OK so Operation DRAMA CHIPMUNK was a failure yesterday. The Q team pushed some religious buttons and got an entirely predictable result (perhaps on purpose, for calibration purposes).

It had all the hubris of pumping water into the San Andreas fault and measuring the reaction for predictive purposes.

Here's a bit of ADVICE to the Q team: Socratic methods works well to start, but you need some analogous to a public, civil religion that doesn't push the religious divide button, sits well with Imperial politics, and is capable of connecting groups as disparate as NEW AGERS, TRUTHERS, FREE THINKING LIBERALS, and CHRISTIANS with both pro-Zionist and anti-Semitic backgrounds – that's a tough ask.

You want something that promotes Critical Thinking and Logic, and a reasonable degree of Empiricism, without going full Skeptic.

TRY STOICISM.

• Start with Stockdale's Courage Under Fire

• Use Boyd's OODA loop as an example of how the individual political soldier 'takes it all in' and DISCRIMINATES

• with the moar religious sorts, you can connect St Anthony's 'appendix' to the Philokalia to Orthodox Catholicism and the Desert Fathers. This will sit well with the pro-Russian crowd as well.

(If you're going to take the Pope away, you have to through the Catholics a bone).