Excellent article. It explores the sense I have of Trump, that, he is a wild card, but a strong individual, working largely for himself, but oddly still with some ethics in regard to others at work. He and Musk are Tricksters.
The Trickster can never be read because the Trickster does not even know why or what he or she is doing. This figure has a long and ancient history and was incarnated in ancient courts as the Fool, the Jester, the Clown, someone who entertained, amused, but who was also a source of wisdom. As The Fool, the figure was always underestimated, misread and misunderstood.
"There is perhaps no figure in literature more fascinating than the trickster, appearing in various forms in the folklore of many cultures. He is different from the figure of the fool, who is harmless but also naïve, and many times ends up harming himself. The fool walks joyfully dreaming about all his adventures, unaware that if he takes just one more step, he would fall down a cliff.
Trickster is witty and deceitful. He is the timeless root of all the picaresque creations of world literature, and is not reducible to one single literary entity. Trickster tales have existed since ancient times, and has been said to be at the very foundation of civilisation and culture. They belong to the oldest expressions of mankind.
Tricksters are the breakers of rules, agents of mischief, masters of deceit, and boundary crossers.
“[T]he best way to describe trickster is to say simply that the boundary is where he will be found – sometimes drawing the line, sometimes crossing it, sometimes erasing or moving it, but always there, the god of the threshold in all its forms.”
Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World NB: I read this book long ago and it is excellent.
In mythology and psychological archetypal theory, it is the Trickster figure who can lead the way, break through hidebound systems, destroy that which no longer functions and in a level of ordered chaos, take us through to something new and better.
Both Musk and Trump are tricksters and no doubt that is what they like and admire about each other.
Tried to reply to your last post on a different topic on George’s Newsletter = Trump's Second Coming: Can the ‘Miracle President’ Defy the Odds to Deliver Peace, Power, and a New America?." but seemed to get thrown off (3 times ?).
A picture paints a thousand words... good job, as I have forgotten my long waffle of 999 words now; but had this for you - if it goes up. OH I remember a little in the discussion of Yanks being dumbed down. If you get the picture; you will understand.
Yes, I also was thrown off trying to post a couple of times. The three States is interesting and I have read it before. I remain unconvinced at how much power they actually have but who can say.
Did you see the inauguration ?. As if this Bishop was not "selected" to do the service and her speech not checked ... my goodness - how they must think we are all so stupid.
The World is a ruddy stage, but the shows they put on are now so obvious and predictable; so we should be either happy (as they have become lazy or careless) or terrified (as they have become so arrogant and so in our face, they do not care, because they have everything covered.
Wow, spot on and very well written; tx. As for Musk being a genius; well I totally disagree with that - he is just another puppet on the sting doing and saying what he is told to do. I have £2 pounds sterling on him buying up the US version of the Chinese tick tock -WHY ?; because TT has everything on it to introduce the digital wallet that is coming soon for all of us in the West. The fascist side link in Government and big business - Sound familiar ?.
As for the Nazi salute ... my view only, but he is signalling that "IT IS THE TIME" and it is if you think about it.... Agenda 2030 etc; gee how the globalist parasite scum must have partied (they communicate through gestures)in open public - to generalise Fascist government ( NWO ) for them and we= us plebs and useless eaters get cultural Marxism (look it up_... or look here = https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/cultural-marxism-catching/ and https://cplaction.com/cultural-marxism/
We get this, ranging from total control of us, family break down, sexualisation of everything INCLUDING kids and everything abhorrent TO ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS who believe in "at least parts of the faith"- Sound familiar (LBGT, Hollywood stars / Music stars etc etc) ?.
Tin foil hat on = Hollywood... Holly Wood ... Holy Wood ... the crucifix (Just thought of that; good hey - or nuts ?)
Whilst I am ranting due to it being well past my bedtime. Why did musk change the name of twatter to X ?.... could it be along the lines of ?=
"Latinx is the gender-neutral alternative to Latina or Latino. It is a term used to describe a diverse group of people who have roots in Latin America. While it is unclear exactly when and where the term emerged, it is clear it emerged from queer Latinx online communities in order to challenge the gender binary."
Nazi salute... the Greeks did similar, think the romans did as well; but going back to the alleged plandemic - everything was Greek !!! - just a coincidence hey ?.
Yes, the so-called salute is common and often in military marching. I also do not think Musk is brilliant. Clever, certainly and like Trump, a canny and cunning businessman but genius probably not. Then again, genius and madness walk hand in hand. And in centuries past, people honoured those who were mad and saw them as soothsayers.
Twitter was a stupid name and X is a stupid name. I imagine X makes the spot.
I have lived in a lot of countries around the world and remain unconvinced that it is easy to control humans. As the saying goes, you can fool some of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
His genius is questionable. Musk’s ability to make acquisitions to use money to buy out to take advantage is what's remarkable. He did not invent Twitter or Telsa or ...he acquired them.
If I could write like you with all my experience of the horrors and unbelievable people I’ve known in my life from comedians that became famous with knowing me and writers and , directors producers .. alls I was a simple man born in Palestine , raised in up state Ny in a great orphanage the best of American way from Casey Stangle of the coach of NY Yankees to the chuck berry and rock & roll to Vietnam infantry man with the wolfhounds from Hawaii at 18 yrs old I just wish I could write like you to me your very special
I wouldn't call Musk a genius. His one special talent (shared with Trump) is blagging the financial markets into allowing him to burn sufficient cash to get Tesla off the ground. Those lacking that talent, like Canoo amongst others, are being taken apart by the usurers as we speak. Capitalism loves a bullshit artist!
While I agree with the sentiment that legacy media is the grand dining hall where all the well seasoned garbage is served I’d argue unless you’re referring to his ability seize upon the honest genius of others then claim it as his own creation then Elon is a genius. But let’s be clear he’s far from anything worthy of being considered a genius. He was born on 3rd but has somehow convinced far too many that he hit a triple. He intentionally gestured in such a distorted way that created plausible deniability. I mean c’mon some may pretend but we all recognize an SS salute we see one. Just one day in and they already have trump supporters twisted into human pretzels trying to defend the💩show. At this rate they’ll all be basket cases long before the end of first year.
Greeks = I THINK they could have used it as well; but I cannot be certain or find proof, so ignore.
Most Countries use the hand to head as opposed to outstretch arm; but it still means the same - respect and BS to the command structure "YOU ARE MY BOSS, THEREFORE I BOW TO YOU'ish". It would not surprise me if we all have to do a salute in the future, when they bring the NWO in !.
PS Subtle words are used as well= if I ask you do YOU "Understand" my comment - no response required but break the word down .... UNDER and STAND ... getting it ?
Christmas = Christ and mas ... the mass of Christ (in the popular belief / scheme of when he was born etc) ...
For Jews, any patriot who stands up for his people is a "fascist," even though Zionism itself, for thousands of years, has been the fundamental initiation and source of brutal fascism.
Elon isn't a genius🤣 He's an idiotic, delusional fascist. He hung out with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell🤮 And even a broken clock is right twice a day 🤷♀️
I agrée with your evaluation but feel there is a significant component missing in the opinion-forming environment we inhabit today; that of the ‘public will’.
The points you present relate to ideation like those presented in the legacy media. As opposed to will. In the ‘old days’ arguments would be marshaled and presented by the media for our consideration and/or acceptance. This is still the case on sites like Substack. But elsewhere the message has become very ‘propagandised’ but not so much as to present a different argument as to whip up support for the ‘cult followers’ of cult leaders like Donald Trump. It’s what the followers, following blindly (to varying degrees, I admit) want. But the problem for Western society is that these followers are blind also to the change in perception/response and feel that they ‘inhabit’ the arguments when in reality they just parrot the sound bites issued as part of the propaganda.
And this means that this kind of will-driven response is growing and driving out shared discourse. Debate is now impossible with cult followers and so people end up becoming more and more polarized as the topics - abortion, law and order, immigration etc - lose the centre ground historically filled by argumentation.
Cognates of will are ‘authority’, ‘intolerance’, imposition’. These inhibit ideation, openness and discussion.
Modern social media has not created this trend to favour will - through propaganda - over ideas but it’s ‘brought it to the people’ who then amplify their Leader’s pronouncements and consolidate his power. Quickly.
So, it’s not so much about ‘truth’ - and whatever power derives through that - as about ‘strength’ and whatever control (of actions) derives from that.
Why any person would use X or purchase a Tesla, both of which support the unhinged, unstable, and obviously bipolar Musk is beyond me. He should have no place in government, but since we are now a Zionist Oligarchy we're stuck with him and the Orange Rabbi.
I see something a little more sinister. I view that quasi- or ersatz-salute as a test. Musk, however much we may despise him, is not stupid, and he knows that an outright Nazi gesture would go over poorly. However, he may enjoy testing the waters, seeing how close to the "edge" he can go. This, by the way, is a long-standing practice of the Right: to all but do or state something, pull back, and then piously insist, "I never did (or said) that!"
As for the media? @George Hazim makes great points; they have let us down horribly and unconscionably. Which media have used the G-word (genocide) in connection with Israel? Has even such a "liberal bastion" as *The New York Times*? If one gets out a magnifying glass, one may occasionally find an Op/Ed piece about how the West provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it is far easier to find mention of "genocide" and "war crimes" in coverage of that conflict than in reports about Gaza (and elsewhere in the Middle East).
Now we come to the ultimate stage. The media may soon be afraid to criticize Trump, because he will sue them. We shall have lost freedom of the press, even while Zuck bends down to kiss the imperial ass (i.e., does away with fact checks). In fact, the most powerful media will include those controlled by the nation's three wealthiest men (Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg), all of whom have gone over to the Dark Side.
Bottom line: If you think our media have been dreadful, brace yourselves for MUCH worse!
Thank you Ros.
Excellent article. It explores the sense I have of Trump, that, he is a wild card, but a strong individual, working largely for himself, but oddly still with some ethics in regard to others at work. He and Musk are Tricksters.
The Trickster can never be read because the Trickster does not even know why or what he or she is doing. This figure has a long and ancient history and was incarnated in ancient courts as the Fool, the Jester, the Clown, someone who entertained, amused, but who was also a source of wisdom. As The Fool, the figure was always underestimated, misread and misunderstood.
"There is perhaps no figure in literature more fascinating than the trickster, appearing in various forms in the folklore of many cultures. He is different from the figure of the fool, who is harmless but also naïve, and many times ends up harming himself. The fool walks joyfully dreaming about all his adventures, unaware that if he takes just one more step, he would fall down a cliff.
Trickster is witty and deceitful. He is the timeless root of all the picaresque creations of world literature, and is not reducible to one single literary entity. Trickster tales have existed since ancient times, and has been said to be at the very foundation of civilisation and culture. They belong to the oldest expressions of mankind.
Tricksters are the breakers of rules, agents of mischief, masters of deceit, and boundary crossers.
“[T]he best way to describe trickster is to say simply that the boundary is where he will be found – sometimes drawing the line, sometimes crossing it, sometimes erasing or moving it, but always there, the god of the threshold in all its forms.”
Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World NB: I read this book long ago and it is excellent.
https://eternalisedofficial.com/2022/09/16/the-psychology-of-the-trickster/
In mythology and psychological archetypal theory, it is the Trickster figure who can lead the way, break through hidebound systems, destroy that which no longer functions and in a level of ordered chaos, take us through to something new and better.
Both Musk and Trump are tricksters and no doubt that is what they like and admire about each other.
PS Rosylyn
Tried to reply to your last post on a different topic on George’s Newsletter = Trump's Second Coming: Can the ‘Miracle President’ Defy the Odds to Deliver Peace, Power, and a New America?." but seemed to get thrown off (3 times ?).
A picture paints a thousand words... good job, as I have forgotten my long waffle of 999 words now; but had this for you - if it goes up. OH I remember a little in the discussion of Yanks being dumbed down. If you get the picture; you will understand.
https://scontent-ams2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t39.30808-6/463617466_1218514252695275_4124568330476583830_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_tt6&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6ImltYWdlX3VybGdlbi4xMDgweDEwMTkuc2RyLmYzMDgwOC5kZWZhdWx0X2ltYWdlIn0&_nc_ht=scontent-ams2-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=111&_nc_ohc=evb4wv_2CBsQ7kNvgEJPKbJ&_nc_gid=87eaab097dd3478da2f15aa8a1147418&edm=ALQROFkAAAAA&ccb=7-5&ig_cache_key=MzQ4MDc1NTk4NjU2ODIzNTQyNA%3D%3D.3-ccb7-5&oh=00_AYD8IB0_pC5vRBqby9efvsLvZvM1fH9xhsWiWxZnK1XE0w&oe=679602B5&_nc_sid=fc8dfb
Yes, I also was thrown off trying to post a couple of times. The three States is interesting and I have read it before. I remain unconvinced at how much power they actually have but who can say.
Did you see the inauguration ?. As if this Bishop was not "selected" to do the service and her speech not checked ... my goodness - how they must think we are all so stupid.
The World is a ruddy stage, but the shows they put on are now so obvious and predictable; so we should be either happy (as they have become lazy or careless) or terrified (as they have become so arrogant and so in our face, they do not care, because they have everything covered.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14311785/Trump-woke-bishop-sermon-prayer-truth-social-inauguration.html
Of course, everything is scripted and run past the PR goons. Yes, saw it.
Wow, spot on and very well written; tx. As for Musk being a genius; well I totally disagree with that - he is just another puppet on the sting doing and saying what he is told to do. I have £2 pounds sterling on him buying up the US version of the Chinese tick tock -WHY ?; because TT has everything on it to introduce the digital wallet that is coming soon for all of us in the West. The fascist side link in Government and big business - Sound familiar ?.
As for the Nazi salute ... my view only, but he is signalling that "IT IS THE TIME" and it is if you think about it.... Agenda 2030 etc; gee how the globalist parasite scum must have partied (they communicate through gestures)in open public - to generalise Fascist government ( NWO ) for them and we= us plebs and useless eaters get cultural Marxism (look it up_... or look here = https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/cultural-marxism-catching/ and https://cplaction.com/cultural-marxism/
We get this, ranging from total control of us, family break down, sexualisation of everything INCLUDING kids and everything abhorrent TO ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS who believe in "at least parts of the faith"- Sound familiar (LBGT, Hollywood stars / Music stars etc etc) ?.
Tin foil hat on = Hollywood... Holly Wood ... Holy Wood ... the crucifix (Just thought of that; good hey - or nuts ?)
Whilst I am ranting due to it being well past my bedtime. Why did musk change the name of twatter to X ?.... could it be along the lines of ?=
"Latinx is the gender-neutral alternative to Latina or Latino. It is a term used to describe a diverse group of people who have roots in Latin America. While it is unclear exactly when and where the term emerged, it is clear it emerged from queer Latinx online communities in order to challenge the gender binary."
Nazi salute... the Greeks did similar, think the romans did as well; but going back to the alleged plandemic - everything was Greek !!! - just a coincidence hey ?.
Yes, the so-called salute is common and often in military marching. I also do not think Musk is brilliant. Clever, certainly and like Trump, a canny and cunning businessman but genius probably not. Then again, genius and madness walk hand in hand. And in centuries past, people honoured those who were mad and saw them as soothsayers.
Twitter was a stupid name and X is a stupid name. I imagine X makes the spot.
I have lived in a lot of countries around the world and remain unconvinced that it is easy to control humans. As the saying goes, you can fool some of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
Totally agree in a way, but yet to figure out how we can fight the new "digital wallet" system.
Brilliantly said!!😂😂😂
Thank you Bob
His genius is questionable. Musk’s ability to make acquisitions to use money to buy out to take advantage is what's remarkable. He did not invent Twitter or Telsa or ...he acquired them.
Bingo and he was funded by ???.
Wow … your writing is so profoundly accurate of the truth without a hint of bias !!
Thank you Majid
Also can you please encouyrage people to take out a paid sub, I’d like to think my work is worth it?! lol
If I could write like you with all my experience of the horrors and unbelievable people I’ve known in my life from comedians that became famous with knowing me and writers and , directors producers .. alls I was a simple man born in Palestine , raised in up state Ny in a great orphanage the best of American way from Casey Stangle of the coach of NY Yankees to the chuck berry and rock & roll to Vietnam infantry man with the wolfhounds from Hawaii at 18 yrs old I just wish I could write like you to me your very special
So refreshing to see an intelligent take on this, George.
Thanks Debbie
I wouldn't call Musk a genius. His one special talent (shared with Trump) is blagging the financial markets into allowing him to burn sufficient cash to get Tesla off the ground. Those lacking that talent, like Canoo amongst others, are being taken apart by the usurers as we speak. Capitalism loves a bullshit artist!
While I agree with the sentiment that legacy media is the grand dining hall where all the well seasoned garbage is served I’d argue unless you’re referring to his ability seize upon the honest genius of others then claim it as his own creation then Elon is a genius. But let’s be clear he’s far from anything worthy of being considered a genius. He was born on 3rd but has somehow convinced far too many that he hit a triple. He intentionally gestured in such a distorted way that created plausible deniability. I mean c’mon some may pretend but we all recognize an SS salute we see one. Just one day in and they already have trump supporters twisted into human pretzels trying to defend the💩show. At this rate they’ll all be basket cases long before the end of first year.
Stated above or tried to, that the globalist parasitical scum communicate through hand and body gestures (plus subtle wording WITH THEIR ORIGINAL DEFINITION AND MEANING) Worldwide... always have, always will - and they do it openly; so if you understand that, you can see it. Anyway, greatest empires throughout history were ???... Roman salute = https://www.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/photos/111875357/display_1500/stock-photo-roman-soldier-giving-the-hand-raised-salute-111875357.jpg
NOOOOOOOO surely not LOL, my Queen = https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-18/buckingham-palace-slams-images-of-queens-nazi-salute/6630346
Greeks = I THINK they could have used it as well; but I cannot be certain or find proof, so ignore.
Most Countries use the hand to head as opposed to outstretch arm; but it still means the same - respect and BS to the command structure "YOU ARE MY BOSS, THEREFORE I BOW TO YOU'ish". It would not surprise me if we all have to do a salute in the future, when they bring the NWO in !.
PS Subtle words are used as well= if I ask you do YOU "Understand" my comment - no response required but break the word down .... UNDER and STAND ... getting it ?
Christmas = Christ and mas ... the mass of Christ (in the popular belief / scheme of when he was born etc) ...
Waffle over. Good night
For Jews, any patriot who stands up for his people is a "fascist," even though Zionism itself, for thousands of years, has been the fundamental initiation and source of brutal fascism.
Time to put him where he belongs
🚮
Elon isn't a genius🤣 He's an idiotic, delusional fascist. He hung out with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell🤮 And even a broken clock is right twice a day 🤷♀️
I agrée with your evaluation but feel there is a significant component missing in the opinion-forming environment we inhabit today; that of the ‘public will’.
The points you present relate to ideation like those presented in the legacy media. As opposed to will. In the ‘old days’ arguments would be marshaled and presented by the media for our consideration and/or acceptance. This is still the case on sites like Substack. But elsewhere the message has become very ‘propagandised’ but not so much as to present a different argument as to whip up support for the ‘cult followers’ of cult leaders like Donald Trump. It’s what the followers, following blindly (to varying degrees, I admit) want. But the problem for Western society is that these followers are blind also to the change in perception/response and feel that they ‘inhabit’ the arguments when in reality they just parrot the sound bites issued as part of the propaganda.
And this means that this kind of will-driven response is growing and driving out shared discourse. Debate is now impossible with cult followers and so people end up becoming more and more polarized as the topics - abortion, law and order, immigration etc - lose the centre ground historically filled by argumentation.
Cognates of will are ‘authority’, ‘intolerance’, imposition’. These inhibit ideation, openness and discussion.
Modern social media has not created this trend to favour will - through propaganda - over ideas but it’s ‘brought it to the people’ who then amplify their Leader’s pronouncements and consolidate his power. Quickly.
So, it’s not so much about ‘truth’ - and whatever power derives through that - as about ‘strength’ and whatever control (of actions) derives from that.
The age of Authority is upon us.
Why any person would use X or purchase a Tesla, both of which support the unhinged, unstable, and obviously bipolar Musk is beyond me. He should have no place in government, but since we are now a Zionist Oligarchy we're stuck with him and the Orange Rabbi.
I see something a little more sinister. I view that quasi- or ersatz-salute as a test. Musk, however much we may despise him, is not stupid, and he knows that an outright Nazi gesture would go over poorly. However, he may enjoy testing the waters, seeing how close to the "edge" he can go. This, by the way, is a long-standing practice of the Right: to all but do or state something, pull back, and then piously insist, "I never did (or said) that!"
As for the media? @George Hazim makes great points; they have let us down horribly and unconscionably. Which media have used the G-word (genocide) in connection with Israel? Has even such a "liberal bastion" as *The New York Times*? If one gets out a magnifying glass, one may occasionally find an Op/Ed piece about how the West provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it is far easier to find mention of "genocide" and "war crimes" in coverage of that conflict than in reports about Gaza (and elsewhere in the Middle East).
Now we come to the ultimate stage. The media may soon be afraid to criticize Trump, because he will sue them. We shall have lost freedom of the press, even while Zuck bends down to kiss the imperial ass (i.e., does away with fact checks). In fact, the most powerful media will include those controlled by the nation's three wealthiest men (Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg), all of whom have gone over to the Dark Side.
Bottom line: If you think our media have been dreadful, brace yourselves for MUCH worse!