Saudi Arabia Is Just An Honest America: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix By Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-08-19 at 00:08:15 )

Saudi Arabia Is Just An Honest America: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix By Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Saudi Arabia is just an honest version of the United States of America. The tyranny is right out in the open, state censorship is straightforward instead of being outsourced to Silicon Valley, the oligarchs and the official government are the same people, they do not pretend their wars are humanitarian, and they just directly murder journalists they dislike instead of a using fake judicial system to do it.

Look at Yemen with fresh eyes and it will haunt your dreams and fill you with mountain-moving rage.

That is why people do not.

That is why people should.

Steal from the wealthy and give a bit to your friend and they will call you a thief. Steal from the working class and give a bit to agendas you approve of and they will call you a philanthropist.

Placing yourself in the ideological center between two corporatist warmongering parties does not make you a centrist, it makes you a corporatist warmonger.

Watching liberals fake enthusiasm for Biden-Harris is like watching women fake enthusiasm in really gross porn. Come on darling, you are clearly only in this because you are badly traumatized and got manipulated into an exploitative situation where you felt like you had no choice.

Hillary lost because she was a shit candidate and her supporters did not phone bank enough. If Joe Biden loses it will be for the exact same reasons. Stop trying to blame a small, powerless slice of the political spectrum which has nothing in common with you and your shit candidates.

You know how liberals have spent four years screaming at you for not voting for Hillary, and how it does not bother you in the slightest and you relish the taste of their tears? FYI that is all they can do if you refuse to vote for Joe Biden too.

People only ever think you are wrong to reject mainstream politics and media because they have no idea how f-cked things really are.

It is not the most famous mainstream media lies that do the most damage. It is the little ones they tell many times every day via spin, omission, half-truth and distortion which cause everyone to accept the idea that this bat shit crazy status quo is normal and inescapable.

The powerful use ideologies as tools to manipulate mainstream narratives to their advantage. Religious fundamentalism, Zionism, racism, anti-racism, liberalism, conservatism; they will use anything they can. Pay less attention to the tools and more to what they are being used for.

Racists and QAnoners will follow you around and keep talking to you like they are your friend even while you verbally abuse them. Leftists will write you off forever the instant you say something they do not like. This dynamic helps someone, and it aint the left.

I really wish I lived in this alternate universe people keep talking about where the worst thing about the United States of America is Donald Trump.

Establishment guard dogs dislike Donald Trump not because he is ending the wars (he is not), nor because he opposes establishment interests (he does not), but because he is a poor narrative manager and all too often leaves the ugly face of the empire fully exposed. They dislike him for the same reason mobsters would dislike a mob boss who is constantly yelling in public about how they are all gonna go out and do a bunch of nasty mobster stuff.

I do not criticize governments outside the United States-centralized empire for the same reason the worlds fattest man does not go around telling other people to lose weight. If you are part of a globe-spanning power alliance that is far worse than anyone else, it is gross to point fingers.

If you knew a violent, sadistic kleptomaniac and compulsive liar, you would probably find yourself siding against that person on most points of contention. If you really understand what the United States empire is and what it does, you will feel the same way.

A powerful institution made up a bunch of silly, arbitrary rules and sent out a bunch of deeply unconscious human beings to enforce those rules, so naturally it became very abusive. This is the story of the Catholic Church. It is also the story of the criminal justice system.

I do not know how to live. Have not the foggiest notion how to go about it. Yet life happens anyway. This life lives itself anyway. There is a lesson in there.

You can always just quit. Give up trying to manage your life, your mind, your emotional state. You might just find that the cells you are made of are a lot more capable and magical than you had realized, and the managing was only ever getting in their way.

One eye sees that this thing is so very, very, very much bigger than politics and the struggles of tiny primates on a spinning blue marble.

The other eye sees that of course these struggles matter, from the perspective that they matter.

Clear 3-D vision means having both eyes open.

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