There is a strange tension that develops once a population has lived inside the cave long enough.
On one hand, people,undoubtedly, become more skeptical—and that is healthy. They begin to recognize patterns, orchestrated narratives, coordinatedly clumsy intelligence leaks, conveniently timed crises, and the peculiar yet familiar rhythm with which the media industrial complex suddenly decides certain stories are “important.”
It is this final one that is the bridge to the not so healthy.
For despite our best involuntary and healthy investigative prowess at times, usually after a story has passed, the population becomes more emotionally programmable, because it both sees that familiar rhythm and is unable to extricate itself from the charm. The nervous system of America has gone desensitized, unwittingly adapting to what boils down to a permanent crisis mode. We have become conditioned to live waiting for the next emergency, the next outrage, the next “breaking development” scrolling across the bottom of the electronic cave wall.
This pattern is intentionally wrought upon us by those of impiety, and despite its incompleteness, the video from AfterSkool we have posted here many a time—The Killing of the Mind—gives an apt illustration of what cognitive warfare on a populace looks like.
Quite obviously, and why we keep harping on the lesson, it is a dangerous place for a civilization to sit.
“Arous’d and angry, I’d thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war, But soon my fingers fail’d me, my face droop’d and I resign’d myself, To sit by the wounded and soothe them…”
The Latest “Reports”
This week alone we’ve been spectacled by drone attacks near a UAE nuclear facility; renewed warnings toward Iran; reports of secret foreign military installations in Iraq; simmerings involving Saudi Arabia, BRICS and the US; voter-verification controversies amidst seemingly perpetual election cycles; etc, etc, etc.
Consider that there is architecture to it all.
Neverending nuclear tension, after neverending supposed ceasefires and deals.
Ever-hot regional escalation, that never ever cools.
Overton Window-shifted election anxiety, after years of mockery toward those beating the alarum.
Terrorism somewhere, despite how amazing we are.
Multipolar realignment, but always negotiating.
Financial instability, but never been better.
Permanent emergency, let us save the day you cattle.
All of it—all of it—both frustrates and desensitizes, and that is what it is meant to do.
If it makes the mainstream, and as we spent much time on in 2025, if it makes even the list of approved opposition channels, it is the sure bet that it is not merely “news.” It is psychological conditioning through what one Dr Haugen calls reveal-and-conceal cycling. (Yes he may be a part of that approved list as well, obviously, but if we haven’t sharpened our ability to cull truth in line with Christ while discarding the rest and never fully trusting any single talking head, we probably need to exit the conversation for now).
The modern citizen is not simply informed anymore. Actually he isn’t informed at all, not with the truth. He is immersed, inundated with a constant barrage of half-truths and tantalizing lies that memory hole him into oblivion. The cave follows him into his pocket, his car, his office, his bedroom, his church building, and eventually, into his understanding of the faith life itself. He no longer merely watches the spectacle. He lives inside it and gushes over the thousand hearts he got on his Twitter post.
Lest we think we should distrust only the legacy media and some of the approved dangerous conspiracy theorists out there, I present to you someone I still follow to some degree, if only to see how one “truth-teller” for one “truth-telling” Trump-supporting site in the wake of Q is handling the development of recent events. Read it not to adopt a coherent argument just to sound smart or to find more reason to rail against anything even touching on anti-Israel; read with a mind—as a conscious exercise—to reject whatever emotion or feeling bubbles up inside you:
GhostofBasedPatrickHenry: Just nine days before the Iran-Israel started back in February, a Deep State-aligned think-tank called the Middle East Council on Global Affairs published an article asserting that a detente with both Saudi Arabia and the UAE was a strategic priority for Iran.
The article was well-sourced, providing quotes from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from June 2025—during the Twelve Day War: “Saudi Arabia stands with its brothers in Iran and will spare no effort to support them.” He added that “the entire Islamic world is united in backing Iran.”
The UAE joined in the collective condemnation of Israel’s unprovoked aggression against Iran, as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi both expressed their solidarity with the Muslim world, going as far as to call their longtime rival, Saudi Arabia, their “brothers.”
Israel had succeeded in uniting the entire Islamic world under a single banner, and that banner was to oppose Israeli aggression.
Now Saudi Arabia is offering to formalize a non-aggression pact with Iran, and suddenly it is hit by a drone attack… from Iraq? Right after joining a Saudi-led initiative to integrate economic infrastructure and investment across the Middle East? An endeavor potentially worth $100 billion, which could transform the region?
It’s worth noting the recent report of two Israeli military bases that were secretly built in the remote parts of Iraq. The bases were discovered by a Bedouin shepherd named Awad al-Shammari. After reporting his discovery to the relevant authorities, al-Shammari was reportedly gunned down by a helicopter strike.
Now we have an attack on the UAE’s nuclear power plant—an attack that came in from the west. Let’s check the map.
I’ve taken the liberty of marking with an arrow the place where these drones reportedly crossed into the UAE, according to their official statements. I’ve also marked where Iran is located, as well as Israel. You will notice that Iran is not located to the west of the UAE, but Israel and Iraq both are.
I should also remind you that Israel staunchly opposes any Muslim country possessing nuclear technology. The intended target of the attack was the nuclear power plant in the UAE.
It seems to me that somebody is trying to provoke a war between the various Muslim nations. The only nation that would benefit from such a development would be Israel.
Sometimes logic and common sense are all you need to evaluate a situation.
It’s a solid take, from a merely cognitive standpoint and not a politically leaning one. Yet still, reject it. Reject it as part of the show. By the end of this article I’m writing now, reject me as well—if only all of this makes you exit the stage entirely and get serious about Christ and His Church.
Final Words—False Flag Readiness
This all means that the greatest danger may not even be the next false flag itself. It is the preprogrammed emotional pathways already laid down before it arrives.
If a major attack occurs tomorrow, or the illustration of one through the electronic screen everyone believes, the algorithms working through social media for over two decades now already know where millions of Americans will run mentally before they even think consciously about it. One tribe will sprint toward revenge. Another toward denial. Another toward partisan loyalties. Another toward performative virtue signaling. Another and another and another toward whatever number of approved conspiracy theories our overlords approve of, both for narrative control’s sake and the sheer enjoyment of laughing at us as we fall for it yet again.
The digital architecture has already constructed the shoots. The cattle merely have to be frightened into them.
The old propagandists relied primarily on censorship, which is precisely why many of us initially mistook certain censored figures for authentic martyrs of truth. The modern system is more sophisticated. It floods the public with carefully curated overload tailored to our desire for heroes, villains, tribes, and emotional certainty. The result is not clarity, but collapse. Discernment erodes beneath permanent stimulation, endless speculation, and emotional exhaustion.
And all of this—without Christ and His Church.
The result is a population simultaneously skeptical and manipulable, cynical and embarrassingly gullible, overwhelmed yet easily steered.
We’ve become comfortably numb.
And when populations become the butt of a Pink Floyd song, the spectacle they splash on the cave walls become our governance, become our gods, become our destiny. When the cave wall becomes the catechism, when the screen becomes the shepherd, when emotional chit-chat online becomes the church—we are dead. We fall prey to the menticide.
History—whatever is true about what the Marxists taught us—shows that geopolitical shifts both large and small are often preceded by emotionally catalytic events that instantly narrow public thought into a binary, into the Fatima error of the false dialectic, into the trap. Suddenly every citizen is expected to choose a side, repeat slogans, wave flags, trust experts, loathe enemies, and silence any hint of disagreement for the sake of “unity” and “security.”
The Hegelian Dialectic thrives in that atmosphere.
Problem.
Reaction.
Solution.
And by the time the public realizes it has been emotionally herded, the machinery is already moving to the next magick trick.
That is why Christians especially must resist becoming screen-conditioned creatures whose entire emotional state rises and falls according to the latest narrative cycle. For a civilization incapable of silence, prayer, discernment, and memory can be stampeded almost anywhere.
