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Mathew Crawford's avatar

"It's up to you to decide whether that has something to do with money, a psyop, or transdimensional lizard people who want boys to cut off their wee wees. (If you start with "money", it's hard to be wrong, but we're going to examine the psyop angle because the transdimensional lizard people want for me to write about that.)"

Somebody emailed me and asked me seriously about the lizard people. If it wasn't clear, this is what is known as "a joke". If that wasn't apparent, you may be stuck in a mental cul-du-sac that makes it hard to distinguish between science fiction fantasty and the observation that NATO psychological operations openly admitted to working with Taylor Swift's image.

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I can speak to the power of the "spell casting" of the "Swift-iverse"... A female friend of mine who is 37 and I went to lunch a few months ago. Upon dropping her off afterward I received a quick delivery of many texts. An experience I often attribute to her because she thinks quickly, efficiently and in small bursts. Anyway... in these texts she expressed her eagerness to tell me she has become a HUGE fan of Taylor Swift and that she "couldn't believe she forgot to tell me!"

It was like she was telling me that she had recently been saved at a Christian revivalist retreat and has now chosen to dedicate her life to the teachings of "Jesus Christ".

I asked her to tell me more and another smattering of messages elaborating on how awesome Taylor is came across. The next time I saw her I asked her to tell me why. She said she appreciates that she writes her own music, and that she is just a fan of her whole presentation. Oh - and that all her female friends are in on her too.

My friend is a very good singer and recently took up playing the piano, so as far as Taylor being her muse, I can understand it to a degree, but the odd thing while she was talking about it is that my friend felt to me like she was talking from "somewhere else" when she detailed her appreciation for Tay-Tay to me.

To that note, my friend loves Disney, worked there, and has sung many of the "Disney Princess" ballads. She is a good hearted person, which is why I maintain a friendship with her, but it is odd to relate to her when she is in Taylor-mode and previous to that when she would gush about everything Disney. I have an aversion to hero worship and people who give away their power to manufactured personalities.

Lastly, without divulging anything too specific, her life has taken a direction that more and more 30-something women's lives have taken. She lives with her husband and their dog and no children, and it isn't for lack of trying. After this desire became unsatisfied, I noted that her love of Miss Swift grew. It was like she regressed into an adolescent persona when her desire to become a mother was not realized.

TS is certainly a "golem" or an living archetype that is meant to serve as a vector for so many angst laden women. TS, and many other "heroines" pushed on the masses serve as an avatar through which "normies" can project their psyches for the sake of not having to cope with life. Isn't this one of the main utilizations of media-based reality manipulation?

In the simplest terms, everything that results in a projection of ones psyche is an "escape" and when one is not "home" within themselves various "outside" forces will move in and take up residence.

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