https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Predictive_programming
The concept of predictive programming as espoused by the conspiracy theorist is to note, emphasize and eventually completely blow out of proportion past events.
No, wait. It’s according to them proof that the evil powers that be laid a trail of clues to indicate what they were up to all along. It’s just in practice that it breaks down to retroactively fitting past events into a current conspiracy. As with gematria, predictive programming in practice does a decent job of tying together a narrative after the fact. Perfect in hindsight when even the flimsiest excuse for evidence counts as a point. Like gematria a complex arrangement of events like The Dark Knight Rises can be sliced into tiny pieces. Emphasize the “hits” (or even the single hit as often is the case) and ignore the multitude of misses. It’s the transmitted electronic data variant of a gematria decode. Because also like gematria, it does diddly squat for actually predicting. In case you haven’t been able to follow along, the word prediction has a pretty well known definition. And predictive programming talk about past events is one of those contradictions the gullible who are exposed to conspiracy theory don’t get right away.
The gentler, kinder version of predictive programming is the fan theory. That’s when a loyal fan of a popular franchise tries to guess what is about to happen in the upcoming installment of their favorite movie series. For this to work, there is an actual conspiracy of sorts involved. The studios, wanting maximum number of butts in the seats, doesn’t want plot details to be spilled over the internet. The two main requirements for this are secrecy are:
1) Incentives to the cast to keep it a secret as they know what is about to happen in the final product.
2) More properly labeled as 1a), don’t cast Tom Holland
These often turn into bizarre and outrageous expectations as occasionally some of them defy the logic of why they should become widespread. The same way that baseless conspiracies operate as weirder = better, a bizarre fan theory gets more attention than predicting that Thanos will be defeated at the end, because of course he does.
And like a good conspiracy theory multiple fan theories arise about the same upcoming source material. These inevitably like conspiracy theories end up not being compatible with each other. The gematria user heavily invested into synchronicity topics doesn’t get this. Every detail of their life prior to the subject they yammer about today is predictive programming. The same way gematria “proves” that something is evil today also “proves” that every past, current or future event is evil. You just haven’t been told by your cult leader what event earlier today or yesterday was evil to give you focus.
Anytime an influencer talks up predictive programming issues it’s ALWAYS about past events and don’t involve actually predicting anything other than the occasional time where a couple of pieces of shit stick to the wall instead of just one. From a logical standpoint, predictive programming is an instant loss in a debate. A meaningful predictive format would be something like this:
For the season finale I predict that Yellowstone will have a larger than average wolf attack a group of native to Madagascar tourists after it’s found that the tranquilizer dart had saline in it instead of sedative. Talks to create another season will overcome the current narrative that the series is finished and the wolf will be a key part of the opening story line for the early part of the next season.
Too many moving parts. A ridiculous narrative with zero percent chance of happening, just for one short paragraph of a couple sentences. A bizarre fan theory (or maybe they’re not really a fan and just hate Madagascar tourists). The conspiracy theorist waits until the last show. Sees a two second clip of a wolf and starts doing gematria of bear things. Then ties any drug references from earlier shows, not necessarily even Yellowstone, so they can get a Cocaine Wolf idea out there. And maybe a decade from now it becomes predictive programming for Cocaine Bear 2 - The Wolf.
When the conspiracy theorist delves into actual predictions, if it’s not around a 50-50 proposition like a sports game with the point spread or who the next president will be fails to deliver on the predictive goods. Too much detail only gets attention, not actually being right. The simplest way to overcome that is how the leaders get you to focus on a single point - YOU are the star of the narrative. If you haven’t had enough life experiences to build up enough reference points, or lack the mental acuity to recognize that the world does not indeed revolve around you, they’re one prediction has come true. You are a target for the scam. Everything that happens now is a reference point for the future. That’s the way time as we understand it works. Everything in the past in media is built off something that happened before. You can call it predictive programming or just admit that hardly anything is original and innovative in dwelling in overwhelming negativity.
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