predictive programming

Jiang's term for media that habituates people to civil-war scenarios before they are politically useful.

Media conditioning that Jiang says prepares people to accept or enact later political violence.

Jiang's phrase for public messaging that acclimates people to an outcome before it arrives, here applied to talk of a coming 1929-style crash.

Jiang says films such as Civil War and One Battle After Another are predictive programming that prepare America for civil war and racialized violence.

Jiang says a fake alien invasion is likely and that entertainment culture from Star Trek to Spielberg to a forthcoming Disclosure movie has planted the seeds.

Greg responds that many conspiratorial events seem prefigured by earlier novels or scripts, which leads him to a model where narrative may prime or collectively manifest later events more plausibly than a simplistic predictive-programming explanation.

Greg proposes that narrative may collectively manifest reality: if an elite wants a major event, it may seed emotionally charged images and stories into culture until the public helps enact the script.

Jiang reads Andrew Sorkin's public talk about a coming 1929-style crash as predictive programming that prepares Americans for a managed financial implosion.