Well, I expanded my thinking and ran across this:
Mind control, the shell game, and the stealth gods
Apr 9 by Jon Rappoport
https:// jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/mind-control-the-shell-game-and-the-stealth-gods/
I couldn’t make that idea sharper. It was a stray thought, and it kept nagging at me, long after the interview was done. It somehow reminded me of the classic shell game. Three shells, one pea. Guess which shell is hiding the pea. What if the pea isn’t there at all?
I realized I was trying to understand something about collectivism, the psychology of it. Another image struck me: the old telephone game, where one person whispers a phrase to another, and that person passes it on, until the last person announces what he’s heard; and of course now it bears no resemblance to the original message.
How about starting the game with no message at all? You just make a kind of hissing mumble. And the last person in the circle emerges with “life is good.”
That’s a metaphor for collectivism.
The hive, the nest, the colony, the collective.
Think Hive Minded? something Q is always reminding us of.