THE GOBLIN NEWSLETTER 123 - DESPAIR

I have been witnessing the total despair & hopelessness of people facing down another Trump presidency. The way I look at timelines now is that the lead-up to the event is just as important if not more important than the event itself. It’s hard to convince the public of this because everyone is just training for the test at this point, even though the journey is the thing that builds you up for the destination. It can’t be skipped. Because I’m non-partisan & have empathy for people suffering I don’t gloat over this election despair. I am concerned for people suffering like that. I’m angry that people have been so wound up. I’ve seen multiple people threaten suicide over this, I’m sure others have actually committed suicide in their despair. If I bought into the narrative I would look directly at Trump for the cause of this. But Trump is actually just a bit player in this act. Back in 2015, certain groups started to realize that the mainstream media was not holding people anymore. I developed this idea of social media being an electro-stim machine like pouring soy sauce on squid & animating them at the dinner table. I stopped being able to listen to mainstream news after 9-11. The agenda of constant fear-mongering was so overt, it was designed to direct the public in certain ways & to have them pay attention to certain things & ignore others. This has only gotten worse since 2015, with the mainstream media working with social media to direct the public in certain ways. The peak of this was during COVID but the Biden/Harris administration & the Trump reaction are total products of these as well. The Cheneys & other Neocons backing Harris are just symptoms of this reality. The thing about lessons is you have to accept the reality at hand & think about why what happened, happened. I’ve seen so much blame & externalization from the majority of people, especially those that have been driven to this frenzy of despair. One of the lines that pretty much everyone tells me is that it wasn’t “my fault” for having a stroke. Of course, I had a laundry list of contributing factors & it didn’t “just happen”. This is not looking for blame to soothe some emotional state, it’s trying to accept reality for what it is & move forwards. The mainstream media has almost never said or done anything close to presenting things to their audience as accepting reality & moving forwards, even though they as businesses have to do that to succeed. Instead they pull the wool over their audience’s eyes or train them to pull the wool over their own eyes & dwell on shit that they’re told to dwell on. It’s hard to escape because the propaganda is so quickly made into culture. People that don’t participate in the media culture still do because they have friends. This is not to say that I place any trust in Trump & whatever the Republican party is at this point. I understood that they were bullshit when I was a kid. Most alternative media is even just participating in Proxy wars for the mainstream media at this point. The thing is, these systems are necessary but ALL of them have betrayed people’s trust in them & have a lot to win back.