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The Curator of Agency
Friday, 3 April, 2026
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit brandonrichey.substack.comJoin the rest of the Zenith Vanguard here at: https://brandonrichey.substack.com/As a reminder, the tagline for this podcast is that it serves as a map to help you and those around you to be a Zenith during chaotic times. With that in mind, make sure you authorize and upgrade your standing as an operational zenith by bypassing the paywall for today with a $50 annual commitment in order to access today's episode in full. With your authorization you will gain immediate access to my Exclusive Zenith Catalog, which is a Sovereign Cognitive Hardware Briefing Kit in order to help you navigate four years of my sovereign armory of information with ease.Of course, your zenith status is vital for you during chaotic times, however, as my tagline states, the purpose of my hardware is to also help those around YOU during chaotic times as well. In this world, mindless dependency is everywhere, but cognitive sovereignty is in short supply. The goal here is to flip that reality and you can do so by going to brandonrichey.substack.com if you're not already there. If you're on an offsite platform like Spotify or Apple then make sure you do so by simply clicking here.“We are not here to escape reality. We are here to rewrite it.”― Lawrence NaultAn event horizon is the boundary surrounding a black hole and it serves to be a point of no return, where any matter or information that crosses over it will immediately and permanently be lost to the outside universe. This happens due to the fact that the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light.Black holes are regions of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, not even light, can escape the force of its pull. However, the thought of there being a point of no return apparently doesn’t just apply to the lessons of physics and space; as history has shown us, it all too often also directly applies to the geopolitical landscape concerning many civilizational failures that occur at the hands of Communism and Islamism. Now we are witnessing in real time how Western civilization is fast approaching that event horizon with its potential fall at the hands of cultural Marxism and/or Islamism.With that being said, in the previous episode I spoke about how Rehoboam had ended up failing in his leadership role as king due to him allowing himself to succumb to a fatal contagion of false intuition. He failed to accept the wise counsel of his father’s elder advisors and instead chose to follow the advice of the young men that he had grown up with at the time.Yes, this choice was an unwise act that eventually had cost Rehoboam more than half of his kingdom. He failed at this because he lacked something that his father clearly had at the beginning of his reign; and because of that, Rehoboam crossed his own event horizon, ultimately leaving his kingdom lost and broken.The question we have to wrestle with now is whether the United States is currently at its event horizon concerning the threat it faces with the expansion and growth of Islamism and cultural Marxism that currently exists here right inside the gates.If Europe isn’t already at the point of no return then it’s certainly skimming along the surface of its own event horizon. As bad as that is, at least we here in the United States have the opportunity to observe Europe’s mistakes in this regard so that we can avoid falling victim to the same ones as they have.The question is: Do we still have what it takes to do what needs to be done, with the same courage as the Sons of Liberty when they took care of business on the evening of December 16, 1773?This concludes the opening salvo of today’s episode.You have been made aware of the deficit of intuition and the fast approaching event horizon. The next step is for you to execute on retrieving the hardware of my Parrying Counter-Offensive, along with my Exclusive Zenith Catalog, by upgrading your Zenith status with the $50 a year commitment.Now is the time for you to exercise your agency in true Sons of Liberty style by breaching my heavy vault door, in order to upgrade your current position with four years of my easy-to-access Cognitive Hardware.You can feel confident knowing that by joining to gain access to my Exclusive Zenith Catalog that you are gaining instant and rapid navigational ability to a locked and loaded Sovereign Vanguard Briefing Kit.Make sure you upgrade to Zenith Status NowI Prefer Coffee To TeaIn 1773 the British East India Company was failing.In a desperate act to save it the British Parliament passed the Tea Act on May 10, 1773. While the legislation actually reduced the price of imported tea, many protestors felt that this legislation would set a dangerous precedent for Great Britain and the East India Company’s level of authority over the colonies.The reality is that the Tea Act outraged the colonists and strong dissenters like Samuel Adams leveled up the information warfare by continuing to invoke “no taxation without representation.” Samuel Adams and The Sons of Liberty were smart enough to realize that they couldn’t win a physical fight against the British at that point, so instead they decided to stage a theatrical one in order to get a head start on winning the war for cognitive monopoly when it came to their cause.The theatrical fight that they chose involved boarding the three ships that sat in the harbor that night—including the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver. Several of the Sons of Liberty, including Paul Revere, boarded the ships and disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians.In one sense the colonists saw the opposite of Europe’s worse excesses when looking at the Native Americans. The disguises were selected to protect the identity of the Sons of Liberty in one respect, but were also symbolic in nature; and by destroying the British tea, the act represented a moral critique of consumerism.As the Sons of Liberty boarded the ships they moved with an eerie disciplined silence. Once onboard, they cracked open and dumped 342 crates of tea into the harbor. However, it should be noted that everything that they did was a calculated act.Understand that they didn’t burn the ships, steal the tea, or loot anything during their mission. This wasn’t a careless mission, but rather a very specific one. Every man had a clearly defined role, and it was an efficient and concerted effort among the group. They had men keeping watch while also making sure that none of their own would steal any of the tea or other inventory in the process.In fact, one of the men ended up going back to replace a padlock that they had broken the night before that belonged to the captain of one of the ships. Unlike BLM, Antifa, and the protestors in Minneapolis, the Sons of Liberty were principled in their respect of other people’s property—apart from the tea itself. These men had a strategic plan of action that they carried out with stealth and precision in order to neutralize an overwhelming force in the British Crown.However, it was in the aftermath of this historic event as to where the real victory happened. You see, the British responded by passing the Intolerable Acts which forced a shutdown of Boston’s port and essentially placed the rest of the city under house arrest. In short, this move was exactly what the Sons of Liberty wanted because that move by the British essentially galvanized and radicalized the other twelve colonies. With their actions the Sons of Liberty utilized the moment in order to further leverage a local tea dispute into a continental cause for liberty.Samuel Adams worked tirelessly to publicize the Tea Party. He ardently pressed the narrative that it was as an act of defense against British taxation and sold the narrative on it being a last resort move to save colonial rights. Samuel Adams was a relentless agitator that turned outrage into full-scale tactical action.The Sons of Liberty proved that you don’t need a bigger army to win; you just need to know how to exploit your enemy’s weakness while simultaneously playing to your own side’s strength of identity. You see, the Sons of Liberty understood that the Tea Act was an attempt from the British Crown to start the process of stripping away the economic sovereignty of the colonies. Sound familiar?Obviously, you can now look back at history and understand that the moment of bloodshed was an inevitability between the colonies and the British Redcoats. However, even if the Sons of Liberty had not taken a stand against the British Crown, I’m certain that day of bloodshed would have taken place anyways, although the shot heard “round the world” may have resulted in a later start date.So why did I bother to share this historic night involving Samuel Adams and the legendary event of the Boston Tea Party with you today?The reasons are really numerous, but for the sake of today’s discussion the lessons here are going to serve to be an instrument that both you and myself can use throughout our daily lives as operational zeniths. I’m going to drill down on exactly what that main lesson is for today by explaining it in a way to expand your thinking beyond the box of your normal cognitive model.You know, I love the John Wick movies. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen this series of films, but if you’re looking for some decent writing combined with the backdrop of a captivating setting and some extraordinary action, then I highly recommend them.There’s a scene in John Wick 2 where Mr. Wick has to go on an assignment in Rome, Italy. Given the fact that Mr. Wick is the world’s most feared assassin, he has to make a quick stop at The Continental Hotel in Rome which is a sister branch of The Continental Hotel in New York City. For further clarity, The Continental Hotels are fictitious grounds in the John Wick films that serve to be neutral grounds for assassins to meet, regroup, and to acquire certain resources if necessary.So exactly what kind of resources am I referring to?Well, as I stated earlier in the second film when John made his stop at The Continental Hotel in Rome, Italy he ended up paying a visit to the sommelier. In case you didn’t know, a sommelier is someone who normally specializes in fine wines and offers customers advice on matters concerning how certain foods and wines pair together.The sommelier is naturally one of the services that’s provided by The Continental. However, I assure you that the sommelier in John Wick 2 probably isn’t giving much advice about food and wine pairings as this sommelier is a front for a high-end armory. When Mr. Wick visits the sommelier, he is immediately shown a variety of hardware; he acquires the immediate service of a tactical tailor and receives strategic recommendations from the sommelier, which are thoughtfully catered to his specific needs for the purpose of combat.I wanted to point out this scene to you in John Wick 2 in order to try and paint a different picture for you in regards to how we should engage in the free exchange of ideas in this modern era. Given the fact that the Administrative State Media (ASM) clearly serves a nefarious purpose in trying to destroy this republic, we have to approach this current world of information warfare with a discerning heart and mind.However, when engaging in this information arena we must be well equipped with the understanding of our environment as peak operational zeniths in order to engage the world with our knowledge on a day to day basis.So what exactly do I mean when I talk about engaging the world in this manner?Well, I purposely used the example of the Boston Tea Party and Samuel Adams to illustrate how disciplined, strategic, organized, and tactical each of those men were when they executed one of the most famous missions in all of history.Furthermore, Samuel Adams took that event and ran with it as he engaged in the information arena by driving the narrative about how the Tea Party was a last-resort move to save colonial rights and to preserve the economic sovereignty of the colonists. The Sons of Liberty and Samuel Adams didn’t just perform a physical act of dumping tea into the harbor, they constructed an entire theater of information warfare and leveraged that performance in order to completely transform the culture surrounding the corrupt globalist practices of the British Crown, their tea, and the oligarchy of the British East India Company.The actions from the Sons of Liberty and Samuel Adams were so effective that they even shifted the culture of the colonies to view drinking tea as an unpatriotic act. As a result, the Tea Party moved cultural attitudes to promote coffee as the preferred drink of Americans and to progress Americans one step closer to going to war with Great Britain.At the end of the day, this is why I prefer coffee to tea.You see, my goal here is to frame this in a way for you to look at this situation and to recognize with a clear-eyed comparison, the similarities of what we’re facing today. Like the British Crown and the oligarchy of the British East India Company, you have an administrative state and an oligarchy that’s hell-bent on cementing a future of surveillance and technofeudalism—one that exists for the sole purpose of stripping away your national, individual, and economic sovereignty right this very minute.This is exactly why I want to serve to be your sommelier of narrative warfare, so that when you enter into combat inside the cultural and political arena of life, that you’ll be optimally equipped with all the adequate armaments of knowledge, wisdom, and intuition. Furthermore, the idea is not only to equip you but to also train your understanding of how to engage the narrative warfare in a way that’s highly productive and effective when it comes to you dealing with family, friends, and colleagues. I’ll come back to this in a bit.In the last episode I touched on the division going on between the woke right podcasters and the rest of what Jake Tapper would refer to as “MAGA media.” I spoke about the controversy surrounding the resignation of Joe Kent and pointed out some key questions I had regarding his recent resignation.For instance, why did he wait until the shooting started before coming out against the war with his resignation? In other words, why did he not choose to resign during Operation Midnight Hammer, Operation Absolute Resolve, or during the many weeks of military buildup before the start of Operation Epic Fury?Additionally, why was he specifically being withheld from certain intelligence briefings and under a months-long investigation that predated his resignation?You see, the reason I’m pointing these things out is that these are essentially the questions that I am not seeing anyone ask in regards to the situation involving Joe Kent. Furthermore, I’m also not seeing some key questions being asked in regards to the war with Iran itself.I want to break this down in a way that will make sense to you, but please be patient with me because the cognitive process I’m about to share is a bit challenging to explain.Let me begin by asking: Have you ever heard a storyline or narrative pop up for the first time regarding a certain field, subject, or individual that triggered a gut instinct feeling inside of you— where you knew the story was inaccurate or misleading?Perhaps the storyline that was being communicated was something that you believed to be inaccurate, but maybe you weren’t quite able to explain why the story was incorrect at that moment? In other words, it was something that you just intuitively knew was false, but you just weren’t equipped at the moment that you heard it to explain why it was inaccurate—or, at the very least, not entirely accurate?I’ll give you an example of this very thing by examining the debate over whether or not Iran possessed nuclear weapons, and whether they were an imminent threat to the United States and the rest of the world.At the time he tendered his resignation, according to Joe Kent, Iran wasn’t an imminent threat. Now, when I heard this, I’m not saying that I wasn’t a bit confused on whether or not Iran possessed nuclear weapons, because I was under the impression that we had completely obliterated their nuclear arsenal during Operation Midnight Hammer.However, by applying the Reverse Line of Delineation in examining the president’s past actions on dealing with certain problems, and possessing a more broad understanding of the geopolitical landscape, the belief of that imminent threat started to make more sense. In other words, after the shooting started there were some actions on the part of Iran that brought forth the evidence that they were definitely a bigger threat than what was being communicated by the Joe Kents of the world.For instance, aside from the debate surrounding Iran’s possession of nuclear material, the other variable that few have said anything about was Iran’s ability to deliver a nuclear payload. In other words, for the longest time, the public has been told that Iran’s best long-range missile would only have had a range of about a 1000 miles, with many media personnel stating that even that was a pipe dream.However, back on March 23, 2026 one of the few remaining and reliable news sources, Just The News, reported that Iran had launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) at the joint U.S.-UK airbase of Diego Garcia which is located in the Indian Ocean. Fortunately, one of the missiles failed in flight and a U.S. warship fired an interceptor missile at the other one.So, why is this significant?This is significant because Diego Garcia is more than 2,000 miles away from Tehran. This obviously vindicated President Trump, who previously cited Iran’s capability as justification for the conflict with the Islamic Republic, after they publicly denied these capabilities for years.Aside from the realization of putting Europe within striking distance, I would also add that the Iranians, along with Russia and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), were present and working in Venezuela close to the event of Operation Absolute Resolve. Just to point out another important fact about that: Caracas, Venezuela, is about 2,000 miles away from Washington, D.C.. Take a few seconds to marinate on that reality for a moment.Regardless of this, the point is that if the Islamic Republic wasn’t supposed to have IRBMs then how do we know that they didn’t also possess intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)?The point here is that they obviously possessed a level of military capabilities that we were clearly told that they didn’t have, yet, here we are talking about it.What I’m working to illustrate to you here is that, when the debate surrounding Iran’s nuclear capabilities were in question, the real point of the discussion is recognizing that they did, in fact, possess significantly greater military capabilities than what we’ve been told for a very long time.In short, when everyone got busy honing in on whether they had nuclear weapons and whether they were an imminent threat, the point is that we now know that they did have military capabilities that they had been lying about for years. Therefore, we have to ask what else is it that they have been lying about all this time?I wanted to use this particular example as a model for you to understand how to attack the narrative from a different angle by shifting the focus away from the narrative of nuclear weapons, and onto the focus of military capabilities and the lies that have now been exposed. This is a technique of information warfare that I like to refer to as the Parrying Counter-Offensive.You see, when talking about the fight disciplines of martial arts and boxing, the act of parrying serves to be a maneuver that involves a fighter successfully deflecting and warding off strikes involving punches and kicks. Parrying serves three purposes: it initially enables a fighter to evade a strike while simultaneously creating an opening for that same fighter to execute an offensive counter-strike.You’re probably thinking, “Brandon, you said parrying served three purposes, but you only listed two. What’s the third purpose?”Oh yeah, the third purpose of parrying an opponent’s strikes, while successfully executing an offensive counter-strike, is that it starts to make a fighter feel very uncomfortable both physically and psychologically. You see, every time a smart fighter is able to successfully counter everything that their opponent is throwing at them during a fight, the more that intelligent fighter can cause their opponent to doubt their own abilities. This doubt leads to mental and physical fatigue which further creates more and more opportunities for the intelligent fighter to finish off their opponent.You see, in terms of the way we must approach this modern era of information warfare, this is exactly why I have taken this same concept of parrying and created the utility involving the Parrying Counter-Offensive so that you can use it in your own life to make your opposition uncomfortable about sharing false or misleading information.Earlier, I said that I would come back to address how to effectively engage in narrative warfare in a way that’s highly productive when it comes to you dealing with family, friends, and colleagues—those who might be cultural Marxists or are perhaps infected with the RINO mind virus.Now, I already know that, when many people hear that, they reactively want to say that you or I are not going to change anybody’s mind when trying to debate them on politics—or even trying to convince someone of giving ground when it comes to a hardline business decision, for that matter.I would say that is debatable. However, trying to convince others to change their beliefs isn’t really the point. The point is that if they are spreading absurdly stupid lies and ASM propaganda talking points, they cannot be let off the hook. The goal is that the more we create an overwhelming environment of well-informed Zeniths surrounding the cultural Marxists—along with those infected with the RINO mind virus— the less they will feel emboldened to spread their poisonous ideology.To be clear, I’m not talking about going around and trying to argue and pick fights with people. I’m actually talking about doing the complete opposite.The reality is that disagreement and conflict cause discomfort, and it’s this discomfort that serves to be the reason as to why many good people choose not to engage the world. You’ve often heard of these people being referred to as the silent majority. However, it’s this lack of engagement that the cultural Marxists, and those who are infected with the RINO mind virus, view as a license to spread their horrific lies and ideology.This lack of engagement from society is what has emboldened the ASM to lie more and more about how terrible President Trump is and how Joe Biden was at peak performance, despite the cameras catching Biden shaking hands with invisible people.Furthermore, in order to possess the ability to remain calm during disagreement requires practice. After all, facing resistance in the realm of ideas is no different than exposing your physical muscles to the resistance of iron in the gym.The ability for you to engage in a discussion or a debate while maintaining a cool head requires training yourself to do so, in the same way that you would train your muscles in the gym.I would remind you that, if you’re hesitant and are concerned about making certain friends and family members uncomfortable about these challenging topics concerning culture, politics, and faith, then just remember: the cultural Marxists certainly never express concern about making their friends and family uncomfortable about their beliefs.In fact, more often than not, in my experience, the cultural Marxists seem to believe that they’ve been made the arbiter of making everyone around them uncomfortable, while they simultaneously demand that you not offend them.The Wrap UpAt the end of the day, just understand that if you cannot endure an uncomfortable conversation with friends, family, and colleagues, then you’re certainly not going to be able to endure the real turmoil with a society that crosses its event horizon.The entire point of today’s message is about helping you to hone your skills in defending the sovereignty of your country, your economy, and your individual agency. My expectation for you is for you to possess the abilities to exhibit all the best qualities of a sovereign operational zenith, and to spread those qualities to infect everyone else around you.The idea is to reverse the course of thrust in order to start putting distance between our nation and that event horizon; and the only way that we can achieve that is by accurately recognizing the problem with the established order of Washington D.C., in the same way that the Sons of Liberty recognized it with the British Crown.President Trump recognizes the problem, but it seems that he’s having to do everything he can to win over the hearts and minds of the rest of the public, in the same exact way that Samuel Adams did when he leveraged the theatrical event of the Boston Tea Party.The reality is that we’re going to have to get more efficient in training ourselves to defend the president against an entire system that is unified on taking him and the MAGA movement down. Therefore, it’s going to be up to you and I to be that resistance that stands in the way, and the only way we can do that is by accurately assessing the cultural, political, and economic battlefield in order to apply the necessary resistance in order to shape and mold society.In the previous episode, and at the beginning of this one, I reminded you that Rehoboam lacked something that his father, Solomon, clearly had at the beginning of his reign. You see, Solomon demonstrated an act of wisdom at the beginning of his rule as king by asking the Lord for wisdom and a discerning heart.However, Rebohoam never did this and even dismissed the wise counsel of his fathers elders, instead choosing to follow the advice of his childhood friends on how to rule the kingdom.At that time, instead of easing the tax burden and hard labor on his people, Rebohoam decided to rule with increased force.He followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”1 Kings 12: 14You see, Rehoboam was just like many of your Marxist friends, family, and colleagues who believe in supporting high taxes and an authoritarian state. He certainly didn’t believe in individual sovereignty and wanted to do everything he could to strip it away from everyone else throughout his kingdom.Now, I’m no Biblical scholar, but I believe the problem concerning Rehoboam’s deficit of wisdom and his deficit of intuition is due to the fact that he was probably a privileged individual. In my view, this would clearly explain his tyrannical ways. After all, he grew up in the wealthiest environment in all of human history.Unlike his grandfather, King David, Rehoboam probably lacked a significant level of character formation. The reality is that growing up with some adversity can be a valuable thing, because the resistance of that adversity can better shape and mold an individual in a way that gives them a better understanding of the way the world works.Just like many of your Marxist friends, family, and colleagues are out of touch with reality, I believe Rehoboam was as well, and he lost more than half of his kingdom as a result of that lack of formation.You see, I believe this is why you and I are here, so that we can provide the necessary resistance to form and mold society with our agency. However, in order to do this we must master our individual ability to curate a knowledge-base of history, culture, finance, current events, and faith, in order to demonstrate our capability to resist lying narratives and destructive Marxist propaganda.In short, you must be a curator of agency in a world of mindless dependency.Remember that this is a reader supported publication and if you’re serious about advancing as a curator of agency, then make sure you hit the like button, share this episode, and post up your feedback in the comment section below.I understand that if you’re reading this then you’re most likely already operating at zenith status, however you can take your support for this media platform even further by also giving the gift of zenith status to a friend or family member as well. 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