A little note that shouldn’t even be necessary, being the situation so plainly readable.

One of the bigger reasons why Elon Musk went “all in” with Trump is so that, given a win, he could convert all his previous investment as leverage. It’s all about leverage. Not in the sense that now Trump “owes” the victory to Musk, but that Musk controls the consensus, that he shapes the narrative and has a firm choke on its neck. The will of the people, lifting him up like an unholy prophet.

The MORE Musk invested before, the more he gains active leverage on Trump, to make Trump his instrument.

Right now it’s honeymoon. The message is that there’s an uniformity of vision and goals, between Musk and Trump. But we know how this is plainly just a message, and that the two are together out of expediency.

If you pull this together it’s quite obvious that the bigger threat to this right-wing government and hegemony doesn’t come from the “left”. As I said before, the left is just a puppet controlled by the right. It has no uses other than being ridiculed.

The threat comes from the inside.

There are of course plenty of pragmatic reasons for it not to blow up, and keep the honeymoon as long as possible. At a basic level, Trump and Musk interests ARE aligned. But this current unity is also quite fragile, because when the course changes from general propaganda to the small practical details and execution, interests will start to conflict.

On one side, we’ll never see any of this happening. Because it will all be behind the scenes. The constant bargaining to obtain advantage here and there, the annoyance due to Musk wedging himself into everything out of his competence.

And then it will likely break.

What does happen when the illusion shatters? Elon Musk’s main trait is that he is easy to read. He is predictable. He has promoted “X” as this source of “truth” and “democracy.” A source that he seized and controls. Whatever disagreement, whatever grudge he has, last one about the judge who forbid him getting paid more, turns into a public lynching. The will of the people.

The moment you upset Elon Musk, is the moment you cross the will of the people. And the people will rise up, against you. The same way his will blends with Trump’s, disappears and blends into the greater will of the people. It’s not two to one, but three into one. All three the same.

Elon Musk strategy is to camouflage himself and let people speak with his own disguised voice. To then re-broadcast and make his own. So that he dominates and controls without being seen.

The same strategy that was used to make Trump win, will be the strategy to take him down when he overstays his function.

Elon Musk made Trump win because Trump is expendable.

Because Trump is WEAK.

Elon Musk made Trump win so that Trump were to believe he was weak, so that he would have to continue to lean and depend on Elon Musk. Knowing that even a little sidestep would mean his own end. The stronger the victory the stronger the bond. But with only one being truly in control. The one who seized expediency to make himself irreplaceable. Because you can’t replace the will of the people.

Vox populi, vox Dei.

This is a little “sense of wonder” game I used to exhibit years ago when trying to impress on how scope can be so deep to become unfathomable.

It’s a simple invite to imagination, all played on maps.

We start from here:

I love the style and earthy colors. But besides that, it’s a little, abstracted section of a map. It opens to the sea, there are some unmarked islands, a river splitting in some ways across the mainland and a good number of towns along its path. Some small some bigger, according to those three different symbols, the empty red circle, the full circle and the square.

You see GOLOTHA, prominent near the bay.

All of that can be enough to be a WORLD. It does look incomplete, but it’s also quite a large playground. Imagine visiting all those towns, it’s a role-playing game, the supposedly large number of inhabitants and their stories. Imagine treading through unmarked territory, maybe find some lone tower, a dungeon. Such a nice and intriguing countryside.

It’s enough of a world that a party of players could spend a couple of years in it, with a good enough master, just getting to know it.

But it’s just a map, and it’s more than it seems…

Here’s some sleight of hands. You think we’re going large, but look better, we’re going closer, toward the smaller…

See on the upper right? There’s our GOLOTHA right there. Right under it there’s CHAKTA, as you expect from the first map. But if you go looking for OMNIS, to the right, you won’t find it. Are the two maps diverging? Nope, OMNIS is simply just slightly out of this territory, out of that rightmost margin.

You can see the main lump of land, with that large swamp called PERIS MOOR, and downward another big town SELVOS, inside DEVERSH BAY. See all those smaller towns around it? They are simply ignored in the first map above. They are so small that they’ve been abstracted away.

Now, pay more attention and you’ll understand that the area of this second large map corresponds almost precisely to the portion of the area of the first map, that drawn “square” block. See how the first map is divided not just by hexes, but also larger squares? Two big ones almost complete but with the bottom portion cut, and more partial ones above and to the sides? The bottom map represents almost precisely one square.

Yet this second bigger map, feels like a continent! Countless towns that would be impossible to visit while playing. This is already so big that defies the possibility of full knowledge. The possibility of being WRITTEN, so that it could then be READ. A world that goes beyond one person. A world that cannot be contained.

But we’re playing a game inside the game.

Sorry for the quality, but if you squint here you can see that this big map is divided by the same “square” outlines used above. I’ve marked an empty square to better assess its size, and then pointed to the arrow that TINY portion of land we’ve examined up to this point.

Well, as you can see, what looked already like incredibly vast land… is part of a MUCH bigger whole.

Let’s approximate and remove those spaces that are just water, and we can say the full map is comprised of 70+ squares.

SEVENTY OF THEM. Just as large and supposedly, potentially as densely detailed as the big map above, showing just one.

How would you even realistically or unrealistically visit this, with a party of players? How can you even WRITE about it, when it’s already daunting to even THINK about it.

How many LIFETIMES could be spent within a single fictional world?

But we’re playing game inside a game here…

Hello world!

See that whole previous map with its own seventy counted land “squares”, it’s now been abstracted down to ONE square. Look at the map here and you can find the continent-now-island right there on the upper left.

I’ve marked with a red square the minuscule-yet-daunting portion of land we started with. Can you feel the VERTIGO now?

Will you be a tourist in your next life? Or rather, an eternal deity of infinite curiosity?

When is that the real world becomes a little toy within a larger fiction?

But you can already see here, that’s not a complete map.

So I introduce you to… LYTHIA.

Here too, if you squint, I marked the original square we started with.

Good luck, fellow fictional traveler, you’ll need it.

How large can this world possibly be. What kind of delusions its inventor had to suffer.

See then, the world whole:

KETHIRA.

But it is just a game, we’re playing.