Part 2 - Pulling Back the Curtain On Oz

 Original Stevie Baskin Analysis of Oz

The interview I posted yesterday is a much more digestible version of the concepts involved.  A five hour long recap.  Wow.  Mr. Baskin, thou art one smart and dedicated guy.

A broad look at the themes, one point that sticks out to me is the timing of admission that what you’re providing is an illusion.  A trick done for fun.  A harmless white lie like belief in Santa Claus until a child’s brain develops enough to understand that it’s really just Mom & Dad giving you presents because they love you.

There is an ethical question about metadeception and Oz specifically.  Is it just a fun trick when the lie is continually perpetuated as a lifestyle?  Long time readers know my stance.  The same way Oz inserts himself in front of celebrities and large gatherings like Rogan - I’m special.  “This is not a trick.  I have a genuine super power that you can buy my book and learn.”  Compare that to a decade of meta-deception with gematria.  “I can predict sports results.  If you want my really good work, join my Patreon.”

And for me, Zach crossed the line by joining the Sandy Hook is a hoax crowd.  Which naturally turned in to the fake narrative of how misinformation morphed into a weakened response to the worst pandemic in modern history, Qanon insanity, and “ritual sacrifice” scapegoating among other things.

My own thoughts about being respectful to my elders long held cognitive biases have changed.  Somebody needed to try something.  And I’m pretty much the only person I know stupid enough to interact with a group of people known to through out the occasional death threat.

But anyway, back to yesterday’s original video because it’s way shorter.  I cannot emphasize enough how I can review both these videos and admire Mr. Baskin as somebody smarter than I am, and certainly way better with screen presence and public speaking.

https://youtu.be/yhvzmIDdUVY?si=FU_SLNYnIIwHDI4Q  (Reposting yesterday’s video)

0:14. The foreshadowing of the rhetorical question of who has the balls to call out the fraudster.

3:10. A great mentalist tells you he doesn’t have MAGIC powers.  But insists it’s still a form of superpower.  Just not pulling a rabbit out of a hat.

5:00. Oz, like Zach is a great performer.  It’s convincing if you don’t know what to look for.

8:30 Oz has inserted himself as the entertainment at the White House correspondents dinner that the shooting attempt occurred at.  A collection of people bound to have some thinking they’re smarter than they are.  Personal speculation and opinion - Trump’s body language and speech patterns reek of insincerity.  A target audience of people who think they can get a book to help them that doesn’t address the stage magician aspects of Oz’s performance.

9:20  Talk about cognitive biases based lifestyle and how it impacts your life when you ignore reality.

16:45 The payoff on the sleight of hand down.  Turning off a phone instead of reading body language.  And the audience of two doesn’t get suspicious when they realize the phone has turned off.

18:30 Other magicians don’t like that he’s giving away the secrets.  Not deliberately.  But just like Zach pick’s winners the day after the game, just like Zach picks both teams all the time -Oz’s media blitz has had him “go to the well” too many times.  Spoiling the trick for other performers who have audiences genuinely looking for fun regardless of any thoughts whether it’s real or not.

21:20 Preshow work.  Basically lying about the background to the on air performance.

24:45 Show business code.  Don’t give it away since we’re all professionals here.

26:20-26:50+. Outside the performance.  The preshow is admitted.  Simple (for a ‘mentalist’) math tricks and/or calculator app recall tech were used to decipher the REAL PIN.  And,

28:10 The violation of trust about the use of the real PIN instead of the fake PIN.  Not cool.  When you first comment on Zach’s videos you are setting yourself up to give out information about yourself.  Which teams you like, which particular players.  How much effort he has to produce to get you to break down and donate.

32:00 In addition to pre-show (think cold reading) there’s also post show editing tricks.  Pre-show Zach ==>. Talk up the current popular numbers which can change depending on circumstances.  Pi, Jesuit numbers, 666, 113, 47, whatever.  The audience looks for those numbers.  Post show Zach.  They flipped the script.  Double narrative.  Lying.

37:20  Oopsie.  Screw up caught on camera.

42:00 Particularly appropriate for sports gambling gematria scamming.  Barkley has been forced to pick between two options.  It’s a lot easier to guess between two options than hundreds of options.  Every football game is one out of two teams, even though the gematria might be more appropriate for an entirely different game.  Pre-show patter and the gift of gab for dual reality to mask that it’s really not so random at all.  If you think it’s easy, try keeping it up for an entirely different game football season to just make picks for the Super Bowl.

48:00 Another oopsie on camera.  Barkley actually picked the wrong one of two.  The cover up isn’t very convincing if you know what you’re looking for.  The studio audience doesn’t have a clue.

55:00 All the steps for fraud are there.  Regardless of whether it gets prosecuted or not, the smarter people will figure it out.

57:00. Oz is a “con man” for entertainment.

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This is not a great time in the history of the world to be deceptive.  Even gambling on war crimes is a thing, where insider information is more important than being right.  The political con has been exposed.  Get elected.  Get access to insider trading information, bribes, contracts that are based on wasteful government spending.  Then as the magician’s tricks are being exposed, rely on your ability to lie your way out of a jam.  All because a handful of toxic narcissists spoiled the trick for generations to come.

Part 1 - Pulling Back the Curtain On Oz

Pablo Torres Finds Out - Oz Pearlman

No notes needed, but I’m going to do it despite no notes needed.  But first let’s do a trip along the highway of confirmation bias and the belief in things that aren’t real.

It’s generally socially acceptable to start kids right away into religion.  There are good messages and long lasting values in religion.  Way down the highway there is extremism.  Go ahead and allow yourself a mental image regarding fanatics using passenger planes as bombs if you need an example.  This is a far cry from reading the bible before bedtime for comfort.  Or even doing a gematria synchronicity decode as an exercise in self spirituality.

There’s a major branch along the confirmation bias highway called Economics.  Eventually, many brains even give up entirely on the religious road and develop an identity solely based on their economic and political beliefs.  Yes, those are tied together whether we like it or not.  Regarding U.S. propaganda, there is a belief that capitalism is the one and only path to enlightenment.  The political part is reduced to a false binary option only, far too often.  Left vs. Right.  No nuance.  No context.  And by golly your belief in the wrong side means you have the audacity to ruin the welfare of others that do not share your belief.

Well, bad news sunshine.  Instead of talking through things and teaching reasonable not black or white compromises you get constant failure to address anything.  And now you feel safe not believing in Santa Claus or Jesus because now you have computers, math, and technology that makes you feel invulnerable to confirmation bias criticism.  So let’s put some shade on the sunshine and show how math destroys the foundation of capitalism.  The myth of infinite growth.

Imagine if you can or get paper and pen out and draw it.  An equilateral triangle.  Now that there are three sides we get our first shape, because two sides are still just a line or two lines intersecting with no area.  No add a side and you’ve got a square, a fancy name for an equilateral rectangle.  Add another side.  An equilateral pentagon.  Then hexagon, heptagon, octagon, etc….   As the number of equilateral sides increased you get something that approaches a circle.  Congratulations, you are starting to grasp how calculus is what I call math saying “fuck you” to people who insist you can’t do math with infinity or dividing by zero.  You don’t ever reach either extreme, you just get so close.  And although you could draw a pretty respectable square or equilateral triangle, the more sides you have drawn freehand, the harder it’s going to get to draw.  Send me your best freehand drawing of an equilateral polygon with 1 billion sides.  You don’t need to hit infinite number of sides to be a problem in regards to reality.

Sane economists will acknowledge how pure capitalism with true infinite growth as just some sort of ideal.  And politically/economically your black and white choice is capitalism versus communism.  (Spice things up with some disingenuous fascism and socialism references, too.). Here in the States:  Communism = Evil/bad/destructive.  Capitalism = Patriotic/good/sexy.  Why not at least strive for being on the right side instead of settling for the compromise?  No Octagon for you, go for that perfect circle to pull up your bootstraps.

Mankind has already existed long enough for banking to debunk itself.  Our friends making AI let us know that the first prototype of a bank existed a long, long time ago.

 

So let’s pretend our ancient protobankers had one smart ass among the lot of him.  He sets himself down and one day thinks, “Ya know, I really want to be the first Rothschild.  How do I make generational wealth without actually doing something resembling real work?”

The answer is (and reality is this way now), how do I make an insane amount of income on passive income.  Just the appreciation of a modest amount of compound interest over a long time.  The following calculation does not approach the result that “infinity” would.  But it shows the thorough impracticality of someone investing the equivalent of just $1 at a modest 3% for the 4000 years since our first passive income earner let his $1 ride every year until today.

Built into finance and investment lingo are cutesy phrases like “correction” and “Bear market”.  These address the immediate concerns of anxious investors scared of losing their <cough> <cough> hard earned passive income.  But a short term politically motivated pep talk is all that’s needed.  The entire fantasy that a long term modest 3% earnings rate can create more wealth than could possibly exist.  That fantasy makes the Santa Claus story look pretty good in comparison, because grown ass adults actually believe that everyone can just pick themselves up by their own bootstraps and with minimal effort become the next Elon Musk.  With or without being a total douchebag, just the money part.

If it were that easy, we would be living the Star Trek utopian pipe dream, all loving each other.  But of course the same holds true for communism.  Actually sharing everything equally… totally impractical.  Too often capitalism versus communism gets no more than third grade insult level dialogue.  No nonagons for either of you.  It’s easier ad hominem attack when you don’t understand capitalism.  It’s supposed to work this way:  The market moves funds towards investment in useful stuff to make sure useful stuff gets down.  Checking my notes….lets see the appendices…nope…citations…nope…social media……uh nope.  Nowhere can I find that Zuckerberg, Musk, Bezos, Buffet, Trump, etc… hoarding cash in an insane pissing contest moves money towards useful stuff.  Go ahead and type up your angry comment about SpaceX and AI so I can tell you about the upcoming “correction”.

No, what the Epstein class has learned is that in order to avoid wars redistributing wealth, bubbles bursting and just “shit happening” over time - it doesn’t have to be infinity or even four thousand years.  You’ve got to change the $1 or the 3% rate needs to be higher to get those sweet, “I’m a thoroughly corrupt billionaire more interested in exploitation and attention than benefitting society” accolades.  Trying to get the interest rate up is pretty tough, too.  That means you pretty much need to start with more than $1 to invest.  A lot more.  You need to hoard millions before you can even start to think of investing that into billions.  The difference between a million dollars is roughly, er…one billion dollars.  So better make it in steps.  Millions turns to ten millions, tens of millions to hundreds.  Hundreds of millions to billions.  All not invested in anything useful, just sitting on a balance sheet other than the occasional deduction for doing unspeakable things that lawyers bought and paid for will take care of.

Keep that in mind as part two goes into the gullibility of the target audience for Oz Pearlman.  It’s really the same kind of gullibility from the early days of gematria.  (Gosh I miss those days). Someone pretends to have a super power which is actually just a cheat and con job.