We are joined by @StevenDeLay4 for a discussion of the legal thriller The Firm (1993), directed by Sydney Pollack. We talk about themes of misdirection and demoralization, as well as Pollack's Three Days of the Condor (1975) and his Mossad connections. spreaker.com/episode/the-fir…

Thomas and Travis Mateer (@madpoet19) cover Ari Aster's acclaimed 2025 political satire Eddington, pairing it with his 2023 film Beau is Afraid, as well as Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia, another 2025 movie that purports to take conspiracy theories seriously. spreaker.com/episode/eddingt…

SCOOP: Emails show that CNN colluded with the FBI to create Dana Bash's documentary on Antisemitism. The Mockingbird Media is exposed!

College Football Star and Warner Bros, Film Consultant Michael Burke also ran covert OSS missions under cover as an executive of “Imperial Films” to recruit for US special operations in overthrowing Albanian communists

Hollywood is an arm of the FEDS. The Decoding Culture Foundation @Culture_Decode has all the receipts. Here is part 1 of a thread I put together with their amazing research. Ben Affleck, call your office (or your handler)...

Premiering tonight! Dr. Brett Carollo @DecoderShell @Culture_Decode returns to discuss the recently published volume #3 of the research anthology Cultural Engineering Studies and his article Hermeneutics of Total Suspicion: Gnostic Inversion and the Serpent. We talk about various gnostic cults and their influence on culture throughout the centuries leading up to the rejection of the body embracing transhumanism. youtu.be/ZXl3y9irEws?si=wMZm…

Coming soon: Out of this World #86 featuring Dr. Brett Carollo! Premiering Tuesday, May 19th at 9:00 PM EST, DCF Director of Research Operations, Dr. Brett Carollo @DecoderShell , will be joining Jamie Hanshaw Dyer (@JamieLHanshaw) for a conversation you won't want to miss! The pair will discuss the recently published third volume of DCF's research anthology Cultural Engineering Studies, and Dr. Carollo's article "Hermeneutics of Total Suspicion: Gnostic Inversion and the Serpent", as well as various gnostic cults and their influence on culture throughout the centuries leading up to the rejection of the body embracing transhumanism. Watch the full conversation on May 19th here: youtube.com/watch?v=ZXl3y9ir…

Avaiable now: Volume 3 of Cultural Engineering Studies! Our latest volume takes up the theme of Neo-Gnosticism and examines its role in shaping the deeper logic of modern film, media, politics, and cultural engineering. Inside, you can find articles that trace the myths of false liberation, spiritual inversion, and manufactured rebellion that have helped form the modern imagination. Featuring writings by: Jamie Hanshaw (@JamieLHanshaw)  Jasun Horsley, (@JaKephas)  Brett Carollo (@DecoderShell) Joshua Stylman (@jstylman) Paul and Phillip Collins (@PhillipDCollin1) Hans Utter (@Resonantstate), and Thomas Millary (@CinemaPsyop) Plus a interactive zine by Mrs Horsley (@Mrs___Horsley) If you want serious research, strong writing, and a print publication built to last, this is our strongest volume yet. Order now: decoding-culture.com/cultura…

The volume Phenomenology and Posthumanism(s) is now available in print. Many thanks to the editor, @Philosophos87, for including my essay "The Technocratic Nihilism of Transhumanism: A Note on the Glory of Being Human According to Kierkegaard and Chrétien." The volume also includes an essay by @millerman, among many others. @elonmusk @RealAlexJones @TuckerCarlson @BretWeinstein @JOEBOTxyz @AGDugin @AuronMacintyre @christopherrufo @BasedTorba @7SEES_ @JayDyer @macroaggressio3 @realbriankemple @chrisbrunet @JesseMatchey @FringeViews @_DayzofNoah @Culture_Decode @ChCh_Oxford

"Cultural Engineering Studies 3: Neo Gnosticism" contributor spotlight: Hans Utter: In his first contribution to CES, "FM Radio: The Occulted Frequencies of the Counterculture", Hans Utter, an expert in ethnomusicology, analyzes a critical but overlooked factor in the cultural revolution of the 1960s. The political, aesthetic, spiritual, and pharmacological elements of the emerging counterculture needed a binding new medium, a role played by FM radio. Describing the novel techniques pioneered by DJs like Bob Fass and Lorenzo Milam and comparing them to Tavistock Institute frameworks for collective manipulation, Utter's essay reveals how FM overlapped with military and intelligence psyops to become a vital instrument of largescale cultural engineering. Excerpted from the article: "When the cultural history of the 1960s is recounted, certain images dominate: bearded protesters marching against the Vietnam War, psychedelic light shows spilling over concert halls, the tribal and primeval rituals of Woodstock, or the iconic silhouette of a young woman placing a flower in a soldier’s rifle barrel. The standard narrative foregrounds LSD, rock music, civil rights struggles, and political assassinations as the crucibles of transformation. Yet running parallel to these visible currents was a subtler, less tangible medium—radio, particularly the experimental landscape of FM broadcasting—that played a critical role in shaping the consciousness of the decade. Radio is curiously absent in most mainstream accounts. Scholars of various stripes have meticulously documented the role of psychedelic drugs in altering perceptions, the Tavistock Institute and other research bodies in experimenting with mass psychology, and the Laurel Canyon music scene as an incubator of countercultural sound. But radio, despite its capacity to reach millions in real time, is often treated as a mere transmitter of music rather than as an active site of transformation. This omission is striking, for radio possesses unique psycho-acoustic properties: it infiltrates domestic and private spaces, often through solitary listening; it works with voice, sound, and silence in hypnotic rhythms; and it has the ability to induce altered states of attention through repetition, sensory inhibition, and immersive soundscapes."

Stone continues to explore the ghosts of the 1960s with his anti-war drama Born on the Fourth of July (1989). We keep analyzing Stone's treatments of religion, sexuality, war, and masculinity, and talk his interaction with the counterculture psyop . spreaker.com/episode/born-on…

Suddenly (1954), with Brett of PsyOp Cinema, Sean of Wake the Dead, and Hans of The Resonant State. x.com/i/broadcasts/1qJDzPblM…

It's here! In case you missed it, Cultural Engineering Studies Volume 3 is available now, exclusively on the DCF website.  To celebrate the release of Volume 3, during the rest of April and the month of May, you can acquire Volumes 1 and 2 at a discounted price. However, we’re also offering a Collector's Bundle with Volumes 1, 2, and 3. This is our biggest deal ever, and it won't stick around forever.  Get the bundle here: decoding-culture.com/product….

Out now: Volume 3 of Cultural Engineering Studies This new volume takes up the theme of Neo-Gnosticism and examines its role in shaping the deeper logic of modern film, media, politics, and cultural engineering. Inside, you can find articles that trace the myths of false liberation, spiritual inversion, and manufactured rebellion that have helped form the modern imagination. Featuring writings by: Jamie Hanshaw (@JamieLHanshaw)  Jasun Horsley, (@JaKephas)  Brett Carollo (@DecoderShell) Joshua Stylman (@jstylman) Paul and Phillip Collins (@PhillipDCollin1) Hans Utter, and Thomas Millary (@CinemaPsyop) Plus a interactive zine by Mrs Horsley (@Mrs___Horsley) If you want serious research, strong writing, and a print publication built to last, this is our strongest volume yet. Order now: decoding-culture.com/cultura…

🧵 (1/4) Coming Soon, "Cultural Engineering Studies, Volume 3: Neo-Gnosticism." 👁️🎥🍎 The third volume of CES traces the gnostic turn in modern culture and the way false liberation, spiritual inversion, and manufactured rebellion have shaped film, politics, and media. Below we continue to reveal  the groundbreaking contributions featured in this upcoming release. Firstly, from DCF President Thomas Millary (@CinemaPsyop): "The Lego Barbie Matrix: Hollywood Meta-Reflections on Feminism, Gnosticism, and Pop Culture"  DCF President Thomas Millary’s contribution to this issue examines the radical gnosticization of Hollywood cinema that took place during the 2010s, in the wake of the Matrix trilogy and a series of other landmark gnostic films released around the turn of the millennium. The male gnostic savior of the earlier phase is now commonly deconstructed to make way for the dark religion of the feminine, which is defined by the very same shapeshifting malleability characteristic of the simulated matrix world. Through close readings of four films—The Lego Movie (2014) and its sequel (2019), Barbie (2023), and the ill-fated fourth installment in the Matrix series, The Matrix Resurrections (2021)—Millary demonstrates how the metaphysical destabilization and disorientation inherent in gnostic storytelling have become tools for reconciling corporate consumerism with woke gender politics and other staples of 21st-century cultural engineering. “Red pill” techniques once used to promise liberation from a predatory false reality are now leveraged to glorify that same false reality's demiurgic powers of manipulation. The pop culture matrix terminates in this ultimate act of gnostic inversion.

Hey! It's out! I did a cool zine for this issue! It folds into a sweet little booklet with two sides. One has a quote from Marshal McLuhan and the other is a wee expose of John Brockman. Both sides relevant to cultural engineering! Chuffed!

What if the red pill is itself part of the program? In the newest article on our website, “On Red Pill Programming,” Brett Carollo and Thomas Millary trace how Hollywood, mass media, and psychological warfare turned “awakening” into a baited path toward deeper illusion. From Manson to The Matrix, gnostic rebellion to modern right-wing psyops, this piece is a deep dive into the machinery behind one of the defining tropes of internet politics. Read it here: decoding-culture.com/redpill…

Thomas is joined by @JamieLHanshaw to analyze True Detective: Night Country, a psy-op far less subtle than any previous season. They describe its occult feminist inversions of season one and Thomas also gives his updated assessment of the whole series. spreaker.com/episode/true-de…