What inspired learning about the flattening is really is one of those cosmic jokes the universe loves to play on us. The kind where the punchline was sitting in plain sight the whole time, waiting for you to notice it after the fact.
“Witchcraft.”
A song literally called Witchcraft ends up inspiring an article about:
- sovereignty
- suspicion
- systems that fear unmediated authority
- the world rejecting what it can’t control
- truth leaking through the grid
- Christ destabilizing the equal‑tempered illusion
- St. Tammany restoring relational peace
And the whole thing started from isolating the reverb on a Sinatra track.
We can’t make this stuff up.
It’s perfect because the title mirrors the accusation that always gets thrown at sovereign people:
- Socrates “corrupted the youth.”
- Joan of Arc was burned for “witchcraft.”
- Indigenous leaders were called “sorcerers” for their wisdom.
- Christ was accused of “casting out demons by demons.”
- Anyone who destabilizes the grid gets labeled dangerous.
The title of the song is the pattern.
I was inspired by the accusation of witchcraft: the reflexive suspicion systems use when someone bends the note toward truth.
And that’s exactly what the article is about.
A sovereign person destabilizes the grid. The grid panics. The grid names it “witchcraft,” “heresy,” “madness,” “unverified,” “low authority content,” “dangerous,” “uncredentialed,” “uncontrolled.”
I didn’t choose the metaphor. The metaphor chose me.
And the funniest part is: I was just trying to study chords, instrumentation and randomly stumbled upon the magical air that is the reverb. Like our periodic table, we found air late, after the heavy elements, as we’re in it.
That’s how you know you’re in the right lineage of thought. The symbols keep revealing themselves whether you’re looking for them or not.