I'm sharing an awesome video, The Six Types of People Who Run this World, that provides a very good framework for how our world works. The video was put out by the “Ring of Grim,” which is a “brotherhood of high-caliber, value-driven men.” I’m not a member, nor am I advocating anyone join; I‘m using this video as a framework to understand the struggle we find ourselves in.
The BLUF is that the video points out that Chess is a perfect metaphor for the state of our world and politics. We are fighting their game and concentrating on the pawns, and to win, we need to flip the board and set up our own game. This is the central goal of a strategy I kicked out recently, but I didn’t say it this way.
I consider myself a rook, a dot connector who tries to see the larger context and figure out the real state of play.
I cheated and grabbed an AI summary, but it follows the video:
The video "The 6 Types of People Who Run This World" uses a chess analogy to describe six types of people in society and their roles in how the world operates (0:17).
Here's a summary of each type:
• Pawns (0:41): These are the masses who follow orders, are predictable, and are often sacrificed. They are the majority and form the basis of all power, but are usually unaware of their collective strength.
• Rooks (1:28): These are the efficient and diligent individuals who do most of the work (20% of people doing 80%). They are like machines but struggle with changes in routine and are not flexible.
• Knights (1:51): Initially underestimated, knights are creative and unpredictable, jumping over obstacles and connecting dots others can't see. They are ahead of the curve and explore uncharted territory, but face risks. Richard Branson, John McAfee, and Kanye are given as examples.
• Bishops (2:30): Quiet planners who act as protectors. They can wait patiently for months or years before striking. Edward Snowden and Masayoshi Son are mentioned as examples.
• Queens (2:58): These individuals can strike anytime, anywhere, and in all directions. Everyone fears them, and they operate outside the rules and laws that apply to pawns, knights, and bishops. Examples include intelligence agencies and the military.
• Kings (3:30): The valid power holders, whose influence comes from a legacy spanning centuries, not just decades like queens. They are the "families that cannot be named" (3:51) who control the very "board" of the game by printing money and deciding the rules.
The video concludes by stating that to "win" this game, one must stop playing by not participating in the money flow (4:26), which involves ceasing to consume, produce, and pay taxes (4:37). The ultimate goal is for someone to "flip the board" and end the game for the kings and their helpers (4:47).
Gonna build on this.
First, this provides a very good framework for how our world works and who runs it. It also ties in with several posts I’ve made using chess as a metaphor and my vision of how the world works (this picture needs some updating). Chess is a good model, as almost everyone knows it. However, it wouldn't stick if I spoke of a multi-domain operation to attack the adversary's centers of gravity based on the DIME model.
Below is a quick set of who’s who in our Zoo. This needs more work and deeper research into significant players. But this should be a good rough start.
The 1% on the right are the bad guys and the black pieces:
Kings: Koch, Mercer, DeVos, Coors, Waltons, etc.
Queen: Trump — he has the old power of the POTUS and the new power he/they have centralized to the office
Bishops: Russell Thurlow Vought and the rest of the project 2025 planners, to reach back you have to include Lewis Powell. You could lump in the Federalist Society leaders here too, and probably the KATO institute.
Knights: Struggling here, as most of the right’s actions have been telegraphed and follow pre-written plans (Project 2025). No comes to mind who is doing creative things to destroy us. Maybe Steve Bannon?
Rooks: Stephan Miller, Mike Johnson, John Thune (could be a pawn),
Pawns: Most of the rank and file republican congressmen, senators, governors, etc. The main cabinet officials (Hegseth, Bondi, Patel, etc.). You also have to include most of the US Goverment departments and agencies here now.
NOTE: If anyone has a better list please share, mine needs work.
This leads to “so what,” and “How does this help?” Again this “binning” of our adversaries helps identify what roles they play and how they fight into the whole. It also hopefully leads to seeing that the Black Kings are moving their pieces with precision and in deep combinations to win — take control of the whole of the US government and then our whole society. The Black Kings have been playing this game since at least the Powell memo in 1973, and are close to winning.
On our side, the white side, we lack most of the pieces we need. We have no real Kings, no Queen, no knights, bishops, rooks… all we seem to have is pawns. But wait, it gets worse, we’re not playing the game at all. We attack pawns but no the more powerful pieces behind them. And to top this off, even it we played the game to our best ability we’d still lose as they control the whole game.
The strategy I posted early is based on take control of the US government and using it to flip the board. I also said how I would set out the board and arrange the pieces. To dig deeeper, this metaphor requires you accept there are individuals and/or families with immense power (the kings) who are the real levers pullers of the world and have deep agendas they are in acting, here’s a illustrative and not authoritative link as an example. From what I can see, most people have a HUGE problem accepting this.
