The Postmodern-CIA-Kant Playbook

Malicious Manipulations: Once You Understand (Easy), Their Game Is Up

The postmodern playbook, in essence, is to destroy every human value by propagating its antithesis. The postmodern playbook is to manipulate public perception through art, education, propaganda, PsyOp, and 5th GW to come to accept the antithesis of real values. Get the public to buy that shit is art, and you have succeeded in rendering them mentally, emotionally, and spiritually defenseless. Their other motive is to neutralize any independent sparks that could catch momentum and ultimately dissect and eradicate the PM playbook—the paramount weapon the postmodernist has. By propagating shit is art and every other anti-value, they destroy the public’s ability to clearly assess the heroes and geniuses that walk amongst us. That segment of the public then becomes the unwitting instruments of their own destruction. Quite a brilliant nefarious PM strategy!

This nefarious strategy has deep intellectual roots, and from my aesthetic perspective, with Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) serving as the intellectual mastermind of postmodern nihilism through his grotesquely inappropriately named “Concepts of the Sublime” from his book, The Critique of Judgement.¹ When in fact it is a treatise on dismissing great art in preference to his view of the superiority of the mental violent agitation of contemplating a void. I discuss this in depth in my chapter on Kant from my book, Evolution Through Art.² Kant's aesthetic framework paved the way for the postmodernist nihilistic agenda. But it wasn't until the CIA weaponized postmodernism and turned it into the greatest destructive intellectual force in the history of humankind, nearly destroying art and human evolution along with it. They salted the earth of every grassroots humanist movement that stood in their way by embedding operatives in countless cultural foundations, universities, think tanks, museums, and intellectual journals.³ Driven by their motto, “Glad the CIA is Immoral,” famously articulated by CIA official Thomas Braden in Look magazine in 1967,⁴ the CIA and their postmodern puppets like art critic Clement Greenberg turned Kant's aesthetics into psychological terrorism (BlackOp), with other postmodern lackeys serving as bootlickers to the powerful and sadists towards the good.

The personal goal of a postmodern predator parasite is to win at all costs. Amusingly, they don’t understand that “all costs” means that they lose their humanity if they ever had it, and it is replaced by nihilism, which they use to neuter every single value of human existence. The best metaphor is they are vampires sucking the life and vitality out of human prey. The unfortunate part for them is that in real life there is no sexy Hollywood glamour; rather, their soulful essence is a walking dead zombie while their outward appearance is a Gina Haspel-like, sexless, squeaky-clean, DC cubicle cog.

The sadly funny part is that on the world stage, a conservative becomes excited catching a postmodernist in a lie, contradiction, unethical behavior, or some other creepy stuff like Pedo Island. Then the normie/conservative is dumbfounded when the PMist laughs in their face and treats them as irrelevant. What the normie doesn’t get is: all of the insanely unethical behaviors are the postmodernists' strategic strengths. A PMist’s stance towards the universe is that only fools play by ethical rules such as being good, honest, and caring. To a PMist, ethics is a straightjacket that ties their hands from making a killing or enslaving the human race.

The fun and exciting part is, once you get the playbook, it is so easy to detect. Postmodernism is literally anti-value across the human spectrum of emotions, thoughts, and perceptions. Just name any value you treasure, and there will be a CIA operative, Yale professor, or contemporary art curator that is working overtime to replace it with its opposite.

I have compiled a partial list of values that postmodernists negate by propagating their opposites:

Postmodernism turns:

1. Perception into Psycho-dissociation

2. Reason into Disintegration

3. Eudaemonia into Psychotic Rage

4. Universals into Irrelevant Minutia

5. Ethics into Expediency

6. Assessment into Subversion

7. Science into Dogmas

8. Truth into Lies

9. Logic into Nonsense

10. Optimism into Nihilism

11. Love into Hostility

12. Reality into Oblivion

13. Know Thyself into Disassociation

14. Beauty into Void

15. Harmony into Destruction

16. Enlightenment into Subversion

17. Benevolence into Malevolence

18. Pride into Self-hatred

19. Evolution into Atrophy

20. Care into Stifling

21. Individuality into Conformity

22. Community into Isolation

23. Transparency into Deception

24. Knowledge into Willful-Ignorance

25. Freedom into Sadomasochism

26. Justice into Tyranny

27. Honor into Dishonor

28. Integrity into Perversion

29. Children into Pawns

30. Art into Shit

Now, if you visit almost any contemporary museum or elite university art department, nearly all of these negatives come into play as art themes—promoted as edgy, provoking, and courageous. Bear in mind that art is humanity’s greatest messaging system that covertly embeds itself into hearts and minds for either the good of human and personal evolution or for the bad, disintegrating the human spirit to a piece of shit.

When it comes to postmodern art, postmodernists, Kant, and the CIA just slap 'anti-' onto any value, and that will be their modus operandi. It's not art that is shit, it's them.

Michael Newberry, Idyllwild, February 12, 2024

1. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. J. H. Bernard (Project Gutenberg, 2015), ebook #48433, link.

2. Michael Newberry, Evolution Through Art (2021), Amazon link.

3. Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (November 5, 2013), Amazon link.

4. Thomas Braden, "Glad the CIA is Immoral," Look Magazine, May 20, 1967, accessed at link.