Real Cancel Culture: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-10-09 at 23:15:29 )

Real Cancel Culture: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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"To protect Taiwan we must be prepared to go to war with China."- Imperialists who just lost a war to the Taliban

I am genuinely disturbed at how many people would be willing to fight a world war over Taiwans governmental preferences. The power and effectiveness of the imperial propaganda machine never ceases to amaze me.

The astonishing amount of pushback I am getting for my very sane and normal "Let us not fight World War Three over Taiwan" position makes it abundantly clear that many people do not truly understand that starting a war means you have to actually send actual human beings to go fight that war.

The correct response to someone who supports going to war if China attacks Taiwan is "Are you enlisted?"

The correct response when they inevitably answer "no" is "Then shut the
f-ck up."

People who are fine with the idea of increasing aggressions between nuclear-armed nations simply have not thought hard enough about what nuclear war is and have not learned enough about the many different ways it could occur. It is a comfort held in place by compartmentalization.

The decision to go to war with China would be the single most important and consequential decision ever made in human history. You would have to weigh it against millions to billions of deaths. Defending Taiwans preference of government clearly would not weigh enough to justify that cost.

The empires greatest weapon is not its military, but its propaganda machine.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) October 9, 2021

The empires greatest weapon is not its military but its propaganda machine. There has simply never been anything like the global narrative control provided by the western news media, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. The military fights wars, the propaganda machine wins them long before they start.

A lucid and well-informed examination of the worlds problems will keep bringing you back to this one fundamental issue: that Earths inhabitants are being psychologically manipulated at mass scale into organizing themselves in ways that serve the powerful instead of the people.

Congratulations to those who were awarded the same highly esteemed Peace Prize as Barack Obama and Henry Kissinger.

Conduct critical journalism on an empire-targeted government: get a Nobel Peace Prize.

Conduct critical journalism on the empire: get a Central Intelligence Agency plot to assassinate you.

Real cancel culture is when the CIA plots to assassinate a journalist for publishing authentic documents in the public interest.

What?? Is that not how all whistleblowers are treated??-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) October 7, 2021

It is very cute how we all think that everyone else is gullible except for us. Even assuming that is true is already very gullible.

Humans are not inherently f-cked up, we are just traumatized and manipulated by an abusive system into doing f-cked up things.

Very few of the ugly behaviors we see in people would exist if we had conscious and compassionate systems in place for organizing ourselves in this world.

Everyone gets that it is wrong to blame an entire group on the misdeeds of a few of its members, but few people seem to apply that same logic to humanity as a whole. All our systems are dominated by the worst among us, simply because they are sociopathic enough to climb to the top.

Really it just boils down to the fact that the majority do not understand how sociopaths minds work or how to counter them, and that the trauma of preceding generations keeps giving rise to sociopaths.

I think the initial trauma stretches back to our evolutionary ancestors who literally spent their lives running from giant monsters who were trying to eat them. Our nervous systems still operate that way today, even though those monsters are long gone.

If we could just catch a break for one or two generations to heal that trauma, I think we would be fine. But we keep passing our trauma on to new generations because the worst among us keep thwarting everyones attempts to set up conscious systems.

To compensate for the fact that it will not ever give the left any economic concessions the empire has been loudly amplifying some concessions on racial and sexual justice, so now even though nothing really changed you still get rightists saying politics moved "too far to the left". This gives the propagandists a couple of different tools: it keeps discourse tied up on issues that will never hurt the agendas of any plutocrat or warmonger, and feeds into the culture war dynamics which facilitate us-vs-them propaganda tactics.

Propaganda is the foundation of all our problems, and the us vs them dynamic is the foundation of propaganda.

If humans can awaken in a visceral, experiential way to the reality that all is one we can inoculate ourselves against propaganda and begin moving toward health together.

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