- Jan 27, 2022
Red: Um. Are we recording?
Percy: Absolutely. And that means we no longer are just talking to each other, we have an audience too.
Red: So...I suppose we should tell our audience what we are attempting to do?
Percy: I think that's appropriate.
Red: No rabbit holes, though!
Percy: I know. But you know what?
Red: What?
Percy: We should probably first introduce ourselves. How about within the dialectic that frames this dialogue of dialectics?
Red: You mean Outside Mind versus Inside Mind?
Percy: Yep. Go for it.
Red: O.K....well....hello everyone. I'm Red. Co-host of the Killing Medusa podcast. It's the live part of our experiment in decoding the alphabetic illusion, where we test our tools on the propaganda system swirling off the trade in petroleum. It's structured as a dialogue between an Inside Mind and Outside Mind, or Insider and Outsider. I am the Insider, Percy's the Outsider
Percy: Hi. I'm Percy.
Red: Percy believes that linear written text -- the medium that explains events beyond the immediate spacetime of our senses -- cannot represent cyclical reality. And I am his somewhat skeptical sidekick. But I do believe he has something here. Especially because it's guided by scientific principles, which keeps us away from the slippery slope to conspiracy theory.
Percy: That's right. Though I am not a scientist, I believe the illusion of literacy can be penetrated with tools that adhere to scientific principles. Our springboard is the Incompleteness Theorem of mathematician Kurt Godel which, in brief, states that you cannot measure the consistency of system with the rules that define the system. Godel was addressing a system described by numbers. We are applying his theorem to a system defined by writing. The alphabet is, arguably, the most powerful biological force on earth, one that has tamed tamed the human animal and its habitat in less than three millennia. And what are the axioms of alphabetic writing, Red?
Red: Grammar and syntax. So we will attempt to find meaning in the alphabetic text that describes today's current events without the subject-verb-object of sentence grammar. This is why we are presenting the experiment to the public in dialogue format.
Percy: And to be clear, by writing we do not mean literature. We are talking about writing that describes human reality -- and particularly the causality of events -- within the confines of the state. The most common form is the news, but that's just the surface of a deeper public information system created by laws. Like the requirement of state-sanctioned organizations to report their proceedings. Government, courts, corporations, financial markets, and so on. We deconstruct this text to illuminate the patterns of abstract energy that networks all of humanity within the confines of nation-states. Specifically, we will be monitoring the activity swirling around the Anglo-American Empire. This decoding model is called the Ground Truth Dialectical Engine, adapted from a paper by military theorist John Boyd, Destruction and Creation. That paper was a meta-cognitive exercise that explained the dialectical thinking behind Boyd's ability to outwit the U.S. Air Force and its military contractors while simultaneously making revolutionary breakthroughs in the science of aircraft design.
Red: Sorry for interrupting...but perhaps some context.
Percy: Go ahead.
Red: Percy believes that Boyd had an instinctive -- meaning genetic -- talent that tapped the acute energy perception of a wild animal. Or what he likes to call the free-range, pre-domesticated human.
Percy: That's true. It's an ability to mesh the perception/cognition of the brain's visual system with the four-dimensional energy patterns of a specific environment. Combined with training and practice, this innate talent turned Boyd into an unbeatable fighter pilot. But what made him unique is that he could translate this acute energy perception to Abstract Space, which highlights Boyd's greatest talent of all: he was an information warfare genius. This ability to manipulate networks of abstract energy can be seen throughout history, and we have the opportunity to monitor one of its grand masters today: Vladimir Putin, who is running a sophisticated information warfare operation against the Anglo-American Empire. We are going to test our decoding model -- the Ground Truth Dialectical Engine, or GT Engine for short -- by observing and predicting events within this latter-day Great Game. Our website, Killingmedusa.com, explains the decoding model in detail.
Red: And though we will strive to make this dialogue accessible to anyone, the concepts are counter-intuitive.
Some of you may find them fanciful, if not outrageous. But try to keep an open mind, like I did when Percy first approach me. For if his observations and predictions are accurate -- and it may take a year or two to get the full picture -- then the decoding model has merit. In short, spend some time inside the site's nested set of circuits. They start by applying the GT Engine's dialectical model to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Percy: And out of this destruction of ADHD and its most common "symptom" hyperfocus, I have created a new concept called HyperFlow -- the mental state that allows me to perceive the 4D energy patterns of both physical and abstract settings. I am seeking others who have this talent, which I believe is revealed by the environments we prefer: the fluid, uncertain yet predictable setting of outdoors. Hence the Outside Mind. Outsiders rebel against the opposite, the static rooms of offices and schools.
Red: Which is where I come in. For I am on the other side of the spectrum: the Inside Mind, who thrives within the linearity of writing and the structures created by it. Hence our dialogue's framing dialectic: a conversation about current events between Insider and Outsider. Percy, shall we conclude this opening episode by explaining the structure and components of this live monitoring?
Percy: Sure. We are initiating a 12 to 16 week "soft launch" on Monday, February 6. I anticipate producing at least three podcasts a week: Monday-Wednesday-Friday. But the exact timing will be dictated by events. You can access them on the website, our Medium publication and/or Substack newsletter. The bulk of each dialogue will review what I observe within journalistic coverage of the petroleum trade and the propaganda systems swirling of it. Think of it as a oral news brief delivered on the Screen via transcripts that incorporate visuals and links, which we place within two other dialectics. On slow news days, Red and I will continue testing the decoding tools on history within the circuit of the website called The Armageddon Torus, and discuss our findings in the context of current events.
Red: I hope you get a chance to immerse yourself in our historical mapping. As you will see, Percy trained me on the most enduring propaganda narrative, the Bible. We stopped at the First Crusade, and I'm eager to jump back in. But the other dialectic I still don't fully grasp. Comparing our decoding of onscreen propaganda with how Percy skis the backcountry.
Percy: Yeah. This component is a crucial part of the experiment. The challenge for an Outside Mind: how to immerse yourself in writing without getting trapped by its linearity? I've found this requires consistent exercising of cyclical perception and cognition outdoors, in the physical energy of reality. So as part of this experiment I am living at 9000 feet near the Continental Divide in Colorado, and spending as much time as possible skiing the backcountry, or outside the controlled terrain of resorts. How I read the surface of the snow mitigates the risk of dying in an avalanche. And it's the same type of visual perception/cognition that I apply to the surface of the Screen.
Red: And that completes the dialectical framing of this dialogue. Insider versus Outsider. Present vs Past. Snow versus Screen.
Percy: But the fundamental dialectic, the one that sets the parameters of our journey into Abstract Space, is Propaganda versus Petroleum. And that's the topic of our next dialogue. Thanks for listening -- er, I mean, reading.