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From Propaganda To Ego, All Our Major Problems Are Due To Misperception
"That is why the people, especially the American people, are so aggressively propagandized. An entire empire rests on their closed eyelids." https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/from-propaganda-to-ego-all-our-major
"That is why the people, especially the American people, are so aggressively propagandized. An entire empire rests on their closed eyelids." https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/from-propaganda-to-ego-all-our-major
The Biden transition team responsible for ushering in the nation's Return to Decency™ is as packed full of military-industrial complex lackeys and imperialist sociopaths as you'd expect. https://twitter.com/kgosztola/status/1326387797347930114
One such manipulator is the Obama administration's "chief propagandist" Richard Stengel. https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1326923923557060608?s=20
"My old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist. I’m not against propaganda. Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population. And I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful.” https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1326575255444402176
(Think tank talks are great for seeing the thought streams of power at their most honest. Think tank denizens love showing off how much they know in front of such audiences, so they'll often get baited into revealing a lot more than they normally would.)
Early appointments like Stengel don't say good things about the future of the ever-intensifying campaign to censor the internet and manipulate the thoughts that people think in the US and around the world. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54901083
Talk of a role by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, whose tenure Julian Assange has said "saw Google integrate with the shadiest of US power structures as it expanded into a geographically invasive megacorporation," is even less encouraging. https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1325789282586521612
It is also exactly the sort of continued trajectory we should expect from a flailing, failing empire whose very existence depends on the ability to manipulate human perception.
There is nothing remotely sane about this, and if the public were acutely aware of its realities they would use the power of their numbers to force its end. That is why the people, especially the American people, are so aggressively propagandized.
Stengel was not lying when he said that what we call "history" is largely just the master narratives of whoever was leading a given country at a given time.
If people were able to see clearly what's actually happening, none of our major problems would exist. Wars could not happen. Exploitative financial and economic models would not be tolerated. Political systems rigged to advantage the wealthy and the powerful would be torn down.
This is a principle which applies from our collective problems on a mass scale all the way down to our suffering as individuals.
From the smallest level to the largest, all our problems are due to the obfuscation of a clear image of reality.
Indeed, inventing our reality is exactly what the propagandists are doing on a daily basis with the plutocrat-controlled media’s relentless propaganda on behalf of the empire upon which those plutocrats have built their kingdoms.
They are literally interfering with our experience of what’s real with their extensive marketing campaign for the conditions which sustain the oligarchic empire. The more you think about it, the creepier it gets. https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/humanitys-madness-would-not-be-possible
Clear seeing is all we need to turn this thing around. We absolutely do have the ability to attain this before the omnicidal, ecocidal empire drives us into extinction or dystopia.
A murderous empire rests upon a closed set of eyelids. Here’s hoping they snap open before they are sewn shut forever.
