Daedalus Was Wrong

Temper your flaps, for they usher in your demise. A passive gaze at heliocentricity was pre-designed for an absent expanse. Bystander viewership is acceptable. Displace and derive your aspiration within this construct; draw sustenance from this bank. Stay the course pre-laden by the ‘experts’; they have your best interest in mind. The signification chain and schemas that produce meaning within your mental apparatus are crafted as your own because you need to be told you are a ‘unique individual’. Do you know the language of non-uniqueness (I’m not alluding to the opposite of unique; wait, did they even let you learn that language? Semantics fail here). So, relish in the ‘autonomy’ and mind the rules of flight. Your own semblance of identity along with your wax essence’s intactness is at stake. Essence as Aristotle’s being, as Plato’s copy, or Sartre’s non-essence? We’re left with a mere proxy of essence upon birth.

‘Reality’ is constructed for us. We are trapped, and conditioned to relish, in the confines of our conscious minds; we are barred from any meaningful contribution to ‘reality’. On a microcosmic cellular level nano-finger banged to produce the response that perpetuates, aligns with, and condones Intended Direction (denoted by capitalization). What is Intended Direction? Figure it out.

Everything you empirically experience produces a mode of living, day-to-day, second-to-second. Mapping every behavior and decision to a thought pattern to a codified sequence has never been more coveted, and more possible. You can’t hide when there’s data. Outlier? Good luck.

Readership of mainstream financial news media is part of that data set. Narrative script formation – a rehashed story of Icarus and Daedulus – as a mode of self-definition and action. Assign values to the potency of financial texts – written, visual, auditory – and to sequences of price action. What moves participants? Impressed upon, think, synthesize, and behave. Repeat. Modification across all levels of consciousness – conscious, unconscious, and subconscious. Regulate. Imagine an aggregate sum of all financial media (mainstream, blogs, podcast, social, newsletters, classically revered, subversive, etc…), factor in user engagement, and analyze subsequent market participation through the attempted lens of causality. What triggers what? A financial reality with WHAT at stake? Oh, yes, you in the back. You have the answer to the stock market? Read me the number.

Escape the light beams. Darkness lies above the sun – a momentary glimpse where you sputter just above the stratum of a tiny window of the electromagnetic spectrum known as visible light. You embark on a journey littered with landmines, epic failures, impairments in functionality, torment, and self-destruction. But, if you wander, flail, fall forward, and combust the friction between your feet and the ground you fixate upon just long enough, you’ll spark agency/will. Seek the kiss the darkness moment – an inverted image from the The Matrix Revolutions when the Osiris must fly above the clouds to escape the sentinels, and subsequently glimpses the daylight of the sky (clip below). The anti-gravity ascent will take you to a place where you may unlearn shackling tropes and rise above ‘their’ sun. Shed syllogisms. Leave Plato’s cave of shadows? Fasten a new measuring device. The first step is doubt (Descartes). Enshroud yourself in darkness and then empirically ascertain reality.

If this articulation sounds clouded, it’s because you need darkness.