Super Serious News Reporting: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2021-11-05 at 00:12:32 )

Super Serious News Reporting: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Hi I am a very serious news reporter. The Russians are controlling our thoughts with Facebook memes and scrambling our brains with invisible ray gun attacks. In other news, capitalism is working fine and our wars defend freedom and democracy. The government never lies. Here is Bob with the weather.

It is hilarious that people still think the Democratic Party cares about winning elections. That is not its job, children. That is not why the Democratic Party exists. The Democratic Party exists to kill leftward progress in the worlds most powerful nation. That is all it cares about doing.

The Democratic Party does not care about winning elections. The Democratic Party does not care about promoting popular policies. The Democratic Party does not care about passing legislation. The Democratic Party only cares about doing things like this:

Democrats $1.75 trillion economic and climate bill could end up delivering a tax cut for the richest 5% of Americans, a new analysis finds.-CNN (CNN) November 1, 2021

They were always going to blame Joe Bidens failures on the left.

Some in Biden-land are already asking themselves if the president has allowed himself to be tugged too far to the left while in office, and those voices are likely to get louder now.-Blake Hounshell (blakehounshell) November 3, 2021

"The political spectrum has moved too far to the left. I believe this because I was told to by a millionaire with a vested interest in stifling support for socialism. Also I think "left" means having pink hair and using words like "polycule" in casual conversation."

So mad at American leftists for forcing the Democratic Party to be a right wing imperialist oligarch front who nobody wants to vote for.

United States troops are four times more likely to die by their own hand than in combat. They have figured out how to protect United States military personnel from enemy fire, but not from the psychological consequences of working for the United States military.

Imagine if you learned you had a serious form of cancer, and then not only did you not pursue any kind of treatment, but you also barely ever talked about it or thought about it. That is how weird humanitys response has been to the myriad imminent existential threats it faces.

We investigated ourselves and found we did not do a war crime.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) November 3, 2021

The world is dominated by opaque and unaccountable government agencies. The Pentagon killed ten civilians, none of whom were combatants and seven of whom were kids, lied about it, got caught, investigated itself and found its staff were not even guilty of so much as negligence, then classified the report.

Corporations are legally required to act like sociopaths; they are required to maximize shareholder profits even if it means ruining lives, destroying the ecosystem, etc. Companies controlled by workers instead of blind profit motive would have human interests as a driving factor. They would not have blind sociopathic pursuit of profit at all cost as their driving motive, they would have their own sets of priorities. These would include making money, sure, but they would also include moral interests, having a healthy planet for their kids, etc.

Anarcho-capitalism would not end war, it would just privatize it. Capitalism minus states would just be corporate mercenaries doing what government goon squads do now. To picture what would happen if ancaps got their way, imagine the plot of the movie Avatar, except instead of unobtainium it is normal terrestrial resources, and instead of an alien planet it is the Global South.

Capitalism is so bad at providing for people that its commanders must wage constant aggression against the Global South to steal enough to prevent bread riots in the Global North.

Few people understand how f-cked things really are. It is not just that we are facing global disaster on multiple fronts and our electoral systems are rigged to prevent us from doing anything about it, it is that the public is being propagandized away from even wanting to do anything about it.

Our abusive systems are so deeply locked in on so many levels that even people who see things kind of clearly can not really grasp how bad it is. They are still like oh okay then we need a new political party or a new voting strategy or whatever, and it just misses the reality of our situation.

We are so very, very sick and so very, very, very far from any kind of shift toward health, and you look at what even the most awake people are talking about and it is often vapid sectarian bickering about nonsense that is light years from having any relevance to our current plight.

That is why I use the word "miracle" sometimes.

Because if you really grasp how f-cked things are and still hold out hope that we can change things in time to save the world, you are basically holding out hope for a miracle. You might not use that word, but you are hoping for something to happen that on paper is impossible.

So what do we do???

The only thing we can do in such a situation: work tirelessly to spread awareness. To spread awareness to other people, and to spread awareness within ourselves. To facilitate awakening, collectively and as an individual. It is the only thing that ever leads to healthy change.

Do that with everything we have got, and do it for its own sake with the full allowance that it could easily not be enough, and who knows. We just might get our miracle.

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