#project monarch

It's part of the whole Christofascist grift he's got going on - convince people that anything and everything is a potential symptom of Monarch programming, then claim Jesus is the only way they can be truly be set free from it. People out there who claim the demons are just metaphorical or whatever have simply euhemerized his conspiracy theories.

Which, that’s more believable, but it raises the question… then what is programming? If letter programs don’t require intent, what’s the difference between “letter programs” and well-studied trauma responses that we already know about? Like, I don’t have all the letters memorized, but isn’t “alpha programming” just extreme loyalty to abusers? The extremely common thing, especially if you’re a kid and literally depend on your abusers for everything? And “beta programming” just seems like hypersexuality and/or having a kink for your abuse. Two also extremely well-documented things.

Am I wrong? Am I misunderstanding what people mean when they say this? Or is this just a way to try to keep the alter programming concept alive by massively expanding the definition and scope?

You're not wrong - they are expanding the scope. Which is absolutely nonsensical because these terms all have very specific definitions that all imply deliberate intent.

And there is literally no difference between these alleged programs and normal trauma responses to ordinary (if severe) forms of abuse, or other health problems in general. (I recently saw people claiming that you can be programmed to have narcolepsy. Like, narcolepsy is literally a thing people sometimes just develop, and it's associated with long COVID. Y'all don't need alter programming to explain this.)

If people want talk about their trauma symptoms while acknowledging that they have nothing to do with deliberate programming, they should use a language and framework that fully reflects that instead of using stuff created by quacks and conspiracy theorists.

But you cannot convince me that these people or at least a subset of them would not be all over the idea of buying an actual programming guide. Like, no way they wouldn’t. So why can’t they? You can buy almost anything, yet we’ve never found this.

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Yep! And not only can you buy almost anything, you can find all kinds of books in shady corners of the Internet. We should expect to find people passing alter programming manuals around digitally, too. Yet in the four decades of the Internet being a thing, nothing like this has ever popped up in PDF format in a single online community where you'd expect it.

The absence of programming manuals is a silence that screams volumes.

I never thought about the trans-ID community specifically, but yeah, you're absolutely right. There are honestly so many groups out there (like hypnosis groups, occult groups, and self-improvement groups) where someone would actually start trying TBMC on people and there would be a huge scandal.

Like, proponents of alter programming conspiracy theories all tell us that TBMC has been practiced for at least seventy years all over the world, but we're all supposed to believe that not a single programming manual has ever ended up in the hands of some creep who'd actually give it a whirl. Yeah, no. There's just too many creeps out there who'll try anything they can get their hands on to control people and mess them up.

"A small word of advice; it sounds counterproductive but over-analyzing and obsessively categorizing your trauma responses and systems doesn't work very well for your psyche" - in other words, "so I did this stuff and it actually made me worse." Basically, same results as reported by a number of retractors on StopBadTherapy.com.

If you're going to listen to survivors, listen to people who tried this so-called therapy and came out worse.