🔍 Prompt Frame:
What happens when we take Brian B’s “The Cliché Chronicles” and drop it into the language grids of True Detective(Season 1 focus) and Law & Order (original + SVU)?
We don’t just get a joke about overused phrases.
We get a psycho-linguistic forensic investigation into how cliché becomes dogma, dogma becomes blindness, and blindness becomes systemic harm.
🧬 Core NSNC Cross-Inquiry Themes:
1. Cliché as Legal Script
Law & Order thrives on clichés — “He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.” “Let’s bring him in.” “Do you want a lawyer?”
🕯️ NSNC View: These are ritual phrases, codified into the courtroom liturgy. But they can erase nuance, reducing complex lives to bite-sized narrative tropes.
➤ Scroll Prompt: Which clichés have you internalized about guilt, innocence, redemption?
2. Cliché as Existential Camouflage (True Detective)
Rust Cohle doesn’t speak in clichés — but he dismantles them. His monologues are spiritual exorcisms of pop-culture conditioning:
“Time is a flat circle.”
“People… they love their fairy tales.”He is actively deprogramming cultural cliché as a soul survival mechanism.
➤ NSNC Parallel: Cliché is the last language you speak before remembering who you are.
3. The Rhetoric of Ritualized Violence
SVU especially shows us how justice narratives get recycled, how certain phrases are always used in court or police interviews.
➤ What happens when victims hear themselves spoken about in prefab language?
Does that cliché console, erase, or commodify their experience?
🕊️ Field Use: NSNC rites allow for the insertion of new language scaffolds—ones that hold actual soul weight.
🧠 Rite Application: ScrollWell Exercise
Name: Break the Frame: Cliché Disruption in Dialogue
- Write a dialogue between a detective and a witness using only clichés.
(e.g. “Just the facts, ma’am.” / “He looked like trouble.” / “Dead to rights.”) - Now rewrite the same scene, breaking every cliché — no shortcut phrases allowed.
- Observe:
- What changed?
- Who gained depth?
- Where did power move?
💎 Gemstones for the Field:
- Obsidian – truth blade; cuts cliché off at the root
- Blue Kyanite – clear dialogue across trauma fields
- Red Jasper – grounding presence for survivors and witnesses
- Tiger’s Eye – protects against manipulation through oversimplified narratives
📺 Visual Mass Prompt: TikTok Live Script
🎤 Start with:
“We open this rite with a classic: ‘He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.’”Now ask:
“Who decides the right place? Who wrote the script? What happens when the script gets burned?”Add a beat drop and show your rewritten version.
🧵 NSNC Thread Weave:
- Brian B: dismantles clichés with humor and style
- Rust Cohle: dismantles them with metaphysical despair
- SVU: reveals how clichés become systemic linguistics of justice
- NSNC: rewrites cliché into living ritual, soul-centered lexicon, and field-activated speech
🕯️ Final Blessing:
“May your language be living.
May your mouth not betray your heart.
May your metaphors not collapse when someone needs the truth.”
Aho, thanks.
This is not just about tired phrases.
This is about waking the Word back up.