Apology of imposture by Adrien Ferron
We live in a wonderful world. Its biodiversity is unlikely. It's paradise. We have everything to be happy about. At the moment of our birth, we cannot imagine the beauty and richness that surrounds us. We live in a bubble, a protective film that prevents certain waves and particles in the universe from putting an end to this microcosm that is the earth. We live under the governance of universal laws, they alone have the power to destroy us. There are about 8 million species on this earth, all of them more or less in balance. Some species are disappearing, giving way to others in a way. The one that we believe is most at risk is the one that defines us, the human species.
We tend to wonder how we got here, but it doesn't matter. Nevertheless, some of us are obsessed with this issue. This question, like all the questions we can ask ourselves about existence, is a total imposture. Nevertheless, it allows us to approach the laws of the universe because it is through our own imposture that we manage to fight against collective imposture.
Collective imposture is a whole. It is our past; we are taught what some radiant people, with a powerful network, have been able to freeze in time and impose through human energies. It is our present; day after day, we add new colours to the mask that we pass on to the next generations. This is our future and this is the theme of this first part.
As soon as someone takes a stand against an imposture, it becomes materialized and appears more concrete. That's kind of his goal. By dint of materialized impostures, it is the impostor who becomes a reliable source, we trust him, he becomes a referent.
We will then take as a witness the one sent by God and not God himself. Faith is important, human energy flows from it. The harder the impostor believes in his positioning, the more real the imposture will appear.
Impersonation is a means of existence, beyond money and social consideration. The imposture begins at the top of our power pyramid. In order to preserve the posture of a single man of power, it is all power that falls into imposture. Therefore, that is the only thing that can be done. The day when the whole of power realizes the trickery on which the existence of this same power is based, it is far too late.
A good impostor quickly wins fans. He can propose new things, exciting things. His followers will reinforce his imposture, if only by their open support.
A good imposture can create an energy as much as it can destroy one.
Let's take a martyred impostor as an example. We'll take Rael. This impostor is easily accepted as such. His name is Claude Vorilhon, he was born just after the Second World War and spent his childhood in Auvergne. Years later, he moved to Paris. Envious of Jacques Brel's success, he decided to pursue a career in song, taking up the niche of the famous Belgian singer, but in the 1970s, everything stopped following the suicide of his producer.
He then created a motor sport magazine, but the oil crisis and the ban on sports competitions caused him to sink. Nevertheless, Claude has a plan, a few days after the announcement of this ban he decides to embark on a new breach, that of the UFOs.
For some time now, the media has been racing for the UFO, many testimonies reveal that Unidentified Flying Objects can be seen in the sky, especially in France.
Claude therefore decided to take this opportunity to announce that he had met the celestial beings.
With a strong media network and a perfect knowledge of the tricks of the trade, he spread the good word that the E.T. had transmitted to him on the TV sets, which were then very fond of this kind of offbeat interviews.
He then wrote "The book that tells the truth" and founded the beginnings of the Raelian movement.
The Raelian movement could have more than 60,000 followers in the world according to him.
Let us now imagine that Rael created his movement before Christ. Who would we be able to pray to today? This is enough to shake up our faith.
That is the whole problem with a good imposture, it will only meet an expectation, it is in a way we ourselves who build it indirectly and without knowing it of course.
If the imposture is flawed, the impostor will have to redouble his conviction in order to impose the need for the participation of others, however, once the imposture is accepted, we will rely on it to develop new ones.
Thus, we have a real virtual tree structure, which comes to define us.
To top it off, once it is accepted as fundamentally a truth, any counter-power that attempts to oppose the truth that the imposture has created will be treated as an impostor. It is the one who opposes the imposture who will be perceived as an impostor.
Our super-imposer, eager to fight imposture, finds himself alone, facing all the people who took part in the imposture that then became collective. Each opponent will then be in a position of deviating and it will be quite simple to discourage him in his struggle.
Of course, what applies to man does not necessarily apply to machines, in this case, within the immense imposture that is the Internet, human impostures look pale, and yet, a technique that is well known, even essential in the world of hacking, is social engineering.
This technique is the basis for good piracy on an individual but also on a group of individuals. It consists in obtaining as much information as possible from the target audience, or their close circle of acquaintances, through means of communication such as postal mail, telephone, e-mail or social networks.
For this technique to work properly, you must first try to know as much as possible about your target, without contacting it directly, and then, in a second step, use the few resources you have on your target to get much more information.
Everything is allowed to find information and everything is allowed to mystify its target. Specialists in this technique do not hesitate to pose as the highest authorities according to the hierarchy they face, using lexical fields and the tone adapted to the requests they make to the target.
The high-end impostor protects himself, he plays a game of chess, where you don't play at all. He is the only one who knows what he is getting at and that is the essential flaw he is playing on. Moreover, if it doesn't work in one way, he will try by other means, until we give in to the authoritarian charge that we see ourselves struck.
Unfortunately for us, we are in the position, we are stuck, we have to justify ourselves because the benefit of the doubt always serves the attacker. His strength of conviction stems in particular from the fact that he is in total imposture and that no one can reach him. It uses almost infallible anonymization systems and we are very unlikely to be able to trace it, if, however, we have realized that we have been attacked. Because that is the perfidy of the flaws in our system, we can never be truly sure that the one who addresses us really represents what he seems to represent.
Whether on the Internet or in real life.
In addition, the Internet offers an immaterial path of imposture to anyone who decides to devote a minimum of time to it.
From an analogical point of view, historically, it was in 1996 that we touched on a universal truth thanks to the physicist Alan Sokal.
Wishing to make a point of view towards a postmodernist scientific journal, he decided to write an article entitled "Crossing Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravitation". In the text, he quotes Bohr, Heisenberg, Kuhn, Feyerbend, Latour, Lacan, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, Lyotard, Serres or Virilio, but this is not necessarily the main point in this story because the most important thing is that he flatters postmodernism by taking a position in his favour.
The editorial staff, very enthusiastic about the idea of having the favours of a future internationally renowned physicist publishes the article, the only concern is that it means absolutely nothing.
"In short, I intentionally wrote the article in such a way that any competent physicist or mathematician (or a physics or math student) would realize that it was a parody. It is clear that Social Text editors were not embarrassed to publish an article on quantum physics without worrying about consulting anyone competent in the field. »
The Sokal case, as it is called, proves that the specialized or non-specialized press, whether under budgetary pressure or not, subject to the laws of productivity or under the control of certain organizations or communities, can lose its own editorial sovereignty.
The press and analogue media in general, themselves, work and draw their sources from the Internet. Whether by email, encrypted conversations or even via social networks.
So how do they verify their information?
Very simply by not checking anything.
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