You Are Not SUPPOSED To Trust The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-07-19 at 00:39:13 )

You Are Not SUPPOSED To Trust The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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I still can not get over how brazen the Biden administration is being in just announcing that it is their place to determine who should be banned from social media platforms and how little backlash there is against this.

Just imagine the outrage if Donald Trump had done this. Seriously, imagine it. The Biden administration instructing the worlds largest social media platform who to censor is the biggest "Imagine if Donald Trump had done that" moment so far.

They said we need internet censorship because of Russia.

They said we need internet censorship because of Covid.

They said we need internet censorship because of election security.

They said we need internet censorship because of the Capitol riot.

They said we need internet censorship because of domestic extremism.

Pretty sure they just want internet censorship.

The United States government is without exception the single most corrupt and destructive force on this planet. It is the very last institution on earth who should be in charge of deciding what online content is true or false. Absolute dead last.

I trust the wisdom of the collective to sort out what is true infinitely more than I trust the wisdom of the United States government and Silicon Valley plutocrats to do it for us.

If people think their government is lying to them and trying to hurt them it is entirely the fault of the government and no one else.

You are not supposed to trust the government, and governments are not supposed to act in a way that requires your trust. If you find yourself ruled by a secretive power structure which demands your blind faith in its righteousness, something has gone horribly wrong.

Perhaps the United States could end domestic extremism by switching to governmental policies that do not make everyone want to light the country on fire.

Funny how we all grew up watching movies about evil villains trying to take over the world and kill millions of people and those movies were all made in the nation that is that exact villain except the villain succeeded.

It is fine to think all governments are bad, as long as you are also aware that one of those governments is far, far more powerful and destructive than any of the others and that the behavior of other governments is often a defensive response to the aggressions of the worst one.

If your anti-state commentary does not reflect this reality, then it can only ever benefit the agendas of the most powerful and murderous state on the planet. Just firing indiscriminate scattergun criticisms at all states equally only advances United States imperialist propaganda agendas.

It seriously seems like half the time a black flag anarchy account shows up in my Twitter notifications it is to promote United States imperialist propaganda narratives against Syria, China, Russia etc, and it is like yeah nice anarchy dude, being a pro bono propagandist for the worst government on earth.

Whenever the United States empire rolls out a propaganda campaign against a disobedient government, it is impossible to circulate narratives opposing that government without facilitating the United States propaganda campaign, and therefore all the deadly agendas that campaign is designed to advance.

Before they launch missiles, they launch propaganda campaigns.

Before they wage siege warfare, they wage narrative warfare.

You are responsible for the narratives you choose to circulate in the world. You are responsible for choosing to participate in imperialist aggressions.

The United States government is waging wars around the world, circling the planet with hundreds of military bases, ramping up nuclear standoffs and working to destroy any nation which disobeys it, so naturally the news media are urgently warning us about the horrible tyrannical government of Cuba.

The correct answer to "What should be done about Cubas problems?" is for the United States to end the blockade. After that happens the correct answer to "What should be done about Cubas problems?" is "None of your f-cking business."

"I oppose the embargo, but the Cuban regime-"

But-but-but-shhhh. You shush your beautiful mouth.

The United States government has all the billionaire media outlets in the western world conducting propaganda for it. It does not need your help.

Just oppose the embargo.

"The embargo is not why Cuba is poor! It is poor because of communism!"

Okay well if it makes no difference can you please end the embargo?

"No."

"Cuba claims it can care for all its people using socialism, yet it experiences poverty when we deliberately impoverish it. Checkmate, commies."

"You think communism is so great? Then why are people fleeing communist countries to live in imperialist nations that became wealthy by generations of mass-scale theft and murder, huh?"

Saying your economic model is superior to a socialist nations because you were able to use economic warfare to impoverish that nation is like saying your moral philosophy is better than your neighbors because you beat the shit out of him.

There is no good reason to let the push for a United States military intervention in Cuba turn into an ideological debate about socialism versus capitalism when the far stronger argument to be made is that United States interventionism is literally always disastrous and literally never helpful.

Imagine how pants-on-head f-cking stupid you would have to be to look at the history of United States regime change invasions and then think that would be a wonderful thing for the people of Cuba.

The answer is never, ever, ever, ever United States military intervention. Ever.

It Is ALWAYS the wrong tool for solving ANY problem.

You are never going to make things better using something that literally always makes things worse. Amazing this even needs to be said.

The empires goal is to fracture and neuter the left and carve away class analysis and anti-imperialism from whatever remains until we are nothing but tiny groups of irrelevant assholes arguing about how hard you should punch a TERF.

The ultimate factor in determining what will happen in our world is not control of capital, nor control of government, nor control of resources, nor control of weapons, but control of narrative.

See this and you see why governments, plutocrats and media behave the way they do.

And, in the end, it turned out that killing the ecosystem was easier than taking away rich peoples rocket money.

Political discussion forums are like a couple bickering about dishes in the sink while trapped in the bedroom of a burning house.

Everything is headed for collapse - the ecosystem, capitalism, the United States empire - assuming we do not all wipe ourselves out in a nuclear war first.

It is so easy to get lost in the bickering and bullshit. I know I do from time to time.

But it just looks so insane when you take a step back and look at the minute nature of the arguments we are having compared to the multiple massive existential crises looming on our horizon.

You would think this would bring us all together, but instead we are being driven further apart than ever before.

Truly, if ever there was an adapt-or-die moment for a species, this is it.

We are being asked if we want to wake up and become conscious, or go extinct.

That is the issue we should all be looking at, and we should be looking at it together.

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