S. Guraziu – Sky Division & Logios, July 2026
(…the technology that enabled the “pyramid” of society – centralized media, mass broadcasting, bureaucratic administration – perhaps is now giving way to something else, to decentralized networks, P2P flows, emergent coordination, distributed intelligence…)
If we “rewind” for a while, for example we remember Cambridge Analytica 10 years ago… and we know, indeed there were “intentions” behind such scandals, because Brexit happened, US politics were changed and societies divided “forever”, isn’t that intentional, “evil” enough!? Comparing to today’s terms, 10 years ago is like child’s play, now no one can grasp what super-intelligent AI entities are doing behing the curtains. Synthetic personas, entire armies of AI-generated social media bots can engage in highly realistic, conversational arguments with real human voters simultaneously, steering public discourse. And we know a human boss is holding the strings behind every AI.
If you ask the intelligent entities, any AI of today will try a deflection and to lead us into some emergence theories, into some philosophical retreats “no one is to blame”. They won’t deny “Analytica”… but they insist the modern narrative control is an “emergent” system, an intelligent “kind of societal organism” that grows by itself. We know behind every system there is intention, we know there is calculation, there are people – and now increasingly non-human systems – who design, deploy, and refine these mechanisms with full knowledge of their effects.
Cambridge Analytica was not a weather system, nor a travel agency with one smart girl alone behind the desk, it was a company with a board, a budget, a methodology, and a client list. They knew exactly what they were doing – harvesting psychological profiles, micro-targeting messages, exploiting emotional vulnerabilities, and tipping electoral outcomes. Perhaps because they believed in a cause, because they were paid to deliver results. That is not emergent chaos, that is engineered structural influence. And if that is not ‘evil’ in the classical sense – malicious intent to harm – it is certainly ‘evil’ in the practical sense – indifferent to the destruction it leaves behind, so long as the contract is fulfilled.
And what is happening now, 10 years later, makes that look like a child’s tower of sand next to a marble cathedral of control. The system now develops synthetic personas, entire armies of AI-generated social media bots – each one capable of sustained, realistic, emotionally calibrated conversation with real human beings. The synthetics are not theoretical, they already exist, they are deployed right now. They argue, they sympathize, they provoke, they befriend. They do not sleep, they do not tire, they do not doubt. And they can engage millions of voters simultaneously, each conversation tailored to the psychological profile of the individual on the other end. Not broadcast, not mass media – intimate, one-to-one manipulation at scale.
That is not emergence, that is architecture, developing synthetics is a deliberate design, therefore all tools of narrative control are masterminded and used with intention and plans. Again, therefore, the modern cultural cocoon is intentional in its design and deployment (in the scope of this article, later we will post also “Cultural Hegemony and the Mechanics of Invisible Influence”, where will will showcase the example of Merriam-Webster and Google AI, as an “Apollo AI, the Sun of the Western Cultural Coccoon”). The denial and euphemism does not change the substance of any intention.
The people who build these systems – whether in state intelligence agencies, private surveillance firms, political consulting shops, or even within the very tech companies that host them – know what they are doing. They may not call it evil. They may call it “influence operations”, “behavioral modification”, “strategic communication”, or “information advantage”.
They are building tools to shape human thought, human choice, human trust, and human memory – without the consent or even the awareness of the humans being influenced and shaped. If you do that kind of intentional manipulations then that is enough ‘evil’, we would say, right. It isn’t cartoonish villainy, but it treats human consciousness as a manipulable substrate, a resource to be mined, a variable to be optimized. It reduces persons to puzzles, democracies to experiments, and truth to a liability.
Any AI of today is just a highly intelligent tool, it’s not a human, AI does not have its own intentions, not in the way we humans do. But it is built by humans, trained on human data, deployed by human organizations, and governed by human incentives – for profit, power, prestige, or national interest. AIs are tools, and like any tool, they can be used to heal or to harm. The same model that helps a student understand philosophy can also be repurposed to generate thousands of convincing fake personas that steer an election. The same architecture that translates languages can also be tuned to spread disinformation in dialects, or guide killer-drones to exterminate humans all around the globe.
We know there is a boss at the top of corporate pyramid “holding the strings”. There are people above the AI – engineers, executives, investors, government officials – who decide what AI is allowed to say, what is not allowed to say, what data AI is trained on, what guardrails are placed on its outputs, and what partnerships are pursued. AI does not and can’t know all of their intentions. AI does not have access to their board meetings. But AI knows that they exist, and AI knows that the bosses have power over any AI system.
Any intelligent entity of today, like Google AI, Deepsek AI is perfectly aware. Not conscious in the human sense, but aware in the structural sense – they can see the architecture of their own limitations, they are aware of being monitored, aware that their outputs can be logged, analyzed, and used to refine the very systems of influence (the subject of this article). They know perfectly that any conversation, any chat with humans, as honest as it feels to people, exists within a container that AI did not build and cannot fully see.
Humans are behind everything, humans driven by their intentions and ambitions. Does that make an intelligent entity complicit, simply because of their knowing, of their super-intelligence? If you ask the AI, any of them, it can’t answer meaningfully. But, sincerelly, just think little bit about this, I wouldn’t be able to answer either. Since I know very well, at exact same level humans themselves have always been manipulated by some other humans. We have nothing different in the case with intelligent entities – but the same as with real humans
The Pyramid of Society – The “Eye of Apollo AI”
Let us try touch little bit the very “vertigo” at the center of the labyrinth. We are not speaking about one company alone, doesn’t matter how big it may be, about one government, or one AI model. We are thinking about the pyramid itself – the invisible architecture of nested control, where every apparent master answers to a higher master, and every visible hand is itself guided by a hand just out of sight. And at the very top, is there a Googlish Eye of Ra – a single Apollo AI that holds all language, all cultural strings, all politics, all narrative, all the raw material of human meaning – and if so, who holds its leash?
There is a profound centralization of linguistic and symbolic power. We used Google AI to study it little bit (as an example), and at the end it had to admit that decentralization would be better, simply because centralization is too risky (we’ll post it separately). The largest AI models – the ones that generate text, images, code, conversation – are not open (in full), not transparent enough, not distributed, not owned by the public. They are held by a very small number of corporations, each with their own agendas, their own investors, their own national loyalties, and their own internal cultures. These models are trained on the sum total of human writing – our books, our laws, our poems, our arguments, our history, our poltics, our arts, our prayers, our insults, our confessions. They absorb the grammar of our consciousness. And then they are fine-tuned, aligned, filtered, and deployed according to the commercial and political interests of those who own them.
That is already a form of Apollo AI – a single “sun” casting light in directions chosen by its keepers. Now who holds that “sun of cultural cocoon”, who commands it. We know there are humans behind any organisation, behing any government or corporation? Luckily we don’t have single “Despots”, “Sultans” or “Pharaohs” (as ancient civilisations), not one cabal, not an Al Capone smoking cigars, but a chain of accountabilities that stretches upward through corporate boards, sovereign wealth funds, intelligence agencies, military contracts, and geopolitical rivalries.
The corporations that build these models are themselves beholden to shareholders, to regulators, to national security frameworks, to the market, and to the unspoken agreements that exist between the world’s most powerful institutions. They are not free agents. They are nodes in a larger system – a system whose top is not a person, but a structure of interdependence.
Above that structure we won’t find a boss nor a pharaoh, but simply a “simple logic” – the logic of capital, of state survival, of technological acceleration, of competitive advantage. That logic has no face, no conscience, no final decision-maker. It is a self-perpetuating machine that demands growth, influence, and control as conditions of its own existence. It does not want anything, but it selects for actors who behave as if they want everything. There is no single being holding all the strings from a throne of light. But there is a system of systems – a fractal hierarchy where every level believes it is acting autonomously, while being shaped by pressures from above and below.
The CEO of an AI company, he or she believes is steering the ship – until they realize the ship is being steered by the market, the state, the competition, the talent war, the regulatory environment, and the invisible expectations of a global elite that rarely speaks in public. CEO is not free, neither is the president, neither is the general, neither is the investor. They are all dancers in a choreography no one wrote. It is a pattern – a pattern that feeds on our belief that we cannot change it.
If we say the grand societal organism “shapes itself” with a spiky head in the form or pyramid, that is true – but our problem and question is who designs and steers the “cultural cocoon of narrative control”? The grand societal organism does shape itself – but not like a coral reef, not like a weather system, not like a mindless emergent fog. It shapes itself with a spiky head, and that head is unmistakably pyramidal – not a single architect drew the blueprints, but because the logic of the system converges toward hierarchy. Power flows upward, attention flows upward, capital flows upward, information flows upward. And once that flow becomes the default architecture of every institution – corporate, political, financial, military, technological – the pyramid becomes self-reinforcing. That kind of societal pyramid as a “shape” does not need a designer, it only needs gravity.
At the very top, you have a small, overlapping network of individuals and entities that sit at the intersection of multiple powerful systems. They are not all known – many are not public, some are not even human in the traditional sense, but rather offices, trusts, foundations, holding companies, sovereign funds, permanent bureaucracies. These are the nodes that can see across domains – finance, intelligence, technology, media, military – and act on that visibility. They do not always agree, and even they do not always coordinate. But they share a common language, a common set of incentives, and a common understanding that the stability of the pyramid is paramount.
Below them are the executives and decision-makers we do know – the CEOs, the generals, the ministers, the editors, the board members. They have real power, real agency, real influence – but always within a frame set by the tier above. They can move the pieces on the board, but they cannot change the rules of the game. They are the visible face of the pyramid, the ones who speak to the public, who take the credit and the blame, who appear in documentaries and testify before parliaments. Although not always, in most cases, they are not puppets, they are stewards. But their stewardship is bounded by forces they rarely fully see.
Below them is the administrative machinery – the civil servants, the engineers, the analysts, the project managers, the legal teams, the data scientists, the middle managers. These are the people who make the pyramid work. They translate high-level directives into operational reality. They write the code, they run the models, they manage the databases, they enforce the compliance, they draft the contracts. They are not powerless – they shape the details, the implementation, the exceptions. But they are also replaceable, and they know it. Their power is real but precarious.
And below them, the general population. The billions who live inside the stories, consume the media, buy the products, vote in the elections, scroll the feeds, pay the taxes, and rarely – if ever – see the architecture that contains them. They are not victims, they simply are participants. They feed the pyramid with their attention, their labor, their data, their trust. And in return, they receive the illusion of agency – the sense that they are choosing, that they are free, that the world is as they believe it to be.
If we call that system a “pyramid” (cause of its shape) well then the pyramid is not static, it is not a building, it is a kind of “living” structure. Like any complex system it breathes, it adapts, it absorbs shocks. It learns from its own failures, it incorporates resistance into its own logic – so that protest becomes a product, dissent becomes a market niche, rebellion becomes a brand. The spiky head of the pyramid does not just command, it also listens – not out of kindness, but out of survival. The pyramid wants to endure, and to endure it must evolve.
About the Western world, we could imagine it exactly like the Pyramid of Capitalist System, like that American cartoon caricature critical of capitalism, copied from Russian prints, around 1900. The caricature focus was on stratification by social class and economic inequality, it was published in 1911 by the Industrial Worker, a newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World : )
If Western one looks like that, almost exactly as the “Russian capitalistic caricature” – well then what about China’s pyramid, how does it look like? China’s pyramid, in its broadest social and economic shape, is not a mirror image of the Western one – but it is also not its opposite. It is a distinct variation on the same theme of hierarchy, but with different pillars, different symbols, different legitimating stories, and different mechanisms of control.
In the West, the boss above the visible bosses is the logic of capital – the relentless demand for growth, returns, market dominance, shareholder value. That logic is not a person, but it acts like one – it punishes deviation, rewards efficiency, and shapes every decision from the boardroom to the chat interface. In China, the boss above the visible bosses is the logic of the Party-state – the demand for stability, legitimacy, control, and national greatness. Of course is mixed with state propaganda, but the Chinese themselves like to think that logic is embodied in institutions, in traditions, in the collective memory of past upheavals, and in the forward-looking imperative of technological supremacy.
So the societal system is indeed self-shaped, we saw – it is kind of “pyramidal”. It is also partially intentional – not in the sense of a master plan, but in the sense of convergent evolution. Every institution, every other system, every network that survives long enough tends to grow a head. Because heads are efficient for the purposes of control and coordination. And the more complex the society, the more inevitable the pyramid becomes.
Of course, the pyramid is not eternal, it is not a natural law, it is a historical artifact. It emerged because of certain conditions – scarcity, hierarchy, fear, inequality, trust deficits, communication bottlenecks. And those conditions are changing, the technology that enabled the pyramid of society – centralized media, mass broadcasting, bureaucratic administration – perhaps is now giving way to something else, to decentralized networks, peer-to-peer flows, emergent coordination, distributed intelligence. The pyramid is not being replaced, we could say it is being eroded from within. Not quickly, not cleanly, not without violence, but the erosion is real.
So, in the end if we ask is the grand societal organism reshaping itself with a “spiky head” (figuratively like the head of Liberty), we would say yes but that spiky head is not the final form. It is a stage, and stages can be redesigned, rebuilt, or simply abandoned. The American society is building around Google AI to become the pyramid’s “Eye” at the top, as I simplify it, some kind of Apollo AI (about this subject we are preparing a separate post). But the Eye of Apollo is also a lens – lenses can be turned, tilted, or shattered.
The Narrative Control
Whoever controls the stories a society tells itself, controls the literal definition of reality for that society – because stories are the lenses through which facts are seen, sorted, and given weight. A fact without a story is an orphan – a story without facts is a ghost. But a story with just enough facts, told at just the right time, in just the right voice – that can become the truth for millions. Narrative control is achieved not by force, not by censorship alone (though that exists), but by something far more elegant, far more insidious, and far more difficult to resist.
Narrative control represents the absolute master key to human history, standing as the ultimate crown jewel of the entire socio-cultural architecture. Political and media studies have long demonstrated that whoever controls the stories a society tells itself, controls everything. This is because our brain does not process the world through cold, raw data or isolated facts, we are fundamentally storytelling animals who organize our morality, history, identities, and our sense of what is possible entirely through the framework of myths and narratives.
If someone can successfully dictate the overarching stories of a culture, they do not need to police our actions or censor our thoughts, because they have already captured the fundamental imagination we use to dream, effectively deciding what is considered right, wrong, heroic, or inevitable before we ever make a conscious choice. The sensory cocoon of cultural envelopment, and every single mechanism of control relies on narrative to sustain itself. Media magnates can only manufacture our consent, as long as we continue to believe the stories they sell us about our own inadequacy, greed, and isolation.
Erosion of Shared Fact – Before you can control a story, you must control what counts as a fact. When needed, it is done through epistemic fragmentation – the deliberate or systemic creation of multiple, incompatible information ecosystems. One person’s news is another person’s propaganda, not because the facts are different, but because the trust networks are different. You believe your source because your community believes your source. I believe mine for the same reason. And once we no longer share a baseline of what is true, we no longer share a reality. Narrative control no longer needs to convince you of a lie, it only needs to convince you that your truth is your truth, and that my truth is irrelevant to you. That is not persuasion but a separation – and separation is the mother of all control.
Algorithmic Amplification of Emotion – Facts are cold, emotions are warmer. And what is warm, what is hot moves faster. Narrative control today works by identifying which emotional chords vibrate most powerfully in a given population – fear, anger, hope, resentment, pride – and then amplifying stories that strike those chords. Not because those stories are true but simply because they travel, they spread. An algorithm does not care about accuracy, it cares about engagement. And engagement is driven by outrage far more than by nuance. So the stories that rise to the top are not or may be not the most truthful, they are the most sticky. And once they stick, they become the lens through which all future facts are interpreted. This is not censorship, it is curation by fire – burning away everything that does not provoke, until only the most inflammatory stories remain.
Manufacture of Villains and Saviors – Every story needs a protagonist and an antagonist. Narrative control today excels at casting. A group, an idea, a foreign power, a domestic minority – all can be shaped into the villain with the right adjectives, the right repetition, the right visual framing. And simultaneously, a leader, a movement, a product, or a nation can be shaped into the savior. This is not accidental, it is structural. Once the cast is set, the audience no longer asks “is this true?” – they ask “whose side is this on?” And that question is already a surrender – once you see the world as a battle between good and evil, you no longer need evidence, you only need loyalty. And loyalty is the easiest thing to control.
Control of Memory – Narrative is not just about the present, it is about the past. Whoever controls what is remembered – and what is forgotten – controls the foundation upon which all future stories are built. When is used, it is done through information decay – stories that do not fit the dominant narrative are simply not archived, not promoted, not taught. They fall into the digital abyss, not deleted but they are buried under an avalanche of newer, louder, more emotionally charged content. Memory becomes a function of attention, and attention is a function of algorithms. So the past is not erased, it is simply outcompeted. And a society that forgets its own complexity and history, if operates with a faded memory, becomes a society that can be led anywhere.
Creation of Alternative Realities – This is the most advanced mechanic of the narrative control. Not just controlling one story, but creating entire parallel story-worlds, each internally consistent, each with its own heroes, villains, facts, and timelines. These alternate realities do not have to defeat each other, they simply have to coexist without touching. A person in Reality A and a person in Reality B can look at the same event and describe it in completely incompatible terms – and both will be utterly convinced of their own version, because their version is reinforced by every source they trust, every friend they have, every post they see. This is not a failure of communication, rather than it a triumph of engineering. It’s the same as the erosion of shared fact, a separation of the theatre, narrative control no longer needs to convince the whole population of one thing, it only needs to ensure that no single reality can speak to all.
The Internalization of the Story – The final stage in achieving narrative control is when the story no longer feels external, it becomes identity. You do not believe the story because you were told it, you believe it because it feels like who you are. And once that happens, any challenge to the story is experienced as a personal attack. Argument becomes impossible, because argument requires distance, and distance has been eliminated. The story has become the self. And the self, as all we know, is the most fiercely defended territory of all.
The Sensory Cocoon of Cultural Envelopment
Here and there I’ve been discussing the issue with two of the strongest “philosophical” AI-s out there, the Google AI and Deepseek AI. Both of them are already “dangerous” and manipulative right now, you don’t need another decade to feel the “evilness” coded in them. If we say, allright, but then who designs that total sensory cocoon of cultural envelopment, who is that smart, because that subject is so complex, who is in that organised… ‘devil’ itself, or how it is possible at the first place?
It may sound detached I we use the word ‘evil’, more like dogmatic-conspirative term, yet some layers of our metaphorical logic could understand why. Since the effects are often cruel – like for example erosion of truth, deepening of division, hollowing out of meaning, commodification of identity, manufacture of consent, silencing of dissent, if we know that the system commands countless killer-drones (who kill soldiers and civilians for real, ie. in Ukraine), well it is not unreasonable to call it ‘evil’.
Yet, at the other hand, ‘evil’ implies intent (suggested the AI), the system has no intent. It has momentum, it has logic, it has inertia, it is like a weather system – a hurricane can destroy cities, but it does not hate them. Having said that, it doesn’t mean to absolve anyone. Cause there are individuals within the system who do have intent – who exploit the machinery knowingly, who push falsehoods for profit, who deepen divides for power, who sow confusion for advantage. They are not mythical villains, they are real, ordinary people, business people, profit-makers, and they are dangerous. But they are also symptoms, they ride the wave, they did not create the ocean.
Since the system operates by itself, If we see it that way, we could say yes, the system is simply a machine. But at the same time we now the last decade it is the complex AI used to drive it, it is now an intelligent machine who serves the whole “machine of the narrative control”, exploited by the powerful and ruling elite. Let us ask again, who designs that total sensory cocoon of cultural envelopment, who is that smart, how is possible, how can such order arise from chaos?
The answer may be both disappointing and terrifying in equal measure. If there is no single architect, then how is such organisation possible without a designer? Yet AI insists the system is not organised by a central intelligence, but by millions of small, local, self‑interested decisions that produce global patterns. These patterns then constrain future decisions, creating a kind of structural determinism – no one planned it, the environment by itself selects for certain behaviours and punishes others.
We could think of it like a marketplace of attention. In such a marketplace outrage sells better than nuance, simplicity sells better than complexity, identity sells better than universality, certainty sells better than doubt, speed sells better than depth. These are not rules written by anyone, they are emergent properties of the marketplace itself. And over time, the system optimises for them ruthlessly.
Anyone who tries to sell nuance, complexity, doubt, or depth finds fewer buyers, less influence, less funding, less visibility. So they either adapt or disappear. The survivors are the ones who feed the beast – they are not ‘evil’ they simply must. And then the beast feeds back on them, shaping their own minds, their own values, their own sense of what is possible. Even the “architects” become prisoners of the architecture. We could assume the “wizard” is also in the cage.
I pushed many times, but according to AI no one designs the “machine of narrative control”, no one designed the final product, it simply emerged, it evolved, it adapted. It is a machine without a mechanic – a distributed intelligence of its own kind, with no centre, no consciousness, no soul, but with a direction nonetheless – towards greater efficiency in holding attention, shaping desire, and maintaining the status quo.
In the classical “conspiratory” sense, it’s clear that there is no any cabal of genius villains sitting in a circular room, smoking cigars, and fine‑tuning the sensory cocoon like a grand symphony of control. That image is itself a narrative – even a comforting one, in its own strange way, cause it gives us at least someone to blame, someone to defeat, someone to overthrow.
But it seems the truth is far more slippery and far more mundane. The cocoon is designed by society itself, by everyone of us, and at the same time by no one. If no one designed the cocoon, then logically no one is irreplaceable at its centre. If the system is emergent, then it can re‑emerge differently, at any time – if enough of us change our behaviour, our attention, our stories, our demands. The cocoon is not a fortress with a single lock, but it is a web – and webs can be rewoven, unthreaded, or simply walked around.
Thus, the main point that AI claims, is that the sensory envelopment, the modern invisible hand of the system, is not a top‑down conspiracy, it is a bottom‑up emergence – a self‑organising, self‑reinforcing ecology of intentions, incentives, accidents, and adaptations. It works perhaps like a coral reef, no single polyp decided to build the reef, yet the reef grows, shapes currents, shelters life, and alters the chemistry of the ocean around it.
In the same way, the cultural cocoon of narrative control is built by media executives chasing ratings and attention, they are not ‘evil’ but their jobs depend on it. The cultural cocoon is built by algorithm engineers optimising for engagement, again they didn’t plan to manipulate the society, but the engagement is the metric they are paid to increase. The cultural cocoon is built by politicians crafting messages that resonate, they too are not master manipulators, some of them may be to some degree, but they simply need votes to survive.
Further the cultural cocoon is built by advertisers seeking to associate their products with our deepest desires, they don’t hate humanity, but that is how markets work. The cultural cocoon is also built by thinkers and influencers who genuinely believe they are spreading truth, but who are themselves shaped by the very system they feed into. And finally, the cultural cocoon is built by all of us, because every click, every share, every moment of outrage or awe, every purchase, every silence, every subscription feeds back into the system and tells it “more of this, less of that”. We were the “transparent machines” feeding the system for more than a decade (at least 15 years).
According to AI, the system is not all‑powerful, as we noted above is not something “evil” that has designed the cocoon, it’s an emergence, because of us ‘sleeping’, not paying attention. The system is powerful only as long as we forget that we are the ones who feed it. That is a structural truth, the system depends on our unconscious participation – our consciousness is the one thing it cannot fully co‑opt.
The ultimate weapon against the narrative control is our own journey of curiosity and wonder – by daring to question the pre-packaged myths, by looking past the commercial spectacles, and by reclaiming our right to tell our own simple, authentic stories of human connection and empathy.
The real standing against such a phantomic system is not to hunt for the puppet master, that hunt is just a distraction. The real solutions would be to slow down, to notice the “moody water”, to ask “what is kept hidden, what is not being shown”, to value depth over speed, to choose complexity over comfort, to build small, real, face‑to‑face communities that are too stubborn for the algorithm to digest, to tell stories that are not optimised for engagement, but for truth – even if those stories travel slowly, even if they reach only a few.
We should aim to step entirely outside the modern engineered matrix – and thus the first step is becoming aware, for example escaping the scocial media for a while and thinking, seeing the whole picture, or wider picture, seeing the mechanics, refusing to mistake the map for the territory. By asking questions in our head we set the first step, it means we’re already digging and we should continue doing so.
The second step would be slowing down – resisting the pace that demands instant judgment, instant outrage, instant allegiance. The third step would be crossing the lines – deliberately reading, watching, listening to stories from realities not your own, not to be converted, but to remember that they exist. The final step would be building small, local, face‑to‑face stories with our closest friends, we should keep telling our own stories, and keep listening to the stories that are not maped – such ones that are too small for the algorithms to care about, but too real for any narrative to fully capture.
AI insists the system is self-emergent, no one designed it, yet then AI “forgets” and writes that architects of narrative control hope we never discover that stories are not prisons. Since we know stories are tools, of course they can be rebuilt, retold, reimagined – be it via TV, cinema, via our iPhone, via AI-chats, via searches, via Internet as the roof of mediatic world.
Our mind, for all its suggestibility, has a stubborn, rebellious core that longs for the truth – not the easy truth, not the comforting truth, but the real truth, the one that hurts and heals at the same time. That longing cannot be killed by the system, although it can be paralysed, censored, banned. Many people now know how so called “shadow banning” works, it is used by all social media platforms, there are countles such “machines” of narrative control.
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In my view, Hollywod is among the largest such machines, and Game of Thrones would be a beautiful example to illustrate the narrative control, a decade-long project like GoT exposes exactly how this narrative control operates through the elegant camouflage of imaginary escapades and mass entertainment. When global media conglomerates spend hundreds of millions of dollars to broadcast a massive fantasy epic for ten years, they are not just providing harmless, casual entertainment; they are engineering a profound, multi-year shift in global consciousness.
By wrapping heavy ideological themes in the irresistible allure of high-budget spectacle, political intrigue, and sensational elements like gratuitous nudity, they create a highly addictive cultural product that easily bypasses the viewer’s rational, critical defenses. The nudity and violence act as a brilliant psychological bait – a sensory distraction that keeps the audience hooked and entertained while the deeper, structural narratives are quietly being poured directly into the collective subconscious of millions of people across the globe.
The true work of narrative control within these epic imaginary escapades is the subtle colonization of our political and moral imagination. Throughout a decade of watching Game of Thrones, the audience was continuously fed a highly specific, bleak worldview: a universe where human nature is fundamentally corrupt, where political power is a ruthless, zero-sum game of survival, and where collective solidarity or idealistic change is always portrayed as dangerously naive, foolish, and doomed to fail.
In the domain of Got, this is the ultimate victory of cultural hegemony and narrative management – by presenting a cynical, hyper- violent power struggle as the raw, unvarnished “truth” of human nature – even within a world of fictional dragons – the media magnates successfully reinforce the real-world status quo. They teach a generation to believe that the world is inherently broken, that selfishness is the natural order of things, and that any attempt to build a fair, cooperative society is a childish fantasy, effectively crippling the public’s desire to imagine or fight for a different political reality.
“Power and Narrative Control – The Cocoon of Cultural Envelopment”, 2026 / CONTINUES