Riddled: When Prophecy Fails (the falling motion)

"Let's re-enact 'When Prophecy Fails' as a real-time broadcast across social media, but instead of the deranged and disappointed cultists expecting UFOs, their saviour is a scrophulous brain-damaged scammer-manqué from New Zealand," said absolutely no-one. Yet the scriptwriters of the Reality Studio heard the unspoken plea, and it came to pass.

Now I am inclined to believe that John Hoani Wanoa is a character from an unpublished sequel to Hadrian VII, written by Thomas Pynchon in a rare collaboration with Alfred Bester, who escaped from the fictive dimension into more corporeal reality. The alternative explanation is that he is a natural-born citizen of Consensus Reality who broke his brain in some dramatic irreversible way (about the same time as he discovered the Kaipara Harbour Tidal Generator scheme and decided to profit from his own scam version thereof), resulting in

1. The fabulation of imaginary ancestries for himself, variously featuring the Moriori, Tahitian / Hawai'ian / Rapanui princely bloodlines, and English royal dynasties.

2. Ingestion of the legal-truther systems of longer-established grifters (notably "Rev." Kevin Annett and his "International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State"; the white-supremacist prehistory fantasies of Martin Doutre et al.; and a NZ tradition of 1834 Tribal-Independence conmen*), all regurged in a macaronic logorrhoea of cargo-cultic worship-words.

3. Appropriation of the 1834 Confederated Tribes flag as a mystical, all-powerful emblem of KING WILLIAM IV ADMIRALTY MARITIME LAW SOVEREIGNTY and QUEENS BENCH.

4. A conviction that any property he likes the look of must have been stolen from his royal ancestors, therefore really belonging to him, needing only stern letters written in a macaronic logorrhoea of worship-words to ensure its restitution. Or failing that, physical invasion.

5. Under-punctuated 4000-word rants to UK politicians, in a macaronic logorrhoea with the worship-words curiously capitalised.

I would like you to FREEZE the NWO AGENDA 21 CLAIMS to this GOLD TRUST FUND till we get there for the TRIAL between the VATICAN and QUEEN and MOAI BENEFICIARIES please.
I would like you to FREEZE the ADMIRALTY COURT MARTIAL LAW of KING WILLIAM IV FLAG SEAL JURISDICTION MANIFESTATION BONDS CARGO MERCHANT ADMIRALTY MARITIME LAW over USA CANADA AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND immediately the date of this KINGS ORDER online HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY COURT HEARING TODAY 27/7/14
NO one is Authorized to use KING WILLIAM IV FLAG SEAL JURISDICTION LEGALLY as of this KINGS ORDER INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC NOTICE today. It will be posted on facebook shortly as a consequence of any ACTION against those THIRD FOURTH PARTIES to this "KING WILLIAM IV ADMIRALTY & "QUEEN VICTORIA MOAI HAPU NATIVE TRUST FUND CLAIM"

Let's face it, that alternative explanation is far less plausible.

Another Kiwi has a third explanation for Mr Wanoa's apparent existence, holding him to be a chapter of "1066 And All That" which somehow attained sentience, but I am not convinced.

The other side of the equation, anyway, is the ragtaggle pack of conspiracist Truthers who found Wanoa's congeries of delusions to be congenial building-blocks for constructing their own stately pleasure-domes of belief. Thus they affect to believe [for values of "belief" which may be imaginary, and are certainly not rational] that

1. John Wanoa is the True Surrogate King of England, Scotland, etc..

2. Upon arrival in the UK, Wanoa will be elevated to the throne by mass acclamation among the Armed Forces and constabulary - allowing him to topple the corrupt established legal system of elitist "lawyers" and "judges" and restore the old system of Common Jurisprudence and King's Bench.

It is not clear which author or literary tradition is responsible for them. Evidently, though, their author is not afraid of broad-brush heavy-handed satire, and not concerned whether characters behave with plausible intelligence.

So these insufferable drongos sent off money to John Wanoa or his proxies, with some uncertainty whether each £25 was a donation, or the purchase of one of the 999,999,999,999 nominal shares in his fantasy tidal-power not-a-business, or a deposit securing the right to purchase a share when he gets around to arranging a magical way to transfer shares that bypasses brokers and Stock Exchange. That's the "scammer-manqué" part of the story.

Wanoa bought his ticket to the UK, as the first step on the triumphant Return-of-the-King march on Westminster that would see an end to the usurpation of power (along the way, visiting the High Court to regularise his claims to an office building in Auckland that rightfully belongs to him because he likes the look of it; and securing the £27 billion bequest owed to him by Lloyd's Bank... because some conmen once pulled a classic Advance-Fee scam on him and stole his retirement savings by promising a bequest while claiming to work on Lloyds' behalf).

It turned out, though, that he travelled on a tourist visa, having failed to apply for a work visa, or the specific "Restoration of Legitimate but Supplanted Royalty" visa. Thus he was turned back at the Border Security desk and put on the next plane to Hong Kong. His arrival without ££ may not have helped (proposing to support himself for the length of his visit by way of mendicancy and appeals to the eleemosynary impulses of strangers); not his openness on social media about his gallows-related intentions for the incumbent sovereign.

So I did not get to open a celebratory bottle of King's Landing after all. To prove that I am not MAKING THIS ALL UP, here are some of the nimrods raggling and taggling at a rally in St James Park. They are literally wrapped in that 1834 flag from a short-lived though entertaining episode of NZ colonial history, convinced that it will protect them from bailiffs and repo-men and child-welfare agencies, much as Ghost Shirts protected the Sioux Ghost-Dancers from the bullets of the US cavalry. Their Old Suspender** addressed them in a video chat by smartphone, but forgot to turn on the sound at his end. More at Hoaxtead Research.

I don't know what is wrong with these people but maybe it's something in the water. What now? Will the Cargo-Cult members recognise the falseness of their beliefs and realign to a slightly more reality-related scholium of thought? Or will they resolve the cognitive dissonance (to the extent that they recognise it) by doubling down, destroying all their food and starving en masse? Leon Festinger is not optimistic.

Conditions[edit]

Festinger stated that five conditions must be present if someone is to become a more fervent believer after a failure or disconfirmation:

A belief must be held with deep conviction and it must have some relevance to action, that is, to what the believer does or how he or she behaves.
The person holding the belief must have committed himself to it; that is, for the sake of his belief, he must have taken some important action that is difficult to undo. In general, the more important such actions are, and the more difficult they are to undo, the greater is the individual's commitment to the belief.
The belief must be sufficiently specific and sufficiently concerned with the real world so that events may unequivocally refute the belief.
Such undeniable disconfirmatory evidence must occur and must be recognized by the individual holding the belief.
The individual believer must have social support. It is unlikely that one isolated believer could withstand the kind of disconfirming evidence that has been specified. If, however, the believer is a member of a group of convinced persons who can support one another, the belief may be maintained and the believers may attempt to proselytize or persuade nonmembers that the belief is correct.

* A special shout-out for Wanoa's old mates, father-and-son grifter duo Eru and Mohi Wiremu ("William") Manukau, who can be found trying to grab other people's land with bogus title claims back in 1996. Eru was an early adopter of the "United Tribes" Sovereign-State fraud and the totemic properties of the 1834 flag, using them to sell fake citizenship in 2000. He subsequently set up his own fake bank ("Sovereign Global Bank Aotearoa" / "Maori Central Bank"), seems to be running his various scams from overseas, and is clearly the source for many of John Wanoa's unoriginal notions.