Propaganda Warps Our Very Humanity: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-02-03 at 02:59:18 )

Propaganda Warps Our Very Humanity: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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There is so much more to propaganda than just manufacturing consent for governments and wars. It trains us what to value. What to think a successful human being looks like. Where to place our interest, energy and attention. It shapes our very personalities. It warps our humanity.

Show me someone who does not think propaganda has much power and I will show you someone who has been highly propagandized.

If people could understand the massive, yawning gulf between the world as it actually exists and the narratives we have been fed about it since childhood, there would be immediate revolution. The real world is as different from the propaganda world as it is from any work of fiction.

The Central Intelligence Agency is officially forbidden to conduct operations within the United States.

What the Central Intelligence Agency is not officially forbidden to is hand an unscrupulous United States of American news reporter a bombshell scoop about a foreign government which just so happens to build a narrative in the United States that advances CIA objectives.

That which has been presented without evidence may be dismissed without evidence. It applies to arguments, it applies to claims by United States intelligence agencies.

Propaganda has distorted peoples perception of reality so severely that Twitter cares more about musicians pulling their content from an app because they do not like a podcaster than the fact that the most powerful government in the world is flirting with nuclear war.

-Medicare for all X
-Stop deportations X
-End kids in cages X
-Stop genocide in Yemen X
-Cancel student debt X
-$15 minimum wage X
-Slash military spending X
-Most progressive administration since FDR X
-Any meaningful progress whatsoever X
-Lots of tweets about Joe Rogan Yes!!!!!

-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) February 1, 2022

The United States of Americas buddies Saudi Arabia and Israel have been bombing their neighbors constantly with extensive United States support. The friendship between these nations and the United States exists not in spite of their nonstop military butchery but exactly because of it.

If all the countries involved in a dispute say there will not be a war and only one country says that there will be, it is not hard to figure out who the aggressor and instigator is.

There are easily ten thousand issues in this world that are of greater concern than the fact that Russia annexed a small territory that overwhelmingly wanted to be annexed in 2014.

It is not that I always side against the United States, it is that I side against whatever side is in the wrong and that tends to be the most powerful and destructive regime in the world. If you do not think believe the United States could be consistently on the wrong side of foreign policy disputes, it is because you have been extensively propagandized about its behavior on the world stage.

It can not rightly be called anti-United States bias if your criticisms of the United States are unassailably correct.

You simply cannot dispute the fact that no other government is doing anything that rises anywhere near the level of depravity as spending the 21st century killing millions of human beings in wars of aggression.

It is not that I have some arbitrary grudge against the United States and frame all my positions on every issue to fit that bias, it is that the United States really is quantifiably and demonstrably the most tyrannical government on earth by an extremely wide margin and thus naturally tends to be in the wrong.

The social engineers will always prefer to censor dissident voices online via algorithm manipulation rather than overt deplatforming when given the choice, simply because it silences a lot more people with a lot less public outcry.

If you agree with an ideological faction on every issue it is not because you share the same values and principles, it is because you suffer from a lack of values and principles. You are just a blind follower of the herd.

What do you suppose would be the public response if a mainstream outlet published a story like this with a similar accompanying feature image as a criticism of the Israel lobby??-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) January 30, 2022

Gonna go get a degree from an Ivy League university and become a senior fellow at a prominent think tank so I can make extremely intelligent observations like "Vladimir Putin is Adolf Hitler and Ukraine is Poland" and "Xi Jinping is Adolf Hitler and Taiwan is Poland".

We are seeing the narrative that Tucker Carlson is a Russian agent aggressively pushed by mainstream pundits not to attack Mr. Carlson himself, but to manufacture the consensus that anyone who criticizes United States policy on Russia is suspicious and untrustworthy.

If you get your information about the world from Tucker Carlson you are just as MSM-brainwashed as if you get your information about the world from Brian Stelter or Rachel Maddow.

The brainwashing just happens in slightly different ways. Sure Mr. Carlson might say true things I agree with sometimes, but so does Anderson Cooper; they just tell different truths and different lies. Propaganda does not work if it is all bullshit all the time; there has to be some truth mixed in.

The people in my mentions who regurgitate MSM talking points on China because they heard it from Tucker Carlson think they are so very different from the people in my mentions who regurgitate MSM talking points on Russia because they heard it from Wolf Blitzer, but they are not. They’re exactly the same.

The TV man is not your friend!!!!

If Russia was an actual threat they would not have to keep lying about it all the time.

In ancient history our stress hormones were used on saber toothed tiger attacks. Now they are used on made-up mental narrative fluff like whether we are adequate, what others think of us, a podcaster saying things we do not like, Vladimir Putin annexing Eastern Europe, or China taking over the world.

It is not legitimate to complain that people talk about problems without taking action or offering solutions. Spreading awareness that there is a problem is taking action toward a solution. All positive shifts in human behavior are always preceded by an increase in awareness.

You are not going to get to solutions until a sufficiently large percentage of the populace understands and accepts that they are needed. Even if you do come up with the perfect solution on your own without the help of the collective, you will not have the numbers to enact it.

Maybe you have read a bunch of books and got a fancy degree and you have come up with the perfect utopian model for society, but it is going to make jack dick difference if only you know it.

People first need to understand that our current systems do not work, and then to understand why.

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