By George!

I worked for Soros. I'm sorry.

When I was a young and naive illustrator, I worked for George Soros’ Open Society, creating covers for their magazine. These pre-digital images are hidden somewhere in the dark corners of the web. Its not worth the search. They were not notable. I was proud to work for old George. I believed his self- serving (and expensive) publicity. He was a good guy. Helping the poor and disenfranchised all over the globe. I was an idiot. I have learned a lot about the world and Georgie since then.

In 1998, Soros appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes with Steve Kroft, and Kroft pressed him about his experiences as a Jewish teenager in Nazi-occupied Hungary. Kroft asked if little George had “gone out … and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews” Soros responded in the affirmative during the exchange. He seems to be proud of it. Just a boy trying to survive. By looting and ratting out his fellow Jews to be shipped to the gas chambers.

In 1992, he wrote a book called The Alchemy of Finance, where he describes a principle he calls Reflexivity.

Reflexivity, he says, is what separates the social sciences from the physical ones. Atoms don’t read headlines. People do. And people, unlike particles, change their behavior based on what they believe is happening, not necessarily what is true.

Like another George, George Costanza said, “It’s not a lie if you believe it.”

Reflexivity lives in the gap between belief and reality. Not truth itself, but the distance from it. The method doesn’t require accuracy. In fact, accuracy is a liability. What it needs is belief that moves people. Actionable belief. Preferably wrong.

For reflexivity to work at scale, a lot of people have to be confidently mistaken. Not mildly confused, but dangerously wrong. People have been semi-dangerously wrong for a long time, but we are seeing the next stage now. They have become aggressively ignorant.

Soros goes further. He explains that reflexive campaigns propagate through what he calls “fertile fallacies.” Errors that reproduce. Falsehoods that don’t just misinform but activate, compelling people to act, repeat, share, amplify. Doing the work for you. He admits, cheerfully, that he takes “a certain malicious pleasure in shorting an institutional favorite.” This is when I realized that everything Soros has been doing for decades has been done with a demonic desire to SHORT AMERICA. He has been using his billions to sow the seeds of discord, desperation and depravity as a long-term investment and now revels in reaping his bloody harvest.

A “short” is a wager against optimism. A bet on collapse and fear. Greed plus fear can equal profit. You buy a dream, work tirelessly to turn it into a nightmare and profit from the failure. Soros admits to taking a special glee in profiting from the pain he inflicted. Like all good sociopaths, schadenfreude is a drug to him.

He also notes something crucial: real, system-altering change doesn’t happen when things are calm. In “near equilibrium” conditions, stable societies, predictable systems, history sleeps. Nothing fundamental shifts. Transformation requires systems “far from equilibrium.” Chaos. Disorientation. Panic.

In those moments, people don’t demand truth. They demand “guideposts” according to George. Anything that promises a path through the fog. And that’s where propaganda rushes in, wearing the mask of certainty. It’s also called Confusion Technique. Confused and disoriented people will latch on to voices of authority claiming to have cogent answers.

Chaos can be engineered. It just takes a few million carefully spent dollars. Buy media, politicians, judges and “influencers”. Belief has to be seeded, something highly actionable, mostly untrue. Then it must be ignited. Then it has to be steered into the abyss.

That’s the model.

An entire system taught to believe a hallucination and move decisively towards darkness.

This civil war we have been tricked into will get very bloody this year and end like a Federal Jack boot scraping crap off of said boot.

Like Biden said in one of the only true statements made during his tenure.

“You know, I love these guys … the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots. Well, if [you] want to do that, you want to work against the government, you need an F-16. You need something else than just an AR-15.”