Please...don’t get played…

Social media, X in particular, is full of rage bait. There are too many short form posts, often accompanied with a visual and/or video, all designed to generate an immediate reaction. As an aside, it would seem that too many of these visuals and videos are generated by AI. Reactions that all too often come from the gut, not from any rational analysis of the situation being highlighted. Under Musk’s ownership, X has been weaponised to be the platform for rage baiting. That’s intentional. You’re either on the ‘right side’ or, you’re a ‘f**king moron’. Grey areas, doubt and nuance seem to be getting pushed to the sidelines. As is taking a few steps back to think an issue or a situation through before responding. I’ve written about this more times than I care to remember, seemingly to no avail…

The more I look at it, the more I see social media as a curse. It has speeded up the Internet to the point where it feels like we’re drowning in rage bait and fear porn that demands an instant reaction. It has played a major part in killing off intelligent debate about controversial, difficult and often complex issues. Instead, it has become a platform where overly simplistic solutions are offered up, with too many people falling for them instead of asking some critical questions about what exactly is on offer. It feels like there’s no time to think and reflect before starting to seriously discuss an issue in full, taking into account the complexities and grey areas involved.

We are being intentionally dumbed down. Dumbing down leads to infantilisation. The kind of infantilisation that leads people to demand easy solutions to complex problems. When teaching people how to think critically seems to have disappeared from mainstream education, this is what we’re left with – infantilised adults shouting at each other from behind their respective barricades, while making no meaningful effort to engage with each other. What happens on social media is the symptom – the rot started in what passes for an educational system that is failing us as a society. This has led to the pathetic tribalism that we see, not just on social media, but also in real life as well.

You know who loves a dumbed down, infantilised public that will happily fall into a tribe? The bastards who presume to rule over us, that’s who. The bastards who represent the predatory elite. A predatory elite who want us mere mortals to be at each other’s throats rather than fighting them. An elite that wants an atomised, fearful population to look to them to provide some kind of safety, even if it’s only illusory. An elite whose lackeys in government have allowed situations to develop that they know will lead to social disorder. When that social disorder manifests itself on the streets, the bastards will be there with their ‘solutions’ to put the lid back on a volatile situation they’ve engineered. ‘Solutions’ that will put all of us in to what to all intents and purposes, will be a digital prison. As I’ve written more times than I care to remember, it’s a classic case of problem / reaction / solution. Regarding the problems, one of which is the bitter fruit of the failed doctrine of multi-culturalism, I’ve written about them at some length in this piece: Civil war? 21.2.26.

The reactions to the problems that have been allowed to develop? Just take a look at a social media platform such as X and you’ll see them. Reactions that range from demanding simplistic solutions, going through professing undying loyalty to an ‘alternative’ political party, and in some cases, on to predicting more that more ‘direct’ responses may emerge. A lot of these reactions are based on a tribal loyalty. Hopefully, you don’t need me to tell you that tribal loyalties, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum, lead to blinkered thinking. Also, with the way the bastards who presume to rule over us manipulate things in a bid to divide us, some of those tribes may not be quite what they seem. They’re doing their level best to play us. Play us by dividing us and pitting us against each other. You’ll also the reactions to these problems manifesting themselves out on the streets as has been the case here in the (dis)United Kingdom for the last two summers now.

They also play us by allowing certain ‘alternative’ parties to progress while others are swept off to the sidelines. Reform is one outfit that has been getting a lot of coverage. Restore seem to be catching up with Reform in terms of support. As for Advance, not being a right wing political nerd, I’m not quite sure what’s going on there:) Going to the other end of the spectrum, there’s the Green Party. Although what’s ‘green’ about a party that has heavily invested in identity politics and the failed doctrine of multiculturalism is a bit of a mystery to non-voting me. Looking at the by-election in Gorton and Denton, the way the Greens are pitted against Reform to my jaded eyes seems like political theatre. Almost too perfect political theatre to be honest. I can’t really blame people for thinking that there’s an element of this being scripted in order to stir up even more division across the country. As if there isn’t enough already! The golden rule is to never take anything about the politics we’re presented with at face value.

When ‘alternative’ parties such as Reform and Restore on the one hand, and the Green Party on the other, gain a lot of traction, it’s always worth taking a few steps back to look at their funding, constitution, what big names are lending their support and obviously, what their policies are. It’s who funds them that’s always the interesting part:) The point is that if they were a genuine threat to the plans the World Economic Forum have to effectively impose a digital prison upon us, they wouldn’t be allowed the traction they’re getting. The mere fact that they are allowed to gain traction should be taken as a signal that they may well be, wittingly or unwittingly, part of the plans for this.

These parties thrive on grievance. Reform and the new kids on the block, Restore and Advance are the masters of this. Do I include the Green Party in this? Given how they were courting the Muslim block vote in the Gorton and Denton by-election with videos featuring the politics of the Middle East, it would seem that they’re happy to go down this toxic route as well. The grievances the likes of Reform and Restore focus on arise from problems that have been intentionally allowed to develop so that they will generate a reaction. The bastards who presume to rule over us want you to react. When your reaction becomes too forceful, that’s when they’ll step in with their solution to ‘rebuild’. Because, without wanting to sound like a conspiracy theorist, we’re in a situation that could be seen as a controlled demolition. For the predator class to rebuild the world so that it suits them while the rest of us get screwed, there has to be some kind of demolition to make way for what they want. Atomisation, division, street disorder, fear and demoralisation are a part of this process.

If we want to stop this, we have to take the fight to the predatory elite right at the top who are pulling the strings. It’s no good attacking the pawns because you know what, that’s exactly what they want us to do. They want the level of civil strife this would create in order to start implementing their ‘solutions’. Should a so called ‘alternative’ party such as Reform get into power and then fail to deliver simplistic solutions such as mass re-migration, there are elements out there who will step in to bring disorder to our streets. All to plan because that’s exactly what the elite want To put it bluntly, you are being played in order to give them the reaction they want to justify their ‘solutions’. Please...don’t get played… Don’t give them what they want because we’ll all lose.

It’s easy for me to say this, living out in Keynsham and not on the front line where inter-communal tensions will play out to a grim inevitability if we don’t all pull back from the brink. I know there are real problems out there which are causing resentment and exacerbating community tensions. I understand the anger that has come from the issue of rape gangs not being tackled effectively for decades. I’ve written about some of these tensions in this piece: Civil war? 21.2.26. I realise that telling people who have to deal with the tension at the interface between two communities that have very little to do with each other at best, and at worst are openly hostile, to take a few steps back is not going to go down well with some. All I can say is that if people carry on allowing themselves to get played and manipulated into ever more confrontation, we’re heading for a very dark place. That’s why I’m willing to risk the flak I may get by asking people to pause and ask a few questions about what agendas are being served before stepping over the brink. Because, as I keep trying to get across, we are being played…