approxinfinity said:
@jaybate-1.0 Ron Artest is your most recent comp though, and that was 14 years ago. Also, I'm pretty sure if a tennis player jumped into the stands and beat a fan they'd be banned for life, even in 2004.
Yeah, I didn’t try to get contempo, because the country seems to have PRed a lot of aggression out of the public eye the last 15 years. Until the Me Too and Pedo stuff the last year, the PR guys had pretty well convinced people these assholes running movie studios and networks etc. had gotten the message of our culture wanting some more civility, but NOooooooooo.
People don’t seem to understand that we are living in a huge PR and mind control matrix more than a media-high matrix. Media and high tech are just the delivery and interface systems. PR and Mind Control are “how” they they operate on us.
My hunch is Serena has acted this way many times (she’s human after all), but her willingness to get political has changed the ability of her handlers to conceal it. It used to be there was enough money to be made airbrushing her outbursts. Now there are players that stand to make hay in the mid terms by outing her outbursts.
I was writing previously about a long term tendency to view women’s outbursts as “emotion” and a more recent socially engineered repackage women’s outbursts as aggression. As a social engineering strategist trying to break down the social order that private oligarchy, as a tiny minority of, is so fearful of self organizing against the private oligarchy, you might logically among other things take a crack at repackaging women’s gender roles and anger outbursts from “emoting” to “aggression” to attempt to break down gender roles and perceptions of team into victim and victimizer to break down the legacy order that perhaps obstructs private oligarchic agendas in this or that situation.
Hence, we have women super heroes and now ordinary women protagonists in movies and TV running around routinely kicking men’s asses, etc. We saw the same thing done to male protagonists the last half of the 20th Century. The hero evolves from a reasonable, law abiding pillar of a just order to an alienated, victim engaging in vigilante acts essentially indistinguishable from villains, but for the ends used as justification of the means. We have substituted Kill Bill and others for Charles Bronson’s and Clint Eastwood’s revengers. Many applaud this as “progress” for women, and it is in one way, same as Django Unchained is progress for blacks. Blacks and women now get to behave onfilm as abominably as white Jewish men and white Christian men have. It’s only entertainment, right? Only the truly naive believe that media entertainment has no weaponized dimension. Basically, if any group will consent to be a victim pitted against an “other” OTHER THAN the actual private oligarchy, then it gets the virtual fantasy freedom to sadistically slaughter “evil doers” portrayed as oppressive to its victim group, and NOT organize with fellow human beings to bring fair pursuit of life, liberty and freedom for all, as well as NOT requiring the recently rapacious private oligarchy to re-subordinate to the US Constitution.
To stay unsubordinated from the constitution, the private oligarchy more or less HAS to find and exploit various divisive ways to break down among other things the old male-female roles to keep women and men from standing together and bottom-up organizing to resist the more inequitable and anti-Democratic aspects of the private oligarchy’s preferred NWO agenda. It’s simple really. There were bad aspects of the legacy order of men’s and women’s roles. Emphasize those bad aspects in controlled politics and controlled media; then incentivize anyone willing to break them down without replacing them with a new vision of men and women working together to re-subordinate the private oligarchy to the constitution and rule of law and separation of powers.
The 1 % has to divide (and keep divided) the 99% to not be stopped in pursuit of their agendas injurious to the 99%, or worse subjected to due process, or perhaps worse still, be hung by angry mobs as has happened so many times in history.
Divide and conquer is hardly new to war and politics. Sadly, it seems more a rule than an exception. Read British strategist Halford MacKinder’s recipe for western strategy in Eurasia and you will quickly appreciate the legacy of this strategic approach. But I digress.
Serena, regardless of the great person and athlete that she appears to be, seems useful as a media symbol to different axes of private oligarchy apparently fighting for control of the seemingly inexorable transformation of the USA order in this context of apparent systematic divide and conquer strategy.
But because she can be used as brand symbol to help break down old orders, her brand symbol can also be weaponized by others as another kind of brand symbol to redirect this break down of old orders in other directions she might not wish or intend.
The great movie director Elia Kazan got caught in this sort of predicament (loyal American smeared as a communist in youth at a time that meant black listing in Hollywood, then counter smeared for naming names because he had come to oppose communism) and it finally destroyed his brilliant career. TPTB will apparently gladly destroy great performers, in most any field, if it will further a private oligarchic agenda.
I feel bad for Serena, because she is attempting to use her brand symbol in service of her political values—a honorable thing for a free American to do, but she is learning she has very little control over her brand symbol once persons interested in appropriating and destroying it start in on her.
This is the current terrible double edge of PR (dating back to the early 20th Century work of Edward Bernays) and Mind Control (dating back at least to KOREAN WAR war “brainwashing” of American POWs by North Koreans reputedly trained by USSR and Red Chinese operatives using some nasty techniques likely earlier developed by Nazis, perhaps even secretly by Brits and American researchers). There have reputedly been great strides made in mind control the last half century or so and some of the advances have reputedly trickled down into use in our country. It appears a particularly risky time for abuse of mind control techniques many places in the world and USA appears no exception.
Hence, when you alone are paying to shape the brand symbol, it is great. But when someone else starts paying to shape it, it can quickly and powerfully spin out of your control.
To master the obvious, Serena is a great talent. Like many unprecedentedly great athletes, she reawakens in us all the great potential of human beings. She brings hope simply by playing to the best of her very great abilities. Some are model persons, others not. She seems pretty darned decent to me from the remote outside looking in. I hope she can overcome this problem in her path.
But many great talents never survive this sort of situation. For every Ali that prevailed in a serious PR-mind control war over his/her brand symbol, there seem to be far more Elia Kazans and Orson Welles that cannot ever regain control of their careers. Heck, General Douglas MacArthur got on the wrong side of the brand symbol warfare machine and even one our wiliest military strategists got hopelessly outmaneuvered by it.
Good luck, Serena.
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