Daily Page: 2026-01-14

Managing Leadership Anxiety

Neutralizing False Needs

- Control
- Perfectionism
- Answerism
- Need Bleed
	- Enmeshment, Suicidal Empathy (Gaad Saad)
- Approval Seeking
	- From BOTH Allies and (ridiculously) Detractors

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Love: Non-Symbolic SuperPower and SuperWeapon

Both. And.

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Cognitive Warfare Capacity Building

The first pillar of unbreachable defense in the cognitive warfare theater of operations is robust structure and clarity in the individual warfighter’s mental processes.

Not only when knowingly engaged in battle, but more importantly in everyday living, because patient and determined opponents, like hunters, wait for unguarded moments to fire on precisely placed kill shot.

The best mitigation against exhaustive hypervigilance is the capacity to let one’s guard down while never letting the defense down. How is this possible? If we contemplate an Engineering Requirements Document (ERD) to construct this capacity, the question, ‘how can warfighters construct permanent, impenetrable internal cognitive warfare defenses without inviting the burnout consequent to constant hypervigilence in maintaining those defenses?’ quickly surfaces as fundamental.

This is an OSINT work in progress. If you have solutions, share them with your teammates, where front line needs are most urgent and relentless; where the terrain is characterized by countless known unknowables, and unknowable unknowables. This is the nature of the cognitive warfighter-operator’s battlespace.

For those with a few decades of shared, common, collective cultural history to draw upon, it is immediately apparent that such characterization is inspired by the equally great and greatly maligned philosopher-warrior, Donald Rumsfeld.

Most media bobble-heads and armchair generals completely misunderstood the humility of accepting this limitation as the second pillar of unbreachable cognitive warfighting capacity.

We do not know and can not know, what which we have no capacity for knowing. If our natural human senses only comprehend a very thin slice of the electromagnetic spectrum, we will never perceive the very real majority of that spectrum, which exists far beyond the range of the five fundamental human physical senses.

The second pillar, an accute and abiding awareness of intrinsic, universal limitations of the human physiological substrate, is essential to building the permanent parapets of humility that become intrinsic to the nature of sustainable internal superstructures of cognitive warfighter defense.

The third pillar is discernment. The capacity to know with clarity and certainty which arising thoughts are the warfighter’s own thoughts, a friendly’s thought, a disruptors thoughts, or an enemy attack. How to track and build these capacities poses tremendous challenges, to say the least. Some will initially reject this pillar as woo-woo or superstition; but we are far too deep into the 21st century to continue to entertain centuries-old thinking.

In the 2050 rearview mirror, it becomes clear that the entire first half of the 21st century was characterized by a gradually escalating, irregular, unrestricted, whole-of-global-culture-and-society, third or fourth World War, depending upon how you count them.

The year 2026 situates observers like us smack in the middle of that time frame.

The third pillar is by far the most difficult to describe, let alone teach for the purposes of force-wide capacity building for a number of reasons. Chief among those reasons is strong, near-field historical gravitational cultural inertia of norms toward dismissal and denial of anything that questions or contradicts the past few centuries of the materialist weltanschaaung, comprehensive world model.

The real-time present situation in 2026 has changed significatnly, as that very inertia continues to dissolve, consequent to the 2012 completion of the Standard Model of physics made it clear that the 20th century’s materialist commanding heights materialist narrative describes less that 5% of all that it purported to describe.

The third pillar is by far the most difficult to describe because the mind can be a minefield all on its own. In a theater of operations that introduces additional minds, the complexity of the task is glaring and obvious. Any task that requires coordination beyond one or two minds, perhaps a dozen minds, let alone hundreds; and up to thousands and even millions (indeed, as incomprehensible as it seems, billions) at the highest levels of command, becomes difficult to describe, let alone deeply comprehend in a meaningful and useful way.

When such large numbers of human minds can be coordinated and engaged in sustained cognitive distributed denial of service attacks against one lone individual; say, a president of a nation, a general, or other key strategic individual, that is how warfighters know that observers like us are fully engaged in Third Millennium Cognitve Warfare.

This brief might sound shocking and even unbelievable, at first, until one stops to observe the everyday reality of elected leaders and this respective staffs in everyday operations. Any sufficiently viral meme or perspective almost immediately entrains and coordinates millions, indeed billions of minds into active cognitive DDoS operations. At first blush, the contents of this brief might sound like ludicrous or more pejoratively, paranoid observations.

Challenge these observations and uncover the deep history of media manipulation, all the way back to Edward Bernays and FDR. Today’s cognitive warfare combatants; which includes all observers like us; face unprecedented types and scales of attack. In the contemporary 2020’s and 2030s battlespace, every warfighter is a cognitive warfare combatant (CWC). The United States armed forces and clandestine services have no choice but to rise to, and overcome these new imperative challenges. This is a preliminary briefing that might help to clarify The Pentagon’s Newest Map.

Knowing One’s Own Mind

Since 1958, the Monroe Institute has experimented with and engaged in mental capacity building in the non-symbolic domains. Today, vastly more sophisticated and tactical operation training methods are required, if the United States armed forces are to achieve overwhelming, shock-and-awe, uncontestable cognitive battlespace superiority. Uncontestable battlespace dominance is a non-optional non-optional operational imperative.

It is now incontestable that, for whatever percieved advantages it may have delivered in the past, The Monroe Institute approach is not only long obsolete, but has become catastrophically detrimental and counterproductive in a Third Millennium battlespace that includes non- human machine intelligence and quantum computing, across all warfighting domains.

The ways in which United States Command and Control leadership chooses to engage the challenge of force-wide Cognitive Warfare Capacity Building is arguably the decisive strategic responsibility of the dawning Third Millennium 6-D battlespace of Land, Sea, Air, Space, Technology, and Mind.

CWCB as The Pentagon’s Newest Map

• The Sys Admin force and the dialectics of change (Tuesday, August 3, 2004, 10:59AM)
• THINKING ABOUT PNM: LEVIATHAN VS. SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR FORCE
• Glossary

At the turn of the C.E. millennium, “Thomas P.M. Barnett’s “The Pentagon’s New Map” argued that U.S. strategy must integrate a high-end combat force (“Leviathan”) with a stabilizing, connectivity‑building “SysAdmin” to manage globalization’s seams. It mapped a geopolitical division between connected, prosperous regions and disconnected zones of conflict, urging simultaneous military readiness and reconstruction to secure global integration and long‑term stability” (duck.ai).

That powerful perspective entirely changed the way strategic and tactical leaders thought about and indeed acted within the context of the past two evolutionary decades of the global battlespace. This brief suggests the urgent need for a generation refresh of that map.

Further Reading

Mandelbaum, W. Adam. The Psychic Battlefield: A History of the Military-Occult Complex. United States: St. Martin’s Press, 2002.

Potential Next Topics:

• Closer to Zero: Reducing Spotter-to-Shooter TTL

  • Chain of Command-Wide Decision-Action Latency as CoC Vulnerability

• Neutralizing Imposter Syndrome as Insecurity born of Ego and Pride Deficiencies

  • Fear of embarrassment, ego mortification. Fortifying childhood trauma fragility.

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Stop Platforming Stupid AI Mechanical Turk Conspiracy Theorists

Probably Definitely Nothing. ‘Just’AI Hallucinating Again.

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Kids These Days

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When Does it Work Out Well and When Not?

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The Story of God’s Hacker

Matthieu Pageau [Show Notes] by Curt Jaimungal

Biblical patterns decoded and why Pageau sees Satan as God's hacker

Read on Substack

Matthieu Pageau’s Top 3 Theses

• Satan is a God‑created function (tester and accuser) that becomes evil only when corrupted by will‑to‑power.
• The “feminine” principle in biblical symbolism represents renewal, updating, and crowning; Gödel’s incompleteness theorem is Eve’s riddle to Adam.
• Holy criticism lacks will‑to‑power; fallen criticism seeks dominion; knowing the difference is the key to escaping metaphysical exile.

Curt’s Questions for You