Predictive Programming is one of those things that's absolutely real, but is frequently misunderstood. The Simpsons - I'm fairly confident it's nothing but educated guesses, with a dash of synchronicity. I'm more interested in 1999's Quarantine, 1968's 2001 A Space Odyssey, and, worst of all... Top Gun.
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So in recent live streams, videos, I've mentioned dropping the conspiracy theories, or at least backing off from them a bit.
Do not be this guy.
Do not be the guy that is so right about everything, so knowledgeable and informed.
He's got so many things in his head that he can't even hold on to them.
That guy might be right, but he's still going to collapse.
Was it Pyrrhus said one more victory like this, and I'm going to lose my empire?
Don't win Pyrrhic victories.
Don't be an obsessive conspiracy theorist.
And so it's with that in mind that we ask the question, what is predictive programming?
Now, predictive programming, the common low-level definition of it is when shows, movies, things in the media seem to predict the future, as if they are preparing the audience for the future.
And there's a certain baseline version of this, which is true, a conspiratorial version, which is untrue.
And then a deeper, more profound, and even more disturbing sense in which it is very, very true.
But people miss out on that one.
So on the way that it's baseline true is that even, even in a world where all the politics were real, I'm inclined to think they aren't in our world, but let's pretend for sake of argument that it's all real.
They actually hate each other.
It's a real competition.
Even in that world, K-Fabe is still going to dominate.
You know, this is one thing that marketers in the boxing industry, in the sports entertainment industry, this is something they figured out long ago.
That it's not just enough to have a really intense bout of physical competition.
You need build-up.
You need to psychologically prep the audience for it.
That's no difference in politics.
So politics, you might have the big battle of the debate, but you need to soften people up for the debate.
People need to know what's going to be debated.
What are the issues that everybody's talking about?
What are the things that I'm supposed to be pro-SCUB or anti-SCUB on?
A lot of work goes into forming the context in which the competition or the conversation happens.
Some of it's organic, some of it's just what the audience likes.
A lot of it is top-down.
So there's a predictive angle to that.
As I've said elsewhere, if you talked about Epstein even five years ago, most people would look at you like you're crazy.
Nowadays, everybody knows about Epstein.
So if there were prosecutions happening because of Epstein, they would be far more possible in today's world than they were five years ago when nobody even heard of the guy.
So there's that baseline level, that you got to kind of prepare the audience for what's going to happen.
You need an opening act before the main show.
That's the baseline.
Then there's the common version of predictive programming where people that are oversaturated in media start noticing that current events mimic something they saw in media a long time ago.
The perfect example of this one is The Simpsons.
The Simpsons predicted X. How could they predict?
They predicted 9 out of 10 Nobel Prize winners in mathematics.
How did they do that?
It's actually not that mysterious.
The writers at The Simpsons are very intelligent people.
They are very well read.
They're highly abreast of their field.
If you went up to a baseball junkie or a movie junkie and you asked, who's going to win MVP this year?
Who's going to win best leading actress?
Somebody that was really on top of the conversation there, really on top of that genre, could probably figure it out.
Which is how they figured out who the Nobel Prize winners were.
There's like 30 people who might have win, 20 that were probably going to win, and they picked 10, they got them right, for the most part.
It's the same thing with Donald Trump.
He was talking about running for president since the 90s.
It's not new.
It's just surprising that he actually did it.
What used to be a punchline became our lived reality.
So there's that angle where it's not predictive programming.
It's just good guesses.
Another version of this would be, why did that spin-off series from the X-Files predict planes flying into the Twin Towers?
Well, they predicted it for the same reason that it was an effective terror attack.
Whomever you believe was behind it.
It was very obviously an attack on American global capitalism.
If they'd attacked Mount Rushmore, it would have been kind of confusing what they were angry about.
They attacked the Twin Towers.
Everybody understands what the attack is supposed to represent.
And half the world hated it, and half the world loved it.
So it was a pretty obvious target that if you were writing a fictional show about terrorists doing terrorist things, that's one of the things that you'd put in one of your episodes.
You don't need to posit higher levels of a conspiracy informing the scriptwriters that they need to put it in there.
So no, that's not predictive programming.
That's just good entertainment.
As for the Simpsons Go to New York episode, where there was a 9-11 with a picture of the Twin Towers on the New York magazine, that's Jungian synchronicity.
That was mystical.
It was not pre-planned.
Okay, so all of that said, because none of that's really interesting, is it?
Like, yeah, there is some stagecraft to politics.
You gotta kind of prep the audience, convince them that so-and-so is a bad guy before you throw them in jail.
Right?
Otherwise, you've got a PR nightmare.
And people are going to think you're doing that because you're a political tyrant.
Okay, fine.
There's some theater to it.
And it turns out that movies and TV shows that try and are set in the real world are actually pretty good at predicting the real world to some degree or another.
None of that surprising.
Here's where we really get into predictive programming though.
2011's Contagion.
That was a movie built from the ground up to explain to you, dear viewer, how it's going to happen when the super virus hits.
We are going to have people in hazmat suits.
We are going to quarantine cities.
We are going to have the FDA take over things, etc.
So this is kind of a deeper level right here.
You're watching this fictional drama, and it's imprinting things very deeply in you.
But what it's effectively doing, it's like when you get on the airplane and the stewardess pretends to put on the life preserver and the oxygen mask.
It's so that you have some pre-training for all of it.
That is predictive programming right there.
So that when there is a declared state of emergency, people aren't saying, geez, what do we do?
Instead, they're saying, when is the FDA going to come and give us some masks to save our lives?
That is elaborate mental control to create this trauma bond in you so that you will behave predictably when the perhaps inevitable event happens.
Perhaps the event that is useful and somewhat planned.
But either way, maybe the plane's going down because it's an accident.
Maybe it's going down because they planned it.
The important thing is that you're all acting predictably.
Whether it's planned or otherwise, the plane going down is the last time that they want to deal with unruly customers asking questions.
There's also a deeper level of predictive programming.
And for this, we go to Stanley Kubrick.
The movie 2001, A Space Odyssey, was commissioned by NASA as part of the lead-up to the moon landing.
But see, it was about more than just space is entertaining, space is interesting.
It was eliminating the old world.
See, I was reading this writer talking about how nobody actually understands the Nazis these days.
And one of the reasons that they don't understand them, and it's so long ago, I don't remember who wrote this, but it's that back in the 30s and the 40s, people really believed things.
Not like now.
Everybody's an absolute cynic now.
Even those that believe things are doing it ironically because they don't want to be an ironic cynic.
People used to really believe in ideas.
They used to really believe in kings.
They used to really believe in God and the transubstantiation.
People really believed in stuff.
Not like now.
And that was the deeper purpose behind that film, 2001, The Space Odyssey.
The purpose of that film was to inform the audience that, oh no, we don't believe in gods and magic.
We believe in science and evolution and aliens.
There's no magic black cube from Saturn that's going to trap your soul.
Instead, there's this technological black obelisk that will enlighten you.
That was the purpose of the movie.
The purpose of the movie, the reason it was funded, was to induct people into the scientific age, to get them away from religion and belief, because belief was too dangerous.
Belief got us into World War II, allegedly.
It's all those damn Nazis believing in things.
That's what caused all of this.
We gotta get people to stop believing in things, instead just consume product, and then get excited for new product.
Now the actual result of the film was quite different.
Although it's taken people quite some time to figure that out.
The YouTube channel Collative Learning has done fantastic work exploring what Kubrick actually did with that film.
Because Kubrick was not a guy that liked these top-down mind control structures.
He was quite the opposite.
Very much the opposite.
Did not like the growing tyranny that we've been seeing since the end of the Second World War.
And so while the studio copy of it had a voiceover, and in the script initially, the black obelisk was going to be like a television reading instructions to the monkeys, teaching them how to be more advanced.
Kubrick made a movie about brainwashing.
About watching the screen, watching ourselves, about this technology of projecting a dream onto the black mirror, and then feeding that exact dream to the masses.
Kubrick was an interesting guy.
So that's what predictive programming is.
This is something that used to be largely restricted to the mystery cults, to the high level members they would create.
They would create these psychotropic psychodramas to put the initiate through, to get them through the highs and lows, to get them blowing up the Death Star and then forgiving their father in a lightsaber battle.
But they'd only do this to people who are already at least at the psychic level, preparing them to come to the pneumatic.
They wouldn't bother with the Hylicks.
The Hylicks only got the myths.
They only got the rough draft.
Oh, you're better than a Hylick?
Figure it out.
But now we put the masses through these psychodramas.
And firmware flashed their souls.
And one final example of predictive programming for you.
The latest Top Gun.
As was predicted by 4chan and has been argued by many others, now that the global situation is starting to get spicy again, well, they no longer want the neurodivergent they-them pronouns with two lesbian mummies.
Because it turns out those people are pretty useless at being soldiers.
They want straight white men to go die on the other side of the planet for a war that enriches the bankers.
But they've got a problem because they spent the past ten years recruiting and promoting the neurodivergent they-thems with two lesbian mummies of ambiguous racial character.
So what the hell are we going to do about that?
Well, enter the movie Top Gun.
The plot of the latest Top Gun was that there was a new girl pilot that wanted to fly the Top Gun plane.
And Mr. Top Gun looked at her and said, you're a good kid.
I believe in you.
But there were two generals.
There was the bad general that said, I don't like women.
And there's the good general, who happened to be black, who said, I think the best person should do the job.
Thomas Soule.
And so Mr. Top Gun helped girl pilot, and then Bad General had to apologize to Thomas Soul General.
That is predictive programming, my friends.
They want all you young lads to sign up and throw away your precious blood for some war that's got nothing to do with you.
For some war that's been organized by idiots.
Idiots who never even served.
And in this war, you're going to have OnlyFans Princess next to you in the trench posting to Instagram about her cool uniform and then getting her beautiful figure torn to shreds with white phosphorus cooking her skin from underneath while a black diversity hire gives you orders.
And because you saw that damn Top Gun film, it won't be until five years after the war that you figure out what bullshit it all was.
That's predictive programming.
It's not The Simpsons making good guesses.
It's not synchronicity.
And sometimes it's not even a bad thing.
I mean, telling people who takes charge during an emergency, you know, if there's a flood, well, is it the Rangers or is it the Coast Guard that saves us?
I don't know.
Sometimes it's not even a bad thing.
And good lord, the Hilux need it.
The question is, what agenda is behind it?
Is it the betterment of our people?
Or is it to use them, degrade them, and corrupt them?
