The Only Obstacle To A Healthy World Is Government Secrecy And Propaganda by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-07-20 at 21:37:25 )

The Only Obstacle To A Healthy World Is Government Secrecy And Propaganda by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

If people in power were no longer able to hide secrets and spin lies about what is going on in the world, all of our major problems would come to an end. Because secretive and manipulative power structures are the source of all of our major problems.

If the public could see what is actually happening in their world, they would immediately begin using the power of their numbers to overhaul our current system. This is why our current system pours so much energy into preventing the public from seeing what is actually happening in their world.

If it were not for the constant campaign of obfuscation and manipulation of public perception via veils of government secrecy and propaganda, humanity would naturally find its way out of the power-driven tribulations it now faces, as surely as you will avoid obstacles and hazards in your path when you are walking with your eyes open. The only problem in this case is that our eyes have not been permitted to open.

May All Be Revealed

"The fight for humanitys future begins at your own eyelids."-Caitlin Johnstone June 24, 2020

It is not actually necessary to hold a bunch of hard, rigid ideas about exactly what kind of society we should have, what kind of political system we should have, what kind of economic system we should have.

There is nothing wrong with promoting ideas and having preferences of course, but really if you just gave humanity the ability to navigate through its own troubles by removing the blindfolds of propaganda and power opacity, it would organically create a healthy society, and realistically such a society probably will not look a whole lot like our mental models.

You do have the option, then, of simply promoting the end of government-political-corporate-financial opacity and the end of establishment perception management.

Wanting humanity to see with clear eyes so that it can make its own informed decisions about where to take itself is a complete political position, in and of itself. You do not have to hold any other political preferences of any kind if you do not want to.

The desire for an end to the obfuscations and manipulations of the powerful so that humanity can find its own way is the most anti-authoritarian position you can possibly take, because it also protects the world from your own authoritarian impulses.

I personally am very leftwardly inclined and believe that if humanity had its perception management blindfolds removed it would naturally create a world where we are all truly equal and everyone is taken care of by the collective each according to their need, but what the hell do I know?

Maybe if the blindfold is removed I would be proven wrong. I respect human sovereignty enough to want to find out, free from my own political preferences. I should not be the one making such societal decisions, society as a whole should. I just want human perception to be freed up enough to make that call.

How To Defeat The Empire

"What I do advocate, in as many different ways as I can come up with, is a decentralized guerrilla psywar against the institutions which enable the powerful to manipulate the way ordinary people think, act and vote."-Caitlin Johnstone September 10, 2019

If you choose to make the end of perception management your foremost priority, that means you push for government transparency at every opportunity and support any movement to take away secret hiding places from the powerful.

It means opposing the way the powerful bolt shut all the doors on public scrutiny of their behavior, smear anyone who speculates about what they might be up to as a crazy conspiracy theorist, and imprisons anyone who leaks information about what they are really doing to the people.

It means you support whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden who help shine light on the things power tries to keep hidden in the dark.

It means you support WikiLeaks and Julian Assange and any journalist who helps expose the secrets of the powerful.

It means you fight the empires propaganda machine at every opportunity to break public trust in its manipulations.

It means you support breaking up the monolithic mass media and giving everyone the equal ability to influence the dominant narratives.

It means opposing internet censorship, since Silicon Valley plutocrats propping up the establishment their kingdoms are built upon by censoring anti-establishment voices is another way of keeping people from being shown the truth about their world.

I personally would add that it means supporting the decriminalization of psychedelics, because seeing within ourselves is just as important as seeing what is happening in our world and entheogens can facilitate this seeing, but maybe that is just me.

Cancel Government Secrecy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

"Government says it needs secrecy to make war on its enemies effectively, and, curiously, the more secrecy we allow it the more wars and enemies it seems to have."-Caitlin Johnstone July 20, 2020

Again, there is no harm in engaging in politics and pushing for the changes you would like to see in your world, and there can be many benefits to doing so.

But as long as people are successfully prevented from seeing and understanding what is really happening in their world by the obfuscation of information and by the manipulation of peoples perception of that information, the status quo will always remain in place.

So in my opinion this is the most sensible point upon which to converge our energy. I personally have no interest in controlling what humanity does, and desire only that people come to see freely enough to make their own decisions.

It is absolutely insane that information which affects us all is kept hidden away from our clear vision by secrecy and propaganda.

It is even crazier that they shame us when we wonder what is really going on and throw us in prison when we try to find out.

We must liberate ourselves from this madness so we can create a healthy world together.

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