As Corbett Report aficionados already know, narratives can shape the world. Indeed, great writers throughout the ages have shaped the worldview and altered the political landscape of entire generations. So, who is working on that great task today? In this episode of Solutions Watch, James talks to John C. A. Manley about the writers who inspired his own resistance fiction and the line between resistance fiction and predictive programming.
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SHOW NOTES
Writing A New Narrative – #SolutionsWatch
Your Guide to Fifth-Generation Warfare
Episode 114 – Newspeak is Doubleplusungood
Film, Literature and the New World Order
All The Humans Are Sleeping by John C. A. Manley
New generation of writers dominates this year’s 14 Prometheus nominations for Best Novel
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
REPORTAGE: Essays on the New World Order available in paperback, hardcover, eBook and audiobook download
Special Limited Edition Data CD of the REPORTAGE audiobook (available exclusively to Corbett Report members)
William Faulkner – Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature
Everyone has opinions. At this time in our world’s history I would offer we need more realistic rather then opinion tomes. We have been lied to soooo much about every damn thing it is nearly impossible to discern just who can be trusted hey?
Graham Hancock’s excellent comment that “Humans have amnesia” pretty much sums it up in 3 words.
These are some my words of truth and observation…
THE BIGGER PICTURE (Essay P 1)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/mOnZDoMdwAwD/
IT’S ALL THERE (song)
https://old.bitchute.com/video/6qrwuTylcZ0T/
Really wonderful, enjoyable episode of Solutions Watch!
I really enjoyed it too, it’s nice to have something a little more lighthearted now and then, also nice to see James having some fun.
For the average go-a-longer, the line between demoralizing or inspiring fiction, is whether it sparks those primal feelings of sovereignty, integrity, courage, but most of all hope. Maybe faith in mankind as well, thinking of ‘1984’, because there’s not a ton of hope there. Even in ‘The Road’ which should be every parents worst nightmare, we aren’t left totally demoralized because there’s hope for the boy. ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ certainly doesn’t end with a happily ever after, but even in raw, ugly, end of the road despair, there’s still faith that people are essentially good, no matter what they do to us.
It’s been awhile since I read ‘Brave New World’, but from what I remember it just cheapened humanity. It made me feel dumb & dirty.
A big concern for me is the propensity in young people to rebel with a lot of passion, and no wisdom. Which leads to recklessness, and finding inspiration in antihero’s like the Joker, who represents the dark ugly side of anarchy. When people lose hope, and faith in humanity, dissent becomes nihilistic.
We gotta keep it human. Maybe it all comes down to compassion.
Good points. Thank you.
Bridge,
I agree with you about the young people and their enthusiasm without much foundation. I got an up-close view of them as a band director at a high school for six months in a small rural town with 1200 students. I was presented with 7 girls trying to be boys and one boy trying to be a girl. I had to use the correct pronouns. I had know about this phenomenon because of my psychology background but this experience really showed me the effects of power of the screens they are adhered to. I have since done serious research into this and am hopeful because when they become a few years older many are attempting de-transition which is not reversible so they are sharing their stories which is having an impact when they find accepting media venues.
I have seen this too. I had a realization when trying to figure out why in the world so many kids were suddenly so confused. I accept there has always been a small number of people who truly (and I think chemically/medically, not psychologically ) believe they are literally in the wrong body. And there are people who anatomically are both sexes.
I won’t expose my tinfoil hat too much, but historically there have been a larger number of people influenced by occult/religious practices (all the way back to temple prostitutes) Regardless of the WHO that might be pushing it, my realization was the WHY kids are adopting it. And it’s compensation for the lack of power an influence the have in their own lives. If they adopt this roll they now have control they were lacking. They can tell people what to address them as, choosing their own name, and completely reject the roll they were expected to have in society. And they get to be victimized if YOU don’t jump through THEIR hoops. And they have a whole community of supporters reinforcing that they have the power and control, and they’re part of a special marginalized group. People who feel rejected, without a real platform for victimhood, adopting one.
South Park wasn’t wrong, it’s the anime subliminally brainwashing them too. Especially prevalent in the identifying as creatures crowd.
I agree, except I don’t think the Joker is an example of anarchy (dark or light). Anarchy is about the absence of force — the Joker is a violent psychopath.
That he is. But I think kids see him as someone who was rejected and abused by society, who in rebelling against all of society becomes an agent of chaos. Chaos=the degeneracy of anarchy. Being rejected and unheard (unfortunately relatable to many kids)->loss of morality & counter rejection of society -> violent chaos as a revolution. I think that the Joker not being a traditional leader, but an influencer by action, puts him in the anarchist camp.
To be fair I saw The Joker when it first came out, and haven’t seen the sequels. I’m just basing what I’m saying from Batman memories & the first movie. He may moved into the traditional role of mentally ill dictator. Haha!
Very excited about FLNWO coming back, but will need plenty of notice about which book to read to take part as I’m a slow reader.
Sign me up for the reboot of the FLNWO “book club in podcast form”!
Eh, I write my own stuff.
One thing that really annoys me is when people act like things I point out is so profound and new and fresh; it makes me want to punch them in the dick. It’s like, this is all right in front of everyone’s faces and always has been. It’s not that I don’t understand why and that’s why I get annoyed, but I also understand why, and that also annoys me.
The answer to James’s question at 43:50 is: make a fiction that’s so dark and so relatable to our world and then have the government win and subdue the main characters that the audience identifies with in such a bad manner that the audience will litterally feel that death is bliss compared to that. For as long as people believe they still got something to lose by resisting, they WILL NOT RESIST! That’s the number 1 lesson from the Scamdemic.
Their favorite thumbscrew for sure. Usually it’s the befoulment, torture or loss of loved ones. They need to be careful with that trope though, because if they take away everything precious, but leave a person with even a speck of dignity, it becomes the breeding ground for revolutionists & avengers.
Nothing beats a good Space Opera!
The more glandular the better.
Man, when you see a typo in someone else’s work…
They never… ever… stop, lol. I keep stumbling across them in my own books, and I get annoyed because I feel people paid money for my book with these mistakes in it.
Sign me up for you book club please. And thank you for introducing me to Manly. I was truly captured by your conversation. Two clear thinking souls! Very inspiring.
I’ve written a book I’d like to submit for your FLNWO consideration:) so please let me know how to go about doing that. Not many people in my life know that I’ve been following you for well over a decade. I always submit your name to anyone who reveals a curiousity about ‘where I get my news,’ but otherwise, around 50% of my family and as a public performer I’ve felt the need to remain neutral/quiet. Maybe your book club will be my ‘coming out’ party.
@linda.m
I am interested to learn more about your book, do you have a website?
Also, I have started a little (quarterly) Book Club of my own on my blog and can share a link if you interested in participating 🙂
You are a sly one….Mr. Corbett
The narrative doesn’t fit the picture.
The resistance to resistance as Manley stated. Having done the reading or perhaps watched the action, you have no compulsion to do the deed. Deep in your consciousness you feel you have already participated in …something, something you were previously being driven to do. Now it’s gone.
Is that an intelligence officer in camouflage field blouse working away , the one just over your shoulder, working on …what? The narrative grows as the figure hunched over the work station pounds away at the keyboard creating new Open Claw Ai. Perhaps his blouse patches for the third temple is obscured as the passport expiration date. Rub it in.As Manley stated have some humor.. arsenic and lace..
The blade you swing is double sided, cuts both ways, visually and audibly, literally a double- take….HMmm
The resistance fiction has been named up untill now . It was Science Fiction in the past. All week I have been wondering where to put what I was discovering last week. ( I have a wonderful old use bookstore out here on the prairie )
You mentioned above what I was struggling with. It would take up to much type to adequately lay it out. Suffice it to say I’ll respect EJ Doyles sensitivity to long winded bellowing, well he does suffer from COPD.I digress.
From the best short stories from Analog/ Astounding magazine. Analog 1 © 1961 Edited by John W. Campbell Doubleday Science Fiction.
The author: Leigh Richmond.* Titled : Prologue To An Analogue
You would of thought it was written from the headlines just yesterday.
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Leigh and her husband Walt created a foundation. The Centrist Foundation.
Short lived but was a beginning of resistance to TPTSB. I can find nothing of it on the internet but I’m a dummy in that arena.
Aww, My Mother is a Fish, Faulkner <3 <3 <3
Yes please do give your book club a re-visit.
Another great presentation and guest, btw! I also thought that your line delivery was great …
Ooph! ~ the pressure!
Can we just read the books together, please?
Reality is stranger than fiction. Here’s a story in the making.
https://youtu.be/FDBonBY1dr4
Remember the Liberty.
This boat will be sunk by the IDF and be blamed on the Iranians . This will draw the American population into the lie.
I’m convinced, if it’s on this device , it’s a lie.
Yes Debra LaMarre , we should read together. Smashing idea and a good use of this technology.
Great episode James 🙂
As someone with the blood of British nobility in my veins I am appalled by your attempt at a British accent! Take heed! I have summoned the red coats to drag you off to the keep you rebellious peasant!
I am glad to hear you are reviving the Film, Literature and the New World Order series.
I actually just recently revived my online bookclub series as well
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/book-club-revived2026
You have inspired me to make “Resistance Fiction” one of the topics for the books we choose from to read for a future installment on my bookclub series and i`ll certainly include John’s books in the poll selection (so thanks for that!) 🙂
I also second John’s recommendation to check out the Firefly tv series. There was a unique chemistry with the cast and it combined with a refreshingly original story to make for a very compelling watch. One of the things that was pretty unique about that show (as far as space sci fi tv shows go) is that it was humancentric and did not involve extraterrestrials at all. Only other show I can think of that did not have ETs was Battlestar Galactica.
I think Firefly (ideally the TV show and/or the movie) would make for an awesome contender for a future “film” review for the FLNWO series as I would love to hear you critiquing that story and the characters.
Keep up the great work James!
Thanks for including my novels in your poll.
I, too, loved the characters in Firefly (even the ones I didn’t like). Here’s my take on Firefly:
Firefly: Another Dystopian Love Story
https://blazingpinecone.com/firefly/
Greetings John,
Yes that story had so much potential, could have easily become an epic multi-season journey if it wasn’t cancelled.
Thanks for the link, I look forward to reading your review of Firefly.
I love the name of your website and appreciate the sacred geometry you included. Fractal patterns like the torus, the “flower of life”, the 64 sided tetrahedron and dendritic branching patterns are fascinating to me and I often study them in the forest and in the garden.
Have you ever noticed how the same geometry present in the pinecone is also imbued into the cap of the acorn? I have been working with oak trees a lot over the past year and noticed that Red Oak acorns especially have a really distinct flower of life pattern on the cap.
(Here is a pic : https://substack.com/profile/43807786-gavin-mounsey/note/c-229637534 the acorn caps are near the bottom in the pic )
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Random question, do you garden or have any interest in gardening (for growing your own food and medicine)?
Reason I ask is that is one of my main methods of engaging in resistance against the oligarchy and boycotting involuntary governments and it is also the central topic of my first book.
I like to trade book for book directly with other authors interested in food and health sovereignty to cut out the fiat banking racket and corporate book distribution middlemen where ever possible.
So if you have any interest in a trade I would be willing to send you a copy of my book (Recipes For Reciprocity : The Regenerative Way From Seed To Table) along with some heirloom seeds saved from my garden in exchange for a physical copy of Much Ado About Corona.
(If you are curious to learn more about my book and did not already see the episode, I discussed the book with James in the SolutionsWatch on Regenerative Agriculture).
I am happy to trade fiat for a copy if you prefer but i like to avoid depending on/dealing with (and “selling my soul for”) those “matrix steaks” when ever possible 🙂
@john.c.a.m
That was an excellent review of the Firefly series.
I love that quote you included:
“You think following the rules will buy you a nice life, even if the rules make you a slave”.
-Captain Malcolm Reynolds
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One of my favorites was this:
“A government is a body of people, usually, notably ungoverned.”
– Shepherd Book
Well said G !
The present power structure in Washington DC * have very few rules and even less laws to abide by. Internationally they are anarchists with a mantra.
ANARCHY FOR ME; GOVERNMENT FOR THEE
** all BRICS & SWIFT countries included.
Best example of speculative “resistance fiction” I have read recently was King of Dogs by Andrew Edwards. Check it out.
I’m not typically a fan of this genre of fiction, but I really appreciated the conversation in this episode. The ideas about narratives and their influence were fascinating. Thanks for such a great discussion—I’m really looking forward to the book club podcast!
great episode James count me in on the book club 🙂
Rekindling the book club sounds like a good idea. The pile of books on my nightstand is not getting smaller, but ever larger (cannot read as fast as new books that pique my interest find their way to me) – but I definitely want to jump into this as well (maybe hitting pause on my other readings during that time). Would be good to get a healthy mix of resistance literature and predictive programming in there… just finished another book by the despicable Margaret Atwood – but it definitely helps seeing what the minds of some crazy world shakers and their ilk are like…
I was interested in James’ comments about The Fountainhead, and Ayn Rand in particular. Her novel (novella?) Anthem, is, in my opinion, a very hopeful example of resistance fiction. It’s a short read and worth reading.