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TollBarGemsbok ago

I'm writing this because there are plenty of folks out there who scoff at the numerical/mathematical analyses of anons like SerialBrain2 on Q drops and POTUS tweets. They say it's absurd to add up numbers in time stamps, or count the alphabetic shifts of corrected letters in misspelled words, then proclaim some secret message has been discovered.

These folks are wrong because they are just thinking in terms of conscious intent. If it was just about that, they might have a point. It's difficult to imagine that someone is out there creating complex puzzles for us to solve, yet not making them so complex that they cannot be solved at all. It would be an incredible balancing act if this was the case. Even more difficult to imagine is that a group of humans are coordinating amongst themselves to do the same. Yes, some of this happens in a conscious, coordinated fashion, this is not a question. But all of it?

However, if we move to the unconscious level, it is not difficult to believe this at all. Because the unconscious encodes plenty of messages for us, like in dreams. Freud was the first to discover this. Then Lacan demonstrated the scientific basis of this in the 1950's with his analysis of various literary texts, much like what anons do today and almost everyday with Q and POTUS tweets.

In the end, we need to supplement the maestro's conscious cyphering of messages with his unconscious intent, which is by definition unknown even to the puzzle-maker at the time of the puzzle-making. It is at a later time the anons step in and make it known to all who care to listen.

So for those of you out there who are not convinced that such anon decyphering is legitimate, I implore you to take what might be the deepest dive you'll ever take, down into the dark depths of the unconscious (which is, as it turns out, actually much more on the surface of things than we might think). There is no better place to start than with Lacan's mathematical exposition of how the unconscious works in his article "Seminar on The Purloined Letter." Link It's difficult going, but there are plenty of shorter and helpful guides like this one which advises you start at page 35.

SerialBrain2 and other anons, you do the glorious, yet often unthanked work of the psychoanalyst. Carry on!