The Blue Pill.

[Ninurta]

Thank you Ninurta, your explanation goes a long way to support my own view that when many
use expressions like 'deep state' and 'shadow government' the reality is that we're talking about
more of bundle of agreed actions for a variety of reasons -more than just a unified and systematic
agenda from a central control point.

Like an old-style sailing ship, it's travelling in a culturally-accepted direction, but the ropes, canvas
and crew are assigned separate tasks that at times, may not seem conducive to the overall mission.
Would that be a decent analogy?

I would say that is an excellent analogy! Oh, there are those around who THINK they are pulling the strings and directing the action from a centrally-located, cushy, leather clad office chair (this "Soros" character comes to mind), but they're wrong. They may direct a small part of it, but the behemoth has grown so ungainly and out of control that what they are really doing is more akin to herding cats. They are likely influencing this faction or that, but are surely not directing much of anything at all in the overall picture.

In other words, and attempting to use your analogy, there are those hauling at the ropes and believing that they are hoisting the mainsail, but it only takes a few cannon balls to snatch the wind right out of that sail, and the OTHER guys who think they are directing are just aiming the cannons.

The methods -I know, will sometimes seem outlandish and at times need funding by dubious methods,
but what I'm really trying to show is that there's no cackling maniac in an expensive chair conducting
the whole spider's web!

Precisely. The cackiling maniac THINKS he's running the whole web, but there are other spiders in other parts of the web thinking the same thing, and then there are the ground-hunting spiders who use no web at all, and care nary a bit about who's running the web.

It removes the intrigue and dark motives from the perception of what these agencies are about, but
even if some of the methods are morally-questionable, I'm wondering if the desired overall goal is in
reality, begrudgingly accepted by the public these groups were allegedly created to serve.

Yes and no. There really is is no one "overall goal", there are just a plethora of competing goals who would sincerely LIKE to be THE overall goal. Everyone thinks their own overall goal is going to be the winning one, but the world just keeps turning, doing it's own thing, and not caring at all who comes out on top.


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