My journaling got hijacked when I learned whether or not I was of the character to take a Judas Deal. Thirty-bucks for writing privately for thirty-minutes. While the payment was only for the first day, the habit has managed to stick to present and for that there is much rejoicing. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, but my demigorgon is consistent inconsistency. It did take the energy for this project until now, but here’s me juggling two balls - both host & shaper journals.
It is suitable that on the eve of my reckoning review with Karen Wong of the Meaning Code I continue the tale of the acceptable timeline indicators that have failed to manifest. As a Shaper General the third acceptable timeline lacking manifestation indicators is the most painful and open wound, that I cannot point you to my troops.
the Army of the 12 Lobstamonkees timeline
Despite making a call last night… yes, a whole 24 hours ago, I have but one responder to bolster my faith in humanity. The true glory of the army of the 12 lobstamonkees remains in shadows. A mark of that failure is that there isn’t a group from this corner that can provide the production assistance required for a good ‘true to form’ information campaign across multiple social media silos.
We are in no way prepared to be approached by the next John Vervaeke with “I need a team to manage my social network presencing.” However, there are T-shirts and Mugs (as seen on the Paul VanderKlay show).
The 12 monkeys bit does lean heavily into the movie reference. The activist group the future ends up blaming for an incident they didn’t cause may not be the best archetype to embody, but there’s something powerful about the number 12 and the context of the day seemed to fit it (and might well even moreso if current news items trend).
I have strange unfleshed notions of mapping the astrological signs to constellations of psychometric test results. What good is the result that you’re in the 3rd percentile for conscientiousness and the 97th percentile for neurosis? Does that constellation, in correlation with the rest of the Big-5, manifest in tendencies of thought or ways of processing information?
Getting a natal chart may be allowing astrological woo too much influence over your life, but understanding that there’s a sixth house that governs your job and the fourth house governs home and family might clue you in that there are several houses worth of ‘areas of one’s life’ that need directed attention and habit formation.
Whether it’s a group of people coming together based on attributes of 12 Greek Deities or their unique combination of Myer’s Briggs results, having people from the internet collaborate on the basis of some experimental grouping methodology has not manifested in any manner I can as of yet recognize. While I may have a person I would go to with a question like “what’s the standard best practices for a YouTube description”, I don’t have a virtual place where people go to learn and exchange that knowledge, nor come together as troops of monkeys to complete projects.
There also has been no formation of infiltrators and ambassadors between platforms. My search engine kicked out Pageau on Thinkspot as the first recognizable event announcement for Thunder Bay. We don’t have Friday nights on the Discord where the people from Twitch come swap stories to those watching the goings on at Reddit, the Bluebirds from Twitter or the Spooks from ThinkSpot. Our cross-platform awareness is sorely lacking. I hear there are places called weird names, like Instagram and TikTok.
All of these potential collaborations, games we can play together if we all step through the LARPgate. Where sure, I might make cabinets by day, but by night I’m part of an interactive sensemaking network in the information war.
I work for the Agency.
There is no Agency.