So of all the requests that I've had, it is surprising to realize that the thing that has been probably the most requested in the recent times has been this Storm Area 51 event that was created on Facebook.

And despite that today is a sweltering day, I will nonetheless try to explain how this is related to certain patterns in society.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

So as you know, the Storm Area 51 is a Facebook event which was created in the late June as a joke, you know, as a kind of spoof in order to, to, I think the guy had did it, had done it after he had seen some Area 51 guy on Joe Rogan.

Anyway, it doesn't matter.

What is hilarious is the fact that at this moment, I'm looking at over three million people who have said they are either going or interested in going.

And so a lot of people have asked me, why is it that this particular thing has attracted so much attention? I'm surprised that

people can't really see this because the reason is that it is connecting to certain tropes. Now,

it's going to be difficult for me to tell you what the meaning of this is in the sense that

because it is a joke, because it is a, you know, it's just

most of it is mostly for the memes and to be on the inside of a certain joke, it would be

strange if people actually showed up to this event.

I'm not saying it's not impossible that that would happen, but obviously it would be very

strange. Now, the reason why it is attracting so much attention, it's because you could call it a

mythological representation, a mythological version of something which is happening all around us,

of a trope in society which is going on.

And so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna show you

how it is the way that it's framed

is similar to other things going on,

and maybe it can help you to understand

what exactly it's dealing with.

Now, it shouldn't be so strange to you that as this Area 51 event is being put on and

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