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.

New Year’s Resolutions 2026 - Time To Quit Gambling ?

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And it’s always up to you, the gambler, to ultimately be the one who decides how much, how far, and how costly your fun little hobby goes.  A little peep about addiction problems is all you’re going to get as the regulated CYA statement from the sports books.

Ah yes, gematria sports betting.  The hypocritical suggestion that the elites are controlling you including you being fed bread and watching circuses while actively promoting the number one circus.  Like people love telling stories, the more outlandish the better, people love their gambling circuses.  And why not combine the outrageous stories within gambling?

I could go crazy with the speculation on expensive and dubious government activity that could be money laundering schemes.  Things like battleships destined to be big, slow moving target practice.  Gilded ballrooms some are saying may be a lid for a big underground data center.  State controlled cryptocurrency, which is <sarcasm font>totally safe because crypto has never been used as a scam.</sarcasm font>.  But let’s just stick to what we do actually know combined with some inferences about the psychology of gambling and baseless conspiracies.  The psychology is speculation and opinion  enough without delving into the astronomical scammy activity with what’s what and who’s who and why’s why.

Both conspiracy theory based scams and gambling rely on a person who develops into a risk taking personality.  Someone who believes they are never wrong about anything.  Someone who looks in the mirror after a loss and will double down and go harder and riskier the next time to make up for the previous loss.  Instead of taking the L and walking away you never, ever admit publicly that you’re ever wrong even about the tiniest little thing.  And without the tiniest thing being your fault, you’re certainly not going to admit the bigger stuff.  Like being romance scammed out of half your life savings or voting and continually supporting an objectively terrible president.

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

That is not speculative.  If the ranking is going to improve and history changes, a lot of things need to change to change.  So basically it ain’t gonna happen.  Live with it.

The road to addiction is a gradient.  You don’t start off with a billion dollars and jump right into betting $50 million a night not caring much about the outcome from day one.  The addictive personality for the common person takes steps.  First it’s the office March Madness pool.  The occasional lottery ticket.  A Super Bowl party with friendly wagers.  Given enough funding you turn to extra money being invested in equities and bonds.  Riskier things where the return is potentially bigger and you start caring about tax rates, and bubbles with their associated crashes.

In practice, a lot of lottery activity ends being an additional tax on people that don’t understand math.  At face value, the income generated from state run lotteries goes to useful programs.  But with only a handful of people winning a life altering amount and the poorer being the losers that fund the winners - they either need to catch up by working harder.  Or doubling down and blaming anyone but themselves for getting carried away.

Well there’s a new tax on the books for 2026.  A new tax on the common person.  Without cheating on your taxes <sarcasm font>which nobody ever does</sarcasm font> your full gambling losses, all 100%, could be deducted from gambling wins.  Now that’s going to be 90%.

I see two possible main scenarios from this.  And neither looks good for the average paycheck to paycheck American citizen.

Scenario 1 - The additional tax stands

If we refuse to tax the rich to make up deficits, the revenue has got to come from somewhere.  And with everything being gamblified including social issues why not throw a tax in on that?  Especially when the average person is bound to lose anyway, just because of the math.  At -110 odds on a football bet the house edge for the sports book is about 4.5%.  

30 billion per year legally bet on football alone in the U.S.   Divide by two for only half winning.  Adjust for the sports book odds.   Adjust for the new 90% rule.  Average U.S. effective tax rate 14.5% in 2022

$30,000,000,000/2 x 95.5% x .10 x .145 =$207,712.50

Scenario 2 -The tax is eliminated before 2027 sees filing of 2026 returns.

Which means that it’s basically the same.  An additional 200k is not going to make the U.S. government magically fiscally solvent.  Neither will adding up all the other sports betting legally wagered.  The final tally was lower than even I expected, I was thinking it would be.  The cost of the additional bureaucracy, administration and enforcement isn’t even added in. The unreported fun loving circuses gambling income isn’t included.  If the estimated half a trillion for yearly U.S. gambling is used that’s still only x 16.67

So I now I admit I lied and I have to speculate.  With the way people love their gambling.and complaining this looks like a perfect thing for getting lesser minds fired up.  In addition to nonexistent government seizure of guns and nonexistent censorship it’s a total nonissue.  I did an AI overview query and my math is solidly in the same ballpark.  Superficially way off, but the result of $1.1 billion over 10 years?  Pennies.  Just the perfect nonissue for both sides to use as a cultural talking point.  Another political wedge with no real impact on the economy.  Another waste of time instead of addressing the psychological damage and lack of education over multiple generations.  Let’s make an official prediction that I’m claiming this will be mentioned on FOX News multiple times next year.

On an amusing side note, my fake gambling addiction phone number is something I had to test out.  Although it wasn’t a sports betting number, it was a sex line.

Before They Live There Was Soylent Green

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They Live was always the go to conspiracy theorist movie.  Not only was it widely misinterpreted by the influencers of its era, it was just simply a helluva lot of fun.  The misinterpreted commentary may seem extremely relevant to the world now, a review of the elite, rich and powerful doing whatever they want.  They, the aliens, seem like a good stand in for the elite class.  And it’s up to the downtrodden lead by Roddy Piper in the perfect casting job to end it.  But it’s actually about rampant, unchecked consumerism and unsustainable economics.  I’ll leave you to Google it and find out the details if you’re interested.

Stepping back in to memory lane, I cut my teeth on monster movies that although not forbidden to me, let’s just say it was discouraged.  Although color TV existed early in my youth a lot of the content was still black and white.  Between that and regular church attendance I could out that humans love to tell stories.  Culturally, if your society doesn’t have a back story rooted in fiction you don’t have a society.  Then the problem becomes what happens when governments try to create stories that are fictitious, but insist that they are truth.  A lot of people would prefer to ignore the nuttier government stories and just enjoy touching some grass and escaping to books, TV and the movie theater.  Permissible stories because of the love/hate relationship between film industries and books vs. actual censorship by government.  The culture of entertainment media consumption combined with the spending of money and driving the economy.  And although some of the censorship is direct government involvement, the more fun variation is some moral outrage.  Oh no!  Another movie from those commies in Hollywood about witches!  Save the children from the demons and witches!

Soylent Green was not censored.  That deal was sealed by the presence of future NRA darling Charlton Heston being cast in the lead role.  Heston was solid as an actor and sexy.  Something necessary to put butts in theater seats long before Blockbuster Video and later streaming services.  And if you wanted someone who wasn’t busy making biblical related films like Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments to play lead in a social commentary sci fi film, Heston was at the top of the list.  The Omega Man, Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green.  Based on thoughtful novels and converted the naughty material to palatable screen time that lesser minds could easily misinterpret as action movies.  Perfect material to advise against younger viewers watching.  Wait until you grow up a little more.

Soylent Green the movie is different from the book.  The movie idea of people basically turning to cannibalism to eat is missing from the novel.  A fun, well done surprise reveal that remains iconic as it should.  The novel focuses on the topics of resource scarcity, government and corporate control (or lack thereof) societal dystopia.  Themes still in the movie, although to sanitize it and make it more audience friendly by turning it into a detective story action thriller.  Themes from a movie made over 50 years ago.  That’s enough for two solid generations to grow up and be raised.  Themes that are not outdated but still relevant now, maybe more relevant.  A movie like the book that’s literally set in 2022.  A book written in 1966 as a thought provoking cautionary tale that shows we really haven’t made much progress.  We’ve seen this movie before, and it does not end well.

As related countless times here, the modern conspiracy theorist, the type relying on fake evidence like gematria, they didn’t say much about Soylent Green.  They Live was newer and fresher.  Better practical and visual effects.  Sexier.   Heston was too old for a believable lead role.  Better suited for outrage porn to modern generations, then heaven forbid actually do some real research and dig into societal problems that existed for forever.  Resource scarcity, overpopulation, pollution, global warming are real things.  It doesn’t matter if the movie is about the Ten Commandments or people eating crackers made from ground up other human beings.  The scientific reality still exists.

Those dear old black and white movies, even like Frankenstein and how freaking old that book is.  A cautionary tale of rapid technological progress vs. scared societal reaction.  You don’t need to reach a point where the villagers are actually getting out the pitchforks and torches to rid themselves of the scapegoated monster.  Just the thought that this is what is on people’s minds is terrifying enough.  The breaking out the pitchforks level is a whole new level of crazy and disruptive society members you really don’t want to reach.  Where we’re at now is plenty disruptive enough, thank you very much.  And an education with something like gematria, beyond telling some comforting biblical gematria stories, an education focusing on scamming, greed and taking resources away from others really doesn’t help.  It would be nice to have some adults in the room to intelligently talk about the squandering of fossil fuels, water and mineral resources on things like cryptocurrency and data centers at a time like this.

The Origin of the Gematria Class of Battleships

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Zach, ever the master of shameless self promotion, has rolled out a semi-regular recap of why the secret knowledge that’s never won anybody (including himself) a fortune is the most important thing ever.  His wealth is from the subscriptions to the Patreon, and we suspect a lot of those are old and never cancelled even though long ago forgotten.

At least now the news channel and the sports channel are better segregated on YouTube.  The sports channel is all sports, including the weirdly doubling up of titles that have an equalish amount of views.  But, if you want current events you hop on to the Number Games channel to get more sports content and you get some current events rage bait.  Just what we need.  Another take on the Reiner murders, California floods, Candace Owens vs. Erika Kirk, and the Brown shooting.  Just to let you know that engagement above meaningful content is what’s still happening in the 2020’s.

Within the importance of the gematria knowledge we get some superficial commentary on lifestyle changes you can do to save money.  Don’t eat overpriced junk food and cook your meals at home.  Drink your coffee black, because sugary stuff is bad.  And the government and sports leagues are persecuting him.  Which is definitely not true, because what’s really going on is the problems of generations of improper education have come home to roost in full force now.  Bad information as cover for the current regime incompetence is now a decade old and is just a symptom of the cronyism sycophantic incompetents that are center stage.  And that includes RFK Jr. and his lack of health knowledge not being called out by the rage bait promoting fake intellectuals who drink their coffee black.  And Linda McMahon who doesn’t care about if you know that the idea of spending a lot of taxpayer money on the outdated idea of a new class of battleships is, being as generous as I’m willing to be, a really fucking stupid idea.

Binkov on battleships 

There still is real quality information on YouTube.  If your research technique is to jump into a gematria video first, if that’s what makes you feel the best, your closed mindedness is preventing you from a chance for real education.  There’s no magical solution presented by Binkov.  And maybe you shouldn’t listen to a military garbed Kermit the Frog knock off that looks hungover.  Not because he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, but Peter Jackson did the drugged out puppet look better in Meet the Feebles.

Some of my battleship knowledge is from unrevised to appease a dictator actual history in documentaries, factionalized war movies and totally fictional action movies hiding naughty ideas in plain sight (like Starship Troopers being about fascism where sometimes boots on the ground are necessary instead of just a big battle cruiser bombing from space).  But more of it was from old wargames.  Moving cardboard counters around to simulate combat between foot soldiers, aircraft, and of course naval vessels.  And within that preexisting knowledge base, I have the luxury of knowing that the battleship class of ships was obsolete before WWII was over.  Before and during WW1 they reigned supreme.  Big gun from far away made of steel protecting the tender meat puppets inside from people that couldn’t effectively shoot back.  But the trade off for a big piece of steel with giant guns is a sitting duck in the face of aircraft with bombs and hidden submarines with torpedos.

The shift to aircraft in WWII was so complete that the Japanese navy redesigned what was supposed to be a third super battleship, the Shinano into an aircraft carrier.  Both of the first two, the Yamato and Musashi, the pride of the Japanese battleships, were pummeled into sea bottom scrap metal by air attacks.  As for the Shinano, yeah she lasted about a month after being launched from the dockyards.  A single U.S. sub torpedo.  All in all, the big ponderous heavy gunned battleship idea died with these as well as the deaths of Germany’s Bismarck and Tirpitz.  At least Bismarck was an old fashioned big ship vs. big ship fight instead of the indignity of tiny little planes dropping bombs from above.

The basic concepts of what I put in that last paragraph are part of my education.  Sure, I had to look up some details to be sure I wasn’t putting out bad info.  But the core details are part of my brain.  A brain not addled by a lifetime of NPD and excessive need for adoration.  Or excessive wealth.  Because although not sure what the reason is we know some things that don’t work.  It doesn’t matter if it’s attention grabbing to stay relevant or an immediate need to be an optically strong military to justify further bombing of tiny boats, or a genuine long term attempt at nuclear capable intimidation.  Like Binkov recaps the Trump battleship plan is flawed and a waste of time and money.  Even if the design gets nailed down.  Due to generations of poor education we don’t have the qualified ship building capacity to manufacture the big, ineffective targets to be.  Or staff them with quality personnel.  And that’s a lesson we also learned from history as Japan ran out of decent pilots.  A loss that turned a solid crew of pilots at the beginning of the war into shoddily trained target practice and only good enough for suicide mission kamikaze runs at the end.

There is some quality information in Zach’s “importance of gematria” video.  Like battleships, conspiracy gematria is obsolete.  It was born obsolete, stolen from old material the scammers of yesteryear used.  Preying on the same lack of education the misinformation, disinformation and propaganda crowd uses.  The same bad information corporate greed uses to cause the same problems he brings up with junk food, overpriced meals, and sugary coffee without being up the actual sources of our misery that we should be investigating.  Gematria videos are a great basic education in how to identify bad information.  Look at the source material.  As soon as Gematria is brought up without the appropriate, “what the fuck did I just read?” reaction somebody has a problem.  You’d be better off educationally by touching grass for entertainment by remembering that G4 isn’t gematria coding, it’s just an old game.

The Gematria Class of battleships.  Not a type of ship, but a classroom lesson in recognizing bad information.

Hypocrisy And Math Don’t Mix

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A lesson in how to translate a gematria narrative.  And the beauty of this is it is a recent example instead of on old cover up that requires looking at old material.  Here’s your source material.

277+22=298

Dutifully and annoyingly, Hubbard provides football bets to his loyal audience.  And with as long as his show has been playing at the Gematria Comedy Theatre, just based on the large quantity of material produced, the lack of editorial review and bad luck - shit happens.

A relatively simple and basic math error.  A tiny burp in the Matrix that should be no big deal to even the most vicious critic.  Until he Streisand Effect’s his way into making it a big deal.  What could have been better off being ignored and moving on, well that’s gone.  A simple, “Ok, I was wrong about that one” would have gone a long way to provide a cover up was met with the hypocrite’s defense.  The double down and providing more bad information on top of the original bad information.  “ESPN was wrong.  Or ESPN changed it.” is what you’re hearing.  The properly translation of that gematria narrative is:

I’m a hypocrite that just wants your money and I’ll say anything to further the illusion of my fake intellectual infallibility.

Now let’s make some assumptions for argument’s sake.  Let’s say that conspiracy gematria has real value and that Zach is genuinely looking out for the best interests of his followers.  Help them win some money.  Let’s ignore all the speculative sidebars of how everything is a gamblification scam and the violent and racist content doesn’t matter.  Somebody, a person who claims to be an accounting graduate and school teacher would know that 277+22=299, not 298.  And when confronted by a journalist with the simple mistake, the correct response is something like, “Oh yeah, I messed that one up.  Sorry about that.”  Not finger pointing and scapegoating and throwing the blame on ESPN.

In the bigger picture, this is the way that influencers who are just bad actors, grifters ranging from pool hustlers to corrupt politicians, cult leaders, and your dog looking at you with sad eyes all act.  I’m invincible.  I’m going to do whatever I want because….reasons.  I’m smarter than everyone else.  Well.  Math^TM would like a word.  And Math^TM  is the bad gematria math where antonyms have the same value and it’s easy to find a counter narrative using the same numbers.  Real Math without the trademark, the scorecard of another losing season in the works isn’t terribly happy either.

Another funny thing about the word accountant, as in allegedly being an accountant, is that it’s etymology is  used in another word, ACCOUNTABILITY.  Which these days is being used most often as the end of the phrase, “lack of accountability”.  Your friend, coworker, and relative stuck in confirmation bias based thinking may not be ready to dive headfirst into the finer points of what alleged leaders are saying.  It may be too soon to jump right into why the Epstein files release last week being basically completely redacted.  It may be too soon to go beast mode on why it’s not great that the bombing of tiny and defenseless boats is not being held accountable and you’re missing that you accept it because you’re on MY TEAM.  It’s certainly not cool to go hardcore about the strange things going on with religious topics while many of them are genuinely good and decent people that need space to come around.

Knowing who to trust is tough.  And sometimes the simplest off ramp is the best to get the ball rolling.  And it’s not just that the tiny mistake that’s the problem, it’s the part of a pattern.  The hypocritical response of always being right is mathematically impossible.  And using someone’s own words against them, oh that’s so much easier when they keep making the same mistakes over and over again.  Truly smart people are famously able to recognize patterns the lesser minds miss.  Truly smart people know they don’t know everything and absolutely adore the expertise of others to fill the gaps in their mind.  Truly smart people recognize trends within patterns and are absolutely terrified about what’s going on, not only for how it affects them but for those that surround them as well.  That’s called empathy.  And one of the ways to spot a lack of empathy is the hypocritical and contradictory statements those who are only interested in themselves display.  Being smart and empathetic means recognizing that just because you realize that a dumb mistake in a dumb topic like gematria is, well, dumb - it doesn’t mean that others aren’t affected by it.

So my hero for today is the Sports Gematria channel.  The content is extremely repetitive and isn’t designed for an effective, “Look at my coolness, subscribe to my Patreon” scam of his own.  People are definitely biased towards recency, that’s why outrage porn/rage bait has been so effective.  Keeping it fresh isn’t for long term subscribers as much it is for educating newcomers to the darker world of how our stupid and biased brains continually trick us into doing stupid and biased things.  Bright minds are inquisitive.  Bright minds want to be educated.  Bright minds gravitate towards meaningful things.  And smart people want to educate others, often selflessly.  So Sports Gematria, keep it up.  We salute you.

The Rob Reiner Effect

Just like no gematria guru is decoding the Super Bowl in depth yet (you need to wait until the playoff teams are finalized so you know how the identical numbers for multiple teams need to be forced into a narrative), nobody is talking about the Rob Reiner Effect.  Except me.  And now is a good time to recap my gematria and misinformation origin story.

I was about 17 years old when I admitted to myself that math and science made sense to me.  That not only did the content make sense, but the process of structuring my thoughts to make better conclusions from a set of complex data made sense.  I developed truly independent thinking and really didn’t like being forced to “jump on the bandwagon” or “keep up with the Joneses”.  I also learned not to be a dick.  Not because it was a holy text that told me, but just because that also made sense.  I also learned that entertainment media was sneaking in cultural and social issues and I learned a lot more about life from them than a classroom.

Also interesting and ironic that it was mid 50 degrees Fahrenheit here yesterday when the temperature in the 70’s would have been more likely to be freezing, but I guess climate change is a hoax.  But you’re a dickhead and a bad guy if you point that out to the wrong people.  But that’s enough of a sidebar.  If you need a classroom to tell you that seeing wasps flying around in the winter isn’t normal, I really don’t know what to say.

What I learned along the way with my structured thinking is that my memory is really good.  And boy, do dishonest people hate that.  Open antagonism and pointing out there wrong never worked, so I just kept it to myself for over 30 years.  Relishing the chance to do smart person stuff on my own as things got worse and worse at work.  Smart things like watching Jeopardy!.  Where although I’m not astrophysics level smart I could excel at with my abundant pop culture reference points.  And that’s when I encountered my Rob Reiner Effect moment.  My, “WHAT THE FUCK DID I ACTUALLY JUST READ?!?”  moment.

Long forgotten about now, her name was Cindy.  She was a multiple day champion.  Personable, knowledgeable, not as brash as some other long term champions.  Somebody worth cheering for.  A real life heroine instead of a comic book one, because as it turned out, Cindy was dying of cancer while her Jeopardy! run was being filmed.  And she knew it, but it was her dream and the TV execs made it happen.  Without making it about how great they were.  It wasn’t even announced right away.  But when it was I found out that.

She was supposedly an actress faking it because the Freemasons wanted to rig football games.  Well, not directly that chain altogether all at once.  But as I dug in with my superior to your average conspiracy theorist research skills, that’s what I found out.  This is not ordinary level insulting.  This is insulting on a thermonuclear scale.  So after just a couple of weeks poking around I decided to give something back to the world I never truly fit into.  A free education on what I learned and am still learning about misinformation and disinformation.  Intellectually far more fulfilling than arguing with people about if middle 50 degrees Fahrenheit in December is normal and “Ok”.

And boy does that free part really piss off the scammers.  It’s much easier to ride the wave of anti science and anti intellectual sentiment if you can legitimately point a finger at their monetization efforts.  The goal is not to get more attention to myself.  Nobody in the mainstream media is hunting me down for an interview.  But what has happened is I’ve helped educate other educators.  People who now talk about the right issues, for the right reasons and are willing to provide actual evidence based on reality instead of something like crisis actor Alex Jones style bullshit.  People who are a lot smarter than me looking into practical solutions for fellow human beings because simply not being a dickhead is the right thing to do.

I’m not posting Trump’s Truth Social post about Reiner.  That’s already spread all over.  This is one of the biggest foot bullets in modern history.  It’s one thing for one of the most powerful people on the planet to be disrespectful to the enemies.  It’s at a whole new level of thermonuclear tonnage disrespectful to take a well known and beloved figure like Reiner and mercilessly assault his character at a time when your poll numbers show the disgust people have for you.  But this is part of the malignant narcissist playbook.  Trump was never brilliant or kind and as mental disease takes grip of the shattered remnants of his brain.  He simply can’t take a few minutes break from being an asshole, much less not be an asshole for three more years.

And finally the Rob Reiner Effect has mobilized some in the Republican Party.  Oh they’ve known he was bad news after the first term.  But that was at a better time when occasionally someone could talk him down off a ledge.  You know Don, maybe we should try to do something effective about the pandemic?  Like maybe not start making stuff up about horse dewormers?  Etc…. The Rob Reiner Effect.  Another fracture that makes political survival look ahead to a future without the Conman in Chief.  A blatant display of the character flaws that should have disqualified him a decade ago.

And the Rob Reiner Effect is not going to help the economy.  We’ve already, by association as a country, proven we’re incapable of electing effective leadership.  Let’s list a few ex friends.  Canada.  Mexico, Ukraine, France, oh hell everybody targeted by the tariff fiasco.  Why would we expect anything better from a country that can elect a petulant and corrupt Republican replacement every four years?  A country with an opposition party so weak and ineffective that the best we had to offer was a not mentally great Biden?  America is not trustworthy, they’d rather insult Rob Reiner than actually be a team player.  Let’s trade with China.

From the first Kingsman movie, just to throw in another pop culture reference and solidify that it’s all over entertainment media if you are paying attention.

Manners Maketh Man.  And if you can’t let me finish my Guinness pint in peace, I’ll give you a lesson in manners.  The hard way.

Gamblification, Enshittification, Normalization & Gematria

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I thought it would be a good time to remind everyone of the dark origins of gematria.  That is, conspiracy theory gematria.  And let’s start with the current U.S. Administration.

Although I still have regular non internet interactions with delusional people that insist that what’s going on with the economy is normal and good, the rational and sane world is pretty much totally pissed off.  When you’re go to strategy is to break things so that it’s impossible for the enemy to fix all of it, the blaming the other guy tactic starts to get overused.  I still contend the GOP would have been a lot better off playing it cool for just a bit while longer instead of just jumping in head first with Trump.  But I’ve had the luxury of knowing Trump’s uncontrollable narcissistic nature having worked for an extended time with a toxic person.  A person that was nowhere near the level of ill mental health that Trump displays.

The fighting and jockeying for position and trying to grab as much power as possible is natural.  Without any checks and balances, there’s no honor among thieves.  No handshake that can’t be ignored.  No treaty that can’t be broken.  No alliance that can’t be suspended at a moment notice.  Opportunism is how conspiracy gematria started.  A niche that presented itself as the Alex Jones content conflated free speech with “good ideas”.  The entire conspiracy gematria community was formed based on a handful of early players who burst on the scene that essentially followed Jones business model.  Like Trump’s State of the Union address, MAYBE IF I SCREAM LOUDER PEOPLE WILL ADORE ME WHEN I GIVE THEM BAD INFORMATION.

Now, while Jones focused on overpriced supplements and survival gear the gematria community did have one original part.  But let’s bring up Enshittification for those that don’t know.  It’s the process of how a website starts of decent, then ignores user value in favor of advertising $, then just self destructs as the goal ends up just being to extract as much money before the site dies.  So since gematria had numbers, and part of the Enshittification of the entire internet is gamblification, gambling was the go to for those misinforming and disinforming.

Gamblification, pretty much a subset of Enshittification, is how gambling is everywhere now.  Things that shouldn’t be gambling are turned into gambling.  Traditional more common Gamblification is something like a game with loot boxes where you pay hoping you pick up something that gives you a game edge.  A bragging right.  Gematria, instead of gamblifying its source material of conspiracy content had a natural release valve.  Sports betting, especially the love affair with American football.  Football games have lots of numbers, lots of variables, lots of fans.  The perfect conspiracy lite pipeline beginning point.  A fake edge to one up the bookies by a magic code.

I always got the sense that a significant number of sports gematria didn’t care as much about the gematria as the gambling.  Gambling, being designed specifically as a no win proposition over the long run gave rise to a lot of unhappy with traditional gambling losers looking to make it big with something.  ANYTHING.  To maybe break their losing streak.  After looking closely for any media reports for all these years, I’ve yet to see a media story where somebody has reported life altering gematria based income.  That’s real media, not social media where the reported winners all follow the “look at my gangsta lifestyle while I charge you for my magic secret” format.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, the internet can be a psychologically damaging place.  Instead of positive social skills people only learn what gives them immediate gratification.  Addictive behavior is encouraged.  Pull that slot machine arm today, deal with long term planning tomorrow.  A tomorrow where you’re a little bit poorer and a little more unfulfilled and psychologically damaged.  Instead of socialization, the normalization of toxic behavior is thrown in your face.  Come for that sweet Super Bowl pick, stick around and hear about how trans people or other arbitrary scapegoat is the problem.  And maybe you’ll start to think about other solution to your mental state.  Like, nothing could possibly be your fault.

One of the keys to learning who to trust is how often the person you’re listening to acts like a hypocrite.  When confronted with objective truth of being wrong it’s best not to present your stance as supporting diametrically opposed positions. Lack of consistency is hand and hand with hypocrisy.  It’s interesting to note that many of Zach’s videos included wording about how the elite were giving the masses their bread and circuses while ironically normalizing the gambling that is actual circus activity.  But search for a buck or two thousand, well that doesn’t allow for much consistency.  You’ve got to go with the flow, and speak what everyone else is complaining about.

https://freetofindtruth.blogspot.com/2016/06/88-sporting-news-write-youre-idiot-if.html?m=1

Sorry for that if it’s triggering, but the point is to show the oddity of how completely different the target of the wrath is.  A direct and extended  verbal assault on Jews that is out of place with the focus of the Jesuits today and equally out of place with the simultaneous for 2016 Freemason/Illuminati/NWO content at that time.  Does anybody even casually mention the Freemasons anymore in conspiracy talk?  Give it enough time to normalize again, but for now it’s so limited it’s pretty much non existent.

But don’t worry about Zach.  Sure the gematria content in YouTube is mercifully minimal these days.  Not having channels suspended for violations is also normalized.  Any content that leads to more views and more advertisers is good for YouTube.  Regardless of its moral repugnance.  And he’s probably blitz scaled him way into long term passive income and who knows what other deals with the devil he’s struck up?  Money laundering commercial real estate?  Copyright violations?  Video distribution?!?  It’s far more likely that someone openly admitting to want to create his own Holocaust is willing to say anything for a buck and heaven forbid he’s actually serious about it.

The final point is that gematria isn’t the problem.  It’s a tool to be twisted into part of some other scheme.  Years in the future something else weird and seemingly harmless will replace the hollow area formed by gematria for the last decade.  Someone new who talks fast and pretty who likely has mental health issues will catch the fancy of the current crop of no critical thinkers and opportunists.  Somebody will always be looking back in time because there’s not enough education to support innovation of something meaningful like a better wealth distribution system or a governmental system that takes checks and balance.  This era of normalization is breeding a wave of deregulation that doesn’t go well with the costs of decades of ignoring climate change.