TL;DR
- The story behind the story
- Institutions are empty shells
- Owens clearly knows the game
- What is Owens really after?
- Narrative overload and the collapse of meaning
- Power? From authority to influence
The story behind the story
A prominent American commentator, Candace Owens, suggests that French First Lady Brigitte Macron is transgender.
She does so publicly, repeatedly.
When Owens began releasing her video series on Brigitte, I watched. And I felt a profound discomfort.
Owens is skilled... very skilled.
→ She connects dots that may not belong together.
→ She makes the absurd feel plausible, and the plausible feel inevitable.
→ She uses rhythm, tone, and rhetorical pacing to suggest coherence where there might be none.
Verifying the story through open sources? It's nearly impossible.
The internet is flooded with contradictions, dead-ends, mirrors. Even if you tried to trace what's "true", you'd drown in noise.
And to be honest, I did not try because I don't care. I'm ok living with the contradiction. I'm not interested in settling this story and knowing what's in Brigitte's pants.
Because this is not the real story.
The real story is what this event reveals about us, about our systems, about power in our modern world.
In response to this viral humiliation, the French presidential couple launched legal proceedings for defamation.
Oh and there's another bizarre twist in the timeline of events.
Allegedly, Owens declared that Donald Trump himself intervened behind the scenes months ago, urging Owens to back off because Emmanuel Macron is - supposedly - blocking diplomatic discussions due to the scandal.
Whether it's true or not is almost irrelevant.
The moment Owens says it, she injects the idea into the global narrative.
Suddenly, what seemed like a grotesque obsession to identify what's in someone's pants becomes something else: a lever in global power dynamics!
Institutions are empty shells
There was a time when a president's authority, or a court's ruling, carried weight. That time is over.
Today, even heads of state must defend their legitimacy in the court of public opinion!
A court that updates every second and rewards outrage over coherence.
Owens understands that very well!
The Macrons' decision to file a lawsuit is the reaction of a system still trying to play by the rules of another era. An era where truth was legal, not viral.