00:00:23.000As if they want to wipe themselves karmatically clean, because, after all, they told us what they were going to do, and all of us agreed to it.
00:00:33.560There is some truth to that analysis, but there's also a deeper level to it.
00:00:39.400There's a metamagical reason why they do this.
00:00:42.660And it's not merely because these monsters are afraid of a guilty conscience.
00:00:48.040No, it's actually crucial to the methodology itself.
00:00:53.000And to explain this, I'm going to talk about stage magic, I'm going to talk about real
00:00:59.480magic, and then we're going to get to this particular dark form of enchantment which
00:01:06.740they're using again and again and again.
00:01:12.100But to introduce this, I'd like to share a quote from Manly P. Hall, a writer who's
00:01:18.400fast becoming one of my favorite authors.
00:01:22.840Now, as it ever was, the crowd always screams,