Category: Boblimptock

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If I were the devil … 
If I were the Prince of Darkness, 
I’d want to engulf the whole world in darkness. 

And I’d have a third of its real estate, 
and four-fifths of its population, 
but I wouldn’t be happy until 
I had seized the ripest apple on the tree — Thee.  

So I’d set about however necessary 
to take over the United States. 

I’d subvert the churches first — 
I’d begin with a campaign of whispers. 

With the wisdom of a serpent, 
I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: 
‘Do as you please.’

To the young, 
I would whisper that ‘The Bible is a myth.’ 
I would convince them that man created God 
instead of the other way around. 

I would confide that what’s bad is good, 
and what’s good is ‘square.’ 

And the old, 
I would teach to pray, 
after me, 
‘Our Father, which art in Washington…’

And then I’d get organized. 

I’d educate authors in 
how to make lurid literature exciting, 
so that anything else would appear 
dull and uninteresting. 

I’d threaten TV 
with dirtier movies 
and vice versa. 

I’d pedal narcotics to whom I could. 
I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. 
I’d tranquilize the rest with pills.

If I were the devil 
I’d soon have families 
that war with themselves, 
churches at war with themselves, 
and nations at war with themselves; 
until each in its turn was consumed. 

And with promises of higher ratings 
I’d have mesmerizing media 
fanning the flames. 

If I were the devil 
I would encourage schools 
to refine young intellects, 
but neglect to discipline emotions — 
just let those run wild, 
until before you knew it, 
you’d have to have drug sniffing dogs 
and metal detectors 
at every schoolhouse door.

Within a decade I’d have prisons overflowing, 
I’d have judges promoting pornography — 
soon I could evict God from the courthouse, 
then from the schoolhouse, 
and then from the houses of Congress. 

And in His own churches 
I would substitute psychology for religion, 
and deify science. 

I would lure priests and pastors 
into misusing boys and girls, 
and church money. 

If I were the devil 
I’d make the symbols of Easter an egg 
and the symbol of Christmas a bottle.

If I were the devil 
I’d take from those who have, 
and give to those who want 
until I had killed the incentive 
of the ambitious.

And what do you bet 
I could get whole states 
to promote gambling 
as the way to get rich? 

I would caution against extremes 
and hard work in Patriotism, 
in moral conduct. 

I would convince the young 
that marriage is old-fashioned, 
that swinging is more fun, 
that what you see on the TV 
is the way to be. 

And thus, 
I could undress you in public, 
and I could lure you into bed 
with diseases for which 
there is no cure. 

In other words, 
if I were the devil 
I’d just keep right on doing 
what he’s doing.

Paul Harvey, good day

- Paul Harvey (1965)

Ref: https://www.wordandwork.org/2018/02/paul-harveys-if-i-were-the-devil-transcript-from-1965/

Paul Harvey was born in 1918, a time of great conflict.

Paul Harvey DIED in 2009, a time bullshit and pain.

During his time on the stage, with tempered rage and wit to balance, he silenced critics with his wispy homespun perspectives and his Cadillac style vibrations. Some say he INVENTED that CALM TALK DRIP, that AFTERNOON CHAT TRIP, that VOICE over AM RADIO that soothed you, as you yelled about GAS PRICES and urinated on pictures of Jimmy Carter.

One might contend that the PAUL HARVEY EFFECT is about this NEW WAY he invented, for engaging with HI FIDELITY listeners – but this is misleading. Paul’s dark craft swerved further under wraps, as CASE MONKEYS and other DORBAN HUSTLERS moved WEST from Philly.

Paul was born in Oklahoma, the son of a COP. His dad was killed by robbers in 1921.

Paul made radios as a kid, and attended the standard public schools.

Paul SERVED in WORLD WAR TWO and sailed the ocean blue, he met thieves and pirates and wayward travelers – in 1944 he met Jorgen Tull, a NAZI defector and crystal meth manufacturer. They got cooking.

Paul moved to CHICAGO after WW2, where he and Jorgen set up their first METH FACTORY in a cavernous sewer below the FIELD MUSEUM. Paul used his cover as a “radio guy” to make connections in the then GROWING DRIVE TIME RADIO world; in that world you have helicopter pilots, and SKY WARRIORS, weathermen and pimp lords. This is NOT KNOWN to many, and is denied by most – so you never know, right?

CIA was BRAND NEW back then, and ALLEN DULLES wanted to inject LSD into the scrotum sacks of priests and nuns and the pope. Paul worked with the CIA to get a USAF home-cook up and running for METH PILLS – them F-86 pilots in the Korean Theater did better against MIG-15s if they had some meth … as it happens, the same formulation that goes into ADHD drugs today.

In 1951, ABC news debuted PAUL as their “noon time” lunch guy. He’d speak words to those animals, working their hours in the coyote mills and ash factories, and thereby maintain a level of PEACE and CONTROL over those teaming masses of the future. Baby boomers, still kids, would eat chocolate ho hos and chuckle, not knowing the secrets, barely understanding the rumors. Paul was a groomer, he was a loomer, he LOOMED LARGE over AMERICANA, as it grinded out babies and nukes and cars.

Paul was an avid pilot, and was responsible for distributing the METH that he and Jorgen cooked each week. Sometimes Jorgen would come along for the ride. One trip, in 1958, they were delivering METH to Stoogsville, ARKANSAS, and a young man, Bill Clinton, made $50 a day setting up landing strips with flashlights and bonfires – guiding in the planes to drop of METH, weed, coke, and various trafficked men/women/children for the torture factories in LA and NYC. Jorgen and Bill became good friends, and later facilitated the coke pipelines in REAGAN’S AMERICA, ensuring the flow for the burgeoning crack epidemic. At one point the BUSH FAMILY bought nearly HALF of all Paul’s weekly batch, and this troubled Jorgen, but Jorgen as a former NAZI understood – the lust for power and its synergy with METH STYLE living.

In 1965, after 20 years of continuous METH use, Paul had a psychotic break. He began talking in riddles, and eventually his “PAUL HARVEY EFFECT” was felt. During a broadcast in 1965, he URGED ON the “true race” to HOLD BACK against the dusky masses. And Jorgen smiled.

TAKE DOWN that ANGRY BLACK SCAR,
you sit at the bars drinking watermelon cider,
eating BBQ pie?

Your HATE is TOO LATE my friends,
because the TRUE RACE NEVER ENDS,
and our WHITE POWER glows,
our white powder flows,
and MAN will STAND TALL SOON,
when we let go of tired sorrow.

- Paul Harvey, 7/6/1965

THIS RADIO TIRADE ENRAGED BLACK AMERICA … General Hutu-Bomgabbi of the EAST LA GONDO-LORDS spoke out against Paul, and demanded “immediate street action and gutter style violence”. A few weeks later, WATTS was in flames, LA was groaning under the weight of 500 years of oppression and the “Middle Passage” and other kinds of sideways bullshit.

You see, Jorgen Tull was Danish. Jorgen new HATE SCREECHING and RACE RANTING. He felt the pathetic rush as the vitamin-D deficient prance around in funny costumes.

Hitler recruited Jorgen in 1934 after a “tasting party” at the annual Thule Society soirée and sex banquet. Hitler knew the DANES had the darkest spirits, and could reveal the twisting ways of physics and interracial love affairs. You see, Hitler was in love with a young woman named Debra Hastings – Debra had escaped Oklahoma after the TULSA RACE MASSACRE of 1921; the same time period when Paul’s dad was killed. Debra had been LIVING IT UP in BERLIN, and at that time very few cared about her dark skin.

Debra was African-American, sweet and smart. She was chesty and had smiles. When she hugged Hitler, Adolf forgot about his pain and failure. He forgot about his oaths of revenge. He forgot about his failed career painting postcards, he just saw her, bathed in her light. BUT, HITLER was leading the ARYAN RACE towards TOTALISTIC VICTORY against the GENKEN-BROOD and the other lost forces of Mistress Vromm of Beef Torpedo fame. Hitler had promised “racial purity”, but he only knew one thing when he looked into Debra’s eyes – that he loved her, that he wanted to plant pretty little babies in her.

When Hitler tried Jorgen’s METH, this opened up conversations about “24 hour military operations” and “dive bomber STUKAS” and all kinds of things meth-heads talk about when they’re HIGH.

“Jorgen, what can I do about this love?”

“You must free her and remember BRAVE GERMANY …”

“But I can’t stop loving her.”

“You will, if you want my METH.”

Now, years later, Hitler defeated, Paul meets Debra – and falls in love too.

A fiery 1960’s meth fueled ROMP through the dungeon keeps of old America. Debra was older than Paul, but she had experience with love-squeezing and body juice sharing. Paul would GO DOWN on her like some ancient dirty diver, swimming for that pearl in her onyx soup. All of this is to say that JORGEN did not fancy this at all, and HE was going to stop it – again … because HE SECRETLY LOVED Debra too … fuck … fuck this is sad.

This was a love triangle that stretched across time; because unknown to Paul Harvey and his meth freak friend Jorgen, Hitler was NOT dead.

In April 1945, as part of a secret NAZI experiment with relativistic effects, Hitler was transported 20 YEARS into the future – to Kecksburg, PA. The device or “Bell”, was hyper-chamber utilizing dual-plasmatic EMF immersion with QUADROPHONIC sound and sexy results. The device glowed before their eyes, as HITLER slipped two decades beyond the WAR and all of its terror.

Hitler showed up in 1965 and was experimented on by the CIA: his arms were ripped off and then sewn back on, he had roach gelatin injected into his skull, cobra venom was put in his food and his testicles.

Hitler spent months in ONE MK-ULTRA experiment after another, being jabbed and isolated. He had loud noises at HIGH DECIBELS directed at his ear drums. He had sulfuric acid injected into his spine. But in 1969 Hitler escaped and after a few months of wandering America, he ended up in Chicago at Roger’s Cabaret in Boy’s Town.

It gets more sordid …

Because PAUL was with DEBRA at Hooglies off of Dirgen Street in December 1969. They were at a CHRISTMAS PARTY being hosted by Barbara Streisand, when HITLER and JORGEN showed up – they were both SUPER DRUNK and super belligerent. It got saucy. Hitler, filled with cocaine and whiskey and rage, grabbed Debra by the arm and shouted “you’re going with me”, but she didn’t want to. Paul was none to happy either …

Paul was carrying a switchblade and pulled it. He shoved that knife deep into Hitler’s chest, and blood sprayed all over the club – as the TEEGLIE boys and “late night shoppers” went running back home to Evanston, to play “daddy” again.

Jorgen stood by and just watched these beasts go at it, and then he moved closer to Debra as the fight turned into madness …

“Hey baby.”

“Jorgen, you BASTARD”, Debra slapped him across the face.

“Baby I know … I’m sorr …”

“Stop right there, you tore me away from my first love … you got Hitler addicted to crank and racism and setting shit on fire … FUCK YOU JORGEN.”

Debra walked away, she was tired of their busted up minds.

The bar shut down and it was Hitler and Paul Harvey and Jorgen the DANE, alone, sharing a booth in the darkness, drinking stale whiskey and smoking damp cigarettes.

Hitler got real silent, with toilet paper shoved into the hole in his chest. But then after several minutes, he mumbled:

“What did I do it for, the war, the death, the hate?”

IT WAS AT THAT MOMENT that PAUL had a revelation …

Paul got on a plane the very next morning, he was HEADING TO CALIFORNIA to meet with his friend Ronald Reagan, THE GOVERNOR of the state.

Paul went directly to Reagan’s compound in Pasadena, where Reagan kept Mexican slave girls and ran a nightclub for the militarists and pederasts of LA. It was a skeevy place, filled with those swollen-lechers that are typically found near the SLEAZY WHARFS of San Francisco. Paul was shocked by the blood shakes and the long-pig pizza.

Reagan brought Paul to his secret room, a special office for eldritch rites and experiments on French bulldogs. They talked for HOURS and then Paul went back to his hotel. On the WAY to his hotel, Paul was run off the road by the Manson Family, and taken back to Spahn Ranch. Charles sang songs for Paul, and they shared ideas about black people and Jews and Danes and the Beach Boys.

It was within this KILN of AWARENESS that Paul’s mind baked …

Paul had been pressed to the ultimate point of ripping and he had a VISION, this is a fragment of what he told Charles:

If GOD arrived,
covered in ants,
morbidly saccharine,
like the ancient burly beasts ... 

If GOD came back,
for a lightning attack,
taking with him the sinners,
taking with him the slackers,
he'd have backers: like Gen Westmoreland.

We could CAVE RAPE the VIETCONG,
but our blood merchant fantasy soon ends.

Our friends abandon us to the silk parlor,
for hours,
for love,
the steam fills every CRACK,
and we're DONE with Charlie Swift,
and we're through trying ...

This is a long winded way of saying:

THE PAUL HARVEY EFFECT was to SPREAD METH and get bikers addicted. The bikers, listening to Paul and Hitler and Jorgen and Chuck were infected with a mind virus that spread. This led to EASY PAYDAY LOAN businesses being opened up in many cities, in the poorest parts of town; and later, led to strategic land purchases for building convenient Planned Parenthood abortion shoppes.

THE VIRUS of RACISM went everywhere: into books and crooks and old crones, baking coffee peach scones, and making their bones off of HEROIN CAKE.

All the nation caught fire, and racism led to META-RACISM and META-RACIMS led to CRITICAL RACE THEORY and that led to BLM-ANTIFA and CHOP / CHAZ and LORD RAZ making a gable closet of loose women with big tits ….

You don’t KNOW because no one told you.

Hyper-Racism is the ACKNOWLEDGMENT that the PEOPLE are WHITE-TRASH, even if their skin color is BLACK. Black, yellow, green, white, brown, blue, we DGAF. We don’t care, you are part of the same meat pie as the rest.

Paul Harvey doomed us.

We didn’t come this far because we’re made of sugar candy. Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and across this continent by giving smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans. That was biological warfare. And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever.

And we grew prosperous. And yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves. So it goes with most great nation-states, which—feeling guilty about their savage pasts—eventually civilize themselves out of business and wind up invaded and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry up-and-coming who are not made of sugar candy.

- Paul Harvey, 6/23/2005

G.M.F.Y.I.L.Y.

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YOU CAN FLOAT ON AIR,
YOU CAN RIDE THIS AIR CAR,
around your HOME ...
around your school ...

It floats on air,
powered by a vacuum cleaner ...

It floats on air,
powered by an electric motor ...

If it needed electric power?
Or some kind of magical SPRITE?
They'd tell you, right?
They'd include those words, amazing.

Infinite energy drive, what a time to be alive.

IT LIFTS 200 POUNDS!
THIS FUCKER LIFTS 200 POUNDS!

You will fly around,
all over town,
your woman will wear a gown,
the old men will frown ...

IT'S YOUR BOY'S LIFE HOVERCRAFT!
It's your key to future bliss!
This one time offer so surprising,
you don't dare miss.

For PLANS AND PHOTOS? - send $4.95 ...
For love and HEROES, give us your coin.
Your loins will flare,
you'll kill a bear,
your daddy WILL SWEAR to never take the ATARI away ...

PITFALL PETE.
PITFALL PETE.
STRUGGLE SO SWEET.
IN A JUNGLE SO WET.
You can bet mother fucker,
good old Pete,
wished he had a hovercraft,
to beat bricks back home,
to beat his meat.

You can float on air.
It lifts 200 pounds.
They'll never hear a sound,
when you sneak up on their BOY'S LIFE LIES.

The skies turn dark,
but you still have time,
for plans and photos,
send four ninety five.

FREE INVENTORS CALENDAR!
It's fun.
It's free.
With order ...

Low COST,
EASY TO BUILD,
YOU CAN'T BE KILLED,
YOU WON'T BE DESTROYED,
YOUR LIFE WILL IMPROVE,
one day you'll find YOUR GROOVE ...
Am I right Pete?

You still swinging Pete?

You still alive?

Or do you live with UNCLE CLIVE,
in HELL ...

Does that ring a bell?

We're going to Hell.

In late 2019 I had a tingler latched to my back, sinking its bug teeth into my spine. It whispered things like “fuck, shit’s about to get real” and “dude, the Lord’s Church will be driven underground soon”. And all of this is in the rear view mirror, as the COSMIC race brings us closer to a photo finish and British underwear models grab their feline spices and leave grease marks on the crescent metal sofa where their “third world guilt” banged them last night. Like that, and it’s fucking annoying, but it’s JUST LIKE THAT.

It reminds me of when I was a kid, at the barbershop with my dad …

In addition to slightly out of date Popular Mechanics and Popular Science, there was always that one ragged copy of Boy’s Life on the table at the barbershop whilst you awaited your trim. You’d flip through and see articles about boys fishing for trout, and starting fires, and the story of “young hero” type bullshit. Some bear was chasing some fucking Holden Caulfield down the dungeon pit of life’s little tragedies, but the boy STOOD up and made a SPEAR, and tossed that wretched thing in the bear’s ear. That boy’s life was saved; Boy’s Life was like that, and more.

If you stayed long enough, looking at those brownish yellow papers, that low quality ink on pulp, you might happen upon an article promising something AMAZING. COME ON: GEN X was RAISED on TANG and APOLLO STYLE BODY ORGIES. We expect the BEST, and our disappointments MOUNT. But back then, we’d look at that beautiful thing, and see in IT the reflection of our true American can-do selves. But that’s the GRIFT. That some kid during the stagflation heydays of the 1970’s might cobble together enough lawn mowing coinage to build some functional HOVERCRAFT … because that’s what they were selling. A hovercraft miracle.

Looking at that space vehicle you could imagine being General Patton, storming the BEACHES, fighting them NAZIs in your HOVERCRAFT DREAM. You might pick up Farah Fawcett and hang out at the WHISKEY BAR listening to the EAGLES play happy sunshine Saturday music bullshit. With that HOVERCRAFT? – the kids would stop making fun of you. Your dad might stop yelling at you. The world might stop calling you fat, and stupid, and a loser … if you had that FUCKING hovercraft. But instead, disappointment.

I think about the waning days of 2019, and out of that misty memory I conjure that demon from my youth, that impossible force, that summertime dream that some wise scheme could bring into existence; “the summer doesn’t end friend”, is what that HOVERCRAFT FANTASY said to me. But the summers must end and we drift deeper into the darkness scrumbo brothers and sisters.

WE ARE THE SCRUMBO, WE ARE THE LIMBO, we are the ones cleaning up after the baggage handler white lightning parties. We MIX DIESEL and BROKEN GLASS and OLD ASS with our sawdust and metal shavings, we are ready to guzzle it down, without a frown, so that the WHOLE TOWN, bejeweled and in gowns, might COME OUT THAT NIGHT and make it a happening. What a sight it would be, if that HOVERCRAFT LIE didn’t die.

THE HOVERCRAFT LIARS are the scourge.

They’ve morphed and sell iPhones now or reverse mortgages, but they’re still out there, grifting, sifting through the landfill of these intemperate masses finding goblets and glasses of tired old wine and Orson Wells’ ghost marking the way to peace. Will this madness ever cease?

They’ve changed into lawyers and voyeurs, glaring at that sticky alley fort life. Taco people wrapped in tarps, sleeping with roaches and rats and earwigs laying eggs in their ears and laying siege to their inhibitions.

I flourished before the time of LIES, when the FRENCH FRIES arrived and Ronald gave everyone a HAPPY meal. We were donuts and cake, we had an EZ bake oven and sold crank to the spiders at the Harley Davidson store. Kennels, filled with waifish bar maidens fed that lust prison and kept us from HIGHER UNDERSTANDING. We were trapped, and unfree – the HOVERCRAFT was a shackle and a hassle and the end of our youthful bliss.

2020 ARRIVED with BLUSTER and BRAVE FEAR.

Every crazed nurse-ape on TWITTER was advising you to MAKE YOUR WAY to the HOSPITAL respirator, for the necessary care of your magic monkey herpes or virus or pandemic. And you’d look at the nurses, as they danced in G-string style panties, and rubbed their BRAVE HERO MUNCTOUS upon your forehead blessing you, YOU SPECIAL YOU with WARP SPEED LOVE and BUMP STOCK BUSTINESS. The mind fuck didn’t end, no matter what you pretend or avoid. They keep tossing bullshit, but we know, my fellows, we know as HANG GLIDER MADMEN, that this is STILL the play; the intermission is nearly over, the FINAL ACT will be quite real.

You’ve tested the waters, and found that the sea is a roiling mess of carcass getaways and sailors lost and alone.

You are MAKING changes in your life, to become encrusted and trusted; various reef wardens have marked you and your time to SHINE is SOON!

When the fury cast is met by a skull dragon and the sky bleeds yellow, a fellow with a hearty laugh and a golden staff will arrive. He sells musket balls and catcalls and German cars and martini bars. You will meet that looming fate, and GREAT will be the scream as you meme and dance. An ORANGE KING has come to play and the sand castle queens will go away. For TODAY, this DAY, is THE DAY you turn up the volume on your life and get rid of the strife.

Boblimptock is almost ripe, and those cavern slugs you’ve been running from cannot hurt you any longer. Your fists are raw but filled with fight. Your eyes are consumed by the RED LUST of vengeance. You know what’s up, and you’ll take the FIGHT to them: the JACK-APES, the DURG-BUTCHERS, and FARMER TED. The whole GANG of framed mantle jacks can be YOURS for 6 EASY payments of just $15.99 … kind of feeling that hovercraft love again, ain’t ya?

Ominous …

In May of 2025, following the first full month of JD Vance’s presidency, a great object, glowing and special, will be seen in the sky. In April 2025, President Trump dies of a stroke. JD Vance takes over, and starts doing shit you’d expect him to do. Maybe we get WW3 no matter which chunk of human waste is tossed at the wall. Maybe there’s a ugly monster coming. Boblimptock was only ever going to last about 5 years … it all comes to an end, BOBLIMPTOCK does, the 5 years does, in May 2025. At that moment we enter GRINKEN TIME.

GRINKEN TIME will be a merciless pain flood. The deluge of old will take hold, in new forms. Humans, so called, will devolve into mongrel hoarders and old style weasel knights. The best among us will be taken swiftly by the first great herald, as skies turn brown, then orange, then black, then red. Many such horses and portended things can be felt, as the Pope talks about beach blanket bingo, and your grandmas tell you stories of salty BOOMER STYLE 5 ways in FRISCO back in 72′.

DOOK MINKLER, the TULIP STALLION, will take hold of what’s left of California, by the year 2033. Scoop gals, with torn dresses and jagged smiles, will carry knives about Sunset Boulevard and horny-Mc-Chesty types will run in fear from those rage driven morblies from Quadrant-83-BRAVO. Scourge forces and shock armies will surround your plans and nothing you expected will manifest. And why? – because YOU are living in 2019.

SKAG FISHING will be our FUEL ENDEAVOUR. Hunting coyote-elk and jungle-beaver will fill our days, as drinking and merrymaking FILL OUR NIGHTS. We TOSS that rancid place into the great vortex, we cast out remorse, regret, and sullen obsessions about pointless desires.

You want to go back? – STOP IT!

2019 is SO FUCKING OVER.

All your grievances and plans.

All your dollar faith and rule of law homage.

All the “respect” the institutionalized used to get, and is now gone.

All of it – leave it behind puddle flower.

Leave your pain with the blistering sun and that dead horse named Joovis, and just go …

Stop bringing up what “might” have happened – it didn’t, so what?

To be a LORD of BOBLIMPTOCK, you must transcend the ancient ways and embrace the new melodies. Songs played today resonate with the third eye and the green crystal. Pirate spirits will chase you, and try to take you away, but if you can LET GO of 2019 thinking, you can GET ON WITH Boblimptock style loving. And that’s a real nice moist warm love, fits well, you can commit to it.

Say goodbye to your hovercraft childhood.

Say hello to your meat pirate future.

We will get past the scrubly.

We will become GRINKEN FOLK.

And remember some old time wisdom …

“Boblimptock has made Helter-Skelter seem like Woodstock.” – Dr. Freckles

HISTORY HAS BECOME UNSTUCK!

CHEERIO GRINKEN FOLK of the FUTURE!

G.M.F.Y.I.L.Y.

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In the previous chapter we reviewed psychological warfare, and it can be a daunting subject. One can feel as if there is no escape.

Another fact about the previous chapter: TLDR

No one wants to read that shit, so I’ll try to be MORE parsimonious from here on out … it’s a DANIFESTO not ATLAS SHRUGGED!

Sovietology developed as a discipline at CIA, Langley, during the Cold War. American analysts had the job of reviewing soviet newspapers, journals, books, etc., all for the purpose of deriving useful information from what is superficially propaganda garbage. It kind of worked, in the way reversing entropy can “kind of work” but not really. You could say Sovietology is a subset of hermeneutics: the study of true meaning in text.

As a sovietologist, it was your job to:

1. keep track of outright lies
2. keep track obvious contradictions
3. interpret the use of propaganda by your enemy, and what that might imply

Yes – it’s a spooky discipline and about as scientific as handwriting analysis, but definitely more based than phrenology.

But it’s also not crazy – we should read the “news” with an eye to identifying:

1. What we know is true
2. What we know is false
3. Where are the contradictions
4. What are the “forbidden” subjects
5. Be aware of your own BIAS

TRUE, FALSE, CONTRADICTIONS, FORBIDDEN, BIAS

A good example of a “forbidden subject” is Arctic permafrost collapse. This is not “global warming” or “climate change” or some other ambiguous and poorly defined bugbear, this is a simple question: what is the permafrost?

And follow up question: is the Arctic permafrost in collapse.

There’s not enough space, time, or relevance to go into this one “forbidden” topic specifically, but it’s not the only one.

The “Epstein Affair” is another good example. You are OKAY looking into the “suicide” and you are OKAY looking into the “murder”, but don’t you DARE look into the idea that his death might have been faked. That’s forbidden.

As a sovietologist, you need to identify those areas of thought that are BLACKED OUT or redacted. These spaces that are hidden often, but not always, indicate a subject of importance.

Think about the “bunker madness” of the last 15 years. You read an article in WIRED Magazine that says “Zuckerberg has a secret bunker in Hawaii” – you can as a sovietologist do a few things here. ONE: identify the obvious contradiction “secret bunker read about in WIRED”. TWO: you can ask the question – where is the real bunker?

Antarctica is an ideal location for a long term safe zone: it’s basically a desert from a climate perspective, so in case of nuclear war fallout will be less of a concern. It’s geographically isolated and has massive stores of underground fresh water. According to some reports (Admiral Byrd), the continent is RICH in coal and uranium and other natural resources a technological breakaway civilization would need. It’s a buried place: only ever discussed in terms of “research” and “cruises” and “extreme skiing”, but ordinary people don’t know much about it. During the HEIGHT of the Cold War, both the USA and its ARCH ENEMIES set aside Antarctica as a “nature preserve” – which is weird, because the USSR set off Tsar Bomba (60 megatons) in the Arctic Circle a few years later AND the USA continued its destructive above ground testing, and even used nukes to frack for natural gas under “Project Gas Buggy”.

The key point: Antarctica is a forbidden topic in the context of “bunkers”, which is just weird.

When investigating the forbidden ideas, concepts, words, think also in terms of “scope” – which resonates with the Overton Paddock model: what is the allowable scope of that article your reading? What are the allowed “options”? If you pick “door number 3”, so to speak, then what? Ridicule? Isolation? Censorship? This is also known as coloring outside the lines. Look to that part of the story that’s written in invisible ink.

Of all the pitfalls for a sovietologist, one of the most problematic is BIAS. Sure, this impacts many forms of study, but it’s still important to isolate in the process. You might WANT to infer something that is not supported by the limited evidence you have: don’t.

For MANY years post the “Great Financial Crisis”, starting in 2010, I’d see/hear the “buy the dip” bullshit – and it irked me. It irked me because it did not fit with logic or math or commonsense or free enterprise or random fucking nature itself, but my BIAS kept me from seeing completely how manufactured and corrupt the markets were. My BIAS kept me from realizing that “buy the dip” was ironic bullshit and what THEY were really saying was “the central banks will pump these markets forever, and forever lasts as long as it does”.

YOUR BIAS as an amateur sovietologist or hermeneuticist of media CAN and DOES impact how you see/read the news and consume other sources of information. You can approach a subject with scientific disinterest, but it’s hard to make your unconscious self disinterested or indifferent. So always be on watch for things you might be seeing in the text your analyzing that might not be there.

I promised a shorter chapter and I’ll stick to it.

Summary: when evaluating propaganda, don’t assume that there is NOTHING to learn from it. While evaluating propaganda, be very disciplined: a) identify lies, b) identify contradictions, c) identify forbidden subjects, d) ask yourself “why am I seeing this?”. Don’t forget the simple list for focusing analysis: TRUE/FALSE, CONTRADICTIONS, FORBIDDEN TOPICS, and BIAS, your bias and to some extent THERE bias.

G.M.F.Y.I.L.Y.