Children of Job: Where Faith & Hubris Meet

Children of Job: Where Faith & Hubris Meet

Straw-Manning Reality

Learn the Algebra of Cognitive Hijacking or Prepare to Get Dumber

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Jasun Horsley
Jul 29, 2026
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Captives of a Captured Media

Real events do not have to be scripted to be incorporated into (multimedia parasocial participatory) theater.

Suppose that a primary motive in the Charlie Kirk (or any public) assassination, going back to the JFK template, were to seed an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) through a ritualistic sacrifice?


This would make the assassination event its own raison d’être—the motive and the act itself one thing.

The purpose of the murder act is to create a murder event, and the real target-victim is the audience itself. Society of the spectacle.

The idea of a ritual murder, sixty years after JFK, is now intrinsic to the spectacle of society. The “revelation of the method” is to reveal the revelation of the method.1


The captured Candace Owens audience member (mentioning no names) believes he is getting closer to the truth. But: because the purpose of the revelation is to dissociate the target from reality, he is actually getting further from it the more he gives his attention to it.

In parasocial media life, cognitive awareness is not balanced by emotional awareness—much less by bodily affect—because all events are mediated through 2nd Matrix, conspiratainment media.

Understanding is invariably absent. The medium is the message, and all media are captured, and so can only create captives to it.

To understand this—the Adversary—requires learning a new language. We cannot ever understand the enemy if we are relying on the language the enemy has given us.

This should be obvious, but isn’t. Why not? Because the nature of the subterfuge, the infiltration, is to conceal itself from our consciousness by giving us a false form of consciousness.

Counterfeit Conspiracy Consciousness

Conspiracy theories peddled by Candace Owens, Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and the motley crew of controlled opponents (sometimes with their own “controlled persecution” teams or lawsuits to provide them extra legitimacy), are the equivalent of using an abacus to understand E = mc².

There is no equivalency.

Parapolitical, supercultural realities can only be described in pieces, never in chunks, and conspiratainment is all chunks. Predigested, for you to guzzle down, party on, and eventually choke on your own vomit.


Repeat after me: popularized conspiracy theories generate counterfeit conspiracy consciousness.

They are made up of extravagant claims, backed by impoverished sets of evidence. This is the inversion of serious parapolitical, supercultural analysis, which is made up of conservative claims, resting on large sets of evidential data.


The purpose of any serious research is to get closer to the truth. It is a way to bring to bear objective facts onto our subjective consciousness, and transform it.

The outer world can then deepen our inner world, and vice versa, allowing for increased complementarity between the inner and the outer.

A plumber who devotes his attention to the art of plumbing not only becomes a good plumber; in the process, he (not many women plumbers out there!) learns more about the nature of objective reality, and (literally in this case) what underlies it (the hidden channels of existence).

To develop any sort of mastery at all is to deepen our own spiritual awareness, reconfiguring our consciousness to incorporate greater dimensions of our being. Mapping hell, fathoming God, learning carpentry, all can potentially lead us to the same place.

Coherence, competency, peace of mind.

Parapolitical research, like anything else that pertains to objective reality, requires a gradual leveling up, an embodying of what is being discovered, both about the world and about ourselves.

We must become smarter, more conscious, more discerning. We must learn a new language.

In this case: the algebra of cognitive hijacking and perception management employed by the enemy.

Leveling Down

Owens, Carlson, Fuentes, Jones, Rogan, are the many motley minions of the (hidden) 2nd Matrix architects. Their job is to lure their “thralls”—their parasocial fans and followers—in precisely the opposite direction to the truth/reality.

They are there to spin narratives that pertain to deeper realities, using genuine crumbs and flotsam of evidence, to distract and entertain (to incite and excite) under the guise of informing.

The proof is how their narratives always conform to the level of understanding—the syntax—of the same superficial narratives they are supposedly challenging and undermining.2

The truth gets dumbed down, over-simplified, shoe-horned into a false coherence, and and consciousness levels down, rather than up.

It levels down because, while staying at the same level, it believes it is leveling up.


The 2nd Matrix function is to fortify the hold of the 1st Matrix, and vice versa.

The gnostic appeal of the 2nd Matrix promise of the parasocial bellwethers is that the quasi-information they provide—the controlled and contrived disclosure of “secret” counter-narratives—make ordinary mundane life more exciting and titillating, promising power, while doing nothing to transform our consciousness.

They demand nothing of the follower but their attention, the most precious thing there is. By appearing to give freely, they take everything and give nothing.

It is like a plumber who shows up, gets out his paint-box, paints a few weird signs on the pipes, and then tells you the problem is fixed. “That’ll be two hundred quid, thanks.”


The aim of cognitive hijacking, perception management, and memetic warfare is to reconfigure consciousness into a kind of pareidolia-frenzy in which a few occult symbols (or a five-sided structure at the scene of an assassination!) are enough to join a bunch of painted dots in the captured audience’s brain, and to ring pre-installed alarm bells that cause it to start to salivate—for the kill.

The energy of co-opted consciousness is then directed to fuel an internet hate machine of Girardian scapegoating and schismogenesis.

Have a nice day.

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