Propaganda Is Not Something That Only Happens To Others: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-12-28 at 23:10:40 )

Propaganda Is Not Something That Only Happens To Others: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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One of the empires strongest assets is the widespread assumption that propaganda is something that only happens to other people. Another is the widespread assumption that propaganda only comes from other countries and other political ideologies.

The status quo remains the status quo because those who benefit from the status quo are able to use the wealth and power given to them by the status quo to dissuade the public from overthrowing the status quo using status quo media to manufacture their consent for the status quo.

The empire will use any ideology to advance its agendas. "Wokeism", white supremacism, Zionism, Christian fundamentalism, liberalism, conservatism, progressivism - whatever ideological sympathies can be leveraged, will be leveraged.

The empire will use Nazism and wokeness, at the same time, on the same agenda. Look at the way the empire is using neo-Nazism to advance one part of its Ukraine agenda and using woke-sounding jargon to advance another part. They are two diametrically opposed values, but it does not matter because the empire has no values besides the pursuit of power.

CIA front NED - which has funded United States neocolonialism around the world - is using "anti-colonial" and "pro-indigenous" rhetoric to wage information war on Russia and help make Ukraine a United States-NATO colony.

There is nothing that United States imperialism will not try to co-opt and empty of meaning-Ben Norton (BenjaminNorton) December 27, 2022

The engineering of the empire does not have an ideology for the same reason mugging does not have an ideology; it has one goal, and that goal has nothing to do with anyones values or ideals. A con man will say whatever you need to hear to get his hands on your money.

The empire uses "wokeism" not because the empire gives a shit about social justice, but because that is where easily leveraged public sympathies are found at the moment. Getting hung up on wokeism is like fixating on the syringe and not the hand that is holding it or the poison it holds.

The empire uses ideologies the way we use tools. When it does not need the screwdriver, it picks up the hammer. Right now it is getting a lot of use out of "wokeism", and tomorrow it will be something else. Do not focus so much on the tools, focus on who is using them, and what they are being used for.

One of the silliest things about this proxy war is how empire apologists will call it an "unprovoked invasion", then pivot to gushing about how efficient and cost-effective the war is for advancing United States strategic interests against Russia, then pivot right back to calling it an "unprovoked invasion" again.

These are mutually contradictory positions. Either it is a completely unprovoked invasion that the United States did not want, or it is a highly efficient and cost-effective way of getting Washington,D.C. everything it wants. It is nonsensical and naive to believe both.

The dream for automation was that it would be used to eliminate the need for human toil. In practice so far it is only being used to increase inequality: generating more profits for the ruling class while leaving normal people poorer and more desperate. Market forces only encourage more of this.

Apologists for the status quo are basically coming right out and telling us that automation will be used to increase income and wealth inequality, and they are absolutely correct. That is what has been happening, and it will continue until it is made to stop.

You asked for $25 minimum wage

You get: First fully automated McDonalds in Texas-ELIJAH (ElijahSchaffer) December 22, 2022

Meanwhile we are seeing the steady normalization of increasingly militarized robots, which will eventually become capable of suppressing domestic uprisings without the annoying human tendency to refuse to fire upon their countrymen, or even switch sides and join the revolution.

So we appear to be headed for tremendous poverty and injustice if we do not force a change in the trajectory we are on, and if we do not force it soon they will have robotic security systems to stop us. The robots will either be made to work for us, or they will be used against us.

This is the trajectory we will be on as long as capitalism remains in place and the class which rules it retains control of automation. Vastly unequal tech dystopia where the people are controlled by AI and weaponized robots is the final stage of capitalism (before death by ecocide).

I often hear people saying that those who have been propagandized into accepting the mainstream worldview are stupid, but from what I can tell the successfulness of empire propaganda in taking over peoples minds has very little to do with anyones intelligence.

You have probably noticed that some of the smartest people you know in your own life uncritically regurgitate the same narratives about the world that you will hear on CNN or the BBC. Generally, intelligent people differ from the less intelligent only in that they have more clever justifications and defenses for the perspectives they have been propagandized into believing.

The tendency to meet authority-endorsed information with critical thought and scrutiny seems to have a lot more to do with the dumb luck of having been conditioned to do so by the kind of life you have lived. If there is any sort of personal attribute that leaves one less vulnerable to propaganda, it could be described as a sincere devotion to the truth. A sincere devotion to knowing what is true, and to seeing, thinking and living accordingly. This quality can emerge in people of any kind of intelligence.

A sincere devotion to the truth also happens to be the quality most essential for realizing spiritual enlightenment. It is also the quality most essential for living a happy life.

Whatever that strange spark is and whatever gives rise to it wherever it shows up, it is pretty clear that it is the guiding light that will lead our species to sanity!!

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