THE SCROLL: Vanity Fair UAE Highlights Vaccine Injury Awareness with Kristi Reimer from The Starfire Codes Divination Team
Notes On Performance Art, Sarah McLachlan, Marilyn Manson, George R.R. Martin, Care Bears, Directed Empathy Weapons, Subverted History, Meatposting, Gratitude, Literal Toilet Humor, and more...
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None of these various thoughts that have emerged for me was long enough for its own dedicated piece, but I wanted to highlight each of them here, so I’ve collected them below….
Highlighting Vaccine Injury In Vanity Fair UAE with Risteeka from The Starfire Codes Divination Team
From the article:
Kristi Reimer’s participation in the event held personal significance. Diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS) two years ago following a severe reaction to a Covid vaccine, Kristi’s journey has been one of resilience and empowerment. EDS, a rare disorder affecting one in 5,000 people, brings numerous challenges, including joint hypermobility, dislocations, and intermittent pain. Despite these obstacles, Kristi has turned to modeling as a way to reclaim her power and advocate for inclusivity in the fashion industry.
“Modeling is my way of taking my power back over my chronic condition,” Kristi shares. “I am using my career to raise awareness about Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and other chronic illnesses. Beauty is not bound by these limits, and it’s time to shatter these glass ceilings.”
Kristi’s vision extends beyond her personal journey. She champions the inclusion of models with chronic conditions and disabilities in runway shows, advocating for opportunities for models over age 40. Her presence at the Dazzling Derby Event was a testament to her dedication to these causes, inspiring others to embrace their uniqueness and pursue their dreams without hesitation.
The success of the Dazzling Derby Event was a testament to the collaborative efforts of Jewels Empire and the House of Katwalk. Attendees, including beauty queens and models from across the country, came together to support a worthy cause. As the sun set over the Coachella Valley, the evening’s glamour and generosity shone brightly, making a lasting impact on the lives of those affected by Parkinson’s disease.
Kristi Reimer’s story is one of courage, determination, and breaking barriers. Her journey from marketing executive to model is a powerful reminder that beauty and strength come in many forms. As she continues to advocate for inclusivity and awareness, Kristi’s impact on the fashion industry and beyond will undoubtedly be profound.
To support Kristi’s mission and learn more about Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, follow her journey on social media and join her in advocating for a more inclusive and diverse fashion industry.
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Diana. (2024). Kristi Reimer: Breaking Barriers at the Dazzling Derby Event. Vanity Fair UAE.
Are You Crying? There’s No Crying In Baseball….
Honest Question: Has anyone ever tried NOT crying about something new every five minutes?!
Or are they scared if they’re not crying about something new every five minutes that they’re going to run out of stuff to write about?
Also, why do they never cry that the plants can hear themselves being chewed and try to defend themselves?!?!
Why does this not elicit tears?!?!
MacDonald, Fiona. (2014). Plants Can "Hear" Themselves Being Eaten. Science Direct.
Tell them to cry about PLANTS.
PLANTS HAVE FEELINGS TOO.
And then, seriously, WTAF are you going to eat?
Thank your food for its sacrifice, eat, and be grateful.
Eat what you want.
They can eat what they want.
And everyone stop crying over it.
There is no escaping causing other living things pain.
If you cease to cause other living beings pain, you drop dead. That’s how it works.
Gratitude is the answer. Embrace gratitude. It’s what your ancestors did.
Being The Real You
In this climate, most people have felt the need to hide who they are on some level because others hold opposing beliefs, whatever they might be.
We were so much better off when people were more “live and let live” oriented.
But when any force comes in to spoil the grace we give others when we disagree, everyone reacts.
It sets off a chain reaction among people to tighten up and close ranks, to be even subtly distrusting of anyone who is not exactly the same.
Getting back to “live and let live” requires rebuilding trust.
You have to feel like you can trust others to be yourself around them, that regardless of how you might differ, you will still feel cherished and accepted.
If you can’t trust anyone around you, and there’s no rebuilding that because of pressures, circumstances, ideological differences, etc., you have to find people you can trust so that you can feel the relief of simply being you.
Care Bears Are Really Directed Empathy Weapons?
[In response to “I've begun to wonder if the presentation of monstrous demons and beautiful angels, while perhaps resonant and even valuable in symbolic ways, doesn't also risk creating insidious pathways for the more clever (diabolical, even) “demons” to infiltrate and manipulate us in far more pernicious ways by assuming the friendly, compassionate, attractive, pitiable, or adorable guise and (care) bearing of “angels.” The most terrifying demon of all would not be a dastardly, despicable fellow with a pitchfork taunting and tempting us. It would not even be some hideous, hellish beast torturing and tormenting us. The most terrifying demon of all would be the one that we love and trust, the one that manipulates, corrodes, and poisons us with a friendly smile, a concerned nod, or a wounded incredulity. And it would never break character, leaving us either eternally unaware or perpetually tormented by nagging uncertainty. Anyway, just a relatively inchoate idea I've been kicking around. Not very pleasant haha, and I am not very good at expressing it yet, so I figured a Care Bear gif would help :D Of course, I suppose daaaa Bears could also be seen as weapons for “good" or “evil" depending on who's bidding they were doing: enforcing conformity through empathetic coercion or shattering systems of control by awakening and harmonizing latent emotional resonances. Cute bear destroyers also reminds me of this….” -
]“RAY, WHAT DID YOU DO?!” 🤣
I agree completely. And I think it’s already much worse than that. Insidious weaponized altruism.
And if you don’t virtue signal in lockstep with it, because you can see right through it, the demons demonize you and they make anyone who bought their story look down upon you.
They’re breaking families and support systems apart intentionally by doing all of this. It’s all deliberate, an act of psychological warfare designed to break all of us.
When no one can see eye to eye anymore, bonds strain and fall apart.
Everyone is scrambling for purchase, reshuffling their lives around to find all new people who they feel they can trust, people who are in alignment with what they really believe so they can actually be themselves and live how they really want to live, people who won’t turn Stasi snitch and throw them under the bus for an extra roll of toilet paper.
Exposing yourself to people who are aggressive or catatonic in a life threatening situation can threaten your own life too, so maintaining or rebuilding those relationships can be destructive no matter how much you might want to.
In some cases, trust needs to be rebuilt because people are figuring out the shameful ways they treated their loved ones who only had their best interests at heart.
In other cases, sadly, the trust can never be rebuilt.
When I saw what was happening, I knew what was going to come next, and I knew that people were going to start thinking they were doing the right thing by turning on others, so I ended up nuking a lot of my old accounts so that I could cut ties and selectively rebuild.
I knew I had to steel myself to do it. And it sucked. It was really painful at first - grief of deliberate isolation on top of grief of loss - but I knew it had to be done.
After that, to be honest, it became liberating to just BE, to be able to speak my mind, to exist without shackling myself to anyone else’s ill-formed opinions just to keep the peace (what peace, really?), and I never looked back.
My mother called me today, and for some reason, this topic came up. She actually thanked me for pitching the fit I threw when my parents came over to my place and told me they were thinking about taking the shot.
I had started sobbing, which I never do around my dad, and he looked at me sideways like, is my kid broken, and he said, “Ok, she doesn’t do that… what the hell is going on?” And when I told him, he listened to me.
I know it’s weird, but I’m thankful I let myself lose it, if that makes sense. If I had kept it in… I don’t even want to think about it. At the time, I felt really super guilty about it, but I’m glad I popped off at them if it’s the reason why they’re safe. :/
[In response to “Beautifully said and really impactful because I can very much relate. We were placed in such horrible dilemmas during that wretched Covid mania, dilemmas that felt like a cross between the Kobayashi Maru and a Saw trap, and we all did the best we could in the circumstances to try and balance honesty, compassion, empathy, rage, survival, social expectations… I commend you for your courage and honesty both in the moment and in the sharing of your experiences.” -
]Thank you so much. I’m sorry you went through that too. I don’t know what your experiences were like, but I could imagine to at least some degree, given my own experiences and what I have seen people go through over the past five years. It’s heartbreaking.
I had to completely rebuild my inner circle and the results of that were often surprising.
And then there were times I thought I could build or rebuild trust with others, and I’ve been right, and I’ve been wrong.
Kind of a crap shoot.
And there’s been this underlying grief that’s hard to shake because it has often worked out so poorly (but being who I am, I know that feeling a persistent underlying 60-cycle hum of grief will only draw more grief to me - and so it has to STOP).
There’s no normalcy bias anymore.
And people’s energies switch on a dime, hot and cold, friendly or distant, hard to read - it might be that they are going through the same thing internally, not knowing whether they can trust or not, and not knowing what to do about it because, until you see how someone behaves when they are up against a wall, all bets are off.
Unfortunately, we’re more likely to see people’s true colors emerge like that under present circumstances.
So I’ve found that “when people show or tell you who they really are, believe them” might be the most important indicator of what you will see arise in a person under difficult circumstances.
Trust building becomes extremely difficult.
I fully agree that it feels like some kind of deranged Saw test or the Kobayashi Maru.
Right there with you - I compared it to Saw here… I was attempting to outline patterns and to indicate what traits might be chosen for and against if this was some kind of sick test set up to somehow cull us:
This Is A Culling: The Nine Satanic Sins Show You How To Survive It
The Starfire Codes by Demi Pietchell is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I wanted to share something with all of you. It’s a thought exercise. So, I’ll show you where this particular rabbit hole took me and you can leave anything you’d like to add to this in the comment…
Purely analytical survival hat on for a moment, to the exclusion of ethics, morality, compassion, or empathy:
Under circumstances in which disclosure of all of the lies would be immanent because a shift is planned or otherwise about to occur, I could see where the governing entity that lied to us about our roots in the first place would only want to retain people who could think it through, remain malleable, and keep their cool.
Anyone else becomes a wild card, a chaos generating factor, and the thing they would fear most, due to population numbers alone, would be unmitigated civil unrest.
They can’t control that.
So they wanted people sick or dead before it happened, to make it more “manageable.”
(I am resisting all urges to pepper this with my anger and frustration, and it’s extremely difficult to do, so bear with me… if I sound clinical, that’s why - I literally can’t discuss it without popping off unless I consciously compartmentalize.)
This is likely the reason why there is such a push to diminish population.
A fraction of the people would be easier to control, and if machines could do the jobs of the majority of the people, the governing entity would only require people who are capable of building, running, and maintaining machines.
Complete paradigm shift. “Elite human capital.” (That term is CHILLING. If THAT doesn’t make your blood run cold, there’s something deeply wrong with you.)
In this way, it makes sense why Schwab himself has chosen to call this the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.”
He has told us exactly who he is - evil incarnate. It is terrifying and we should believe him.
Punk puppy is so dorbs with his little mohawk and Oakleys. SQUEEE. 🥹🥰
The Conspiracy Of Silence To Protect Joe Biden
So, what happens when you conspire (literally) with others to pretend that the “acting president” is in control of all of his faculties when you’re really propping him up and waving him around like Weekend At Bernie’s?
I mean… I’m not an attorney… and I’m just spitballing here, so correct me if I’m wrong… but that’s kinda sorta in the ballpark of treason, no?
Better question: When does Rod Serling actually crawl out from his grave and start narrating?
We’ve already gone ahead and twisted some copper around Orwell’s corpse and hooked up a couple of electrodes.
We figured he was spinning in his grave so much we might as well generate some free energy for shits and giggles while we’re at it.
Do You Remember?
When we look at old world buildings from supposedly only a little over a hundred years to a few hundred years ago, we can find an exorbitant amount of evidence that our ancestors had more advanced technology than we do. This, of course, runs counter to the narrative we are told that humanity has advanced with the passage of time.
And yet, with every new discovery of this ilk, there is massive reticence from the scientific community to acknowledge or even remotely consider both that the mainstream accepted timeline is incorrect and that we had superior technology in the past. The logic and reason it would take for these seemingly intelligent people to alter the record accordingly is somehow well outside their scope. Assuming these well educated people aren’t stupid, we must assume they have some motive for so egregiously ignoring both logic and reason.
To demonstrate, if you were to hand me an apple right now, and I were to deny the very existence of the apple you just handed to me no matter how much you protested that you clearly just handed me an apple, this would be akin to the stance that the scientific community takes on data that clearly alters the accepted story.
And that’s all it is - a story. It’s not even a very good one.
Worldwide, old buildings were crafted out of conductive materials in architectural styles that, to this day, we are unable to emulate. But we are told that all of these massive buildings - these exquisite architectural marvels - were crafted by small populations in record time during the 1800s.
To say this is illogical is a massive understatement. Using the tools and populations we have available to us today, we could not achieve the same level of mastery they claim Bartholomew had with only a chisel, a horse, a buggy, and a few buddies. And for some reason, no matter how ridiculous these stories are, no matter how much they insult our intelligence, we allow these people to continue to lie to us about it without consequence.
Many of these buildings have on top of them domes, spires, and elements that appear to be akin to Tesla coils in design and function. We can clearly see that many of the key parts that would clue us in on the way these buildings functioned electrically have been removed.
Was this removal of key parts orchestrated to hide the functionality of these buildings from us so that we wouldn’t question why our ancestors appear to have had access to free energy?
Open knowledge of the existence and worldwide utilization of free energy in our past would certainly put a damper on the attempt to control us by making us beholden to “fossil fuels,” which we were lied to about as well in an effort to make us believe petroleum is scarce. (Oil is abiotic and was never created from fossils. This was a lie crafted in order to control us.)
Why hide from the public the true nature of humanity’s many great accomplishments if not to keep us locked into a mindset where we think we are unable to do anything so amazing? We would certainly be easier to control if we were trapped inside a prison of our own minds.
Have we lost a technology that was once openly available and utilized worldwide, one that would serve to decouple the idea of expenditure of energy from the valuation of goods and services, thereby freeing us from the confines of economic imprisonment? Or was this technology stolen from us in order to keep us under control?
I intend to continue to explore the depth and breadth of this gargantuan lie and what it means for us to live in its shadow. It’s an overwhelmingly sad tale of destruction and genocide, but my hope is that we are able to transmute that generational ancestral pain into finding a way to honor the ancestors we’ve lost by remembering them and by unearthing and celebrating their many amazing achievements.
So, I suppose the question to ask now is, “Who are we?”
Do you remember?
Finding Balance
I agree. Eventually city spaces turn into something akin to 1970s NYC, and it all goes downhill from there. But that’s what happened until Giuliani stepped in to clean it up. Sometimes things have to get bad before people have no other option but to concede that the way they are doing things is not working. Then they will finally seek solutions and stop blockading their implementation.
Gratitude Consciousness
It’s not completely impersonal - it’s driven by consciousness.
The point is to heal the part of consciousness with which you have been entrusted as a fractal and holographic fragment of the whole of source consciousness.
Your choices dictate your experience.
Gratitude consciousness programs the world around you.
To see evidence of this, think about why we give thanks for our food, and then explore the work of Veda Austin and Masaru Emoto with the consciousness of water.
When you see it, remember how much you yourself are made up of water and imagine how those same principles affect you as a being.
The Science of Water Consciousness and How to Prepare and Drink Runic Water
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History Is Fake….
[In response to “So what is our true history? How much of the "evidence" of how things used to be is real itself? Can any of that also be fabricated? How can people 8 feet tall be siblings of normal (to us!) sized people? If that was happening in 1905, why not since? That's only 120 years ago (my dad was born in 1912--my grandparents were adults in 1905). Why aren't giant people being born now? Or are they? And I want to know who changed the history on us! Who made the mudfloods. Who destroyed Tartaria. Etc.! Again, not expecting clear answers! Not expecting that you, or anyone who brings up evidence that things are not as we thought, needs to have everything figured out (just as virology debunkers do not need to provide an explanation of what makes people sick--logical fallacy of reversing the burden of proof!) It's just that having learned to question everything we've been taught and told about literally everything, I extend that to supposed evidence of how things really were in the past, or even when the past actually was. It seems wise to be skeptical in general. And I'll also confess I find it very destabilizing sometimes. Very disorganizing. While at the same time fascinating and exciting.” -
]All valid questions! These posts are sort of a companion piece to the What I'm Watching series. The videos in that series touch on all of these topics, and depending upon which ones you are most interested in, I have representative videos for all of those in that section.
I never present any of these things as being "the answer." But we all know there are lies that require sorting out and the more eyeballs and minds we have on that, the better. That said, the subject is HUGE - and all-encompassing. There's no way any one person could ever digest and make sense of all of it. So, it's best to just pick out the parts that interest you most and start there.
To me, "no virus" is a piece of all of this - so that's the part you've chosen to unpack. And I think that's wonderful!! :)
Lost technology, architecture, history, and culture speak to me, so I like to look into that piece as well. Similarly to the ways in which virus narratives were crafted in order to dupe us into buying into and propelling a narrative that keeps us controlled, this has also occurred in almost every facet of our lives. And yes, it's incredibly destabilizing. That's the intention behind it.
For the piece on the architecture narrative, I'd go back to the very beginning of the YouTube channel called My Lunch Break and watch those videos in order. They are numbered and they are very short. You will get a sense that way for the story that is being sold to us, just as you saw it in the case of no virus. It's very similar. He unpacks it methodically and incrementally so that you can catch on to the pattern and recognize it whenever you see it.
What all of these things have in common is that the true explanations for the way the world works are being swapped out for lesser but plausible theories that we cannot build upon further because we are attempting to progress on top of falsehoods.
Seeing it through that lens knowing what you know about no virus will give you context for seeing the pattern. In the case of architecture, the technologies being hidden have to do with energy and frequency. We used to have free wireless energy. This system was replaced by oil and the lie that oil is scarce and a "fossil fuel." I outline the idea behind abiotic oil and present videos for that here:
What I'm Watching: April 30, 2022
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If there's a specific area of this that interests you, let me know and I can point you in the direction of the people who have been studying that aspect of the puzzle specifically.
[In response to “Thanks for the in-depth answer! I have been watching My Lunch Break since I discovered it a month or so ago, when a friend sent me a link to the one he did on old-world buildings in Minneapolis/St. Paul, where I live. I had seen info about the Worlds Fairs, and all the beautiful and elegant buildings that were supposedly put up just for those few months and then demolished, but it hadn't occurred to me that buildings like that were right here in front of my face! I even remember going to visit the Minnesota State Capitol in 5th grade and then writing an assignment about how it was built! So that My Lunch Break video was a big wake-up. I appreciate your What I'm Watching compilations and have glanced at this week's assemblage. I have also recently become interested in "flat earth" and that is mind-blowing too! And reading Agent 131711's exposes on the fraudulence of dinosaurs and paleontology! I feel like all of these things are coming out because "the veil is being lifted" in this time, and we will, whether soon or not so soon, understand what has really gone on here on this planet for however long it's been! (This is part of why I say knowing viruses don't exist changes everything, because for me it was the door that opened in my mind to being able to even consider how much we have been lied to!)” -
]You're welcome, Betsy - I know it's a huge topic! I'm happy to help in any way I can! :)
We've been lied to about literally everything. Part of that is that we live inside of an expectation engine and so our expectations are being managed so that we cannot think our way out of the mental prisons we self-construct. Capturing and directing aggregate consciousness is the way most of this works in the sense that this is how we are manipulated. That is the primary mechanism. For people whose mindsets are incredibly tied to materialism, trying to wrap heads around this can break brains. Go slow and follow the notes in the Brain Melting article. It will help to know what to expect and to compare it to your experiences as you were opening yourself up to no virus. Then you'll know how to address it in yourself across additional subject matter and also how to help others understand without having their hackles go up to keep unresolved discrepancies from getting in. Super important. We want to move at everyone's own pace, not speed them up harshly. They need time to digest, get grounded, and then take the next incremental step up the ladder of understanding.
The Hudsucker Proxy Proxy Has Appointed A Proxy. It’s Pretty Much Proxies All The Way Down….
“…doing crap like talking to a street sign or imaginary oratory given to a crowd of Publix shoppers as I saw a dude doing this week….”
“…it was that strange and I don't want to start seeing people do this, did I tell you about the guy that pulled his pants down at a stop light in rush hour traffic? Bro he was screaming like he saw something that was burning and I was like thinking who fucking gave this inexperienced asshole psychedelics and they can't let it out worse than they did in the 60s or its going to be like taking the bad acid in San Francisco in the Acid Test phase of Ultra….”
Mmm….. Perhaps they are having mental breakdowns for another reason?
In my opinion, I think we’ll be seeing a lot more of this over time.
One sec…. finding old things so you can see where my mind is going….. keep in mind some of these are very old and we have better information now. Look at them kind of like a time capsule of what I had been thinking at each point in time and you’ll get my mental trajectory….
9/20/2021 (massive confusion, trying to piece it all together with my group):
What No One Is Asking: Where Are All The People?
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11/19/2021 (reporting on the framework I’d constructed for viewing current events months earlier but was terrified to say anything because of the censorship, so I was already self-censoring in response to that at times just to keep my accounts - two weeks later, Twitter banned me):
How To Survive the Death Window in the Dark Age of the Myocarditis Mass Murders
The Starfire Codes by Demi Pietchell is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. A friend posted this infographic, and I thought it was a necessarily blunt and succinct way to show you exactly what is occurring.
Past this point, I was getting further into the implications of what I was seeing and how it would function inside the body… teslaphoresis, the internet of bodies, frequency activations, mass hallucinations.
In some of it I’m very angry and in some of it I’ve shut down and started talking about it completely clinically, aggregating all of the moving parts in the hopes that anyone would understand.
But the truth is that no one really does. I’ve come to terms with that now.
I did. One sec… I’ll find the other posts for you….
In this one, I got into my experiences with directed sound weapons that were repurposed for gallery and museum spaces:
Directed Energy Weapons in Maui: Why Just About No One Will Cop To What Really Happened
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And in these two, I broke down teslaphoretic concepts, but in the second I went into how teslaphoresis, if/when coupled with IoB infrastructure and then hit with a frequency, could cause different sensory effects:
Do You Think People Are Too Stupid To Understand Teslaphoresis?
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The Science Behind Teslaphoresis: The Wireless Technology Revolutionizing the Internet of Bodies
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And in this dwtruthwarrior and I recorded a breakdown of the piece just above:
The Great Culling and the Nine Satanic Sins
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We had some audio issues in that and we were joking that the line may have been tapped somehow. But who really knows. You may or may not hear some clicking in my audio, so please excuse that.
Literal Toilet Humor
CONFESSION: Some of my humor is extremely abstract, and sometimes I will still do drops with the more abstract pieces in them because I know that a few of you share my sense of humor in that regard….
But you’re NOT seeing what I’m filtering OUT….
And some of that includes some memes that I know only a few of you would find funny… like maybe two of you….
It’s kind of like that thing Tosh does when he keeps overworking a joke, making it more and more obscure until only one person is left laughing and then he moves on to the next joke….
But, as someone who studied film, media, and metaphysics and could appreciate that THIS MEME is LITERAL “toilet humor,” THIS MEME had me IN TEARS….
This absolutely ridiculous meme checked ALLLL of my boxes….
If you can appreciate this, we just became best friends…. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Preserve The Dopa-Meme Dealer At All Costs….
Skibidi Shitposting, LEVEL: EXPERT, In Which Shit Gets Real And Wins All Of The Interwebs
Things Take A Turn….
What Happens If I Play It Backwards?
When You Attend The Spectacle, You Become The Commentary
[In response to “Marilyn Manson's live album, The Last Tour on Earth, which also has the coolest cover of his career—just literally a burning cross on stage, so shockingly direct—is one of the best albums of his career, and probably just all rock. It gives you the experience of the ritual this guy was doing on-stage, and the songs sound great and are both greatest-hitsy and deep cuts, as well. Just really superior stuff, but I'm with you; for every this one and Elliott Smith magical live recording, there's an Iron Maiden album where it sounds like they sped it up in real-time. Not to mention Nirvana Unplugged, man! But again, yeah. Audio quality isn't something I often pay attention to, and it often adds to the aesthetic when it's bad, for me, in a similar way to what you said about the ambience.” -
]I agree completely. Go to the parts about Manson and about Astroworld in this piece.
[In response to “YES! Oh, my God, that’s the best song! And those shouts of “Hey!!” are what really makes it work. His stuff is a miracle. A Dark miracle, maybe. Yeah, you know, it’s tough, because he’s just such a genius (the entire *album* feels like the same kind of ritual set-up as that song), and the music is so good, and as you pointed out with “The Fight Song,” the lyrics are so good. I’ve thought about how Nazi-ish it sounds, before, and it’s just like, “Can I like good art that seems to hate me?” Or criticize, etc.” -
]Being there, in it, realizing the joke's on you is just surreal. Also, I was 17 at the time. I was thinking, "How does no one else GET this?!"
[In response to “Whoa, you actually went to the concert? That must have been awesome. You were way ahead of your time to have had awareness about that.” -
]I went many times. I grew up in South Florida where they had started out and played most often. But that specific show was when I realized it. So, I had been going to shows of theirs for two years by that point.
[In response to “Cool that you caught it so early on, his energy must have been intense, back then. I often wonder about how much you can be sort of ironically listening to a message. I remember saying that Lady Gaga was making fun of the idea of being materialistic with her music, but at what point is it just materialism? And the point, I think, is the obvious irony, which is there, so then, at what point is the obvious irony on the listener?” -
]When they are performance artists in addition to being musicians, expect that the joke is on you. They're exposing the idea of it by showing you who you are by participating in it. It loops and then loops back around.
I'll see if I can find the show or one from that time that was like it so you can see what I saw....
This is close to what I saw. Same year, same tour.
[In response to “What a spectacle. Do you think there’s a way for an artist to do something like that and not have it be sort of a mockery? The stage design and everything is just so good, as are his, yes, performances, lol.” -
]They could - it's just that that's usually how it goes down. Especially when it's something like this where it's built into the music and the themes behind the music. It's a militaristic beat with a call/response structure. It's invoking that feel intentionally. (I still like that as a musical structure, but when I hear it, I am aware of what it is attempting to draw out of me and I can stay centered... most people get carried away with it because they are not aware of the structure and how it functions, how it alters what you're feeling and creates a desired response.)
When this kind of art is done well, it usually cracks the entire medium open to expose it for what it is. This was done very well. It's very powerful. But in this case, the majority of the people participating had no clue.
If the audience understands what's happening, it's less manipulative, but if it's still a commentary on the nature of performance, commercialism, spectacle, religion, the experience of the megachurch and how it can feel similar to a political rally... usually the audience doesn't get it because they're so entrenched in those activities as a part of their experience of life that it might not even dawn on them that they're being frothed up into an emotional fever pitch to get a reaction out of them, to make them feel a certain way, to get them swept up in a feeling and willing to agree with or play along with anything they hear... in a crowd, groupthink tends to kick in.
It's very difficult to keep up your personal boundaries in that setting and keep your mind locked into your individual thoughts and preferences. It takes a great deal of strength to do that, let alone to look around, notice what's happening, take a step back, and realize what's really going on.
Compare it to what's been happening in the past five years. How many people really get it? How many people can take a step back and see the machinations for what they are and then make a conscious effort to make sure that the ways in which they are participating or not participating have been based upon their own choices and not getting swept away with the crowd? It takes being willing to be an individual. Most people like rolling with the pack. It makes them feel safe. And that feeling of "safety" in numbers is being used against them to get them to act outside of their own best interests.
[In response to “That's a really evocative explanation—I definitely feel that pull, where it's almost entirely an emotional thing, but then, you have the little bit of language, "Repent!" coloring it. And the music is so good that you feel the anger of the song and the focus is right there for you, to sort of feel the anger *about*. I thought of something interesting, though. How many Manson fans do you think got caught up in the hijinks of the hoax? I bet you that there might be at least a slightly increased percentage of them who saw through it. I wonder if that might not point to him being sort of a trainer for the ridiculousness of that stuff, and so when you see Donald Trump in your mind, or something, you see Marilyn Manson.” -
]The average Manson fan isn't going to figure it out. Neither is the average Trump follower or Biden follower. I'm sure some do. But it's going to be the same people who see through most of the culture's other ruses as well. Small percentage. But growing now, I believe…. Most people are just on autopilot.
Zen and a Bat
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Ohhhhhh my stomach hurts from TOO. MUCH. LAUGHING!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
There were whole other toilet humor conversations outside of ours that I completely missed, because I was out-of-control punning! 🤣🤣🤣