On some level we have many frontiers where there is a devil’s bargain to keep things stable and slow roll change…

I suspect that this is partly political and social engineering: so that normal people don’t notice the problems in any kind of shock and there is no psychological moment where people collectively recognize the change and react en masse.

This is a somewhat masterful policy of softening shocks into continuities. This is the opposite tack to the Shock Doctrine, where it prevents the advantage of a recognizable moment for political change (de-leveraging it instead of amplifying the opportunity). Obviously each issue you smuggle past the public consciousness is very fleeting in effect, but you can build a Potemkin Village reality if you persist over time.

At least, that’s the point that I feel might be missing from this article’s analysis. The facts of the strategic reserve sale are pretty obvious, but I don’t think this is designed to prop up the economy, it’s and confuse the public awareness of the change.

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Old school disinformation was to take a truth and make one counter truth and sell it hard.

New school disinformation is to take a trurh, make 8 theories all with criticisms of the other theories, spread every single one at the same time and allow this to fracture consensus reality. It takes time for this to fully rupture the public idea-space.