Narrative Warfare: See In The Micro How Its Done In The Macro

Yesterday, Jeffro put out a post about the hobby and how what the BROSR is now bringing back was suppressed.

But none of that matters. The greatness of those really old games that utterly fascinated your teenaged self? You were gatekept out of it even then.

How did it happen?

Well, some gross nerd told you that you couldn’t learn the game just by reading the rules. The guy seemed pretty smart and what he advised seemed to work okay for what you were doing. And you never found out what the game described by the rules was really like. You counted yourself lucky. After all… you were initiated into the hobby– or so you thought.

This is another example of Boomers not passing on what they inhereted, because that failure happened along generational lines, as this effect set in around 1980-83 when D&D exploded into popular visibility and the new cohort coming in were not connected to the college-based scene of the 1970s and those people made no effort to mentor the children--that's what we were then--picking up the game.

The result, 40ish years hence, is as Jeffro describes and we're only now beginning to see things for what they are and changing our activity and behavior to account for these facts. Because those currently profiting from the present paradigm see this restoration, correctly, as a threat they want to get out in front of it and fraudulently seize control of it for the purpose of derailing it and bring the power behind it back under the control of the current beneficiaries.

As we see in political affairs, we see first in cultural affairs; it's literally this meme in action.

Successful credit theft turns into cultural power to define the Narrative about the thing, which is how we got into the very state of affairs Jeffro wrote about.

Which, of course, is why they have to be aggressively predatory when such things emerge. Literally this meme.

Threats to a Narrative, be that Narrative great or small, cannot be tolerated. All threats have to be neutralized; they must be coopted or destroyed. The push to dispossess Jeffro and the #BROSR from being the people that restored proper RPG campaign play has to succeed before they can use Sophist language fraud to redefine the entire thing back into something friendly to the dominant Narrative and either annihilate it or weaponize it against enemies.

This is a micro-level example of what is done on the macro-level, usually involving political narratives, every single day in the media. Keep up Big Lies long enough and you can shape entire populations to believe whatever illusions you want out of them; just look at Tianamen Square or the USS Liberty to see this in action. Watch those going after Jeffro (again) try to do this in real time; he's already posting about this so it's going to be difficult, if not impossible, for them to succeed because his enemies aren't more potent media-wise than he is.

Yet others are not so fortunate to have such petty opposition, for one reason or another.

Once you see the pattern, you won't unsee it, and unlike many bothersome things in the world this is easy to handle by exposiing it loudly and persistently so do so.