This is how they signal each other (don't worry, the pertinent bit is in the first few minutes) Alt title: about those hot cross buns…

Simon recently posted an article to VL about how Iceland replaced the traditional X on hot cross buns with a tic mark (checkmark) just in time for Easter and there was some outrage. A commenter made the interesting remark that, the tic is the international symbol for good and the X is the international symbol for not good, (or even of something banned or toxic/poisonous). I would add, it is also the legally recognized mark of the illiterate – see, they’re goading people now, but in fact were, the entire time. They’re just becoming more in-your-face with it. I think it is these subtleties which are more insidious – we can all see the obvious outrages – what if those are the spectacle so the subtleties fly under our radar?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Several commenters found this to be a silly, random thing to bother with posting, but check out the first several minutes of this Harry Styles audition in which he discusses his work in a bake shop and he and Simon C chat about baked goods…guess which one’s “going down?” Simon guesses, smirking , offhandedly, “Is it donuts?” Harry ponders, then answers -he  calls it “white coburg”, which does appear to be a round, white bread, traditionally, but Harry makes the point of saying it’s crossed on top with an X.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

This part of the exchange (all within the first few minutes) is covered as comical, and yet Simon’s odd ending after that particular comment was a brief moment of seriousness that felt superficially awkward, but almost felt like a pause to punctuate the point behind Harry’s bizarre comment.  As long ago as this was, was it a signal for “go time” on this agenda of destroying Christianity in the public square? (paving the path for one religion – everyone moving ahead in One Direction).

The other baked items he mentions – “Millionaire shortbread” – could this be a childishly anatomical slight against the nouveau riche who want their slice of the pie? Because millionaire these days is a joke to the truly rich, so this could be like the insult of the midlife crisis sportscar – and what they’re supposedly compensating for, plus a direct hit that they will never measure up. This mention got more laughter than might seem warranted by a face value interpretation.

 “Vienna Fancies” – Simon says he likes these too – is this a human trafficking hotspot..?  and then donuts – given their Pizzagate-esque verbal encoding, wonder what these refer to? Donuts, according to all mass media signal cops, for instance – was reading an alphabet book to a child yesterday and the dog with the donut was dressed as…you’ve got it, a policeman, despite it’s complete irrelevance in that context. 

And it’s interesting, because this cumbersome ship which is society and which turns in sometimes bare degrees over spans of time, seems to be moving more away from the “cops are pigs” mainstream messaging to the cops are heroes/unquestionable authority, hammers of the current societal “gods”, etc, although they’re still in early-ish phases of this reversal/replacement. (They used a similar technique on nurses and first responders during the onset of COVertID 19, and although those professions weren’t despised before, as many felt towards cops, the psyop turned many providers into arrogant, petty tyrants who entirely forgot their roles. Ironically, these professions have entered early stages of becoming despised for those reasons.)

I am not sure but I think nearly everyone who makes it on these shows was groomed to be there. I know someone personally who auditioned and made it through to the coaching phase, and he told me that he quit early because all the staff seemed interested in was sparking controversy and strife anongst his group – that is how the masses are allowed access to perform in these contests, as aside spectacles to be mocked, and as cover for the chosen ones, so their selection and presentation to the world appears organic. I say that to say, if most/all the winners are in fact groomed to be there, they were given scripted exchanges with the judges for messaging, whether they understand those messages at the time or no.