Memetic magic is a reality today as I type this to you all. Meme's are powerful. They create a simple narrative that digs into your mind like a thorn through flesh. The reality is that influence is coming from every direction. For many this narrative is driven in the form of memes. The meme contains an entire viewpoint within a simple picture and a few cleverly chosen words, generally with irony as the central theme.
In recent years, "memetic magic" has been working its way through the consciousness of humanity. It started in the most obscure, the darkest, dankest corners of the internet, but it has become somewhat common now for anyone to easily state an opinion without opining on it for hours to convince another. Now, it can be done in a much cleverer, more digestible format than the precise use of skilled rhetoric of classical debate.
Few understand the power of the magick that is being worked through the minds of society. Few see the psychological effect of these easy triggering mechanisms presented in memes that has the strength to get through a skull, and into mind. These tools, these meme's, and this magic can turn a person completely on to your idea without the need for a lot of persuasion and rhetoric. In today's world, who has time for it?
The power of the meme is generally its raw use of irony. Who doesn't like to see a hypocrite exposed? Who doesn't like to see an ideology they hate openly bashed? For it certainly gives a man a dash of schadenfreude to see another man completely destroyed, this is clearly evident looking at humanities history. But why?
What is the power behind memetic and this form of chaos magick? In short, it is for control, as all magick is. The seeking of control is central to all magick ever practiced by man, throughout his history. Magick to control the sky, magick to control nature, magick to control fire, water, wind, earth. Magick to control the sun. Magick to control healing. Magick to control others.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
Technology brought memetic war to the technological battleground of the internet. Meme's are, in a way, the weapons developed by armies of the internet, who band together in clusters, and share their weapons freely with one another. It is commonplace, and acceptable to "steal" other maker's designs on the weapons they have created, and license to improve upon them is freely given.
The power is simple. Behind the memes are the groups. The minds. The minds are developing into hives. And they are realizing the true potential of a hive mind. The power to assimilate. They have found particularly clever weapons in this war, and surprisingly effective ones at that. The awesome power of a nuclear bomb seems like a firecracker compared to the power of thought. Let me give you an example.
On July 7th, a thought experiment was performed live on the Art Bell Coast To Coast AM show. 8-15 million people (estimated) listened in and presumably took part. An area of North East Florida had been experiencing terrible drought, and raging wildfires, and Art Bell decided this night that he would attempt an experiment to bring rain to the area, which so badly needed it. To do this, he asked everyone listening to simply take a few silent moments on the show, and concentrate as hard as they could on bringing that area rainfall soon.
The area in question was predicted by the Daytona Beach News to expect no less than 40% chance of rain. Within the next three days, the area received nearly 10 inches of rainfall. Check out the following pictures for the radar images of the area at the time:
11:40 PM 7/7/98 MST Broadcast time
AFTER July 8 3:30 PM MST
First heavy rain reported in areas
Clouds collect and stabilize in the target area:
July 9 3:45 PM MST Giant clouds gathering
July 11, 7:01 PM Heavy rainfall
July 12, 3:19 PM Still raining!
Rain Radar July 12
(See http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/?n=summer1998 )
Despite record high temperatures and excessive dry weather in Melbourne, Orlando, and Daytona counties June 30, July 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, and 9, the heat wave abruptly ended after July 9 and for the remainder of the month. The immediately preceding drought was replaced by excessive rain in the time period immediately following, with 262% greater rainfall in Melbourne, 146% greater than normal in Orlando, and 131% greater rainfall in Daytona.
This experiment was done using a gimmicky method called "amygdala clicking" coined by Neil Slade. The method he was trying to describe did not need the silly click noises he would make on the air, and indeed at that time no "clicking" could be done, because the amygdala was not "clickable" until 2012 (another story for another post). Regardless, he was on the right track, anyway and he was before his time with that. The principle was simple however. Mass thought driven at a problem will result in a catastrophic overshooting of the mission. It's like bringing an A10 Warthog to blow up a hot dog stand. Overuse of power will result in catastrophic mission creep, and this is what happened to the latest election. Meme magick elected a president, who may or may not be the worse thing to ever happened to your country. This man may stir us all into a global war (again, another post for another time).
The facts of the matter are undeniable, though. The "new agers" are correct about the power of thought. It shapes your world. It has shaped your world for many years. Think about Edward Bernays. He was practically the inventor of modern psychologically targeted advertising. Some say he invented propaganda, in its modern form. Propaganda was the earlier precursor to memetic magick. By placing the images where no one could avoid them (street signs, post offices, the "newsreels" before movies), they worked their magick over the minds of people and make them do whatever it was they wanted, in this case it was to go overseas and wage a bloody war where many of them were agreeing to go die for the ephemeral promises of what they had seen in the propaganda. For God and Country! Hogwash.
People take in a lot more, subconsciously, than they do consciously. By working in those dark recesses of the mind, Bernays realized that people have a lot of fear, and anxiety about a lot of things, and that he could play off of them. You smell bad, use this soap. Your hair is a mess, use this brush. Your face is ugly without makeup, here's the solution. You haven't got more than your neighbors, buy more things than him. Etc.
This is the memetic magick that the elite have been using on you for years, and understand. The mobs of people now discovering this power have been like a child with a loaded .45 pointed at his face. They haven't the understanding (yet) of what they have in their hands, or what it is really good for. Sadly, I feel that the remaining time for them to figure it out grows shorter everyday. The elite realize the awakening of the people to their true power, and are clamping down upon it at every turn. The Google's and the YouTubes of the world allowed voices to exist for so long, until they realized (or someone clued them in on) the damage that freely expressed opinion can do to the elite's propaganda machine.
Demonitizing YouTube videos of people using it to express the uncomfortable truth is only the beginning. They will turn the entire pack against you, as they did the Milo's and the PewDiePie's of the world. They will call you names. The favorites right now are "Nazi" (because who doesn't hate those guys, right?) "Racist" (a damning accusation, akin to being called a pederast), Xenophobe / Homophobe (because the assumption is that if you hate being invaded by hostile forces, you're just being a scaredy-cat, and if you oppose the activity implicit in gay relationships, you hate the people who do it equally across the board). Fallacies and more fallacies, and cover-ups, backtracking, and deflecting are all part of the arsenal of someone attempting to defend against the undefendable. Watch for those signs in people. It is very telling what their motives will be if you see this behavior when confronted with dissent.
Today, we face a new battleground, and it is, like Alex Jones predicted, a "war on for your mind", because there is awesome power in the human mind to create and destroy with the power of thought. Hands can only do so much. Thought carries the weight of the universe, and the awesome power of all contained within.
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