“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

― George Orwell

The Father of Modern Experimental Optics, Sir David Brewster, invented the kaleidoscope in 1816. A kaleidoscope is an instrument that reflects images of designed colored glass that forms symmetrical patterns that one can observe through a viewer.

The kaleidoscope illustrates image-forming properties of a series of combined inclined mirrors reflecting the properties of an object that is positioned inside the instrument in order to form the symmetrical patterns.

Essentially, the visual product formed by the kaleidoscope functions off the reflections of reflections of the object that’s placed inside.

The word kaleidoscope is Greek in origin and the translated meaning is the observation of beautiful forms.

What defines a reflection?

A reflection is essentially an exact copy of the object being reflected that’s facing the wrong direction. Understanding this principle it’s easy to see how a kaleidoscope leverages its use of reflection in the same way as a hall of mirrors.

In short, a kaleidoscope is essentially a miniature hall of mirrors offering the reflection of an object that is actually facing the opposite direction than it really is.

The Dark Studio will come back to address this concept a bit later on in this briefing as a reminder that reality isn’t always what it seems.

In the current societal environment even a casual observer has been able to look across the cultural and political landscape and understand that there’s a sickness that has gradually infected society over the last several years.

If the casual observer happens to be a part of Generation X, then that observer has lived long enough to see the degradation of talent, loss of beauty, and the slow rot of creative content in recent years. As an example, until recently, the Gen X casual observer could look across the cultural landscape of mainstream films and wonder how many more superhero movies Hollywood could possibly make.

The same casual observer could also easily question how many more old movies the Hollywood machine could remake. Additionally, in terms of the music industry, casual observers could question how many more so-called musical artists could Auto-Tune a low quality melody or include the blend of older songs into the production of new music.

The overarching point is that the status of being an operational zenith wasn’t a necessary requirement for the casual observer and the societal midwit to take notice of the obvious content and creativity void that society has experienced for the last several years. More specifically, whether that Gen X observer is a zenith operator or not, this generation has lived long enough to remember the relevance of their original culture while witnessing its obvious decline firsthand.

However, while most can spot cultural rot, the difference is that Gen X sovereign operators actually possess the ability to diagnose why that rot occurred in the first place. In short, the growing signs of cultural rot are clear symptoms of Marxist infiltration.

The Dark Studio is focusing its cultural case study on Gen X because during the 1980s, this generation experienced an explosion of Americana deeply embedded into the films and music of their childhood. As a result, this cultural footprint uniquely positions Gen X into this current study and examination to pinpoint the cause of the decay of the current cultural landscape.

When diagnosing the downgraded shift in American culture, a zenith operator understands that while the decline is widespread, the underlying institutional rot is driven strictly by the infestation of Marxist ideals. Marxists understand the power of influence through culture, therefore it’s no mistake that the cultural influence of music, film, and television were firmly placed into the crosshairs by these nefarious activists.

This is why the role of examining Gen X in today’s discussion is so vital as Gen X experienced a heightened culture of Americanism throughout their childhood development that was in complete opposition to the slow cultural rot that American society has experienced now for the last several years.

Marxists have always embraced the playbook of infiltration. As a fundamental law of this ideology, the central tenet involving the psychological belief structure of these radicals directly hinges on the deadly sins of envy and pride. Because these radicals are trapped inside their own worship of self-arrogance, they are incapable of any flexibility in terms of establishing reasonable parameters of how other individuals, or a society in opposition to them, should live their lives.

Pride and envy serve as the core psychological tenets of this ideological framework. This is the case since advocates of this ideology are completely incapable of producing organic value or capturing hearts and minds within a free marketplace of ideas. As a result, the movement inevitably resorts to systemic force and coercion.

Driven by envy and pride, they gain support from others who share their worship of self-arrogance and suffer from those very same vices.

“How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

― Ronald Reagan

The result of such a belief structure is what drives the Marxist to engage in the act of infiltrating the institutions of society. Such institutional infiltration occurs in education, media, and public office.

Granted, the main target of infiltration concerning the Marxist infiltrator occurs inside the classroom. However, despite traditional Marxist efforts to infiltrate classrooms, the inevitable degeneration of their applied philosophy always manifests as symptoms of rot throughout the culture first.

When the symptoms of this rot advance to a severe enough stage, this is when even the casual Gen X observer is able to take notice. There’s a significant reason that the Marxist infiltrator chooses to pursue institutional dominance and that reason for the Marxist is to destroy the heartbeat that’s central to the survival of the United States.

The metaphorical gun that they use to place that heartbeat into their crosshairs is the classroom, the media, and the culture, but the bullet that they fire at the heart for the kill shot is the act of demoralization.

Decay

The Marxist infiltrator understands that the survival of the Republic is built on a foundation of faith. Therefore, in order to destroy the Republic, the Marxist infiltrator understands that they must act to destroy that faith.

The Dark Studio previously noted how the symptoms of Marxist rot will begin to show up in the culture before that rot starts to migrate from the classroom and manifest throughout the business and economic environment of everyday life.

In studying the lived documented human experience through the vertical lens of history, one can observe that systemic rot typically occurs gradually until it reaches the stage of critical mass, where from this point it happens virtually overnight. This timeframe was well documented in The Age of the Zenith Patriot.

Even though the symptoms of this rot can be noticed in the culture by the casual observer, what most fail to realize at this stage is that the deep infiltration is already very present in the theater of academia.

The reason for the Marxist infiltration throughout academia is multi-faceted, but the main reason is to revise, destroy, and lie about the history of the nation. Once again, remember that the central psychological tenet of the Marxist ideology is driven by pride and envy. Therefore, since the Marxist infiltrator is driven solely by self-pride, they cannot win over hearts and minds; instead, they must engage in demoralizing them.

The Marxist actions of demoralization are prevalent throughout much of history. Speaking of history, this is the first target that Marxist infiltrators place into their crosshairs.

Marxists always attack the foundational history of a nation because they understand that if they can revise the history to suit their narrative that the public will come to reject the very nation that they live in. Marxists understand that the history of a civilization is what connects and grounds its citizens to everything they hold sacred in their homeland.

Therefore, they understand that if they can create a rift between the native citizen and their history that this will detach that citizen from their beloved civilization. If the demoralization campaign is successful, the Marxist understands this detachment will unmoor the citizenry from everything they loved and previously held sacred about their home.

This is the current dilemma facing the Occident (the West) right now, but ironically enough much of this rot is something that can be learned from the Orient (the East), and, in fact, is actually being driven by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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