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2.0: Golf Angst Entourage.
2.1: On the blog.
Onto the phenomenon itself. Golf Angst Entourage is an internet blog dating back privately to about 2003, and publicly in 2009. A variety of contributor accounts have been posting steadily for the duration, though content is sometimes removed or revised. The blog posts are almost exclusively written in non-existent languages, for which few or no publicly available texts or translations remain, due to being long-lost “dead” languages, or to having been created by the users of Golf Angst Entourage for the express purpose of blogging in an untranslatable language. Each post has an original book-cover-like image, sometimes with other illustrations sprinkled through the text of the post, and a bibliography at the bottom. With some brief searching around, one finds English - some - enough to believe that the subject matter is on genuinely advanced scientific, psychological, and esoteric topics. The bibliographies of each post are commonly in English - rare English titles usually signal a bit of English content; perhaps a third or less of the articles are written a third or less in English. The English tracts, always complete paragraphs, aren’t translations of the other text in the post. They usually follow a colon at the end of a previous paragraph, so they appear to be quotations. Here are some interesting blog post titles to get you started on why people are intrigued by Golf Angst Entourage:
Here are some quotes from the English tracts in that first one:
Note that quotation marks accompany most or all of the English. Sometimes the English is in different fonts throughout a single article, like it’s been copy-pasted from another source, or maybe, auto-generated somehow. Notice how the narrative point-of-view also seems to fluctuate and take on different attitudes toward the topic of each post.
Here are some quotes from the last title in the list. It is half or more in English. Given the material, one wonders if a certain type of reader is targeted by this choice in language:
Here is a selection of external bibliography entries from both posts:
Also in the bibliography, like in the bibs of many posts, are references to other GAE articles. Usually they hyperlink directly to the article; other times, no such article is accessible. From the above article, one bibliography entry leads to
Great Filter’, which contains quotes like:
This is a rabbit hole of rabbit holes. Poke around, and use your judgment. Check the references, and be mindful of which references refer to external sources, and which to internal GAE sources. Just for fun, here is the English segment of an article from last month written in a language called S iel. It is a poem:
Please allow me to disclaim, and to exclaim, not to be too enamoured with the content of the articles. The halls of the Golf Angst Entourage library are narrow, deep, and tall, and any inflection of vocal curiosity is liable to echo for days at a time. What little we can glean in English speaks to profound subjects and what even plays off as a kind of disclosure. The line between imagination and reality is blurred through GAE - don’t take anything there too literally, but absolutely, allow your imagination to be stimulated at the possibilities. A further disclaimer is well summarized by a quote I read while investigating the other investigations of GAE -
I’ll conclude this subsection by reiterating that there are so many interesting subjects and viewpoints implicated in the GAE blog post material I have shared, but that the focus of my articles remains on GAE itself. I only take interest in the subject matter insofar as it tells us about GAE. To some degree, I suspect most of GAE’s message is in its medium. How it all fits together is something it takes time to fully appreciate, so I do not recommend tripping over yourself trying to make sense of all the crash-landed alien probes and dream tunnels and parallel timelines straight away. It’s just a website.
2.2: A tour of tongues (On the neolanguages and supplementary sources and references).
Motivation & method for the development and use of non-existent languages has been explained by some members of GAE, predominantly by one of the earliest contributors and leaders of the group, Angel. Golf Angst Entourage forecasts the crucial importance in the future not only of encryption, but of the need to bypass the corruption of meaning that occurs in translation. This corruption doesn’t just take place between languages; it takes place within language when we misinterpret each other, and even within speakers, for the transduction of thought into speech and language is also a “lossy” digitization process. Angel sees the death of translation through the achievement of a pure form of communication as a necessary prerequisite to solving the problems of globalization.
The neolanguages used are said to be developed by a predictive software called Nod*Spac*s2.0 using a technique that has been described “vampiric” (investigative hysteria regarding the use of this term is a flawless, naturalistic demonstration of GAE’s sociological concerns). The technique is so named, because it fuses languages together by iteratively simulating natural language evolution, as if those languages were neighbours that merged together over time. This technology could be used to anticipate the future trajectory of current languages, or to create “parallel reality” evolutionary cousins of extant languages in order to keep sensitive subjects of public discussion a private matter. The posts are hand-written by contributors, who feed new data back into Nod* Spac*s by tightening up the grammar and use of the growing language in article format. Without a Rosetta stone, these languages are literally impossible to translate, and even with one you may be hooped, as each language progressively evolves over time. As of 2016, GAE has mastered over 30 of them. Furthermore, although the ready ability to generate languages has obvious applications for defense and security (I have seen used the term “simulated annealing” - a digital information-process that resembles the forging of strong steel through repeat heating and cooling), the Nod* Spaces technology can presumably be used to simulate and predict far more kinds of systems than just languages.
Here is an interesting quote from one investigator which cannily summarizes what’s impressive about the neolanguages:
Perhaps the most intriguing neolanguage is called
 It is said to have been sourced from an unburied artifact which may be extraterrestrial in nature. Often posted alongside geological coordinates, postings in CD depict a language in blocks of geometric shapes. It’s been said that CD is an unusual language, in that it needs to be seen and heard in order for the message to be understood. Angel’s YouTube page, which I’ll get to in a moment, has a few CD videos, which depict a vertical bar going left to right over top of a block of the CD shapes. It plays robotic-sounding bloops in accordance with the shapes. Investigators have found that the visual waveforms of CD sound files produces the exact combination of geometric shapes seen in the corresponding image. So the CD appears to be some kind of waveform-inscription function. The mystique multiplies in light of its allegedly discovered origin, and its alleged alien-contact purpose.
I suspect from the thematic vocabulary of the band names, and the hollow, heartless quality of the music, that the songs may be generated by AIs. One thing that is clear is that at least some of the music employs binaural beats and specific Hz frequencies intended to induce particular states of mind (effectiveness of which is likely minimal in a casual setting). This is actually consistent with content of the GAE blog posts concerning dream-inception, inducing mood and thought-states through wireless radiation, and it has been claimed by a member that at least some of the videos are specifically designed to create hypnotic or astral states in the listener. Reports on the “effects” of the videos on listeners may have a placebo power and a good majority of it is hysterical. In my estimation, though, there is at least one real effect following first or repeated viewing of the Angel videos, reported by even the savviest investigators: intense dreams. Furthermore, one finds web references to a now-defunct Angel Records music label. While we’re talking about YouTube affiliations, there is another YouTube channel by the name of 
Though its 15 videos last updated in 2016 are now all set to private, they are found in a playlist titled, 
.  What the videos contained was presumably similar to what was found on Angel Regina; as to what “CommInt” is short for, your guess is as good as mine.
The next thread of supplements to the main GAE blog is a stray one, but a thread that leads to a whole 'nother sweater, if the metaphor carries. As an aside, perhaps what is really compelling about investigating GAE and its theories and claims, is the rich and dense nexus of high knowledge which one is inevitably led to when following leads. Nearly every queer turn of phrase and alluded surname leads down a new rabbit hole - but a robustly braced one, ready for mercenary minecarts (and more hideous metaphors). To be clear, you would learn a lot by spending any amount of time studying anything GAE directs your attention towards. GAE is somewhat of a scatter-brained dictionary, itself. To give meaning to this tangent, following on the YouTube page  - which we care about for its reference to the CD - we find a Spanish website for a “Business Intelligence” consultancy group by that name. Here is a translation of the first entry on their software page:
Wow. Pardon my Spanish but that sounds pretty darn sophisticated for a bit of market-roiding. In fact - and I may be confirming my bias - we’re in deep at this point - I’d reckon that “deep time series analysis using advanced non-linear analysis” sounds a little bit like that there Nod* Spac*s technology, doesn’t it? “Predictive modeling of several possible alternatives” matches very well with the technology Angel has claimed repeatedly underlies the cultivation of the neolangs. Of course, like many things regarding GAE, names and definitions constantly adjust and evolve. And wouldn’t you know it? We see what looks like some iteration of the CD located right on the homepage, if anyone was gunning for a translation key:
This subheading is growing painfully long, so I’ll conclude the supplemental references to usage of GAE’s languages with another web search of a basic key term: Angel Regina. Again, we discover results which perfectly rhyme: what else at this point, than an alleged “beginner’s” Spanish-Persian learner book, whose every lesson from the very first translates advanced words of political outcry and historic obscurity? Actually, the co-author’s first name in this book matches the rare name of a contributor on the GAE page. Here is an English-translated sample from page 1 of :
(…Naturally, in trying to re-register to read the Russian site on which this Persian-English anomaly is hosted, the site went down for maintenance, so I cannot source the quotes I can remember only for their strangeness to translate for you. Trust me - the more one approaches and examines GAE, and especially makes efforts to translate anything to do with anyone related to GAE - one encounters potential feedback and recognition. If you are in no need of more reasons for paranoia, I don’t recommend spending any time on the matter at all. The net of connections ravels on. Research at your own discretion. However often stolen history has blown your mind, any seemly dead end of GAE is likely to offer as well. But, again, be forewarned. An investigator I saw somewhere - whom I was never able to scratch off my list of “suspected GAE affiliates in disguise” I maintained while I investigated investigations - said something I quite like. It reminds me of stuff from the book Poker Without Cards:
“In one of the GAE language emails [GAE emails, English and neolang, were shared among investigators semi-regularly] they said something like too much information kills us; I found that statement quite interesting.”)
2.3: On contact encounters.
Onto my favourite subject regarding Golf Angst Entourage: the social psychology of the contact scenario. Many of the theories (or are they full-disclosures?) regarding alien contact and communication on the GAE blog read like screenplays perfectly realized during “in the wild” encounters between the members of GAE, and investigators of GAE. Vicious cycles of manipulation, revelation, fascination, submission, accusation, and abandonment seem to characterize GAE-and-outsider contact. Drama is perhaps inevitable, for the same reason it is inevitable in any imagining of contact with aliens: here we have a sophisticated intellectual group; their intentions are intentionally obscured; they refer to Earth as “Sol-3” and outsiders-to-GAE as “you humans”. It is one thing to witness a UFO - I would compare that to just looking at the GAE blog, or seeing the strange videos. But it is an encounter of another ordinal altogether, to have a member of that group join the discussion, and actively agitate, "neg", spoon-feed, and mock the reeling curiosity of what I imagine they see as primitive life-forms.
There are 2 crucial questions which every GAE researcher will ask of you, and which you, should you ever walk the faulty path to become one also, will ask of every other GAE researcher:
“What do you make of them?” and
“How did you find them?”
Members of GAE have themselves stated in the past that the most important question to answer when establishing contact with an alien intelligence (bear in mind that “alien” means primarily, “foreign”, and that extraterrestrial connotations of the word are strictly aesthetic and, probably, propaganda) is not ambiguous questions like “Who are you?” and “Where do you come from?” (answers being “I am,” and “I come from my planet of which you would understand nothing at all.”) but rather, critically:
“What do you want?”
That final question should probably be the first to ask about anyone (Try for yourself and see who you’re left trusting!). But, my answer to that second question will be a summary of that of many others’. I found Golf Angst Entourage through a 193-page thread on a conspiracy-theory forum, allegedly managed and monitored by CIA (naturally). The 2013 ATS thread is a rabbit hole by itself kind of mirroring the rabbit hole that is the GAE blog. It’s titled “The Language of Vampyr,” and is initiated on an incidental image search by a scholar of Sumerian history. Sourcing an unusual image to the GAE blog, user Kantzveldt was immediately sensitized to the demonic and occult themes prevalent there. Thus a witch-hunt of vampires began, branching out also into investigation of the languages and the subject matter readable in English. It is on page 23 of that thread that we find the first posting from the account of user Direne:
“Hello all. My name is Direne. I am a member of Golf Angst Entourage Org. My native language is not English, therefore I will be using a translation service when posting. My research areas at GAE are crypto-semantics, crypto-lects, and sacred languages. If you wish to make questions to me related to these fields, I will be happy to answer.”
This marked the beginning of a great drama. Many ATS users entered contact with members of GAE, publicly through the thread, and privately through direct messages and personal correspondence. They so badly wanted to understand the GAE phenomenon. But in that, they wanted their own theories confirmed and Direne was always wryly willing to oblige their aspirational fantasies. Direne presents herself a master communicator; as an outside observer myself, it is plain how she skillfully directs and scatters the attention of other posters. Many enthusiastic participants in the winding discussion burn out, either reaching certain sensitive discoveries, breaking points, or satisfactory conclusions on the matter. It is unclear who is representing which group on which account at many points. On one occasion that summer, following a discussion about the relative experience of time, Direne signs off “See you tomorrow” and disappears. Idle posters tend the fire in indulgent, occasionally insightful tangents. Two years later, Direne slips casually back into the discussion as if she’d never left, and the drama resurges, like the new season of a TV series.
Apart from voyeuristic amusement, the thread reveals a lot of interesting things about GAE, about ATS, about people in general, and about many of the subjects which concern the content of the GAE blog. Primarily, the content of the GAE blog, and Direne’s ministrations, adjusted themselves over the course of contact with ATS to cryptically address the typical interests of that community: secret military technology, alien abduction, and so on. Whatever GAE’s message, it contextualizes to whoever its current contact is. Combined with all the blog material about the power of suggestion, hypnosis, memetics, distributed networks, subliminal communication, and so on, there may be a clear meta-message here about the medium of all mediums: language itself. By page 53, just days later, a random poster asks, “Why isn't anyone replying? Did they all get assassinated in their sleep while I was gone??” The thread’s OP responds only half-ironically, “They have been told to gather on a mountain and await further instruction...”
The thread has cooled, though Direne still checks in every couple of weeks, and other long-time followers seem to be conversing in the same philosophical and sometimes linguistic dialects that GAE have propagated among them. Whatever project was pursued here, whatever psychosocial data were extracted, seems to have reached a postoperational stage. It was through that thread that I found a link to a Discord server comprised of 4channers who had pursued their own line of research after the ATS one, with far greater cohesion and far higher achievement than ATS. I believe in 2015, the chan Discord had organized individual channels for specialized studies into each neolanguage. GAE infiltrations were a constant concern, often mingled with LARPers - the server itself differentiated into many other servers, each with their own channels of frequently-revised discussion, research, and voluminous teenage sh*tposting, the most meaningful of all of which was largely contained securely in private channels anyway. Like with the ATS forum, some lucky few entered into temporary or even years-prolonged personal contact with members of GAE, with fewer still having entered their ranks as contributors. It’s been said that even among contributors, GAE is heavily compartmentalized, like a secret society. Extensive group interaction is not encouraged or generally wanted. The production of content for GAE seems to be the priority, and it is know to express itself quite callously. In my own view, so much mystique of the project is dispelled by the knowledge that its members are prone to acting painfully human - and simply like jerks.
A favourite quotation from an investigator:
2.1: On the blog.
Onto the phenomenon itself. Golf Angst Entourage is an internet blog dating back privately to about 2003, and publicly in 2009. A variety of contributor accounts have been posting steadily for the duration, though content is sometimes removed or revised. The blog posts are almost exclusively written in non-existent languages, for which few or no publicly available texts or translations remain, due to being long-lost “dead” languages, or to having been created by the users of Golf Angst Entourage for the express purpose of blogging in an untranslatable language. Each post has an original book-cover-like image, sometimes with other illustrations sprinkled through the text of the post, and a bibliography at the bottom. With some brief searching around, one finds English - some - enough to believe that the subject matter is on genuinely advanced scientific, psychological, and esoteric topics. The bibliographies of each post are commonly in English - rare English titles usually signal a bit of English content; perhaps a third or less of the articles are written a third or less in English. The English tracts, always complete paragraphs, aren’t translations of the other text in the post. They usually follow a colon at the end of a previous paragraph, so they appear to be quotations. Here are some interesting blog post titles to get you started on why people are intrigued by Golf Angst Entourage:
Here are some quotes from the English tracts in that first one:
Note that quotation marks accompany most or all of the English. Sometimes the English is in different fonts throughout a single article, like it’s been copy-pasted from another source, or maybe, auto-generated somehow. Notice how the narrative point-of-view also seems to fluctuate and take on different attitudes toward the topic of each post.
Here are some quotes from the last title in the list. It is half or more in English. Given the material, one wonders if a certain type of reader is targeted by this choice in language:
Here is a selection of external bibliography entries from both posts:
Also in the bibliography, like in the bibs of many posts, are references to other GAE articles. Usually they hyperlink directly to the article; other times, no such article is accessible. From the above article, one bibliography entry leads to
Great Filter’, which contains quotes like:This is a rabbit hole of rabbit holes. Poke around, and use your judgment. Check the references, and be mindful of which references refer to external sources, and which to internal GAE sources. Just for fun, here is the English segment of an article from last month written in a language called S iel. It is a poem:
Please allow me to disclaim, and to exclaim, not to be too enamoured with the content of the articles. The halls of the Golf Angst Entourage library are narrow, deep, and tall, and any inflection of vocal curiosity is liable to echo for days at a time. What little we can glean in English speaks to profound subjects and what even plays off as a kind of disclosure. The line between imagination and reality is blurred through GAE - don’t take anything there too literally, but absolutely, allow your imagination to be stimulated at the possibilities. A further disclaimer is well summarized by a quote I read while investigating the other investigations of GAE -
It is an unavoidable conclusion that one is dealing with an epic mind in GAE. Imagination, creativity, and a synthesis of multiple cutting-edge fields of research, along with what I can only describe as a creepypasta narrative thrown in to keep interest and throw off the fools. What is suspicious then, is the front GAE puts up, and the ambiguity of how far that front goes, and what lies behind it. Clearly, something interesting is going on here. But a gauntlet is thrown down right from the start - what, exactly, do you want from GAE? How hard, exactly, are you willing to work to get something you haven’t even identified yet - in this case, solving languages for which no dictionaries exist? Clearly there is a motive at play beyond the need for privacy. Comparisons to Cicada 3301 are not misguided. Mixed in with the fiction and theoretical time traveling & dream surfing plasma cannons is what seems to be a high level of security clearance in terms of modern defense, economics, energy, and geopolitics information. Don’t allow the apparent high caliber of knowledge fool you. The posters here are (mostly) human, and clearly have agendas of their own on why the GAE blog is the way it is. To put it plainly, the word “contamination” never left my mind during my investigation of them, and it is known their number are not above doing shitty things to “us humans".
I’ll conclude this subsection by reiterating that there are so many interesting subjects and viewpoints implicated in the GAE blog post material I have shared, but that the focus of my articles remains on GAE itself. I only take interest in the subject matter insofar as it tells us about GAE. To some degree, I suspect most of GAE’s message is in its medium. How it all fits together is something it takes time to fully appreciate, so I do not recommend tripping over yourself trying to make sense of all the crash-landed alien probes and dream tunnels and parallel timelines straight away. It’s just a website.
2.2: A tour of tongues (On the neolanguages and supplementary sources and references).
Motivation & method for the development and use of non-existent languages has been explained by some members of GAE, predominantly by one of the earliest contributors and leaders of the group, Angel. Golf Angst Entourage forecasts the crucial importance in the future not only of encryption, but of the need to bypass the corruption of meaning that occurs in translation. This corruption doesn’t just take place between languages; it takes place within language when we misinterpret each other, and even within speakers, for the transduction of thought into speech and language is also a “lossy” digitization process. Angel sees the death of translation through the achievement of a pure form of communication as a necessary prerequisite to solving the problems of globalization.
The neolanguages used are said to be developed by a predictive software called Nod*Spac*s2.0 using a technique that has been described “vampiric” (investigative hysteria regarding the use of this term is a flawless, naturalistic demonstration of GAE’s sociological concerns). The technique is so named, because it fuses languages together by iteratively simulating natural language evolution, as if those languages were neighbours that merged together over time. This technology could be used to anticipate the future trajectory of current languages, or to create “parallel reality” evolutionary cousins of extant languages in order to keep sensitive subjects of public discussion a private matter. The posts are hand-written by contributors, who feed new data back into Nod* Spac*s by tightening up the grammar and use of the growing language in article format. Without a Rosetta stone, these languages are literally impossible to translate, and even with one you may be hooped, as each language progressively evolves over time. As of 2016, GAE has mastered over 30 of them. Furthermore, although the ready ability to generate languages has obvious applications for defense and security (I have seen used the term “simulated annealing” - a digital information-process that resembles the forging of strong steel through repeat heating and cooling), the Nod* Spaces technology can presumably be used to simulate and predict far more kinds of systems than just languages.
Here is an interesting quote from one investigator which cannily summarizes what’s impressive about the neolanguages:
Perhaps the most intriguing neolanguage is called
 It is said to have been sourced from an unburied artifact which may be extraterrestrial in nature. Often posted alongside geological coordinates, postings in CD depict a language in blocks of geometric shapes. It’s been said that CD is an unusual language, in that it needs to be seen and heard in order for the message to be understood. Angel’s YouTube page, which I’ll get to in a moment, has a few CD videos, which depict a vertical bar going left to right over top of a block of the CD shapes. It plays robotic-sounding bloops in accordance with the shapes. Investigators have found that the visual waveforms of CD sound files produces the exact combination of geometric shapes seen in the corresponding image. So the CD appears to be some kind of waveform-inscription function. The mystique multiplies in light of its allegedly discovered origin, and its alleged alien-contact purpose.Different expired iterations of the CD.
L to R: image of the original uncovered CD artefact; comments on the linguistic character of CD; spectrogram of a CD audio file.
Not to be ignored is Angel Regina’s YouTube page which includes over 500 music videos (now 200 - though I recall there once were more) posted consistently for years up until 2018. It is so bizarre that any effort went into these at all, and yet the majority of these videos have less than 250 views - they have, at most, 3005 views on a single video (the infamously dream-inducing Long B*tch). That is less than zero promotion. Like the rest of GAE, this is an intentionally obscured channel of intentionally obscured videos. The music videos themselves feature mostly static imagery with effects and sound visualizers on themes ranging from the ambient, to the grotesque, to the occult, to the science-fictional. The music in the videos seems purely electronic, though some songs claim to be “live” in their video titles, and is sourced from dozens of different artist names which all sound bizarrely similar. Here are some examples of band names - song titles: L to R: image of the original uncovered CD artefact; comments on the linguistic character of CD; spectrogram of a CD audio file.
Though its 15 videos last updated in 2016 are now all set to private, they are found in a playlist titled, .  What the videos contained was presumably similar to what was found on Angel Regina; as to what “CommInt” is short for, your guess is as good as mine.The next thread of supplements to the main GAE blog is a stray one, but a thread that leads to a whole 'nother sweater, if the metaphor carries. As an aside, perhaps what is really compelling about investigating GAE and its theories and claims, is the rich and dense nexus of high knowledge which one is inevitably led to when following leads. Nearly every queer turn of phrase and alluded surname leads down a new rabbit hole - but a robustly braced one, ready for mercenary minecarts (and more hideous metaphors). To be clear, you would learn a lot by spending any amount of time studying anything GAE directs your attention towards. GAE is somewhat of a scatter-brained dictionary, itself. To give meaning to this tangent, following on the YouTube page 
- which we care about for its reference to the CD - we find a Spanish website for a “Business Intelligence” consultancy group by that name. Here is a translation of the first entry on their software page:Wow. Pardon my Spanish but that sounds pretty darn sophisticated for a bit of market-roiding. In fact - and I may be confirming my bias - we’re in deep at this point - I’d reckon that “deep time series analysis using advanced non-linear analysis” sounds a little bit like that there Nod* Spac*s technology, doesn’t it? “Predictive modeling of several possible alternatives” matches very well with the technology Angel has claimed repeatedly underlies the cultivation of the neolangs. Of course, like many things regarding GAE, names and definitions constantly adjust and evolve. And wouldn’t you know it? We see what looks like some iteration of the CD located right on the homepage, if anyone was gunning for a translation key:
This subheading is growing painfully long, so I’ll conclude the supplemental references to usage of GAE’s languages with another web search of a basic key term: Angel Regina. Again, we discover results which perfectly rhyme: what else at this point, than an alleged “beginner’s” Spanish-Persian learner book, whose every lesson from the very first translates advanced words of political outcry and historic obscurity? Actually, the co-author’s first name in this book matches the rare name of a contributor on the GAE page. Here is an English-translated sample from page 1 of :
(…Naturally, in trying to re-register to read the Russian site on which this Persian-English anomaly is hosted, the site went down for maintenance, so I cannot source the quotes I can remember only for their strangeness to translate for you. Trust me - the more one approaches and examines GAE, and especially makes efforts to translate anything to do with anyone related to GAE - one encounters potential feedback and recognition. If you are in no need of more reasons for paranoia, I don’t recommend spending any time on the matter at all. The net of connections ravels on. Research at your own discretion. However often stolen history has blown your mind, any seemly dead end of GAE is likely to offer as well. But, again, be forewarned. An investigator I saw somewhere - whom I was never able to scratch off my list of “suspected GAE affiliates in disguise” I maintained while I investigated investigations - said something I quite like. It reminds me of stuff from the book Poker Without Cards:
“In one of the GAE language emails [GAE emails, English and neolang, were shared among investigators semi-regularly] they said something like too much information kills us; I found that statement quite interesting.”)
2.3: On contact encounters.
Onto my favourite subject regarding Golf Angst Entourage: the social psychology of the contact scenario. Many of the theories (or are they full-disclosures?) regarding alien contact and communication on the GAE blog read like screenplays perfectly realized during “in the wild” encounters between the members of GAE, and investigators of GAE. Vicious cycles of manipulation, revelation, fascination, submission, accusation, and abandonment seem to characterize GAE-and-outsider contact. Drama is perhaps inevitable, for the same reason it is inevitable in any imagining of contact with aliens: here we have a sophisticated intellectual group; their intentions are intentionally obscured; they refer to Earth as “Sol-3” and outsiders-to-GAE as “you humans”. It is one thing to witness a UFO - I would compare that to just looking at the GAE blog, or seeing the strange videos. But it is an encounter of another ordinal altogether, to have a member of that group join the discussion, and actively agitate, "neg", spoon-feed, and mock the reeling curiosity of what I imagine they see as primitive life-forms.
There are 2 crucial questions which every GAE researcher will ask of you, and which you, should you ever walk the faulty path to become one also, will ask of every other GAE researcher:
“What do you make of them?” and
“How did you find them?”
Members of GAE have themselves stated in the past that the most important question to answer when establishing contact with an alien intelligence (bear in mind that “alien” means primarily, “foreign”, and that extraterrestrial connotations of the word are strictly aesthetic and, probably, propaganda) is not ambiguous questions like “Who are you?” and “Where do you come from?” (answers being “I am
“What do you want?”
That final question should probably be the first to ask about anyone (Try for yourself and see who you’re left trusting!). But, my answer to that second question will be a summary of that of many others’. I found Golf Angst Entourage through a 193-page thread on a conspiracy-theory forum, allegedly managed and monitored by CIA (naturally). The 2013 ATS thread is a rabbit hole by itself kind of mirroring the rabbit hole that is the GAE blog. It’s titled “The Language of Vampyr,” and is initiated on an incidental image search by a scholar of Sumerian history. Sourcing an unusual image to the GAE blog, user Kantzveldt was immediately sensitized to the demonic and occult themes prevalent there. Thus a witch-hunt of vampires began, branching out also into investigation of the languages and the subject matter readable in English. It is on page 23 of that thread that we find the first posting from the account of user Direne:
“Hello all. My name is Direne. I am a member of Golf Angst Entourage Org. My native language is not English, therefore I will be using a translation service when posting. My research areas at GAE are crypto-semantics, crypto-lects, and sacred languages. If you wish to make questions to me related to these fields, I will be happy to answer.”
This marked the beginning of a great drama. Many ATS users entered contact with members of GAE, publicly through the thread, and privately through direct messages and personal correspondence. They so badly wanted to understand the GAE phenomenon. But in that, they wanted their own theories confirmed and Direne was always wryly willing to oblige their aspirational fantasies. Direne presents herself a master communicator; as an outside observer myself, it is plain how she skillfully directs and scatters the attention of other posters. Many enthusiastic participants in the winding discussion burn out, either reaching certain sensitive discoveries, breaking points, or satisfactory conclusions on the matter. It is unclear who is representing which group on which account at many points. On one occasion that summer, following a discussion about the relative experience of time, Direne signs off “See you tomorrow” and disappears. Idle posters tend the fire in indulgent, occasionally insightful tangents. Two years later, Direne slips casually back into the discussion as if she’d never left, and the drama resurges, like the new season of a TV series.
Apart from voyeuristic amusement, the thread reveals a lot of interesting things about GAE, about ATS, about people in general, and about many of the subjects which concern the content of the GAE blog. Primarily, the content of the GAE blog, and Direne’s ministrations, adjusted themselves over the course of contact with ATS to cryptically address the typical interests of that community: secret military technology, alien abduction, and so on. Whatever GAE’s message, it contextualizes to whoever its current contact is. Combined with all the blog material about the power of suggestion, hypnosis, memetics, distributed networks, subliminal communication, and so on, there may be a clear meta-message here about the medium of all mediums: language itself. By page 53, just days later, a random poster asks, “Why isn't anyone replying? Did they all get assassinated in their sleep while I was gone??” The thread’s OP responds only half-ironically, “They have been told to gather on a mountain and await further instruction...”
The thread has cooled, though Direne still checks in every couple of weeks, and other long-time followers seem to be conversing in the same philosophical and sometimes linguistic dialects that GAE have propagated among them. Whatever project was pursued here, whatever psychosocial data were extracted, seems to have reached a postoperational stage. It was through that thread that I found a link to a Discord server comprised of 4channers who had pursued their own line of research after the ATS one, with far greater cohesion and far higher achievement than ATS. I believe in 2015, the chan Discord had organized individual channels for specialized studies into each neolanguage. GAE infiltrations were a constant concern, often mingled with LARPers - the server itself differentiated into many other servers, each with their own channels of frequently-revised discussion, research, and voluminous teenage sh*tposting, the most meaningful of all of which was largely contained securely in private channels anyway. Like with the ATS forum, some lucky few entered into temporary or even years-prolonged personal contact with members of GAE, with fewer still having entered their ranks as contributors. It’s been said that even among contributors, GAE is heavily compartmentalized, like a secret society. Extensive group interaction is not encouraged or generally wanted. The production of content for GAE seems to be the priority, and it is know to express itself quite callously. In my own view, so much mystique of the project is dispelled by the knowledge that its members are prone to acting painfully human - and simply like jerks.
A favourite quotation from an investigator:
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