Has America Tried Bombing Its Mass Shooting Problem? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-05-26 at 03:48:50 )

Has America Tried Bombing Its Mass Shooting Problem? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Listen to a reading of this article:

Oh cool it is the part of the news cycle where Democrats and Republicans pretend something is going to change about United States of American gun laws for a few days.

"It is a gun control problem!"

"Nuh-uh it is a mental health problem!"

[Nothing changes about gun laws or mental health care]

[Repeat]

There is probably a correlation between the fact that the United States is the only nation with a mass shooting epidemic and the fact that Americans are the most aggressively propagandized population on earth.

If you took any armed population and psychologically pummelled them from birth with narratives about how mass military slaughter is fine while turning them into underpaid, alienated gear-turners and giving them an artificial culture mass-produced in Los Angeles, you would probably see some mass shootings.

There is only so far you can warp the human psyche before it snaps. Bash hundreds of millions of people in the brain their entire lives with indoctrination programs telling them madness is sanity and sanity is madness, and eventually a few of them are going to wind up mass murderers.

Has America tried bombing the mass shootings?-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) May 24, 2022

It is surely not a coincidence that the nation which serves as the hub of a globe-spanning empire that is held together by mass murder and war propaganda and mass-scale psychological manipulation is the only nation with a mass shooting epidemic. But this will never be studied.

It will never be studied because empire is invisible to mainstream science and social psychology, in the same way it is invisible to mainstream media, mainstream politics, and mainstream academia.

The empire is not even acknowledged to exist within the spheres of mainstream thought, and this is a deliberately engineered reality.

The spheres of mainstream thought which prevent people from understanding that we are dominated by an unacknowledged empire which stretches across nations and influences our lives more than virtually anything else our attention is diverted to are actively influenced by that very empire.

We are all marinating in the United States-centralized empire: its influence, its propaganda, its artificially manufactured culture, its ways of thinking. We are so immersed in it we can not see it. It is like water for fish to us. So we will not see any research into its influence on the collective psyche.

It is weird how every United States president is expected to say something after a mass shooting when United States presidents are always orders of magnitude more murderous than the act they are decrying.

"Who is the one person we should look to after a horrific mass murder? Oh how about the head of the most murderous power structure on earth whose very existence depends on nonstop mass murder?"

Everyone shit their guts out for weeks when Donald Trump made some asinine tweets about North Korea but Biden repeatedly threatening direct hot war with China while waging a world-threatening proxy war against Russia is just fine normal stuff.

In terms of contemporary analysis of conflict and strategy, Henry Kissinger has not been one of the worlds worst war hawks for decades. This is true not because he has gotten less psychopathic, but because everyone else in Washington,D.C. has gotten more so.

Yes Henry Kissinger is a war criminal. Yes Henry Kissinger is a psychopath. Yes the world will be better off when it is finally disencumbered of him. And, also, the United States foreign policy establishment has grown much, much more insane than Henry Kissinger.

The United States empire has been using impoverished human beings from the Global South as testing animals and target practice for its instruments of war in preparation for much larger military confrontations that it has long been planning for.

You have got to graduate from an Ivy League university and read all the latest reports from the most esteemed think tanks to get smart enough to understand why it is a good idea to fight Russia and China at the same time.

If there was a giant multitrillion-dollar corporation that was allowed to kill anyone it wants to secure its success, its behavior would not be functionally different from that of the United States empire.

I never give mainstream media "credit" on those rare occasions when they do something right. They are supposed to get it right. You do not get brownie points for not lying and propagandizing as aggressively as you normally do. You do not give a cop credit for not shooting everyone.

If you are a popular comedian living under a murderous and tyrannical globe-spanning empire, it is pretty pathetic to spend your career punching any direction but up.

It does not take much work to understand that the United States government is an evil institution.

It does take a fair bit of work to understand that the United States government is a uniquely evil institution on the world stage, with no one else coming anywhere close.

People have trouble getting this; for some reason it is not too psychologically confrontational to acknowledge that your government is or is allied with one of many bad actors, but it often causes a lot of cognitive dissonance to grapple with the possibility that it is the absolute worst actor, by a very large margin.

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