What is the narrative?

 What is the narrative?

August 14, 2022

"What is the narrative?" Those who are really paying attention right now, that is your question. "Narrative" is that word that only in very recent years got into the lexicon, where it has been variously abused by various persons in the public eye to no end, really. But people continue to sue for its actual meaning, because to know the meaning of the word has become the mark of the sophisticate. What is the narrative?

An example: The narrative of January 6th, of course, is that the Political Right saw the writing on the wall, finally, that the future of any political position relies on a free-speech strategy of peaceful protest, agitating and petitioning the government - and become so worried because this strategy has been nearly entirely dominated by the Political Left. The Right lost its mind over this, and took frantic measures to ape every Left organizing tactic that they could manage all at once in some uncontrolled release of fear and panic. (Likely, they have no more left in the tank for quite some time.). They have been largely unable to claim internet relevance, though, even so. 

It is procedurally funny for a liberal of any stripe to hear a Rightist or a Right-winger or whatever they call themselves now be calling out the police for their brutality in response to protest. A Leftist says, "oh, you just now figured that one out, huh?" In fact, all the old predatory institutions of the state are a problem because they are unreformed holdovers from the European, monastic, system. These old unreformed institutions create a narrative without separation of church and state, and therefore, no free speech. They need to be completely reconstructed. 

The narrative that exists should basically be rejected. I reject scribal authority, I reject junk economics, I reject disciplinarianism, and I reject propaganda. What would I replace it with? The scribes will be no more than clerks, junk economists will be replaced by the law, the disciplinarians will be no more than parliamentarians, and the propagandists will be replaced by journalism. 

This reform by deconstruction and rebuilding is the narrative. 

The metaphysical shift in general terms is to shift "the point" of doing "the work" from taking to sharing. The old Way is predatory and not nurturing; - and this is the war: to take power back from these decrepit institutions, destroy their capability to continue on being predatory, and reform ourselves into this new mold of a social structure that is not predatory on the people (not "the coldest of cold monsters") but is, of, by, and for the people.

(Ballpoint pen, notebook, workman’s hand.  My usual.)