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  • Wine Vetaka Terrifying Manager of Accounting

    Wine Vetaka Terrifying Manager of Accounting

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    The first thing I noticed about Wine Vetaka was her eyebrows. They expressed so much sadness and earnestness in the trailer for Enemies with Benefits in scenes that were ostensibly supposed to establish her as this intimidating and strict character. The way she lifted them while expressing pain, or confusion or just clarifying a procedure,…

  • The Transition

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    From Newcomer to Church Member. Remember the cards in the deck before this? Those are all still in play, at the same time. Before You Continue This section explores the early stages of becoming deeply immersed in a high-control religious environment, including the rapid development of belonging, friendship, purpose, responsibility, and emotional attachment. As we…

  • How My Research Began to What It’s Become

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    In the beginning to Now When I first started researching Project 2025, I thought I understood what I was looking at. I thought the Heritage Foundation was a think tank that had produced Project 2025, and that Project 2025 was essentially the policy blueprint waiting for a sympathetic administration to implement it. Then I started…

  • Certainty vs. Consideration

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    How do we find ourselves in a world that was never allowed to be ours?  How do we respect a humanity we were taught needed to change?  We listen to their stories.  And we let ourselves linger with the personhood represented. Learning to see people Coming out of evangelicalism can be a strange and lonely…

  • Exhibit 2 – Executive Branch Institutional Profiles

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    About This Archive This archive is built one institution at a time. Each Institutional Profile is researched individually using publicly available primary sources and supporting documentation. In addition to maintaining these evidence files, LTEC publishes articles that explain the institutions, evidence, and implementation documented throughout this investigation. Because every profile and article is researched, written,…

  • Why Embodied Storycraft?

    Why Embodied Storycraft?

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    Beginning with Coherence Why is it called Embodied Storycraft? Because screenbased stories are told through bodies. Whether animated or acted, every glance, gesture, silence, posture, movement and expression becomes part of how a character’s felt experience is communicated. Televisual stories, moreover, are crafted. They are extraordinarily collaborative human expressions of creativity, built by hundreds of…

  • The Mechanisms: Reclaiming Your Agency

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    The Mechanisms: Reclaiming Your Agency Why We Cannot Recognize the Influences We Were Never Taught to See Content Warning: This article discusses religious trauma, high-control religious environments, spiritual abuse, coercive influence, manipulation, and the use of theological authority. It also includes personal reflections that some readers—particularly those with religious trauma or experiences in high-control religious…

  • Representation Saves Lives: A Window into Another Life

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    What is Representation Saves Lives? What do I mean when I say representation saves lives? When we have variety in our media representation it’s more than just getting to see ourselves. Seeing fictional stories that have people we aren’t used to seeing can expand our imagination of what humanity is. When you’re raised like I…

  • The Strategy of Narrative Control

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    Controlling Language and Information When institutions become captured, those exercising power often seek to reshape official narratives in ways that legitimize their authority and delegitimize opposition. One common method is strategic framing: the practice of emphasizing particular words, metaphors, or interpretations so that audiences are more likely to understand events in a preferred way while…

  • The Child Who Learned People Through Stories

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    How I found humanity in Disney movies As a kid and as a teenager, I liked Jesus and Disney. But I didn’t interact with Disney stories the way people were used to, so they didn’t really know how to process me. I spent hours with them, rewatched them constantly because I was paying attention to…