American warmongers want to bring democracy to
Iran, China, North Korea, Russia, Syria, and,
eventually, at the very bottom of the list, perhaps
to the United States as well.
By Caitlin Johnstone
July 04, 2021 "Information
Clearing House" - Today America celebrates its hard-fought victory
in its fight to free itself from the rule of British
monarchs so it could be ruled by US oligarchs.
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Hollywood trained us to fear psychopathic killers
prowling around in the dark so we won’t notice the
psychopathic killers who rule our world in broad
daylight.
We’ve been trained to fear the serial killer
covered in blood and wielding a chainsaw so we won’t
notice the serial killer wearing a suit and wielding
a pen.
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The fucking ocean caught fire and they just
bombed Iraq and Syria and they’re killing kids in
Yemen and ramping up nuclear escalations against
Russia and China, and Facebook is warning users that
it’s those who criticize
this system who are the dangerous extremists.
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Step 1: Train the public to only accept
“reputable sources” like the New York Times, WaPo,
CNN etc and to dismiss indie media as Russian
propaganda.
Step 2: Make sure the “reputable sources” don’t
cover stories that are inconvenient for the
powerful, leaving only indie media to report on
them.
This new trend of
complete mass media blackouts on inconvenient
stories is a problem for many reasons, among them
the fact that it’s just so hard to fight. How do you
deal with all mass media
outlets collaborating in unison to black out
important stories?
It’s important to understand that the imperial
propagandists don’t just tell us what to
think; they also train us how to think.
Feeding us bad information is only half their job;
the other half is shaping the cognitive frameworks
by which we form opinions about that information.
This is why the mass media have “opinion”
segments as well as “news” segments. They’re not
there in case you were curious what Johnny
McThinktank’s opinions are on the issue of the day
(they know you weren’t), they’re to model the
acceptable parameters of thinking on that issue. And
the acceptable parameters of thinking will always
take it as a given that the mechanisms of oligarchy
and empire mustn’t be interrupted or inconvenienced
in any way. Differing opinions will be modeled on
how those mechanisms should be advanced,
but never if they should.
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That’s how come the renowned expert PhD pundit
will often have a less truth-based worldview than
your stoner flatmate with an eighth-grade education.
Because they’ve been trained on both what
to think and how to think, they’ll pour all
their intellect into defending lie-based worldviews.
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The most dangerous extremists of our age are not
radical jihadists, nor fundamentalist Christians,
nor white supremacists, nor communists, nor
anarchists, but mainstream adherents to the status
quo politics that are murdering people around the
world and driving us to armageddon.
This should not be a controversial thing to say.
Certainly some of the above groups are dangerous and
wrong, but they are objectively far less dangerous
and deadly than the mainstream mass murdering
ecocidal extremists who people inaccurately label
“centrists” and “moderates”.
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Dear younger generation,
Sorry for destroying the environment, but in our
defense we did everything we possibly could short of
inconveniencing ourselves in any way or doing
anything we don’t like doing or taking any kind of
meaningful action.
American warmongers want to bring democracy to
Iran, China, North Korea, Russia, Syria, and,
eventually, at the very bottom of the list, perhaps
to the United States as well.
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Congratulations to all my fellow westerners as we
celebrate our 100th anniversary of pretending we are
superior to the Communist Party of China.
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Westerners have always been far more savage and
brutish than any of the populations around the world
they’ve ever set out to “civilize”, and that remains
the case to this day. Only reason this isn’t clear
to us all is our school books were written by
westerners.
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The US empire’s treatment of Julian Assange has
exposed the evil and corruption of the US empire
more than Assange himself ever could.
A government whose solution to homelessness is to
criminalize the homeless is a government that should
not exist.
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Western Marxists talking about violent revolution
when they can’t get 20 people at a protest are like
a little boy talking about fighting supervillains
when he can’t even tie his shoes. There won’t be
revolution, violent or otherwise, while propaganda
rules public consciousness.
Any talk of any kind of revolution is just vapid
LARPing as long as people are being successfully
propagandized away from rising up, and they are.
Your dreams of revolution are so very, very
far away right now you might as well be talking
about magic. The violent revolution vs peaceful
revolution debate on the left is as meaningless as
arguing over what company makes the best model of
magic wand. No revolution is happening, at all,
until the left
addresses the problem of mass-scale media psyops
first.
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Q: What is the populist right?
A: The populist right are Republicans who want to
go to war with China instead of Syria.
“Why didn’t you leave your abuser sooner?”
If I’d left sooner then that would’ve been when I
left, and you’d just be asking me why I didn’t leave
sooner than that. Maybe just blame the abuser for
abusing.
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Ultimately the problem is that mass-scale
propaganda institutions are fully unified in their
consent-manufacturing narratives while the rest of
us are rabidly divided against each other.
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People who’ve experienced spiritual enlightenment
talk about how they now see how everyone’s stories
about life are false. Opening your eyes to what’s
going on in our world is very much the same: seeing
the propaganda narratives which have nothing to do
with what’s true or real.
If you ignored the intense partisan narratives
and just dispassionately observed the large-scale
behaviors of money, resources and weapons, you’d
have no idea the US got a new president in January.
But if you listen to the narratives, it’s supposedly
a night-and-day difference between this
administration and the last one.
Whether you’re talking about personal narratives
or mass-scale narratives, they are entirely
different from life as it actually is. The babbling
stories in our minds are simply ineffective tools
for describing reality; the more we get our heads
above them, the clearer we can see.
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