Have the Truckers Driven Us Over the Atrocity Line?
Indexing Aligns Malword Numbers and Facts on the Bridge
Freedom Convoy, Windsor Ontario/Image Credit: British Herald
Nailing Jello to the Wall
At some point in a successful malwords campaign, governments become comfortable with depriving its own citizens of life, liberty and property without due process of the law.
We call that point The Atrocity Line.
The Canadian government is now comfortable committing acts of petty theft, seizing donated fuel and funds for protesting truckers.
This under orders from superiors, presumably under orders from Trudeau, who was ordered by Biden to "use his Federal powers" to disperse the truckers convoy and their supporters. These powers not only allow the Canadian premier to clear bridges, but revoke driving and travel privileges, levy harsh fines, impose lengthy prison sentences, and arrest people for honking their horns.
This in Canada, with no constitutionally guaranteed civil rights, limited intra-governmental checks and balances, and a nationwide gun confiscation looming in April.
In Paris over the weekend, police dressed like Antifa thugs tear-gassed and beat protesters, handing out fines to anyone found carrying a French flag.
Riot police beat participants in Paris Covid Freedom Convoy/Image Credit: European Pressphoto Agency
And in Canberra, the crowd was too massive for police to disperse, so the media took turns posturing in horror over all the Aussie flags flying upside down.
Freedom Convoys are rumored to be materializing in the United States, leaving governors and officials fulminating against citizens sitting peacefully in traffic. A former Obama DHS official now working for CNN called for crushing the truckers, and then doubled down:
Later she walked back the comments, but has not apologized. Which we appreciate.
Because she’s saying the quiet part out loud.
They want to make it hurt. They are looking for The Atrocity Line.
We used to think we knew where The Atrocity Line was. Recent events are proving that to be about as exact a science as nailing jello to the wall.
Words Lie, Language Doesn't, Numbers Speak the Truth
So where exactly is The Atrocity Line these days? Has the COVID malwords campaign in the US reached the point where the government is comfortable with the consequences of committing mass atrocity against its own citizens?
First, a quick review about malwords and how they work.
Malwords are keywords weaponized for information warfare. They function within public discourse as like a kind of intellectual malware, verbal viruses designed to spread quickly for the purposes of a) silencing dissent through control of language, narrative, and speech, b) increasing public tolerance for government-sanctioned atrocity and c) emboldening officials to commit acts of atrocity.
Malword strength is measured by their frequency of appearance per million words in the published corpus (WPM). The average person processes approximately 20,000-30,000 words over the course of a day, so if a particular malword shows up in the the news corpus at a frequency of over 50 WPM, chances of hearing that term at least once in daily consumption of news is high.
Propaganda campaigns typically consist of a thematic Primary (Tier-1) Malwords and an arsenal of Secondary (Tier-2) Malwords.
Primary Malwords are general, not-up-for-debate terms which are relentlessly drummed into the public discourse at median frequencies of at least 500 times per million words (500 WPM) or once every 2,000 published words.
Secondary Malwords are highly targeted, shaming, hate speech-level terms directed at specific populations for dehumanizing and removing them from the public conversation. Median Secondary WPM's can range from high single to mid-double digits. Secondaries have relatively short half-lives, but are highly effective.
500 WPM is the minimum level of browbeating necessary for a propaganda campaign to be effective. The greater the infringement on civil rights, the higher your WPM should be. But 500 WPM is the floor. We've been calling it The Atrocity Line.
The Rule of 500 is a good rule of thumb-- you are hearing malworded terms at least ten times daily-- but it does not explain why US malwords levels have remained far above 500 WPM for almost two years, while we have yet to see the official brutality of government against citizens in Australia, Canada, and Europe at much lower malword levels.
There are systemic explanations. Americans have constitutionally guaranteed civil rights, inter-governmental checks and balances, and a highly armed citizenry.
But we also have rulers willing to set aside the system for any reason, which can include being of the wrong ethnicity, as 120,000 citizens of Japanese descent found out eighty years ago in February, 1942.
Is there a better means of seeing where we are on the map?
What Is Not Going On Here?
Indexing can help even things out across time periods and national boundaries. Indexes can show us where a group of securities, commodities, currencies, or anything of changing value is moving over time regardless of exchanges rates, inflation, deflation, etc., relative to a fixed benchmark.
To adapt indexing to COVID malwords, we need to set a benchmark. We'll choose the start of the pandemic, which was officially declared by WHO on March 19, 2020. Since many of the malwords that trended in 2021 did not exist in 2020, we'll take a ride on the way back machine to include terms that were driving a media narrative focused on criticizing the Trump Administration handling of the COVID Crisis. Terms such as LOCKDOWN, INFECTIONS, COVID, MASK, PPE, VENTILATORS, etc.
This will give us a familiar chart that looks like this:
The two-year picture shows COVID malwords showing an average total of 1782 WPM, with roughly a 80-20 Primary to Secondary ratio, and an average multiple of 2.07 times over WWII Japanese Mass Incarceration (JMI) malword levels, which we have overlaid from December, 1941.
Immediately we can see two factors that bedevil an apples-to-apples comparison between COVID and JMI malword numbers. First, COVID malwords totals are ten times more dependent on secondary malwords than JMI totals, which are historically only 2% dependent. Second, COVID malwords are achieving less atrocity per WPM than corresponding JMI at 2x the volume.
Next we take both sets of historical data and create a Pandemic Malwords Index, volume-weighted to the total number of units in their respective COVID and JMI malword sets, and not to the sizes of their total corpora--or linguistic databases-- which fluctuate in size and composition on a daily basis. This allows us to see each malword set's performance relative to a fixed value--which we set to 1.00, and a fixed date of March 19, 2020.
JMI Malwords shoot quickly to 3.5 and remains steadily in that range. COVID Malwords rise, decline steadily until Biden assumes the Presidency, leap to JMI levels where they hold on for dear life, leap again to 5.5, and then fall back.
Volatility in COVID numbers can be explained by over-dependence on secondaries. Secondaries have 30-60-90-day half lives, creating churn as these terms gain and lose currency. Also remember that COVID WPM's have stood at an average of 2x JMI WPM's--with no COVID camps open for incarceration.
On a volume-to-volume basis, COVID malwords have had to carry at least twice the weight up a 20% steeper grade than JMI malwords ever did, making gains hard to win and easy to lose.
Until this past month.
Elites Rising Up Against The Masses?
The collision of truckers and Omicron variant on a bridge outside Detroit last week gave way to an orgy of government officials pointing, sputtering, and threatening lengthy jail sentences. Which is exactly what has been lacking from the atrocity model up to this point in North America-- rapid and brutal response to an unarmed opponent.
If the JMI Atrocity Line sits at 3.0, does the COVID Atrocity Line lie at 4.5?
Fulminating against uppity Deplorables may be just a way of blowing off pent up frustration. Why wouldn’t the Biden regime be especially eager to add a domestic diversion to its massive failures? Last week, 56% of respondents to a CNN poll could think of nothing Biden had done to help them.
And it gives mass formation believers something to cling to. Here is the Great Virus, physically manifesting itself as truckers doing measurable harm to our economy and our democracy. We must crush them, and all who support them. Every last one who donated to GoFundMe and GiveSendGo. They must rot in prison along with their fellow J6 Conspirators!
Still, we will be watching this number closely in the coming weeks, as the elites are clearly reaching the end of their rope and looking ever more ready to rise up against the masses.
We may have crossed a line here…
Harvey Oxenhorn is a cybersecurity consultant, and author of the upcoming book, The Atrocity Algorithm: How the Media Became the Enemy of the People. Follow him here on Gettr, Gab, and MeWe @HarveyOxenhorn