The signal vs. the noise
Erik Wikström
Oct 05, 2025
let’s be honest.
we’re living through a pandemic of bullshit, and almost everyone we know is a superspreader.
a “superspreader” isn’t a bad person. they’re just a mindless node in a sick network. they’re a carrier for garbage information. they see a headline that makes their blood boil, and without a single thought, without a moment of discernment, they dive into the fire. they drop an angry comment. they share it. they engage.
and the algorithm, the amoral god of this network, doesn’t care why. it sees only the engagement. a click is a click. it registers the spike in energy and pushes the garbage to a thousand more screens.
they amplify the chaos. they spread the inflammation. they are the unwitting foot soldiers in a war against clarity. 99% of the informational matrix is made of them.
but a choice exists
the choice to become the 1%. the choice to become the signal.
it is the choice to have had enough. to understand the most radical act in a world drowning in noise is the discipline to filter. the patience to question. the integrity to wait.
this isn’t about right vs. left, or us vs. them. it is a fundamental choice.
you are either a source of clarity, or you are a superspreader node of chaos.
there is no middle ground.
the line has been drawn. now, we must understand the architecture of the noise.
so, what is this architecture? how does the noise machine actually work?
it’s a cheap, predictable playbook running on a loop, designed for one purpose: to keep your nervous system emotionally hijacked, exhausted, and too confused to fight back.
once you see the code, you can’t unsee it. these are their four primary weapons.
this is the playbook for the plague.
weapon 1: manufacturing consensus
they create the illusion of an overwhelming majority to isolate and silence you. headlines declare what “everyone” thinks. algorithms bury opposing views. bots swarm comment sections. this isn’t about persuasion; it’s about psychological pressure. it’s the machine designed to make you ask, “am i the only one who sees this? am i crazy here!?” it’s engineered to make you self-censor, to make you swallow your own sanity before you ever speak a word of it.
weapon 2: engineering outrage
they bypass your rational mind entirely. targeted stories of injustice, betrayal, and horror are injected directly into your feed, precision-engineered to trigger a primal, reactive state. this isn’t about informing you. it’s about inflaming you. it’s the ghost of an anger that isn’t yours, a second-hand fury designed to make you a weapon in their war, a mindless node in their rage machine.
weapon 3: flooding the zone
they drown the signal of truth in a tsunami of low-grade, contradictory, and irrelevant bullshit. this is not censorship in the old sense; it is something far more insidious. it is cognitive exhaustion. it’s the feeling of running but never moving, of being perpetually “informed” but never knowing anything. it’s designed to make you surrender your own discernment out of sheer fatigue.
weapon 4: weaponizing identity
they frame every issue as a battle between warring tribes. the most obvious and effective of these is the “LEFT vs. RIGHT”. you are forced to choose a side, and in doing so, you inherit its entire package of pre-approved beliefs, enemies, and outrage triggers. this isn’t about community. it’s about control. it’s how they get you to fight their battles for them, mistaking a pre-fabricated false identity for your own.
that’s the playbook. a simple machine that runs on your engagement, your anger, and your exhaustion.
and let’s be honest, i’m not writing this from some enlightened high ground.
i’ve been the superspreader. i’ve been the asshole in the comments. i’ve felt the cheap, addictive thrill of outrage - and yes, sometimes it’s fun.
but it’s a sugar rush for the ego. like any bad habit, it leaves you feeling sick, weak, and complicit in the very noise you claim to hate.
this is me drawing a line in the sand for myself. this is the stand i’m taking, and the new standard i am committing to.
that’s my line. now you must find yours.
you can continue to be a mindless node in their machine, a superspreader of their chaos.
or you can become the signal.
to do that, you need a new operating system. a set of non-negotiable principles for sanity.
it is the standard.
it is not a collection of nice ideas. it is the code of conduct for the 1%. it is an asset built on principles like these:
“my mind is sovereign territory. this is the declaration of its borders.”
“i will not trust a conclusion i have not tried to break. an unexamined belief is a vulnerability.”
“we don’t win by calling out the noise. we win by making the signal so strong the noise becomes irrelevant.”
the full standard is not something to be scrolled through. it is a solution to be owned, studied, and embodied.
your first mission is to acquire it. Continues at
https://www.erikwikstrom.com/p/the-signal-vs-the-noise
Desired outcome
I share Erik’s post is to raise awareness that the power to neutralize propaganda is in our hands.
Rather than tired I’m pumped to see more and more humans break the seal. We may not know it all however we know enough to take a step up, raise our frequency and through cooperation influence a free, peaceful, coherent reality. TY!
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