Anagnorisis: It’s Time to Wake Up

You cannot subvert an enemy who does not want to be subverted. – Yuri Bezmenov

In Christopher Nolan’s 2010 thriller, Inception, a freelance corporate espionage team constructs dream narratives into which they slip unnoticed to manipulate the intentions of their target. In 2025, that seems less far-fetched, as more people spend their lives in a dream-world of social media. The constant inundation of deepfake videos, massive controlled “bot” swarms orchestrated by both domestic and foreign actors, and a growing marketplace of disingenuous paid influencers makes it increasingly difficult to determine what is real.

Much like a dream, one of the best ways to pierce the veil is to look to the edges of the narrative, where improbable and inexplicable things start to happen. Like in the dream where you show up to high school naked and all the co-workers from your present job are in the crowd laughing at you.

When individuals or groups that share no apparent common interests suddenly seem to be reading from the same script, it suggests there is some third unidentified actor that unites the two.

Or, like a nightmare when you open the creaking door to the basement, only to find yourself walking in a creepy forest, the sudden introduction of a narrative that has no relation to the existing media environment is a good indicator that all is not as it seems.

Oct. 7, 2023 opened just such a nightmare door.

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