Overview

The HyperScreen of the Present is the live monitoring component of our experiment into decoding the alphabetic illusion. Its objective is to test our decoding toolbox by predicting the future course of events related to the Great Game of Petroleum. These tools present a different interpretation writing -- one that looks beyond frozen syntax and grammar to the dynamic structure of public information and how it connects to broader energy flows (both abstract and physical.)

Though this is a standalone component of the experiment, before diving in we suggest touring the website's other component, the Ground Truth Dialectical Engine (GT Engine.) We use a number of unique tools and concepts in this monitoring; please refer to the terminology legend for brief descriptions. Also note that if you are reading this on Killingmedusa.com during the soft launch (February to June 2022), our dialogue is directed at an external audience on the Medium platform.

The Dialectical Dialogue

Like most of our site, the Live Monitoring is in dialogue format and dialectical structure. The macro dialectics include:

1. Inside Mind vs. Outside Mind. The dialogue between the insider Red and outsider Percy. But as Red points out all the time, he considers himself little more than the insider foil to Percy's outsider theory.

2. Concept vs. Object. This is the Ground Truth Dialectic. The Concept is a relevant propaganda campaign. The Object is the place where the campaign connect to the infrastructure of commodity trade, specifically petroleum.

3. Oil vs Natural Gas. Oil is the world's most valuable commodity, one that (indirectly via the US Dollar) prices all other commodities. But with the rise of e-vehicles the transition to its conjoined sibling, natural gas, is on. We believe this is the most important dynamic in the world today, and will be watching the systemic upheavals closely.

4. Present vs. Past. This dialectic compares what we find in our Live Monitoring to similar events from our spacetime mapping of Western Civilization with the GT Engine component of the website. Our focus is in the First Crusade, Reformation and World War I. The objective is to find the wave-like patterns of energy that connect the past through the present to the future.

5. Screen vs. Snow. This is the dialectic between perception of abstract and physical energy. We are proposing that, with training and practice, Outside Minds can turn writing into a 4D map of energy flows, much like the mind does with retinal images of a physical environment. So during our "soft" launch of this experiment in the first half of 2022, Percy will compare how he perceives the propaganda Screen with his perception of the snow in Colorado's backcountry.

The last two dialectics are not central to the daily monitoring of events in the petroleum game. We will include observations in our dialogue as relevant. Of course the dialectical discussions doesn't stop with this group. We compare and contrast everything we come across -- a constant feedback loop of deconstruction and synthesis that's the hallmark of the GT Engine.

The Predictive Framework

This is an experiment, and experiments require predictions. Please note that these aren't focused predictions -- like betting on a sporting event or financial market. Rather we've identified a series of probable future events that we will monitor within an "Event Cone" structure for both causes and effects. This keeps us honest: we will point out where our projections fall on the spectrum between right and wrong, and adjust our approaches and tools accordingly.

The prediction that frames everything is the looming bifurcation of the singular world trading system called "Globalization" into two zones. One contains the countries of the Anglo-American Empire and the legacy global reserve currency of the U.S. Dollar. These are the so-called "Five Eyes" of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The zone that is separating from this system is the Eurasian world island, led by Germany, Russia and China. Hanging in the balance is the Persian Gulf's natural gas flows.

The pivotal event in this bifurcation is the establishment of new reserve currency so the new trading zone can operate outside the financial hegemony of the U.S. Dollar. That's our macro "Event Cone," which could have far-reaching impacts, particularly for the domestic stability of America and Britain. The causal factors that could lead to this shift are based on a key assumption: that the new trading zone will stay withing the framework of the current post-Bretton Woods system. Based on that, the possible future events we are monitoring include:

1. Establishment of international LNG benchmark.

2. Demise of the Brent oil benchmark.

3. Establishment of U.S. Gulf Coast petroleum benchmarks

4. E-Vehicle tipping point, pegged to China's production.

5. The opening of Nordstream 2, and its impact on European trade and politics.

6. Iran's export access to natgas markets.

7. Persian Gulf petroleum pipelines to the eastern Mediterranean

8. Saudi tensions internally, and with Qatar

9. Pacific basin natgas: Canadian petroleum pipelines and Australian production

10. The demise of U.S. fracking (oil and natgas)

Meanwhile the propaganda overlaying these events is pegged to the metronomic cycle of American elections. We will be monitoring the domestic dynamics of the 2022 midterm for the soft launch of this experiment, as well as the outside-in manipulations of various actors -- notably Putin's Kremlin.