There’s never been a time in American history as culturally fractured as now. From the converging issues of wealth inequality to social injustice, to unabated corruption, to countless other disparities, it’s fair to say things are quite dire. We are at a compounding inflection point that’s protruded across 2 decades and counting. And how? How has the social reckoning of the moment not reached a fevered pitch as of yet? The answer is in the organized quelling of our perception by both seen and unseen appropriators. Appropriation Psyops have become a billion-dollar dark industry that’s secretly contrived in its orchestration and calculated in its partisanship. “Too Big to Fail” is a decades old rationale that’s still used in closed door meetings to justify the unjustifiable swindling's still ongoing. It's become the rallying cry for both corporate grifters and counter-intel strategists seeking dark sanctuary for dark motives. History would mark that 2007 moment when that theory first arrived as the beginning of “The Great Recession” and the acceleration point of our cultural fracturing. In its immediate aftermath, several grass roots movements arose in opposition: The Tea Party Movement, The Occupy Wall Street Movement and the Black Lives Matter Movement. Understanding the collapse of these 3 grass roots movements is essential to understanding the collapse of our modern society because they all were successfully psyop’d, and understanding how is at the root of countering the groundswell of appropriation psyops that still infiltrate our subcultures today. In the past, grass roots movements had been the catalyst for change and social reckoning, but we now live in a time where psyops have become so effective that they not only neutralize the potency of grass roots movements, but they marginalize social reckonings altogether. Disassociating all involved parties and potentials in one fell swoop. To understand how though you must first understand a new-age term that explains a particular mechanism within the appropriation psyop structure: Astroturfing. It is a dark money operation where appropriators manufacture a shell campaign they disguise as grass roots for the sake of infiltration. This is how the Black Lives Matter movement was quelled. For those that remember, when Trayvon Martin was killed the grass roots movement that arose in its wake was actually a social media trend that went by the name “#hoodsup.” It emerged in response to his killing and aimed to raise awareness about racial profiling and racial injustice. Protesters wore hoodies to honor Martin, who was wearing one at the time of his demise in 2012. It would take less than a year from this grass roots movement for it to be appropriated via the astroturfing of a nonprofit organization that was founded in 2013 by the name of “#blacklivesmatter.” They astroturfed their way into the protest scene with dark infiltrators and hidden agendas that were covertly orchestrated and executed until the mission statement was debased from its original thesis into something contrived to cater to the LGBTQ community. By the end of the movement, they were having gay marriages at protest. A tell-tale sign of the debasement and successful astroturfing. Now even though the other 2 movements weren’t astroturfed into appropriation, they were still commandeered into appropriation via grandstanding. What initially made the Tea Party & Occupy Wall Street Movements so formidable was that, unlike #hoodsup, they were organized from the outset with decentralized systems of rank. The downfall of both came at the hands of mass media narrative wars via gaslighting campaigns. In an effort to combat these narrative wars, the various Tea Party nonprofit organizational leaders hived together into their own PR team and entered news spaces with counter-punditry. In doing this, they conceded to that medium as the messenger and not the people, and with that concession it was only a matter of time before they took on the medium's reflection of their movement instead of their own. This allowed social christians (a powerful TV lobby group) to platform political candidates under their same talking points and shift the political representation of the movement from their grass roots candidates (like Ron Paul) to appropriated ones (like Michelle Bachmann). In closing, to appropriate is to take something foreign to you and make it your own -for your own- with no reciprocity. With social movements, this is done through clandestine attention farming for debasement’s sake. Once ideological infiltration is complete, the grass roots movement is debased and consolidated into an archetypal form that’s adherent to the appropriator's logistics. In the Tea Party Movements case it was Fundamentalist Christians who appropriated it. In the Occupy Movements case it was the “bro culture” that appropriated it. In The Black Lives Matter Movement, it was the LGBTQ community that appropriated it. These seem to be the three groups that have an archetypal form that accommodates to the means of corporatism’s “Too Big to Fail” ends the most.