Power of Narratives and Gold

Hmmm.
Within every arena of our lives, there exist competing narratives. One can easily recognize this truth, for example, when we consider the narratives that are competing to either destroy Pesident Trump or to protect him. Same with Hillary. Same with Evolution vs. Creation. We also can easily discern the competing narratives surrounding discussion about asset classes if we look closely.
The real issue has to do with whatever happens to be the DOMINANT narrative and how and why it became dominant and the never-ending battle to maintain or attain dominance. You see, we actually DO know how the world works. The problem is that embedded within all narratives is good and evil - truth and fiction - logic and fallacy. And, the dominant narrative is the control narrative. Power and wealth are derived and wielded by those controlling the dominant narrative. Our experience as humans is that most of us will do and say whatever we must to either maintain the control narrative or to regain the control narrative which we previously lost. We will go to great lengths to do so - even as far as going to war to destroy our opponent in order to control the narrative.

But there are two moments in time where narrative is created. It can be developed as a way to describe a phenomenon that already exists or it can be developed prior to the existence of a phenomenon. In the latter case, narrative is often designed and used as propaganda and deployed to shape the beliefs of an unsuspecting people.

When it comes to gold and silver, the dealers and their apologists want you buying and selling, for that is how they earn profits. Therefore, they carefully craft narratives based on existing daily, weekly, monthly, yearly phenomena within the gold and silver marketplace which are designed to induce people to buy or to sell gold and silver. They also carefully craft narratives about what may or may not happen in the future. These forecasts are typically couched in "fundamentals" and other market terminology. But behind these narratives are even more carefully hidden control narratives designed to influence the forecaster and the reader in ways that he is unaware of. Propaganda is infused into analysis and is often reported in the form of news.

The author of this article is correct insofar as narratives are narratives, but he really hasn't said anything other than that. The chart he uses in which he declares that the various different narratives about gold have actually been driving the value of gold is deeply flawed. Can you tell the difference between those narratives that are based upon what were already existing phenomena versus the narratives developed as propaganda in order to influence people to behave in a very specific manner (as in buying or selling PM's)? Is there a difference? Are the narratives a blend of fact and propaganda?

Consider, as an aside, our recent politics. I'll use both sides of our political class. I'll be neutral here as you will see:
1) When Republicans didn't have control of the House, they voted against the Affordable Healthcare Act. They lost that vote. Then they campaigned for the repeal of that act and won the majority of the House and promptly refused to repeal for fear of losing their personal power and wealth potential.
2) When Obama was President, the Democrats were all about deporting illegal aliens. They deported far more than Trump has. They built the vast majority of the cages that held illegal aliens.
Now, the Democrats accuse Trump of being a monster for caging aliens and wanting to deport those who are here illegally. Democrats have developed that narrative in order to try to re-gain power and control.

And we see how both sides present their arguments in such a way as to be pretending to take the moral high ground in order to stir our emotions and join in their moralistic crusade. They say and do anything to get that vote which leads to their personal power and MONEY. It is the same within gold and silver marketplace.

Let me put this in simple, everyday terms:
We all have to recognize that we must learn to discern when people are telling us a whole lot of crap in order to increase their own personal power and wealth. They do not care about us regular folks and whether or not they are hurting us by reducing our wealth and taking away our power as citizens and investors. Buyer, beware! Voter, beware!