Why Reality is Enemy Propaganda
You will shortly find out how important this is
Why does no one know what is going on? Why does the US government seem to be the least informed about the effects it has caused?
Today I will do two things. One, I will say what I think is going to happen next.
Two, I will give you a preview of my new book. I am writing a political economy for the post-populist politics of the West.
This bit is about why our economics, politics and culture have degenerated into senseless moral nihilism. I say this is the inevitable result of the permanent state of exception produced by the political technique of the 20th century.
This brief essay (3min read) will explain to you why some people can see reality and why many people - especially the ruling elite - can’t.
It’s not rocket science.
Which, it now appears, the ruling elite can’t understand either. lol.
1: WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT
Here is my brief summary of the immediate future.
I say the enemy propaganda known as reality is incoming like a truth nuke to glass the entire American system.
No sources. There is a reason I predicted what was going to happen a long time ago (and a short time ago as well). Predictive power directly correlates to descriptive power.
That means the closer your descriptions correspond to what is the better you can see what will be. I explain how this works in the essay in part 2. It’s not just me. Anyone who can still see what reality and being really are knows all this.
Anyway here is the news for the next two weeks:
Donald Trump is now flatly denying reality
USG has lost control of events
USG is not serving American interests
Reality is going to appear in the US and Western mainstream media
Americans especially are going to be very cross as a result
The true cost will make the war appear an act of reckless treason
The war is lost, the only question now is the cost
Wait till you find out they’ve been making money out of it too etc
This will be a tremendous shock to many people so be prepared to help
(It will also make things and people very unstable)
You can probably work the rest out yourselves. This process started on Sunday, by the way. Brace for impact.
The truth about this war is far worse than most people know and soon they will.
Reality is providing the necessary correction and this process cannot be stopped.
Now here is a bit about the political technique of counter-reality.
If you want to know why our culture is morally and actually blind, as well as bankrupt in every sense, consider the following. It will explain some of the reasons why nothing is true and everything but the truth is permitted.
I am paywalling this as a duty to my paid subscribers. Also, because the orginal work below the line is the product of a lifetime.
If you would like to read it but cannot pay, send me an email and if I believe you I will let you in. Might take time to reply, don’t have a lot of time right now.
2: A Permanent State of Exception
We are used to the idea of the exception becoming the rule. This brief essay is about what happens when we are ruled by a permanent exception. It will take you about 3 minutes to read.
1.
The German jurist Carl Schmitt is perhaps best known for the maxim
“Sovereign is he who decides on the state of exception”.
What is meant by this? The state of exception in Schmitt is a situation in which a ruling power decides to suspend or ignore the law in order to preserve law and order.
This may be justified said Schmitt when circumstances make necessary the suspension of judicial norms to preserve the life of the state. Think Weimar.
It is the justification of a unilateral declaration of a state of emergency, and in Schmitt the authority which determines this emergency and the remedy in the acting outside the law is by definition the sovereign power.
2.
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben wrote a short book called “The State of Exception”.
Agamben agreed this exception was present when the state ruled as if the law did not apply to itself, and he argued that this was the case throughout the regime change war era, which, as we can see today, has not quite come to an end.
I have argued that regime change changed our regimes the most.
Agamben would agree, though in a more limited sense, as he was strictly concerned with the fact that during this period the US and its satellites did indeed act as if there were no law or norms outside the ones they catchphrased into being as a sort of marketing jingle.
Think “war on terror”.
3.
My own view of regime change is that it demonstrated that foreign and domestic policy were the same. A revolution was undertaken which designated enemies domestic and foreign, with a moral duty following to identify and neutralise them.
In the West, vast repressive measures were introduced which abolished private life and replaced it with a digital penal colony supervised by a for-profit surveillance industry, which redrew the map of social reality. Media, social and legacy alike, became indistinguishable from State power.
A State religion explicitly replaced the default Christian undertow of our culture, a countercurrent flowing from the main stream of a regime dedicated to permanent change. And everything has changed, utterly.
That wars abroad produce repression at home is only a fraction of the point. In fact, that regime change was and is a period of state exceptionalism is also only a portion of the picture. It was and is a means of making war at home and abroad in the name of a civilisation it is in fact destroying.
My argument is that we have inhabited a state of exception for over a century.
To explain this, I have to ask - an exception to what?
Think about what reality and being are. The State takes exception to what is.
WHAT IS THE WHATNESS OF THE MODERN STATE
Is there really nothing more to sovereignty than “What I say, goes”?
Look at the cover of Gaetano Mosca’s book about elite power. See the triangle with the apex shaded in? This is a simple way of picturing the elite - the permanent “ruling class” which is the subject and argument of his book.
You can look also at James Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution, whose cover also neatly illustrates his concept of the sociopolitical pyramid sectioned into castes of management.
Finally, we can look at Neema Parvini’s book, The Populist Delusion. It has a lot of dots on it and says people are rather dotty if they believe that populism represents real political change.
In reality there is a permanent ruling class (the elite), power is delegated into tiers of management (the managerial revolutionaries) and people power is a popular delusion.
I am not going to explain these things here. I mention them because they offer a helpful snapshot of the political technique of the 20th century.
What I am on about is triangles.
BEING AND THE TIMES
There is no metaphysics in any of these books. That is, none of them talk about the nature of being and reality. Why does this matter? It matters because this used to be the basis of our politics and culture before the state of exception began to normalise its absence a century ago.
In our times, it is hard to say what norms are any more. Why has the state marginalised the normal and normalised the marginal? Why is meaning so corrupted, why are concepts so confused, and why is conversation so fraught that it is often vexed to nightmare?
One aspect of the state of exception is how disconnection from reality becomes the rule.
In fact, the late stage exceptionalism of the State is openly hostile to reality.
Both ruling factions of the regime make a virtue of reality denial. They are of course the same faction but with different memes.
Reality is enemy propaganda these days. It is a mark of distinction to object to the obvious. This is not a new development of media messaging or the speed of information or the mindmelting overload it delivers.
If we consider metaphysics as both the foundation of our knowledge of the world and its highest expression, we can understand a system without it looks like this. Human potential, knowledge and the concept of the nature of reality is limited because it has lost its head.
The headless triangle or even truncated pyramid is the state without a concept of being and reality. That is the state we are in.
It is no accident, as this was always the intention: to create a state of exception to the natural order entirely.
That is the reason that no one can say what is going on, much less see it. This is why we are morally and financially and intellectually bankrupt. It why nothing means anything anymore.
This has happened because we have forgotten that the signs used to point to somewhere. It is because we have lived in a sensational oubliette, and it has been the business of the state to see to it that we learn to see nothing outside.
Imagine the effect of a sudden reintroduction to reality. You are here.
As someone who was strongly for Trump in 2016 and 2020, it became clear to me sometime in the summer of 2024 that he had been compromised, which might be why the legal cases against him went sideways and he got a metric ton of Zionist money, and there was no "all society effort" to make sure he did not win. So he was a Ziocon sellout- fine, but what changed from 2025 to now? I think the 2025 strikes were largely ceremonial and negotiated with Iran. I think what has happened since is that Trump, like everyone who is lucky enough to reach a certain age, has begun to mentally decline.
This decline, like it is for most old folks, makes them more confused, belligerent, and they can be siloed into hermetically sealed information pockets by those they trust, and they become immune to outside information. This is where I think he is. Dementia is beginning and he has no idea what is happening. Israeli agents like Kushner and Witkoff- who are faces he trusts from decades ago- can tell him whatever they want.
Thank you, Frank. You are hands down my favourite REALIST to read. There aren’t many of you left, but if there were you would still be number 1!