Pioneering storyteller and artist Joseph Matheny joins us to talk about his seminal 'Alternate Reality Game' (ARG) Ong's Hat, and how in recent years the techniques he employed have been weaponised by
JM's story thru a hypnotic fog and then an electric fence to continue to tell his story is a preservable story because it has personal traits of nature at its core. Joe's seed was planted long ago in the mind that he lives in now. If we continue to flip the pages in our living book that we are adding to each day in our understanding of our deep self
Can you explain the larp angle of pizzagate/q anon? I haven’t seen those topics be satisfactorily dissected. I imagine that given your background, you have some unique insights to share on the subject.
To me, pizzagate was a lot of theorizing about a few pieces of data, which has resulted in the birth of spiralphobia. What I saw, there were messages interpreted as code in the podesta emails, that fbi document with the triangle and butterfly symbols, and the pizza shop in dc related to both. I think it was Breitbart’s infamous tweet about Podesta that got people to really speculate.
The whole adrenochrome obsession seemed odd, like flat earth odd, like deliberate disinfo. I haven’t ruled out that the word adrenochrome isn’t used as a code for some other thing, or that there’s some alien race or people with a peculiar biology to whom it’s of actual interest, but i know that the actual molecule is not some secret billionaire’s superdrug.
Q anon, well... I read the q posts, and there was a lot of good info in them. There was a lot of vagary, which drove wild speculation. There were mistakes. There was an effort to convince the reader that the author was a top level insider, quite a bit of that. There were multiple phases, in different styles, yet always presented as coming from the same confirmed source. There were echoes of operation trust; it had a similar effect. It certainly captured a lot of attention and grew into a phenomenon, for better or worse.
JM's story thru a hypnotic fog and then an electric fence to continue to tell his story is a preservable story because it has personal traits of nature at its core. Joe's seed was planted long ago in the mind that he lives in now. If we continue to flip the pages in our living book that we are adding to each day in our understanding of our deep self
Can you explain the larp angle of pizzagate/q anon? I haven’t seen those topics be satisfactorily dissected. I imagine that given your background, you have some unique insights to share on the subject.
To me, pizzagate was a lot of theorizing about a few pieces of data, which has resulted in the birth of spiralphobia. What I saw, there were messages interpreted as code in the podesta emails, that fbi document with the triangle and butterfly symbols, and the pizza shop in dc related to both. I think it was Breitbart’s infamous tweet about Podesta that got people to really speculate.
The whole adrenochrome obsession seemed odd, like flat earth odd, like deliberate disinfo. I haven’t ruled out that the word adrenochrome isn’t used as a code for some other thing, or that there’s some alien race or people with a peculiar biology to whom it’s of actual interest, but i know that the actual molecule is not some secret billionaire’s superdrug.
Q anon, well... I read the q posts, and there was a lot of good info in them. There was a lot of vagary, which drove wild speculation. There were mistakes. There was an effort to convince the reader that the author was a top level insider, quite a bit of that. There were multiple phases, in different styles, yet always presented as coming from the same confirmed source. There were echoes of operation trust; it had a similar effect. It certainly captured a lot of attention and grew into a phenomenon, for better or worse.