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Welcome to some unapproved thinking where forgotten truths, buried patterns, and
invisible systems rise to the surface.
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Let's begin.
There's something strange happening on the biggest stages in entertainment.
The Grammys, the Met Gala, and even the Super Bowl halftime shows.
Everywhere you look, celebrities appear in outfits that feel less
like fashion and more like symbols.
I remember one of the first times I really actively noticed this pattern.
It was after seeing a clip of Sam Smith's Grammy performance head
to toe red leather dancers with horns, fire imagery everywhere.
My wife showed it to me and said, that doesn't look like a music performance.
That looks like a ritual.
And you know what?
She was right.
Colors, repeat shapes, repeat.
Even themes, repeat.
And when you line them all up across all the different events, the different
artists and the different years, it looks less like coincidence and way
more like organized choreography.
Red appears everywhere, full red outfits, long red capes, half and full masks,
horns of various shapes and sizes, boots, and even gowns shaped like flames.
Oh, remember the girl on fire in the movie Hunger Games?
Yeah, you see it in there too.
You see it at the Grammys, the Met Gala movies, and even in music
videos released the same week.
When millions see the same symbols over and over, they stop questioning them.
They stop noticing them.
And when that happens, once those symbols blend into entertainment so seamlessly,
that's when they become part of culture.
Tonight we ask when the red carpet becomes a ritual procession disguised as fashion.
Who's directing the ceremony?
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We live in an age where every single image we see is engineered for maximum
psychological impact, where fashion becomes messaging, where entertainment
events reach billions of viewers at the click of a button simultaneously.
Then that same event even gets rebroadcasted on repeat, on demand.
Where symbols can be embedded in the mass consciousness through that repetition,
which was being disguised as creativity.
I've spent years inside corporate systems where we'd craft visual narratives for
brands, watching how easily imagery could be shaped, coordinated, and made
to serve interests that had nothing to do with artistic expression.
Back then, I thought we were just doing marketing, trying to get the end user
to press that ever elusive buy button.
I didn't realize I was watching the blueprint for something much bigger.
The post-digital world has made this symbolic communication even more powerful
and more subtle than ever before.
A single image from the Met Gala reaches more people than
a beautifully crafted piece of medieval religious art has reached.
In centuries since being created, a Grammy performance is seen by more
viewers than viewers that attended all of the Roman Gladiatorial games combined.
When the same symbolic themes appear repeatedly across different
artists, across different events, across different years, the question
isn't whether these symbols exist.
It's whether their coordinated appearance represents just an artistic coincidence or
perhaps signal systematic communication.
When red carpets become ritual, processions and award shows become
ceremonial theater, understanding the symbolic language becomes essential for
recognizing what messages are being pushed and embedded in the mass consciousness,
all without your awareness or consent.
Let me walk you through what happens when you start really seeing and paying
attention to the symbolic patterns in all these major entertainment events.
Because trust me, once you see it, you can't unsee it.
Let's start with the color red, which seems to appear with
mathematical precision across major entertainment events.
Not occasionally, not even randomly, methodically.
I've looked back to track this after that.
Sam Smith performance I mentioned earlier.
Head to toe red leather with dancers wearing horns and all that fire imagery.
But guess what?
It wasn't just that one performance.
No, no.
That very same night.
At other events, the same themes kept appearing.
Doja Cat at the Met Gala was covered in thousands of red crystals,
like she was transforming her entire body into a living symbol.
But here's what made me pay even more attention.
It wasn't just individual appearances.
Again, the same night, multiple celebrities appeared in horns,
masks, wings, claws, and dare I say, OC cult inspired silhouettes.
It looked like a ritual procession dressed up as a fashion
statement In my humble opinion.
This level of coordination is far too precise to just be coincidental.
Look, I've been in enough of those corporate marketing meetings to recognize
coordinated messaging when I see it.
I do not think this was just artistic inspiration and expression.
Nope.
This was the implementation of a visual strategy.
The patterns extend beyond just single events.
Many music videos released during award season echo the same symbolic
themes as the events themselves.
Fashion shoots mirror the ceremonial imagery.
Social media posts amplify the symbolic content.
The repetition creates a multimedia, symbolic environment that literally
saturates the mass consciousness.
The Met Gala provides the clearest example of systematic symbolic communication.
The official themes change each year.
One year it was Heavenly Bodies Camp, another year,
then in America another year.
But the underlying symbolic patterns seem to remain consistent.
Regardless of the stated theme, the same occult inspired imagery appears,
horns, masks, ritualistic poses, symbolic colors, and ceremonial
arrangements of people and items.
We have all watched this pattern for years now, consciously or not, the Grammy Awards
follow the same script Every few years.
There will be a performance that sparks huge controversy because the symbolism
becomes just a bit too obvious to ignore.
Red robes, crown like horns, fire imagery, inverted symbols, and
even ritual style choreography.
Millions will see it, only a few will question it, and that allows the symbolic
content to become normalized through that repetition and lack of questioning.
Super Bowl halftime shows represent one of the most watched
symbolic events in America.
These performances tend to consistently include symbolic wardrobe elements
that follow very recognizable patterns.
Red outfits, black outfits, masks, blindfolds, long cloaks, military
style arrangements of dancers and symbolic staging that conveys themes
of submission or even ascension.
The show called The Weekends had a halftime show that featured
dancers in red jackets and full face masks that looked like bandages.
Many folks interpreted the costumes as a commentary on the cosmetic
surgery culture while others saw something a little deeper.
Pause and picture that for a moment.
A collective of faceless figures, perhaps a bit zombified, moving in
synchronization behind a central star.
This is symbolism that could represent conformity, ritual,
identity, or even controlled personas.
Then there's Rihanna's performance that featured her in a red outfit
contrasted with all the dancers in white.
This is a classic symbolic pattern seen in many ceremonial contexts.
One central figure in power colors, red in this case, standing above
those dressed in neutral colors, representing purity or servitude.
Okay, so how about the animal symbolism appearing consistently across events,
horns, wings, claws, masks shaped like predators, serpent themes, bird imagery,
and even the classic goat references.
These symbols have specific meanings in various esoteric traditions
related to power transformation and spiritual hierarchies.
Then let's not forget when men appear in feminine clothing.
Yeah.
You know what I'm talking about here?
Lace, skirts, corsets, even elaborate gowns.
This creates yet another layer of symbolic communication.
Harry styles, wearing dresses, Jared Leto and gowns.
Machine Gun Kelly and corsets Billy Porter in elaborate dresses with enormous wings.
These choices reflect ritualistic themes of identity
transformation and role reversal.
For me, the most unsettling aspect is not any individual symbol.
It is the level of coordination, the same themes appearing across
all those different artists, all the different events and all different
media platforms simultaneously.
The mathematical precision suggests planning rather than
spontaneous artistic expression.
Let's not forget about the fashion houses who play a crucial role in
all this symbolic coordination.
Many have longstanding connections to wealthy elites who understand
symbolic communication.
Designers create outfits that communicate specific messages through color,
shape, and those symbolic elements.
Celebrities wear them because they're told it's fashion, but the
imagery carries meanings that extend far beyond just aesthetic choices.
When you strip away the brand names and celebrity personalities, the
symbolic patterns become unmistakable.
Given all this, it seems the red carpet has become a ritual procession
where symbolic messages are embedded into the mass consciousness
through repetition disguised as entertainment and artistic expression.
But let's turn our heads back to the past because this pattern of
using entertainment and ceremony for symbolic communication runs
deeper than most people realize.
I've spent some time looking at how those who understood the power of
symbols have used public spectacles to embed messages in mass consciousness.
Ancient civilizations used elaborate ceremonies and symbolic displays
to communicate power structures and spiritual hierarchies.
Egyptian pharaohs wore specific colors, symbols, and regalia that
communicated their divine authority.
Roman emperors used ceremonial processions to displace symbolic messages about
power conquest, and the social order.
Medieval religious ceremonies were just sophisticated exercises
in symbolic communication.
Every color, every gesture, and every single ritual element carried
specific meanings that reinforced religious and political hierarchies.
The masses participated in these symbolic rituals without
necessarily understanding their true meaning and deeper significance.
The royal courts throughout history have used fashion and ceremony as
tools of symbolic communication.
Specific colors were reserved for royalty.
Certain symbols indicated rank and allegiance.
Court ceremonies were carefully choreographed symbolic displays
that reinforced power structures through visual repetition.
I've studied how secret societies have always used symbolic
communication to identify members and convey hidden meaning.
Masonic symbols, Rosa Ian imagery and other esoteric traditions developed
sophisticated symbolic languages that could communicate complex
ideas through visual elements.
Let's not forget the Nazi regime, who kind of perfected the use of mass spectacle
for symbolic and populous programming.
Their rallies, their parades, and their ceremonies weren't just political events.
They were symbolic rituals designed to embed specific
messages in mass consciousness.
Their coordination of symbols, colors, and ceremonial elements created powerful
psychological effects on their citizens.
Even Hollywood's early development included significant influence
from people who understood the intricacies of symbolic communication.
The studio system, the process of creating a star and ceremonial events like award
shows were designed to create symbolic environments that could influence mass
consciousness through entertainment.
The counterculture movements of the 1960s used symbolic communication
extensively, but their symbols were often co-opted and redirected by
commercial interests like hip hop music.
What perhaps began as authentic expression, symbolic and otherwise
became manufactured symbolic content designed to serve different purposes.
MTV and the music videos of the 1980s and 1990s began incorporating increasingly
sophisticated symbolic content artists like Madonna Prince and Michael
Jackson used symbolic imagery that drew from various esoteric traditions.
Though the meanings and intentions behind these symbols remained ambiguous.
The pattern that emerges from this history is clear.
Symbolic communication through public spectacle has always been
a tool of influence and control.
The methods have just been refined over centuries, but
at their core, the fundamental principles still remain the same.
Today's modern entertainment events represent the perfection
of this ancient practice today.
However, the reach is global.
The repetition is constant, and the symbolic content is embedded
in the consciousness through the pleasure and distraction of the
very entertainment it presents.
I think understanding this history helps explain why contemporary
entertainment events follow such consistent symbolic patterns.
It's not coincidence or artistic inspiration.
It's just the ongoing application of proven methods of symbolic
influence that have been developed and refined over millennia.
Let me show you the recurring mechanisms of symbolic communication and how they're
being applied In our modern entertainment events, the pattern always seems to begin
with repetition, creating normalization without our conscious awareness.
When the same symbols appear repeatedly across different contexts, they become
familiar and acceptable without people understanding their real significance.
Thus, the red carpet becomes a delivery system for this symbolic
content that can literally bypass our critical thinking color.
Symbolism also follows consistent patterns across different events and artists.
Red represents power, sacrifice, and transformation
in various esoteric traditions.
Black represents authority, mystery, and hidden knowledge.
White represents purity, submission, or spiritual transformation.
The same color meanings appear consistently across different
entertainment contexts.
I've reviewed this across dozens of events.
The precision is remarkable.
It's not random artistic choice.
It's systematic implementation of the symbolic meaning.
Even animal symbolism carries specific meanings that appear repeatedly.
Horns represent power and spiritual authority.
Wings represent ascension and transformation.
Serpents represent wisdom and hidden knowledge.
Predator imagery represents dominance and control.
These symbols, again, appear consistently across different
artists and different events.
Next is gender inversion.
Symbolism appears frequently in more modern entertainment.
When male performers wear feminine clothing or female performers adopt
masculine imagery, it represents themes of transformation, role reversal, and the
dissolution of traditional boundaries.
This symbolism again appears across different artists and
events with remarkable consistency.
The coordination across different entertainment platforms suggests
organized rather than coincidental, symbolic communication when the same
symbolic themes appear simultaneously in award shows, music videos, fashion
shoots, and social media content, it indicates planning and coordination
rather than any one or even a few independent artistic choices.
As we have already discussed, the fashion houses serve as vehicles
for this symbolic coordination.
Designers with connections to wealthy elites create the outfits that carry
the specific symbolic meanings.
Then the celebrities wear these designs because they're presented as high fashion,
but the symbolic content serves purposes beyond just their aesthetic expression.
The timing of symbolic displays often coincides with significant
cultural or political moments.
Major entertainment events featuring intensive symbolic content frequently
occur during periods of social change, political transition,
or cultural transformation.
The symbolic programming appears designed to influence mass
consciousness during vulnerable moments.
The most insidious aspect is how symbolic content gets embedded in consciousness.
Through pleasure and entertainment, people absorb symbolic messages
while enjoying performances, fashion and celebrity culture.
The entertainment value provides cover for the symbolic programming.
Media amplification ensures that symbolic content reaches maximum audiences.
Award show performances get replayed endlessly.
Fashion choices get analyzed and shared across social media.
The symbolic content gets distributed far beyond the original
events through media repetition.
This pattern also extends into how questioning symbolic content
gets dismissed or ridiculed.
When people notice the coordination and consistency of these symbolic
themes, they're told that they're reading too much into the fashion
choices or the artistic expressions.
This very dismissal prevents a deeper analysis of the systematic symbolic
communication that is being questioned.
The most concerning pattern is how quickly symbolic content becomes
first normalized and then accepted.
What would seem quite shocking initially, like say a few years ago, becomes all
too familiar through the repetition, symbolic themes that would have been
controversial decades ago are now accepted as normal entertainment content.
Go ahead and pause for a moment.
Think about it for my older listeners.
Would some of these scenes have even been allowed in the eighties, the seventies,
or even the love filled sixties?
That is not too long ago.
If you really think about it, this pattern suggests that modern entertainment
events aren't just spectacles.
But instead, there are organized exercises in symbolic programming
designed to embed specific messages into the mass consciousness, through
the repetition disguised as artistic expression or even as entertainment.
Of course, as we know, not everyone in the entertainment industry has
participated in or even accepted this organized use of symbolic programming.
Throughout the industry's history, artists and observers have actively chosen
authenticity over symbolic manipulation.
Some artists have explicitly refused to participate in symbolic displays despite
industry pressure and career consequences.
They understand that their artistic expression should serve
their own vision rather than some others' external symbolic agendas.
These artists prioritize authentic creativity over symbolic conformity.
I've met people in the industry who've walked away from
opportunities because they recognize what was being asked of them.
They understood that wearing certain symbols or participating in certain
ceremonies meant more than fashion, or just the mere performance, that
it meant participation in something they couldn't honestly support.
Independent researchers have documented the patterns of symbolic content and
entertainment events, and have analyzed their potential meanings and effects.
Their work provides evidence for systematic symbolic communication that
goes beyond coincidental artistic choices.
Religious and spiritual communities have maintained awareness of
symbolic communication and have developed guidelines for
evaluating entertainment content.
They understand that symbols carry power and meaning that can
influence consciousness in ways that bypass rational analysis.
Some fashion designers have refused to create symbolic content
despite commercial pressure.
They prioritize aesthetic beauty and authentic expression over symbolic
messaging that serves interests beyond their artistic vision.
Cultural critics have analyzed the symbolic content in entertainment
events and have raised questions about its coordination and purpose.
Their work faces marginalization, but provides important analysis
of how symbolic programming operates in modern media.
There are even some celebrities that have spoken about feeling pressured
to wear certain symbolic outfits or participate in particular ceremonial
displays that made them uncomfortable.
While few speak publicly about these experiences, their private accounts
suggest that symbolic coordination is more systematic than it appears outwardly.
But as always, I believe the most important resistance comes from us as
the audiences who've learned or are learning to recognize this symbolic
programming and who we're choosing to consume entertainment far more
consciously rather than just passively.
We understand that symbols carry meanings, and that repeated
exposure to this symbolic content can influence our consciousness in
subtle but highly significant ways.
In these outliers, we can see a demonstration that participation
in symbolic programming isn't inevitable or even necessary for
one to have artistic success.
Every artist who chooses authentic expression, every observer who documents
symbolic patterns, every audience member who consumes entertainment consciously
helps maintain the awareness of how this symbolic communication actually operates.
Our resistance to it also reveals the scope of symbolic programming
in modern entertainment.
The fact that conscious resistance is necessary indicates that systematic
symbolic communication is occurring and that it serves interests
beyond artistic expression alone.
Okay, so what some of you may ask, what does this change?
Well, I believe that understanding how systematic symbolic programming is woven
into our entertainment can actively change how we or you consume media.
Evaluate artistic expression and recognize when these symbols are being
used to influence our consciousness.
Every major entertainment event becomes an opportunity to observe symbolic patterns
rather than just enjoy the performances.
When you see repeated symbolic themes across different artists and different
events at different times, you will start asking whether these patterns represent
just simple artistic coincidence or a more aligned and organized communication even.
The fashion choices you see will take on new significance when you
understand how the symbolic content gets embedded in our mass consciousness
through the celebrity culture, the outfits aren't just aesthetic choices.
They're vehicles for the symbolic messages that reach millions of
viewers daily and simultaneously, the phrase, it's just fashion will become
an insufficient explanation for these methodical, symbolic coordinations.
Real fashion serves aesthetic expression and individual creativity, period.
Symbolic programming serves external agendas while
appearing to be artistic choice.
Award shows and major entertainment events become recognizable as
ceremonial displays rather than just celebrations of our artistic achievement.
The symbolic content often matters more than the stated purpose of the events.
Color symbolism becomes a language worth understanding when you realize
how consistently certain colors appear in entertainment contexts, red, black,
white, and other colors carry specific meanings that appear repeatedly
across different symbolic displays.
The importance of conscious media consumption becomes clear when you
understand how symbolic programming operates below the threshold of awareness.
Paying attention to symbolic content helps you distinguish between
authentic artistic expression and systematic symbolic manipulation.
Pattern recognition becomes more important than individual symbol
analysis when the same symbolic themes appear across multiple
entertainment platforms simultaneously.
Recognizing the pattern helps you understand that you're experiencing
systematic programming rather than coincidental artistic choices.
But most importantly, you begin to realize that entertainment isn't just
entertainment anymore, especially when it carries such deeply rooted
and structured symbolic content all designed to influence your consciousness.
The pleasure and distraction of your entertainment can provide cover for the
subtle symbolic programming that serves interests far beyond the very artistic
expression you were hoping to enjoy.
Look, the goal here isn't to stop enjoying your favorite music artist
or movie start or entertainment, or to become paranoid about every symbol.
The goal here is to get you to consume entertainment more consciously
and to get you to understand that these symbols carry meaning.
You need to be aware that repeated exposure to those symbolic meanings
in the content you consume can and will influence your consciousness
in ways you might not recognize if you aren't actively aware of it.
So.
When you understand how symbolic programming operates through
entertainment, you can then begin to make more informed choices about
what content you choose to allow into your consciousness and how you can
protect your mental autonomy from these systematic attempts to influence you.
They turned the red carpet into a ritual procession and called it high fashion.
They transformed award shows into ceremonial displays
and called it entertainment.
They embedded systematic symbolic programming into the mass consciousness
and called it artistic expression.
We have all watched this coordination from our bedrooms to our living rooms.
We have seen how the same techniques used to create brand recognition got
scaled up to create symbolic programming.
The precision isn't accidental.
Nope.
It's engineered.
The same symbols keep appearing across different artists, different events, and
even different years with a mathematical precision read for power and sacrifice.
Horns for authority and transformation, masks for identity dissolution, gender
inversion for boundary destruction.
The level of coordination we have seen is far too precise to just be coincidental.
When millions of people see the same symbols over and over, they
simply stop questioning them.
They stop even noticing.
And once these symbols blend into their entertainment, they become part
of the culture, allowing the symbolic programming to bypass your critical
thinking and embed itself directly into your consciousness through
the pleasure of your entertainment.
So as you can see, the MET Gala isn't just a fashion event, it's a parabolic
ritual broadcast to global audiences.
The Grammy Awards aren't just music celebrations anymore.
Nope.
They're ceremonial displays of metaphoric content.
That Super Bowl halftime show.
Yeah.
It isn't just entertainment anymore.
It's the most watched, symbolic programming event in America today.
They didn't just capture the entertainment industry.
They turned it into a delivery system for their suggestive influence.
Every red carpet becomes a ritual procession.
Every award show becomes a ceremonial display.
Every major performance becomes an opportunity to embed symbolic
content in the mass consciousness without question or oversight.
But here's what they can't control your awareness for.
Once you see these elusive patterns, you can't unsee them.
Once you understand that entertainment carries suggestive, symbolic
programming, you can then choose to consume it consciously rather than
just passively being programmed.
The official story is that celebrities wear symbolic outfits because they're
creative and artistic and fashionable.
The real story is that systematic symbolic programming is being embedded
in our mass consciousness through the entertainment events that reach billions
of viewers simultaneously and repeatedly.
The red carpet ritual is happening whether you recognize it or not.
The question is, are you going to participate unconsciously or are
you going to observe it consciously?
The symbols are there if you know how to see them.
The pattern is there if you know how to recognize it.
I think it's time we recognize it and take back control of our own minds.
Tracy out
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