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"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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Feb 3Liked by Mathew Crawford

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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Feb 3Liked by Mathew Crawford

Good stuff. Below is a link to Dave McGowan’s 22 part series on Laurel Canyon. He eventually turned the series into a book.

https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/laurelcanyon/

I would also point out (for those unfamiliar with his work) that his work on the Boston Bombing is unparalleled. You can access that via the above link.

Dave died way to young. I can only imagine the field day he would have had with the Plandemic Psyop.

His daughter keeps his legacy and website alive.

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I read not long ago the theory (more of an insult) that Taylor Swift is actually a man. Also, years ago there was the similar theory that Leeloo, a.k.a. Mila Jovovich, was also a man. Sigh.

My own theory is that when there is a beautiful female artist being paraded everywhere all the time, every other female gets a huge fit of envy and all of them together, automatically and without a word, agree to say what they think is the ultimate insult, an insult that would make all men (well, most of them) puke their guts out and plan to throw little Cupid in a meat grinder.

(Disclaimer: Wild generalization used only for humorous purposes)

What females don't know is that the ultimate insult would be to say that those beautiful stars they want to destroy are actually Communists. Only chemotherapy is less erotic than real Communists. Seriously. No wonder they are almost extinct today!

(Ahem.)

Now I will throw three consecutive heresies against idol worshipers:

1) Judy Garland was not the best singer ever and "The Wizard of Oz" was boring at times.

2) "The Stagecoach" has, objectively, a better story than "Gone With The Wind."

3) The song "Put the blame on Mame" was not sung by Rita Hayworth, but by a Canadian Jewess, not very pretty but with a very suggestive voice.

An important fact to consider: no one ever said anything about Vivien Leigh being a dude because people were not as dumb then as we are today.

Another fact that does not admit debate: the best cartoon movie ever is the 2009 "Up!" which is irrelevant but squirrel!

And Metallica is a pop band whose songs' lyrics were a failed Intelligence plot to demoralize the Mexicans from crossing the border. Not all psyops are successful.

Prove me wrong!

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Feb 3Liked by Mathew Crawford

Wow, the links to the Switzerland article including Jung and B and K and Hesse , etc, make a lot of sense and hit deep. How do you keep a hold on sanity while containing this many multitudes? 💙🙏🏽 also, why isn’t Teddy K mentioned more often in relation to MK Uktra? Because he was a “young accident”by his professor, or?

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Feb 3·edited Feb 4

Interesting coincidence. Or, are you two connected somehow ? Haven't read thru Miller's SS yet.

"Is Taylor Swift's romance with Travis Kelce another psy-op? That idea may be insane (unless it's not):"

Will she endorse "Joe Biden," as the Democrats are hoping? And might she also somehow aid Big Pharma, like her (apparent) boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end and very-high-paid Pfizer shill?

MARK CRISPIN MILLER

FEB 2, 2024

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Feb 3Liked by Mathew Crawford

Shouldn't MySpace feature a pic of Tom? just sayin'

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I'm kind of shocked that this whole article failed to discuss the fact that Taylor is a spitting image for Anton LeVay's daughter, minus 30 some odd years. Or did you discuss that on the podcast?

It's easily THE best fodder for overwrought conspiracy hypotheses musings...

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"All these military connections are hardly coincidences." So says Tony Gosling. https://www.mail-archive.com/pepis@googlegroups.com/msg00959.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email.

Only someone born after the mid-1950s could write that sentence with such confidence. It was so common for men born before that to serve a stint in the military or have several immediate family members in the military.

Whether military connections indicate something nefarious is not answered by merely observing that they exist. Those observations are a starting point, not an ending point. Gosling's reasoning-by-assertion is the same approach taken by those who point to Jewish overrepresentation in various professions and crimes by Jews as an indictment of every Jewish person ever born in the past two millenia.

Zappa was not an intelligence asset (though he had much cause to be cynical, based on what he observed) and Dylan did not sell his soul to the Devil (he should have demanded a better voice and musical skills, if he did). Gosling can only make his case by innuendo and words that aren't there. Maybe we should conclude that Mathew Crawford is an intelligence asset because of his admitted connection to a cult? It's this approach that gives conspiracy theories a bad name. There are quite a number of conspiracies I accept as true, but they are backed by solid evidence. Condemnations grounded in mere speculation are distractions from them and only hurt the cause of truth.

As for TS, who the hell knows? It isn't be a surprise that the intelligence community seeks to capitalize on her notoriety (and perhaps help foster it) and that her handlers cooperate in that regard. How much is she personally committed to it, beyond just the usual show-biz instinct of self-promotion? To say that everyone involved is deliberately and knowingly "in on it," eliminates the whole category of "useful idiot," which is what she seems to be.

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Great article, as is Mathis’. How could Hollywood not be a major part of this? Movies, shows, music all make indelible marks on our psyche. As if this sector would be left even the tiniest bit uncaptured.

Why is everybody at the top gay?

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Helluva a lot to digest, Mathew, but very interesting. Am I the only one who never heard of Taylor Swift until a few months ago? I stopped paying attention to pop culture and the boob tube by the early seventies, but the psy-op has grown remarkably in sophistication since then. Almost takes your breath away. Combined with the stupidification of the public through schooling and the electronic world, we're fucked.

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It would be interesting to know how many people within the ranks of the medical industrial complex opted out of taking the shots. How many at Pfizer, Moderna, CDC, WHO. DARPA, et al.

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Feb 3·edited Feb 3

Very interesting. Not a Swifty by any means, BUT I read the Daily Mail regularly online, and is is chock full of Swift headlines and stories. Was aware that her father was wealthy financier, but did not know the Eur family banking connection. She is so perfect, almost like a clone. And, yes, most certainly an Aryan princess...with really bad taste in partners.

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Aniston purportedly makes good "pizza"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qjfZU36w3g

And Dylan made a bargain with, you know, the chief commander...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNn72qnp6kI

Seem like wholesome people.

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Feb 4·edited Feb 4

Different topic, but I know you've talked about David Icke being controlled opposition. Here's a link from Vox Day about James Delingpole accusing Icke of just that on a live show:

https://voxday.net/2024/02/03/a-babylonian-ticket-taker/

Delingpole's article about it is here:

https://delingpole.substack.com/p/david-ickes-gingerbread-cottage

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The pink elephant in the room that appears anytime people try to discuss the arts and religion is the nearly universal inability among moderns to comprehend and understand metaphor and its nature. People automatically misidentify a metaphor and attach to it all kinds of prosaic personifications and superstitious attributes.

When a poet like Dylan, who has lived through the experience of channeling divinely inspired poetry, as he has, and as was his regular habit particularly toward the beginning of his career, it is hard to explain to prosaic normies what that process or feeling is like. And when a person like him rides the cultural zeitgeist and the industrial promotional mechanism to becoming a cultural icon with everyone in the world projecting their desires and fears onto him, and attempting to steer every decision in his life henceforth, it's also equally difficult to describe the phenomena and feeling of that experience, to occupy that public mask. Describing it as 'a deal with the devil' is a perfectly proportional shorthand and rational analogy. He was not making an admission; he was demurring after realizing that he had just invoked an overloaded analogy, which every yokel and idiot will misunderstand and attribute to their own twisted cosmology.

This brings us to the Christian-identified folks who call foul with every New Age-y model and philosopher, as if its all a Nazi Occult put on, whose inability to grapple with metaphor turns into metastatic auto-immune syndrome before you can say Beelzebub. Christians, nearly to a person, are perfectly blind to their own faith, also mistaking metaphor for fact, and projecting their denial all over the Other in the process. (I come from a legacy of Methodist and Presby ministers, so I'm not an atheist or material reductivist talking out my ass.)

Why are Christians always so hellbent on witch-hunting cannibalistic child sacrifice? Because THAT is their very eucharist! They worship the Christ-Child/Virgin&Child Complex week in and week out, and then proceed to cannibalize their god-made-flesh every Sunday (or on major holidays, at least). Viola! Universal Cognitive Dissonance fit for the Dark Age of Pisces.

Where did the authentic Intelligence Agency and Royalty inspired child sacrificing pedophile cults who are blackmailing their agenda into fruition get their ideas? They are Christian Ideas. You motherfuckers spawned these psychopaths whose greatest weapons are shame and denial, because ya'll are so in denial of your own bodies and the nature of Nature. Your lumpy personification of the Totality and Eternity causes you to suffer constant and endemic category errors that, for instance, Animist Cults and Polytheistic Cosmology people do not suffer. For them the Money God, the Sun God, and the War Attrocity God are not all muddled and confused. You should learn from them. [Yahweh/Jesus is a personified Sun God, by the way, witch-hunters.]

This gets to a greater issue. And that is that the Satanists' Cosmology IS the Christian Cosmology. There's no Satan in any but the Abrahamic Religions. Every Satanist is an inverted Christian and every Christian is an inverted Satanist. Christians have breathed life into Satan as one of their most creative acts. Proselytic and evangelical Christian Societies contain THE MOST self-righteous hypocrites and know-it-all busy-bodies who have ever walked earth. They are insufferable people who can't walk the talk because they are so metaphor blind that they fear seeing their own frail and desperate evil within. They preach humility and forgiveness and yet they can't even apply those to themselves by minding their own business. They are the first spiritual colonists. Especially when we factor the Christian Cult's little child-rape addiction - then it's little wonder why innocent, people raised within their milieu, aspiring to do good works would seek the Dark One (which is really just a metaphor for the hungry and jealous physical body, after all) for a little corrective to Mass Market Christian Duplicity, and lets face it, the Evil inherent to the Church. This at least explains why most teenagers who take up Heavy Metal inflected tongue-in-cheek Devilry are motivated: they just want to piss off their two-faced self-ignorant parents. A tale as old as the hills. And a perfectly legitimate one, particularly for generations of parents who talk about Christian Virtue on Sundays, but then keep their 401Ks invested in the avaricious military industrial complex to prepare for their corporate retirement, and spend their weekdays doing the compartmented bidding of the proto-technocratic corporate Borg from their cubicals. In this light, Satan makes a certain amount of sense. At least he's honest about human nature, and unafraid to look at his ugly self.

Here's the reality of the Globalist Technocratic Monolith, which is doing a great job of emulating the Omniscient and Omnipotent divine in its Frankenstinian Pantomime, appropriately personified (IN METAPHOR) as The Beast. It hates for you to have a private memory, it fears your private thought, your creative mind that can see the patterns of its residue, it desires above all to curtail your ability to understand the world and to understand yourself. It wants you to see yourself through the lens of itself, alone. And so it hates the independent arts and the folk arts, the arts it does not control. Because exposure to those arts enables you to understand the world and understand yourself on your own terms. And what have we seen since the internet has come up to devour everything? It has destroyed the mediums of the artist, just as robustly as it has devastated the middle class, independent business, anything that is not already a partner in its hydra leviathan globalist project. It is why STEM has replaced the Humanities, and why Fiction is no longer taught: A subject citizenry who cannot parse fiction from non-fiction cannot tell when its leaders are telling them fictions.

So, should we not hedge our impulses to over-identify the enemy when we give thought to how the mind of humanity is steered by shadowy players, with a little bit of humility and keep our eye on the actual invisible demon (another metaphor, you superstitious heathens)? Because if we go witch-hunting based on Guilt-by-Association and who your grand-parents are, we're defeating the mission of our own fulfillment. Also, let's get hip to the art of PR and Publicity. Not every publicity strategy or campaign - while all ARE indeed the height of contrivance and myth-making - are ispo facto the machinations of the Satanic Globalists. If you still believe that ANYTHING you see on a screen is anything but artifice and contrivance you are naive. Don't instrumentalize that naivete to then cut your nose off despite your face, throw the baby out with the bathwater, by rejecting artifice and contrivance. Those are the fundamentals of the muses, and without the muses, you have no memory and no identity, and you become a simple-minded fundamentalist who can't handle decoration and symbol. Many artists who carve out some real estate on that little screen for your attention actually want to aid in your own transcendence, individually and collectively. Make room for them. And learn to understand the nature of metaphor. Without them, you'll have no identity but for the one assigned to you by Klaus Schwab (another metaphor, you bean counters.)

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PS. Mathew, the fact that you are continuing to find appeal and value in Miles Mathis's analysis increases the likelihood that you are gullible and undiscerning, and even the likelihood that you have become psyop'd as an agent of dissidents-devouring-themselves-campaign to cripple the movement. Here's a hint: Anyone that practices the sloppy and lumpy habit of demonizing "the jews" and therefore each jewish individual, is doing the enemy's work for them, just as Operation Gladio spun every opposition group to violence to discredit themselves. The 'jewish problem' dog whistle is the psyop version of the same tactic. It's as lumpy and stupid as insisting - as zionists do - that jewish culture, jewish nationalism, jewish religion, and material zionism are all one and the same, and that to criticize one automatically makes you an antisemite, anti-jewish. They are the same principle of abusive and stilted taxonomies. Mathis, I suggest, is infected with that disease.

PPS. Full disclosure - Like Beyonce, Taylor Swift somehow makes music that I'm unable to hear or identify. It is entirely without personality or flavor. The fact that it has mysteriously possessed generations of fans who CAN hear it enough to identify with it makes me realize I must have developed an immunity to empty, banal commercial art devoid of any nutritional value, or else most of humanity really has already been turned into zombies, and there's no hope trying to resist. (Apparently the zombies also all participate in a perfectly contrived Football Cult, that renders them brainless, and now those two cults are fusing to create a Grand Cult of Adolescent Boy and Adolescent Girl in Stuck in a Perennial Puberty Ritual.) And this is even without the possibility that Taylor's Persona has been instrumentalized by the Globalist Administrative State. Taylor Swift makes Yani and Celine Dion taste nutritious, rich and flavorful.

Crawford: if you haven't enjoyed Brian Tuohy's books about corruption in mass media sports, The Fix Is In, etc., you're in for a treat. It'll cohere with all the other stuff you're into.

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