Through the Looking Glass
So, what does all this have to do with Project Looking Glass?
Well, looking glasses are about distorting perception. Looking into the future and altering the now to avoid or arrive at a future that benefits you. To be able to bilocate, on some accounts, and peer in to the doings of others behind closed doors.
All these things hold true with my above analogy. Control is the goal.
To be able to manipulate your prey and get them to act as you wish. To be able to see into the future, see into hidden places, and gain insight. To be able to alter your perception to look around corners, or reveal things far away or very small. This is Project Looking Glass in all its interpretations. It’s the idea of being able to change the perceptions of people in the now to affect the future. Sometimes that requires you rewriting the past to suite the now you need to occur to arrive at that future…
It just so happens you need a population in order to get the device to work.
The internet is more of the same. It is a “net” after all. Once again, allusions to water surround this subject.
By monitoring what everyone is thinking you have a vast ocean of information to sort through to gain insight on the thoughts and opinions of the Collective Consciousness. If you know how people will act, how they react, by running controlled experiments on them time and time again, you can eventually devise a plan to manipulate them like sheep getting herded by a sheepdog. A little training of the population also is essential, by using projections, like movies, to tell-a-vision of the future; to coerce them into accepting certain routes of escape or safety using false idols. You’ll have them saying “we should do it like in the movies, because it worked out for them!”
That’s one big reason they clue us in to what they’re up to through media. They want us to internalize the paths, a curated set of paths, for us to follow. Paths they have all sorts of contingencies for. So long as we move how they plan, then they can trap us all in the “net.” They use behavioral conditioning to tease us into doing what they want subconsciously.
That’s Project Looking Glass in a nutshell.
And it is something that was well understood centuries ago, around early 1700’s at the latest. They’ve been working tirelessly to train us into falling into certain motifs, certain channels, which can be dammed or released according to the pressure we might exert, to ensure nothing in their world breaks down.
Figures like Nostradamus employed much of the same techniques to peer into the future. He didn’t just gaze at the “stars”, he cultivated news from around town and gained insight from the actions of celebrities. He compared them to tales and events and their outcomes, like cross-referencing the results from previous experiments. He then plugged those into an algorithm which spat out cryptic interpretations of the inputs he shoved in. Just like tracking the movement of the stars, you can track the movement of celebrities, aristocrats, and the like to figure out which will clash and which will displace one another.
One other such method of derivation is through things like Tarot or other forms of scrying. You aren’t actually peering into the future. You’re peering into a potential future. Each of the cards in a Tarot deck represent possible figures, archetypes, that are definite to exist in any given society. We, as individuals, apply our own interpretations and perceptions to the cards to establish an illusion of reality, like the reflection on the lake.
By seeing those figures reflected in the cards, we can contemplate possible interactions between those characters. We’re offered a random shuffling of them together and using our own insight and understanding we can “see” how they might react with one another. By shuffling the cards around and laying them out we can devise scenarios we otherwise would never think to organize on our own. It escapes our biases and offers samples of the unlikely.
It’s like playing the Walmart game.
For those unfamiliar with the game, you go into Walmart with a friend and 40 bucks or so each. The task is to illicit a reaction out of the cashier based on your purchases. The funnier the reaction, the more “points” you get.
For instance, I go in and buy an axe, a rope, some black garbage bags, and a tarp.
Sounds like I’m about to go murder someone, doesn’t it?
Likewise, my friend gets some condoms, cucumbers, lotion, cigarettes, and a big stuffed teddy bear.