The Illusion Of Transparency

…and how we reverse engineer bad people into beneficial geniuses.

Again, life is not so simple for the parent, the business owner, and those who get involved in politics who actually give a shit about governing.  The procreative act is finished, the child’s basic nutritional needs are being met, but where do you go from there just getting them to the point of functioning in a society of other children with people who aren’t you training them?

The educators and trainers have their own set of values.  Arguably, the most effective ones can put aside egocentrism and teach without bias.  But bias is inevitable, and the resulting conflict is inevitable.  Too many people, too many competing ideas, too much compromise necessary where instead of just happiness for your share, some jackass will insist (very wrongfully) that they are being unfairly treated.

The illusion of transparency describes an individuals expectations of outsiders “getting” them.  Like relationship conflict where you are sad because you feel trivialized and your partner thinks you just had a bad day at work.  Like you want to have your birthday remembered and they didn’t get you a card because they thought, “It’s just a card or dinner or flowers.  She knows I love her so what’s the big deal”.  It is virtually impossible to know exactly what someone else is thinking all the time.  The only 100%er is you know what is going on in your brain.

And it’s not a full blown lack of empathy, it’s an unavoidable cognitive bias.  Not necessarily good or bad, it just…is.  And like the Dunning Kruger Effect it’s not just expected that you are obviously wearing your heart on your sleeve, those you interact with are obviously doing the same.  If your brain works that way, then that must be the way others brains work.  A recipe for disaster when you think the math of the poker game is solely responsible for success brings you up against  the person who is a skilled bluffer.  An illusion of transparency and giving people the benefit of the doubt.  And the problem is when that illusion is finally broken and you’re confronted with the uncomfortable reality.  You aren’t compatible with your long term romantic partner and are talking breaking up/divorce.  That promotion you were promised was given to someone else.  Are they better than you, or is it just your boss is a manipulative bastard trying to get you to work harder for the same pay?  Is trickle down economics actually going to work this time now that a failed businessman is in charge of the country, and am I a bad person suffering through my cognitive dissonance if I don’t quintuple down and give him just.  one.  more.  chance.

My source that motivates this post was titled, something about the illusion and f transparency and jumped right towards turning TRAITORS into geniuses.  A little harsh, but not entirely without merit in these times.  A key point was how like the poker bluffing expert they understand the structure of the game.  How the game is rigged against those who only start with $100 in chips playing against their stack of $10,000.  Bankruptcy means nothing to the 1% who can just find backing to start another wild venture.  The in video commentary was a clip of Elon talking about the dark times of having to choose whether to keep multiple companies going or just focus on one and “only being left with $20-$40 million”.  Well cry me a fucking river.

This is the socialization of the ultra wealthy.  The old money that has the larger stack of chips to fall back on.  The mindset that not so much they actually believe that the working class needs to just work harder and pick themselves up by their bootstraps, but that as long as that illusion is maintained - the structure of the rigged game - they can operate freely exploiting the common people.  The common people that like all recorded history has shown they really don’t give a shit about.

The obligatory gematria reference:

None of the so called experts has anything good planned for the followers.  It’s their poker game.  Their rules to be changed daily as they see fit.  Exploiting the current crop of followers, trying to maintain the illusion of transparency as long as possible.  If it wasn’t gematria, or Candace Owen’s dreams, it would be something else.  And there are a lot of other bad ideas to choose from.  The house edge is the useless Patreon subscription of the premium ad free calculator access you purchased for you reward.  That reward is another day of pretending that what your brain is saying is right.  You’re smarter than everyone (except Bill Maher who is obviously …oh who am I kidding).

You could play a fun game with the cognitive bias and gematria.  Give a presenter who hasn’t been exposed to the common conspiracy gematria narratives a list of two and three digit numbers with big lists of words that have matching gematria.  A large group of equally uninitiated in the world of gematria receives the target number from the presenter.  The presenter takes a guess at which words will be most frequently duplicated by the receivers.  The receivers are just tapping away on the calculator looking for matches.  What you’ll end up with is an idea of the topics the presenter has internalized as important.  And if the receivers answers are being recorded you’ll get what topics they think are important.  The extreme endgame of this kind of process is when the presenter continually suggests that 113 always means dishonest.  56 always means the Jesuits.  33 means 33rd degree Freemason.  This is not education or socialization.  This is conditioning, brainwashing, mental coercion.  And you’re on the path towards reverse engineering the presenter into a genius.  A genius that wants you to associate an arbitrary scapegoats and murder while you’re picking your favorite players from the Browns because you live in Cleveland.

A more innocent and actual experiment was done in 1990’s The Tapping Song Experiment.  Just like gematria sports betting, actual predictive ability is essentially not in town.

https://www.arisefromthedust.com/tap-tap-tap-surely-you-recognize-that/

Don’t read too much into my source selection.  It was one of the top hits and there’s a bunch of different choices you can read through.

The Tapper of the song knows full well what the song is.  They sing the song in their head.  And the illusion of transparency without knowledge of the actual bias way overestimates the listeners ability to recognize the tune.  Your average gematria newbie gets force fed “the tune” early on.  The tune is emotionally supercharged rage bait.  The same rage bait that dominates the discourse in the higher stakes poker table - the ones with the huge chip stacks and agendas far in excess of your tiny little sports gambling $100 chip stack.  They certainly don’t care if you think 26 means DOG to you personally.  They’re more interested that someone might convince you that ELON=62 and that’s close enough to 26.  You’re forced into a tune you didn’t want to listen to and now you can’t help but wonder - isn’t that what everyone else thinks?  Except me and my dog?

Know Your Grifter Tactics - Avoiding Stigmatization

It's all fun and games until the federal troops start shooting people<-->Candace Has A Dream (actually, a lot of them)

If you’ve entered the world of disinformation and online grifting just recently, boy did you miss out on a lot of the fun and batshit crazy stuff.  It wasn’t always talk about Nazi’s attacking marginalized groups, peaceful protesters getting murdered, and the President throwing a dart at the Big Board of Arbitrarily Selected War Crimes.  The early pipeline from angry confirmation bias based grievance to active monetization and mobilization of boots on the ground forces had moments of fun.  Like the whole evolution of gematria from grifting on sports betting to a major part of Qanon LOL fun.

The in video YouTube advertising in the Zachosphere was self contained.  You wouldn’t turn on your TV or car radio and hear about gematria because it absolutely was low quality evidence and frankly, quite stupid.  It wasn’t designed to be high quality.  The niche it filled was the social media audience.  The “real life job isn’t paying the bills, maybe I can get rich quick” audience.  The emotional reaction with no critical thinking audience.  The slick talking sophist demagogue delivering the Attaboy!^TM  and bringing to the surface the worst qualities of the worst people audience.  The monetized harassment Alex Jones audience.

Qanon commandeering gematria wasn’t inevitable.  I get the sense that sports betting gematria would have been totally fine without the political misinformation and disinformation crowd muscling in on the turf.  But once it happened, the love/hate relationship was introduced.  Pre Qanon, it was start an occasional flame war with Flat Earthers.  Now, the constant search for the most gullible had a crowd that was first introduced to gematria as a symbolic secret message.  A full blown cult tool instead of just a petty grift.  And how do you run a business of grift and attack your enemies when it boils down to the same tactics?  Cult leaders, con artists, corrupt politicians, it’s all the same.  Hit ‘em fast and hard.  Overwhelm them with the message as fast as possible before they realize what’s going on.  Nobody likes to admit they’re wrong about the tiniest little thing, and with the doctrine of No Truth = No Consequences in place what have you got to lose?

Well, maybe there is something to lose.  It just took too damn long to come about.  When the well runs dry and you keep trying for nonexistent water it’s a waste of energy.  The overabundance of gematria is finished.  And now post Charlie Kirk the right wing grift is doing their own version of fighting for their grifting pie market share.  Nick, Ben, Candace.  Maybe they or some of the others considered adding gematria, but that hasn’t happened.  But Candace has a dream.  Not that she’s judged by the content of her character instead of the color of her skin, but we’re literally to give her money because her actual dreams MEAN something.  Fuck your dreams you not Candace people.  My dreams are the best.  My dreams mean something.  And my high powered brain deciphered them, because that makes soooooooo much more sense than my high powered brain figuring it out during waking hours.

This is gematria without the words and numbers.  Its interpretation, deliberate and willful misinterpretation, of commentary with no actual evidence that the data being analyzed actually existed.  It’s a narrative that screams out to the actually functionally intellectual, “PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE ME YOUR NEW CULT IDOL!!”.  It’s intellectually lazy passing the offering plate to the assembled crowd without any effort into putting together a sermon that might at least give a little comfort to the flock.  The only thing missing is her pick to win the Super Bowl.

Again we see how it’s difficult for the online grifter these days.  Weeks ago I mentioned that now even other grifters are more likely to call out their own kind via critical thinking topics, a facet missing from online grift a decade ago.  Candace’s dreams aren’t going to help your medical bankruptcy from unaffordable health insurance.  Candace’s dreams aren’t going to stop corporate greed and your grocery bills.  Candace’s dreams aren’t going to stop your father being in the wrong restaurant and getting deported because ICE showed up and he had the wrong color skin despite no actual criminal record.  Maybe she can have a weekly call in show where people can request her to dream about specific issues.  (Which would be fun to troll).  But this presentational pivot is just weird.  The only good quality it has is avoiding the actual gematria that could have been used.  Because now that has a stigma attached to it.  Maybe the people it would work on are a little bit more likely to Google gematria and find Qanon content and not enjoy what they hear.

The gematria synchronicity crowd has some dream content.  Actually, too much.  Although it’s understandable.  That increases the spiritual and occult angle.  Dreams and their interpretation are an old internalized belief system.  These are my dreams, they MUST be important.  And since I walk around and interact with other people they and the dreams MUST have some connection.  And simultaneously they have internalized stigma.  Wait a second there, you gematria decode and/or dream.  Does this mean I’m a bad person or a good person?  Maybe I’ll ask the cult leader, surely they will figure it out.  I’ll just skip the electric bill this month for my bribe.  I’ll just roll the late fee into the requested interpretation that makes me so wealthy I won’t have to worry about electricity ever again.  For my children, too.

At the end of the day, stripped of its spiritual and mystical angle, stripped of the stigma of avoidance of other tactics that don’t work anymore, this is good old fashioned monetized harassment.  A convenient excuse to slander enemies with a prepackaged courtroom defense of “I never said that myself, my dreams said that.”  The same as not saying the Freemasons ritually sacrificed that celebrity, the gematria did it.  The voices in my head said it.  Listen to the voices in my head, and I will tell you what to think and say.  And don’t ever forget to tell other people that they are the mindless sheep, not you.

A while back I listed some YouTube channel recommendations.  The linked video is the new channel for the Dark Brandon crew mentioned in that post.  I read rumors of a hacking problem and loss of control of that channel.  But they’re back here and in good form still.  A modestly sized video length with sourced content and meaningful commentary.  Commentary that doesn’t just scream out that something is wrong, but points out the logical fallacies and factual errors that showvwhays wrong.

Behold The Zosimi

My main theme starting late last year and still ongoing is how media, especially entertainment media sneaking in naughty ideas, does show us a lot of stuff that simply doesn’t work long term.  We’ve seen this movie before.  Human nature prefers the protagonist to emerge triumphant, but there’s never a short supply of old, historical material to refer to.  What exactly drove that chap to join The Running Man game show?  Why are those adorable yet dirty street urchins stealing people’s money?  Don’t they know pickpocketing is illegal and wrong?  The wealthy at the times these events are recorded, whether totally fictional or based on actual history, don’t really enjoy the idea of being pointed at and mocked.

At times, it’s a thankless job being an actual journalist.  Objectively reporting facts WILL get you harassment.  The fictional setting is so much safer.  You can use plausible deniability to claim that you didn’t realize Lex Luthor in the new Superman movie is a stand in for Musk at this time in history.  Viewed decades later there will be another Musk like persona that can be substituted in a review.  Somewhere though, someone, actually a lot of someone’s, have crossed paths with Musk and despite the I’m rich and can do whatever exploitation I want have raised the middle finger and pointed out the many objectively things wrong with him.

Psychologically, a huge warning sign for someone dabbling in to being up to no good is the excessive and narcissistic need for attention.  And lacking the long term qualities of being admired for the right reasons, the artificial intelligence of money is the primary substitute.

Technological progress dictates some necessary changes in the journalism.  In movies there was a phase where the hillbilly serial killers picked off the sexy teens at the remote location that of course didn’t have a landline phone.  And there was always a convenient excuse for having no operational cellphone.  In real life, it’s amazing how alien abduction based on shitty anecdotal evidence stopped being so prolific when confronted with the fact finding query, “So, do you have pictures of that UFO on your cell?  Yeah, didn’t think so.”  Sure seemed like a cry for attention, you look at me whore.

Now the bad news.  Not so much a plan as normal reaction based on a lifetime of mental problems.  And normal doesn’t mean good or even innocuous, in this case means can reasonably be expected based on patterns that can be predicted.  The world is watching as the U.S. administration is dealing with a massive pushback.  And Trump’s signature move is to break useful stuff.  And this go to move is likely going to be on a speed run before the midterms.  And with that on the table it means that everyone loses in the short term, regardless of if the U.S. and the global followers get their shit together or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire

Scholarly research gives a lot of  well deserved credit to Edward Gibbons and his massive analysis of the Fall of the Roman Empire.  The gematria clowns would approve of this work.  It was centuries later and nothing helps with reporting like the luxury of being able to wait until all the facts are in.  Lions 17, Christian’s 3 final in the second to last game of the season.  The gematria clowns, as fake as fake can get regarding historical accuracy and journalism, would also hate having to do actual research instead of speed run ragebait.

So Gibbons did compile a lot of good material.  But the actual knowledge of the events was live at some point.  Spread out over a crumbling empire, bits and pieces of information written on scrolls and passed on by word of mouth.  And there was a Greek historian who got a front row seat for a part of the end of it, and his name was Zosimus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zosimus_(historian)

Oh no!  Two Wikipedia references in one post!!! Paying attention to actual historical references with a well sourced document!  Well, the monetization for this post is dead.

Yes, Zosimus did also report after the fact.  But considering the tools he had to work with it’s impressive.  It’s a lot closer to actual events than Gibbons.  And he had contact with other people who were far closer in time than Gibbons.  And now the new breed of conspiracy theorists have a new name I coined while trying to come up with something appropriate.  The fake plural of Zosimus.  The Zosimi.  And they have cell phones with cameras, knowledge of the difference between actual conspiracies vs. fake news smoke and mirrors hoax conspiracy bullshit, economic problems, and a giant chip on their shoulders.

We’ve come far since Alex Jones heyday.  Astroturfing dumbass content like crisis actors vs. what’s going on with those Epstein files.  Chemtrails making frogs gay vs. so is there really fentanyl on boats from a country that deals in cocaine instead of fentanyl.  Why aren’t there any actual photos of litter boxes in elementary school classrooms?  Explain to me again why Trump’s ballroom means something gematria related to the game winning touchdown by the Rams.  I’m intrigued and future Zosimi are going to want to know why excessive attention grabbing ragebait matters more than facts.  There are millions of them out there, and shooting people in the head getting put on video serves the breaking shit on purpose angle quite well, it doesn’t win over friends.

I’m still expecting a lot of entertainment media this year and early next year to specifically attack the core issues.  Filmmakers inspired by the middle finger South Park put up.  Or Vietnam War vet trauma upgraded to current times  Or dystopian scarcity of resources based on data center water usage for scams versus crop irrigation.  Whatever it may be there’s a lot of source material for the Zosimi.  And some of it hasn’t even happened yet.

Not The Truth Or No Consequences

Truth or Consequences was an old TV show that proves that Bob Barker was not born an old man like Morgan Freeman.  (Scholars argue over the exact age, but generally estimate that he was about 49 years old at birth.) 

Here’s the Wikipedia article:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_Consequences

And here’s the YouTube algorithm top hit for me of an old black & white episode:

https://youtu.be/YFC2xc35ezM?si=AMO6dRy2nN7sG4XM

Let’s Make A Deal comes to mind as being in the same light hearted vein.  The more outrageous the costumes, the more fun the contestant.  In ToC, it was more about the zany stunts than remotely trying to be a trivia genius.  It was centered around “ordinary” people doing crazy shit, the consequences being some teasing and putting up with gentle mockery while doing something harmless in good fun.  Which also had a modest financial reward attached.  Old school TV - put butts in front of the screen with something fun and relatable.  Deliver advertisements from established manufacturers for dish soap, cars and paper towels.  The audience is there because they’ve volunteered to be there because it’s fun.

Grammatically, Truth or Consequences is a solid “either/or” concept.  Once the Truth part is stripped from the math, the question always being answered wrong because that’s the format, a zany stunt is inevitable.  And that brings us to this moment in U.S. History.  Something that’s been baked into the non-functional legal, accounting and political systems for multiple generations.  Why should you follow rules if there are no consequences for not following rules?  Why should corporations clean up the pollution left behind if the rule only exists on paper?  Or if it only exists in the minds of those with a semblance of critical thinking skills and a functioning moral compass?

More specifically for this week, why should a federal agent be allowed to use excessive force to murder a person without due process?  Is it because the actual wording of their code of conduct is a stupid rule nobody got around to eliminating or is it maybe because there’s no expectations of consequences for their actions?

The game show analogy is solid.  There is neither actual truth nor real consequences involved in the show’s format.  And there doesn’t need to be as the show would be far less entertaining for the common person.  It’s not designed for bigger picture issues, like should it be influencing if you vote for Reagan or Mondale.  And now as the media landscape has shifted towards lopsided monetization that only the most extreme versions apply to the audience, now we’ve shifted to is it okay for ICE agents to arbitrarily murder people because there are no consequences?  Yes, that does seem to be the case.

And the arbitrary moment we’re in now didn't just suddenly appear.  Boats that may or may not be loaded with drugs getting blown up.  Rioters storming the capitol being pardoned just because they’re on the right team of extremists.  Victims of child trafficking committing suicide because any real justice, any significant consequences being issued seems remote and abnormal.  The normalization of politically motivated violence is here.  It’s no longer the fun and games of being a media influencer for some cheap thrills and a bunch of Patreon subscriptions.  Now we’re beyond, “Vote Republican if you want to keep your job.”  Now we’re officially at the stage of necessary compliance or get a bullet in the face.

Oh sure I’m biased about this.  I took the time to watch the video footage knowing it would disgust me.  The only credit I give to the pro ICE variation of the story is a tiny car bump that may have been self induced.  Easily avoidable and certainly not worth three bullets.  The entire confrontation was unnecessary and avoidable.  No trauma over affordability.  No federal troops asked to intervene and make uncoordinated and arbitrary decisions.  No violence.  The best thing that happened to me in the last 15 years was my exit from working for landlords.  How profit is going to be driven by moderating a large group of diverse people that can be arbitrarily shot any day?  Paying for security is part of the overhead and economy?  I’d never remain sane in that atmosphere of toxic office politics.  The, “Oh No My InVeStMeNtS!!” crowd smugly loves to ignore shit like this.

Before I forget, there is a gematria cheapo to throw in here.  If conspiracy gematria actually worked, this would mean something:

But they don’t want you to know that.  The quick flyby of the Zachosphere shows the old habits die hard.  The same lack of consequences for running scams by not being truthful drives all the online grifting.  The zany stunt is calling cold blooded murder a hoax, while simultaneously projecting it’s the Minnesota governors fault, the Yale Brotherhood of Death is involved and some weird shot for a two digit number match about dinosaurs.  Because, yeah sure.  That makes all kinds of fucking sense that it’s a hoax and a ritual sacrifice murder simultaneously.  It’s Not the Truth AND No Consequences by the crowd that calls themselves truth seekers.

Older Era Grifting - More Movies Today We’ve Seen Before

There’s a lot of material in history to review.  Compacting it into two gematria related pieces follows some background.  If you are genuinely interested in doing your own research instead of just saying that you’re doing your own research that’s really just confirmation bias based propaganda digestion, you can do a deep dive on your own.  The common denominator is that today is nothing new.  Wealth inequality and the subsequent destabilization has always been a problem.  Exploitation of the poor and vulnerable.  The RARE, the Rich Assholes Ruining Everything, come and go.  People admiring the RARE for the wrong reasons come and go.  But we’ve seen these bad movies play out in real life before, we just have the internet now to accelerate the phase we’re going through that spreads bad information oh so much quicker.

The Tudor Era

Famous for a Mandela Effect Henry VIII eating a turkey leg and actual extreme divorces of two wives Henry had decapitated.  Rapid population growth, rising inflation, currency devaluation, wealthy merchants and landowners and poverty aplenty for the not wealthy landowners.  Summed up pretty well by Sir Francis Bacon of the now renamed Francis Bacon gematria cipher:

“Usury is the certaintest means of gain, though one of the worst.”

Which means find a way of sitting on passive income and milking it forever.  Mostly through labor exploitation of those not owning land or running a business of dubious long term moral value.  Low level grifters took the Eddie Murphy from Trading Places route of faking disability and injury to beg.  Highwaymen staged accidents so well meaning passers by would stop and get robbed.  And log in this one for later - gambling debts were sky high.  The destitute loved themselves some of the gambling.  Court intrigue was sexy and Ocean’s Eleven with low tech style fun and games and intrigue where the Trump Administration of the era maneuvered around for big stakes pieces of land and other rich people shit.

The Victorian Era

Yes, think of your classic Dickens novels.  Street urchins pickpocketing.  Also going on were quack medicine scams RFK Jr. would be proud of, pawnbroker scams and imprisonment of the impoverished.  My favorite for today is the hot bed of fortune telling scams that flourished.

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Today I learned there’s an old Italian gambling game called Primero, considered by some to be the immediate precursor of poker.  And wherever there’s a card game that’s more luck than skill you’re going to get cheaters alongside the gambling addiction.  Since one of the main purposes of sports betting gematria is normalizing the risk of gambling I wondered, why have I not seen a Primero cipher?  Perhaps in a different multiverse’s Earth there is one.  It could simply be added to the calculator alongside the current ciphers.  The thing about Primero is that it’s played with a 40 card deck.  There are no 7’s, 8’s, or 9’s.  G=10 instead of 7.  H=11.  I=12.  And without those three digits skip 17,18, and 19 and jump right to 20.  And of course you have to have a Reverse Primero cipher, mostly because it sounds like a new variation of Uno.  It would be just another cipher to ignore the results of if you don’t like the number, or tout it as magical if you do like the number.

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Victorian Era seances, now those guys were cool.  All the wires and the actors and ventriloquists.  Glowing shit and ghostly voices.  The stage magic tricks that got Houdini fired up to debunk these fraudsters.  Another facet of gematria not emphasized so much now is the occult angle.  Mostly because it emphasizes how low effort, lazy, and mass marketed the gematria grifters are.  There’s no complexity to do a long con present.  No set up and need for precision execution.  Just throw out a tremendous volume of nonsense out on the internet and wait to see who bites.  Despite all the years of failure, these clowns still pretend they are fortune tellers.  It doesn’t matter if it’s actual gambling or decoding bad news and synchronicity, the game or event is over before the fortune is read.  If gematria actually worked, somebody would have put out a decode at least several days ago indicating, “You know, I think Trump is crazy enough to actually bomb Venezuela on January 3rd.  Here’s my decode.”  We’ll probably have to wait until today’s football games are finished to find out exactly why the Jesuits tiled it out the way they did.  Because of course it has nothing to do with oil or distraction from the Epstein files.

Parenting Is Tough - A Story of Two 1950’s Movies

The first part of parenting is tough.  Finding that special someone that sets your heart into a state of tremulous excitement that you can be compatible with long term.  Whether you want to admit it or not, evolution is a thing and there’s an advantage to being sexy as far as reproducing genes.  Did you make it past the one night stand phase and want to hang with that person…forever?

Then there’s the actual genetic product.  Did you really want the kid, and are you going to try your best to make it work?  The “it” is parenting, you moron.  Putting it to work doesn’t mean child labor law loopholes.  Because like there was/is a gematria to political (usually right wing) pipeline there’s a lying to your kid pipeline.  When is it time to give up on the Santa Claus/Easter Bunny/Tooth Fairy sugar injection complex of stories.  When is it ok to let them watch PG-13 movies that have been getting more and more adult for decades?

Cell phone ban legislation is a thing now.  The internet is in a big tizzy talking about naughty things little kids shouldn’t be listening to.  It’s not been a good era to get your kid a phone early and trust them, unguided, to pick out what makes sense and what doesn’t make sense on their own.  That’s the power of disinformation on the internet.  And like before there were movies, we’ve seen this real life movie before.  Post WWII, adult oriented movies were not fun for kids.  They were dark explorations of violent conflict and exploitation of indigenous populations by colonialism and scary stuff on a wide spectrum of how subtle vs. how in your face it was with the point.  As I’ve stated before.  I learned more about life from movies on my own than I did from school.  By mental osmosis, I also absorbed the love/hate relationship of politicians with Hollywood.  Santa (consumerism) in real life = good.  Bad ideas, despite a constitution written otherwise, about secular vs. religion concepts, nationalism, and history = bad.  Which means Education = really, really bad.

Gematria and other online grifting became a tool to park butts in the Internet equivalent of a movie theater.  Come for the bible decoding and sports betting.  Hang around and get exposed to the occasional good idea, but mostly a collection of pathetic, life sucking bad ideas.  The proverbial rabbit hole, switching from a TV remote to an algorithm that was pretending to read your mind on what you thought was educating you, along side a steady diet of advertisements that…sucked.  Blitzploitation,  grab the money and run before the word gets spread that the con has been exposed.

Now, on to the two movies for today.  A companion piece to the recent post about what to expect from upcoming movies reflecting the social and economic issues of today.  Two timeless classics because the core issues are ever present.  And a further reminder that we’ve actually seen these movie concepts play out in real life ages ago.

Godzilla (1954)

Yes, it’s about a gigantic lizard destroying cities.  Yes, it’s absolutely 100% specifically about that lizard being nuclear weapon supercharged.  It’s 100% about the devastation unleashed on innocent civilians by an outside force beyond the control of ordinary people.  But hidden within the celluloid, the questions about rapid unchecked technological progress.  It’s not just about the horrors of nuclear weapons in the wrong hands, but what exactly happens next?  The “mad scientist” who creates the device to destroy Godzilla may also be creating a solution that ends up being a worse problem than the original dinosaur.

This is not a fun movie at all.  It’s dark, foreboding and not to subtle with the nuking civilians is not good message.  The immediate follow up was worse.  But like Dr. Who stumbled into a plot device to keep the franchise rolling with a different lead actor, Japanese filmmakers had a hit idea.  Anybody could put on a rubber suit, and it didn’t have to be Godzilla.  Make new monsters and other movies across the social issue spectrum.  After the first two they got really, really silly.  Not much of a gradient either.  Toho Studios went straight to the profit = good angle.  Big monster knocks down buildings, shit blows up, there’s always an annoying kid in the middle of what’s going on.  Put butts in the seats and throw some special effects around at let the people touch some grass.  And along the way, still throw in some pretty obvious social takes like Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster.  Godzilla, definitely the hero by this point and more a mascot than a star vs. pollution and industrial deregulation.

And then there came Godzilla Minus One.  The longest running franchise in movie history thanks in large to not relying in aging actors for recognition value returned to dark, scary don’t let young kids watch this material.  The post WWII Japanese people don’t just have the evil Americans who nuked them to worry about.  They have the downtrodden masses realizing their own country let them down and there’s a big radioactive lizard.  And the sequel is set for a rematch vs. the Smog Monster, because there’s this real thing called climate change going on the makers want to talk about.  I genuinely can’t wait.

12 Angry Men (1957)

Another one made before I was even born, although there was a solid remake made later.  A young man is tried for murder and 12 angry men decide if he’s guilty and to be executed or innocent.  And things immediately don’t go well for him because he’s obviously guilty of

His skin being the wrong color.

The courtroom drama unfolds slowly around a single human strength and flaw.  Confirmation bias, a topic I like to think I know something about.  Henry Fonda gets the ball rolling on getting 12 pissed off man to settle in to intellectual discussion about it because it’s kind of important.  Each of the other eleven has a different problem, a different degree of difficulty to win them over.  And some of their reasons for the eleven are really, really stupid.  Like one that just wants the trial to be over with and go use his tickets to the baseball game.

There’s not much focus on the specifics of this defendant so we can concentrate on the broader racism issue.  It’s like pulling teeth to get these 11 guilty voters to change their minds.  One never really does change his core values, but just throws in the towel.  And if you think parenting is hard, try pretending your transnational crime spree masquerading as a government can get hundreds of millions of people on board with your unilaterally conceived bad ideas.  Yes, I’m pointing a scolding finger at Trump again.  Just like Thanos jumping to genocide in Marvel movies, a real life person has decided we need to accept without hesitation that he’s right about EVERYTHING, when it’s not even close to truth.  Censorship of the old school media is here.  Censorship of YouTube videos (demonetizing talking about the Epstein files) is here.  The legal system has mostly left the building.  The accounting system has mostly left the building.  The economy has mostly left the building.  And there’s still millions that have the confirmation bias block in place that Trump can do no wrong.  Don’t you think some adults in the room, even if it’s just 12 angry men, might be a better starting point than a mentally unwell criminal?

If Sports Betting Gematria Really Worked…

Then private equity would have invested in it and bankrupted it by now.

People would be naming their pets based on popular gematria related lingo.

The official Trump brand gematria calculator would have been a part of his political campaigns.

We would have had at least two gematria bubble build ups and crashes between 2015 and now.

All the standard results would need to be adjusted by +22 for inflation.

There wouldn’t be “influencers” screaming about culture war topics to get engagement.

And somebody would have figured it out long before the 21st century.

Gematria - Being Wrong On Purpose

The second half of 2025 ended with a flurry of left wing podcasters, left leaning media (e.g. MSN), and left leaning YouTubers all mercilessly attacking.  A sort of catch up or using the same tactics that got right wing influencers involved in the push to what we have governing the U.S. now.  As with all online grifting via conspiracy content the personalities are a mix.  Some blatantly use fake and low quality evidence.  Some are middle of the road in their presentation, just embellishing what the core message.  Some do a good job of stating their point, citing sources, admitting what’s opinion, and all the good signs of decent journalism.  And decent journalism and gematria are contradictory.  By design, as conspiracy theory light, conspiracy gematria is (was) designed to be wrong.  It’s designed to be provocative, outrageous, and a “debate me” bait on the hook.  A distraction from the core issues and never getting close to a practical solution.  People arguing about pandemics and climate change being hoaxes often don’t bother with the intellectual ladder of economic impact.

After my usual large amount of sifting through what all types of people are saying there is a topic that stands out.  The low level opportunistic grifter, the middle of the pyramid scheme influencer with a podcast, and people actually in or pretending to be in government.  And that’s AI.  The low level grifters have pretty much checked out of the conversation.  The gematria decodes of AI being a hoax are missing.  It’s odd since school shootings were a hoax.  Covid was a hoax.  Scientific achievements were a hoax.  Election results were a hoax.  Climate change was a hoax.  And it’s not just gematria, the Weird Shit in the Sky crowd has also gone crickety.

And I have a theory.  Part based on some commentary by others and part my own brain.  As with gematria simultaneously always being right via a forced narrative and simultaneously always being wrong by an easily produced counter narrative AI is a no win scenario.  If AI and all the investment succeeds, jobs are gone.  If AI doesn’t succeed, resources diverted from other areas being invested in infrastructure is gone.  A perfect topic for both pro AI and anti AI sides to go all out on misinformation and disinformation on.  Especially since we know already that AI slop and other fakery is the only AI usage being applied right now.  Using AI for fake news about AI is both genius and terrifying.

Another more detailed way to explain that.  If we stopped arguing about whether the Earth is flat and accepted the moon landing, there’s less distrust and misdirected hatred towards the science community.  If Covid was recognized as our modern version of the Spanish flu or Black Plague, it would have been handled better with less death and economic upheaval.  If school shootings were taken seriously the U.S. gun laws might be a little more in line with the rest of the world.  If it was accepted that the 2020 election was not stolen we wouldn’t be in the mindset of dealing with constant question pardons and releasing repeat offenders to both blue collar and white collar crime.  While a fully functional beneficial AI gets you no need for a workforce of office drones supporting services, no need for medical research by qualified doctors.  No need for innovation and education to humans at all.  And that AI better figure out fusion power and the climate crisis pretty darn quick.  The other side, that’s the dark side we’re already seeing among the pessimists is the investment bubbles, rug pull scams and deep fake videos.  Like photoshop, gematria calculators, and social media algorithms, all the new tech like AI gets monetized for theft long before benefits are realized.

For a social animal like humans there’s nothing quite like engagement with other people who don’t want to sit next to you and immediately want to murder you because you aren’t a clone of themselves.  And all this makes me promote my big prediction for 2026.  How we live to tell stories and update them to modern times.  How we have already seen the movie before, but it’s not Tudor Era force the masses into poverty for mass control anymore.  2026 will maybe not see the release of a new wave of movies, but they’ll at least go in to production now for release soon.  A new wave of tech and AI films that instead of just popcorn and big blockbuster content will get back to the old school technology run amok.  There might just be a Logan’s Run remake on the way.  Or Red Desert or Fahrenheit 451.  And maybe a new dystopian wasteland hero.  An updated Mad Max instead of just stealing the idea for a reboot.  More Road Warrior than Indiana Jones.  Or more directly about the tech itself like Forbidden Planet, Screamers, Wargames, Westworld.  You can even go lighthearted and get Ally Sheedy a cameo in a Short Circuit remake as a maternal character instead of the perky younger lead.  Fitting in nicely with a similar character in the Wargames reboot.

And what if these ideas are the last time to make these by humans before AI starts writing its own stories about AI?

Well before all that might come to be, I’m putting myself out there as being the top advisor for gematria content.  A paid position of course.  I know the lingo, I know the process.  I like money more than I like being right, at least if there’s enough zeroes about, so injustice might sell my soul after all.  Or if things go really, really well AI will scrape this content and realize that people are such assholes that we are totally hopeless.  We’d collectively rather being wrong all the time just for a little attention.