Narrative Warfare: The Memory Of Past Falls Cannot Be Erased

One of 40K's best lore channels branches out again, this time into non-fiction territory.

It's a rather timely turn, since the signs of collapse are increasingly numerous and obvious. (If pressed for time, play at double-speed.)

Years ago, I met a man that went to fan conventions. His day job was in Security; sometimes he was a state agent, sometimes private, but always armed security. He went to these conventions to do panels on "Zombie Prepardedness".

That was the hook. The real purpose was to get Normies thinking about what to do when disasters hit, with the zombie thing being the social and psychological lubrication needed to get people over the hump and into engaging with the topic. Using various well-known zombie media as lead-ins, he would address different disaster scenarios and how to go about securing yourself and your household for immediate, short, and long term sitautions.

This is the sort of approach Luetin's using. He's pointing to past historical examples--the Bronze Age Collapse is fascinating--and certain known tropes of 40K's Imperium to make the case that we really ought to be looking at the present to see (a) if there is a collapse coming (there is) and (b) get to thinking about how to deal with it.

Let's see where this series goes. He'll likely not release another so soon, but this one video is sufficient to get people thinking--and talking--about how to deal with it.

As for a deeper consideration, well Academia isn't entirely useless yet so here's another long video by one such on the topic of the Bronze Age Collapse.

The key point of consideration for us now is the fragility of global trade and energy networks. In addition to actual institutional degradation due to Death Cult and Mammon Mob corruption, we have other hostile parties willfully endangering things to satisfy their own irrational desires (e.g. the CCP in China; their factional fighting is why they remain incapable of keeping the country together for long) and not caring at all about how this effects things down the road or for others (who may be inclined to retaliate).

In short, fragility faciliates collapse. It was exactly that sort of fragility that made the Bronze Age Collapse hit; when a series of major stressors hit, the strain was too great to bear and break everything did.

Watch for it when reading or listening to accounts of a collapse; it is always the erection of a fragile load-bearing structure, literal or metaphorical, that becomes the thing that leads to collapse. It's one of the most reliable tells out there, and this applies on the micro as well as the macro level; you can fix your own condition by addressing and eliminating fragility in your personal affairs as you are able.

Once you make that shift in your mentality, other things cease to be unreasonable and many current practices become unreasonable. Then comes the next realization: that one can only deal with the collapse when one admits that not only it is possible, but that it is probable and they accept that the tells are already present.

And that is why serious outreach to Normies relies on approaches like Luetin's; it gets them past the objections born of Normalcy Bias and makes them able to engage seriously.

And yes, the Enemy fears a prepared people.