One of the peculiar psychological aspects of gematria, and an exceedingly damaging one at that, is the mentality of it being perfectly fine to be wrong. The marketing plan, whether openly admitted or not, is that this secret knowledge will allow you to make predictions. It doesn’t matter if the it’s OK to be wrong mentality existed before involvement in gematria, or if the cult clique leader of choice egged you on into the belief-helping the tiny sprout of wrongness blossom into a tree of joining the being wrong about everything forest.
It’s severely downplayed now, you really don’t need dozens of different ciphers to “decode” a news story. Anyone with a tiny bit of talent can operate with just the original four. But thanks to the Gematrinator the life of the letter and word confirmation bias rules my life groupie it’s way too easy to disregard multiple times being wrong analyzing a single word.
Mathematically and statistically, one is wrong more often than right, even with just the base four ciphers. For example, the word WRONG = 77, 32, 58, 22. If you are searching for 58, (because we all know what that means, it’s evil!), you are already wrong three times. But that’s OK. You can also play around with prime numbers, transposition, being a hypocrite about whether you drop zeroes or not, even make up your own cipher. Just to help with that temporary rush of endorphins that one time where you find three distinct words or phrases that matched the magic number of the day.
In the current highly polarized political climate this is a dangerous mindset. The extreme views on both sides don’t work. (E.g. the right wants unbridled capitalism with the rich not getting taxed, the left wants everyone to get free money without working for it.). A true long term economic solution almost certainly exists somewhere in the middle. And our system of checks and balances has morphed into pitfalls and roadblocks. The extremists on both sides constantly keep their base whipped up into the other side is ALWAYS wrong, our side is ALWAYS right.
And that’s why we have both Qanon and “Blueanon”. Qanon is easier as they directly embraced use of gematria. Social media was assaulted by grifters all attempting to sway the confirmation bias commoner into accepting that their particular version of alternate reality is the correct one to separate you from your hard earned money and waste your valuable time. Blueanon seems to be a reaction where it has got a lot of “well, their wrong about these nutty ideas, so my nutty idea seems a lot more believable”.
This isn’t a football game where both sides shake hands and come back next year and try again. This is a “well, they obviously cheated, so I need to lash out and fix this retroactively.” Taking the L is not an option.
A good part of the reason for this post is the Blueanon reaction to Qanon and how it’s becoming more common. There is a distinct uptick in content suggesting that since they are liars, it’s ok for me to lie. I don’t care who the enemy quarterback is, a lie is a lie. You don’t have to be George Santos obvious - there’s always some kind of negative dirt hiding in your background. This is why attack ads are far more popular in political campaigns. And why I’m deeply regretting mention red pandas.
Politically, common people who would be much better off ignoring parties and concentrating on content refuse to take the L (can you say January 6th?). Yep. It’s pretty much always been that way. We’re just more exposed to it now with the good ole internet being a ready platform for grifters adding to the confusion. And now people with no business being involved in political debates are constitutional experts, because the Internet told them so. The other side is obviously wrong.
Newsflash. Both sides are wrong.
And it’s not OK to be wrong.
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