalities about taking back countries, battling cabals, and “patriots” controlling things. But no mention of what this will look like. I see factional conflict within the beast, but no allegiance to the Christian, Classical, or national heritage pillars of the West. And while four increasingly degenerate and collapsish years passed, there was no organic groundswell for Trump. The Script is not reacting to grassroots pressure. It’s a top-down sequence that seems to roll over “the Deep State” with the same inexorability as it rolls over Soros and the Dems.

It’s a variation on the pseudo-narrative pattern I’ve posted on recently. Sort of a hybrid. Actual narrative is a series of logically connected events. Pseudo-narrative is a series of unconnected things arranged as if they are a coherent narrative.

The Script is a series of organically disconnected events that are marking out a coherent, inorganic narrative flow. I have no idea how this works practically. As a rule of thumb, any time I hit something that is orchestrated and opaque… dust, sandals.

Coming to the point of this sub. If events are following an opaque meta-script, elections have proven orchestrated, and there is no detailed program of action…

What - specifically - is expected to happen after Trump is installed by the mechanism that repelled him last time?

Most pro-MAGA vectors don’t tell you. There’s plenty of hollow platitudes that call up thoughts of some sort of amorphous “revival” or recovery. But no sign of what used to be called “a platform” in the before times. Amorphous clouds of positive vibes are feeling without substance. Rhetoric, not logic. Like music - the sort of cipher or emotional mirror that lets almost anyone project their wish lists. It’s why so many Trump enthusiasts have wildly different perspectives. If that’s you, cross-reference expectations with the signaling coming out of the RNC. And ask whether there is any objective support for the answer to the question above.

Alexander Dmitrievich Tikhomirov, Carousel, 1970, oil on canvas

The impression I get from the rhetoric is a new jack version of the Reaganesque civic nationalist ideology that proved unfit for purpose in the 80s. Not spelled out - that would be a platform. A breakfast in America feel good vibe. Everyone loves the 80s. Boomers were peaking. Youngsters are drawn to the sunny prosperity and functioning society the see in tv and movies from the era. Nothing about hard moral choices or personal accountability - faceless white knights hats are the opposite of personal accountability. But Gen X remembers the Reagan era. Vapid materialism with no objective foundation leading exactly to the present. That was then. Before massive intellectual, social, physical, and moral degradation, incalculable debt, no industrial base, and sprawling ungovernable cities. Invaded, degenerated, and dependent on huge forced income redistribution. Loss of productive capacity and human capital rule out even an attempt. Consider how many lies and false dreams are scattered along the path to get here. So obviously my own impression is an impossible rhetorical projection. But here’s the thing. They all are.

Narcissus gazes at the spring, illumination from a 14th-century manuscript copy of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung’s Roman de la Rose, f. 11v., National Library of Wales

This isn’t blackpilling, it’s recognizing reality. Simply ask how boomercon phantasy and commitment to ontological falsehood can arrest looming structural collapse. What concrete steps lead from one to the other? The whitepill is to abandon hope in whatever figments the House of Lies spits out and take moral and personal responsibility for life, family, and culture. This isn’t abstract advice. I’m currently knee deep in the old observe, read, react process and building organic ties around a legacy project. While supporting grass roots cultural initiatives and actively preserving knowledge. This era has left too many people without courage, creativity, or resources. Taking agency back from the system on a personal level is inconceivable to them. They may mouth hard truths, but at heart they dream that the system really will save them. It won’t. Any more than faith in ontologically incoherent dogmas brought “the left” to their utopia.

To reiterate, I have no information beyond the suspect sources available to all of us. I don’t know how the control mechanisms work in the House of Lies. But it’s obvious that there are more than one faction competing to set a direction. Leading to two possibilities. Either there’s a meta/satanic layer we can’t see that runs all factions and just abruptly changed course. Or the Scriptwriters has some trouble wresting the wheel from the sorathics. I’m inclined to think that The Script was supposed to kick in in 2016, but was somehow countered. Since then, opposition has been observably neutralized and the House of Lies has changed paths. There is still resistance, but it’s almost impotent compared to TDS onslaughts past.

It wasn’t that long ago…

Coming to a final observation. The Scriptwriters are neither reality-facing nor “good guys”. Their ideology is ontologically-impossible failed secular transcendences like materialism and civnattery. They do appear less motivated by destruction for its own sake. But they’re as committed to the same post-Enlightenment fake dogmas as every other denizen of the House of Lies. Many observers have wondered why Trumpian “populism” fizzled so quickly in 2016. Or why he ginned up the Jan. 6 protests then fled the Rubicon. Observably reality. The Scriptwriters don’t want organic Western nationalistic culture. Better to temporarily cede the wheel to demons than undermine the existence of the clown car. The Script calls up phantoms of traditional America. But actually shows no more interest in the Republic of the founders than any faction. It seems more productive and reality-facing than the current beast debacle. Possibly advantageous for improving position for what comes next. But with no signs of a return to organic American culture.

Of course, I can always be wrong. So just consider why things look the way we want them to. And enjoy the show.

Frances Myers, Summer Afternoon at Trocadero, around 1975, color etching, edition 7/25, Racine Art Museum

Postscript on the RNC. No need to recap - anyone interested is aware. Simply note the complete absence of tradition, morality, reality, personal responsibility, or even recognition that a heritage American nation exists. Or existed. The question remains, what exactly is this godless band of materialist globalists expected to do? And why? A scriptural head wound does seem symbolically appropriate…