Celebrities Protect The Interests Of The Empire: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-01-30 at 00:20:33 )

Celebrities Protect The Interests Of The Empire: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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If you say you oppose Russia because you are an anti-imperialist but you do not oppose the United States empire for its role in starting and perpetuating this war, then you are a liar. You do not oppose Russia because you are an anti-imperialist, you oppose Russia because you are an imperialist.

The only people who say "Putin can end this war at any time by withdrawing" are those who deny the United States empires aggressions which led to this conflict, which is just a nonsense garbage position based on lies.

They do not actually want peace, they just want victory for the empire. The real unbiased position which supports peace is wanting both Russia and the western empire to begin engaging in diplomacy, de-escalation and detente to end this war. But empire simps will call you treasonously biased if you support anything other than total Russian defeat!!

This dopey propaganda-addled notion that the west did nothing wrong and President Putin attacked Ukraine solely because he is evil and hates freedom actually prevents peace from happening.

If one side only acknowledges the reality of the aggressions of the other side, peace is impossible. If you do not understand how a war was started and perpetuated, then you can not understand how peace can be started and perpetuated. The empire deliberately works to prevent the public from obtaining this understanding, because the empire wants war!!

It is not okay for grown adults to act like President Putin is just running around invading countries willy nilly because he is a crazed madman. You have got a whole internet of information at your fingertips. Use it.

It is impossible to overstate how much our society is shaped by the fact that those who are given the most influence and the largest platforms will experience our status quo systems as working very nicely and have a vested interest in preserving those systems which benefit them.

The media-owning, culture-manufacturing class of the super-wealthy elevates people to wealth and celebrity who look like they will be good protectors of their class interests. Those people will necessarily speak fondly of the status quo political systems which let them be rich.

Two-time Academy Award winner Sean Penn gifted his Oscar to Ukrainian president ZelenskyyUa as a symbol of strength.-CNBC-TV18 (CNBCTV18News) November 9, 2022

These are the people who put on all the shows, movies and music almost everyone consumes, thereby engineering mainstream culture to the benefit of the super wealthy. It shapes the way the people think, speak, act and vote. What they feel entitled to. What they think is possible.

A rich celebrity who makes millions of dollars a year in a fun, easy and egoically gratifying job is not going to be spotlighting all the lives who are being destroyed by the status quo systems which elevated them.

They are not going to favor the revolutionary changes that are needed.

They are not going to be calling for a massive, sweeping overhaul of the systems which are crushing ordinary people to death and creating widespread misery; at most they are going to be telling you to vote Democrat or Republican and quibbling about minor disagreements on tax rates.

But these are the people with the loudest voices in our society - not just the loudest, but many orders of magnitude more amplified and influential than the voices of the ordinary people who are suffering under existing systems. These loudly-amplified rich celebrities shape and direct mainstream culture.

This dynamic plays such a massive role in hiding from mainstream attention the ways our status quo systems are exploiting, oppressing and abusing people while killing our biosphere and pushing us toward nuclear annihilation, that it is hard to wrap your mind around how far it goes.

The way everyone is thinking about the world is so pervasively informed by perspectives that are favorable to the status quo prevents them from even noticing how bad things are for everyone else.

It is widely assumed that if you are struggling in this mess, it is because of your own failures. If any media you turn on depicts people who are doing basically fine and are content with the way things are while you are barely able to keep your head above water, the take-home message is that the problem is with you, not with our systems. That you are what needs to change.

The failings of the status quo are hidden in mainstream culture, and people are not permitted to consider the possibility that there might be a better way for things to be. People do not know, and they do not know that they do not know. They are kept in the dark about what is possible.

People are like, "Oh yeah right Caitlin, it is ALWAYS Americas fault. You are always blaming the United States for every conflict, just because it runs a globe-spanning empire which dominates the planet with violence and coercion and works continuously to keep all the other countries subjugated to it."

They are like, "Right, right, blame EVERYTHING on the violent unipolar planetary hegemon."

It is a lot like saying, "Okay sure we are trapped in a room with a tiger, and sure we keep getting eaten, and yes your leg is missing and you have got a large bite out of your torso, but you can not blame ALL of that on the tiger. It is not fair. Some of it might be Steves fault. Steve is kind of a jerk."

People whose opinions are grounded in facts and logic do not need to resort to accusing those who disagree with them of being secret agents working for foreign governments.

Blinken says the Nord Stream bombing "offers tremendous strategic opportunity" and Nuland says it is good and awesome that Nord Stream 2 was destroyed, so obviously the only possible culprit in the Nord Stream bombing is Vladimir Putin.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) January 27, 2023

Most people on this planet could not give a shit who governs Crimea, but one small group insists we risk every life in existence on earth - every bee, every frog, every tree, every child - for their current t-shirt-of-the-week issue. It is so arrogant.

It is one thing to draw a line and say "The world must never let anyone cross this point, even if it means risking nuclear armageddon." It is quite another to make that line something as trivial as the question of who governs Crimea.

It is not legitimate to risk all life over that.

This is especially true because the United States empire provoked this war and because even the Crimeans themselves prefer to be Russian.

But even if none of that was the case, it still would not be legitimate for the United States empire to risk the lives of people in Africa or South America by backing an offensive on Crimea.

The correct response to anyone who supports this is "Who the f-ck do you think you are??

Who the f-ck are you to risk the life of every human and non-human life on this planet over an issue only a tiny fraction of the world cares one whit about?"

All these armchair warriors saying "We need to be brave and take a stand!" are willing to gamble billions of lives who do not consent to being gambled over a war they are not even fighting in. All while refusing to deeply contemplate what nuclear war would entail. They are the worst kind of cowards.

I just want the rapidly rising threat of nuclear war to be treated, reported on, and discussed like the supremely important issue that it is.

It is the single most important matter in the world and it just gets casually mentioned here and there like it is just another issue.

It is actually a huge problem that nobody wants to talk about the single most important issue in the world and everyone acts like you are a crazy hysterical idiot for pointing out the very real ways we are moving closer to that very real possibility.

I have been writing about the growing risk of nuclear war for years and people have been calling me a delusional lunatic and a Putin puppet the entire time, meanwhile we have demonstrably and indisputably been seeing massive steps toward that outcome and it is still being dismissed.

Even if you believe that all this nuclear brinkmanship is justified and good, you still need to fully acknowledge the reality of the risk and the unfathomable horrors that it would unleash upon our world. And you need to do it with all the respect and solemnity the subject deserves!!

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