GP Academy Letter 250819: The Path Less Taken. An Interview With Gordon.

Let’s start the week on a fun and frothy note.

Turning once again to ‘The Risky Reader’ (just published on Amazon), an imaginary reporter from the local newspaper sits down for a short interview with yours truly.

Let's listen in...

Q: Can you explain the Divergent movement?
G: Certainly. Divergent is not a movement. We simply diverge.

Q: Diverge from what?
G: From the conventional understanding of popular choices. Where “two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” we do not take the road less traveled. We beat it right out of the woods.

Q: Can you give me an example?
G: Sure, think of it this way. There are two main political parties in America. It doesn't matter which one you vote for. Either way, the government always gets in.

Q: Are you anti-government?
G: Not at all. Government is a 5,500 year old social experiment that hasn't gone all that well so far. But we love it anyway. It's very entertaining.

Q: Back to Divergent, you're not really a movement?
G: Not at all. Movements all head in the same direction. It's the nature of the herd. If we became a movement we’d have to disperse.

Q: So does divergent simply mean contrarian?
G: No. Whatever the public does, contrarians do the opposite. But they do so within the same fabric of reality that we Divergents call Trumanspace. Divergents exit Trumanspace altogether via the socio-cultural membrane.

Q: This is getting a bit confusing.
G: You should be on this side of the membrane!

Q: OK, one more try. Where is Trumanspace?
G: It’s all around you—in the classroom, in the living room, under your bed, in the ballot box, especially in bank ATMs.

Q: If it is all around you, how can you exit from it?
G: Through the back door to The Truman Show. Everyone has their own back door. You just have to find it.

Q: Back to Divergence. So you diverge just for the sake of diverging?
G: No, that would be irrational and sophomoric. Then we would be just like the public. A member can be suspended for that.

Q: You seem pretty down on the public. Are you opposed to everything public?
G: Not at all. The public can't help themselves. They went to public school, and they watch television. That’s enough to cripple anyone.

Q: But you do reject all conventional wisdom, don't you?
G: Pretty much, but not because it is public. Because it is wrong.

Q: What are some examples of things the public is wrong about?
G: Well, let's see... there's real history, government schooling, criminal politics, the fiat money cartel, zero point energy, the allopathic medical monopoly, the idea that we live in a democracy, why three buildings fell on 9-11 and the third one wasn't hit by a plane. You know, things like that. Pretty much everything.

Q: Do you make any attempt to educate the public to your point of view?
G: We wouldn't dream of it. People need to diverge on their own. It's just something that happens when you turn off the TV and sit quietly in the dark channeling your ancestors.

Q: Thank you, this has been most enlightening.
G: I was afraid you'd say that.