You Have To Be Trusted By The People That You Lie To: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-02-17 at 22:34:30 )

You Have To Be Trusted By The People That You Lie To: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The widespread refusal to accept that the United States government bombed the Nord Stream pipelines is based solely on the faith-based belief that the United States government would never do something so evil, despite its having done many things that are far more evil than this right out in the open.

"Okay sure they have been spending the last few years helping Saudi Arabia create mountains of child corpses in Yemen, but blowing up a pipeline? That would be a step too far!"

So much government nefariousness hides behind the completely unevidenced assumption "Oh, our leaders would never do anything THAT bad!" It is a belief that is based on literally nothing. It is believed because it is comfortable.

Time to update the Ukrainian flag again.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) February 12, 2023

You only get one shot at preventing nuclear war. There will be no do-overs. There will be no course-correction. There will be no learning from mistakes that were made. This is it. Our one and only chance. We are living it.

Is it good enough? Are we using our one shot responsibly?

If the mushroom clouds turn up, will anyone honestly be able to tell themselves that our leaders did everything they could to prevent this from happening, and that we the rank-and-file citizenry did everything we could to pressure them into navigating wisely around this threat?

I personally do not think so. I think if we meet our end that way it will be the result of a bunch of humans playing with armageddon weapons in an extremely reckless and irresponsible way with virtually no resistance from the public, because we did not like thinking about it much.

The worst thing about Australia is the United States of America. All of the most destructive and dangerous things our country has done in recent decades, and all the most destructive and dangerous things it continues to do, have been the result of our role in the United States-centralized empire.

Hey I have got a smart idea, let us make laws that require corporations to act like sociopaths, pursuing profit without any consideration for morality or human wellbeing, then let us allow our entire civilization to be ruled by corporations.

Oh cool we already did that, good thinking.

The fact that President Biden has explicitly said the United States will go to war to defend Taiwan, and that it will not go to war to defend the far less geostrategically crucial Ukraine, should show you that the United States does not go to war to defend human interests but to defend its own interests.

Remember kids, anything China does with regard to Taiwan will be COMPLETELY UNPROVOKED.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) February 13, 2023

The biggest problem with the western anti-war movement is that there is no western anti-war movement. All the other problems you think you are seeing in your "anti-war movement" are at best a very, very distant second to the fundamental problem that your movement has no movement. There is no good reason to spend your energy worrying if the peace movement is doing it wrong or including the wrong people or not organizing correctly if there is no meaningful peace movement. Focus on fixing that problem first - on creating movement rather than creating inertia and sectarian squabbling.

There is this Pink Floyd line that has been rattling around in my head, "You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to." Because it is so true; you can not deceive people who do not trust you. Propaganda only works if people do not know it is happening - if they do not think of its source as untrustworthy.

That is why it gives me hope that trust in the mass media is plunging to historic lows: if people sufficiently distrust those who lie to them, then those lies will not take root in their minds anymore. Without trust, the propaganda machine can not function.

All our worlds troubles are ultimately due to propaganda; people only consent to status quo systems which hurt their interests because their consent is manufactured via propaganda. And that propaganda only works because of public trust in the messengers.

We can fight this by working to exacerbate public distrust in the institutions that manufacture our consent, spreading public awareness of the fact that everything we have been taught to believe about our nation, our government and our world is a lie!!

All positive changes in human behavior - whether individual or collective - are always preceded by an expansion of consciousness!

Make people more aware that they are being deceived, and the liars will no longer be trusted by the people they lie to!

Trust in the mass media has never been lower, meanwhile our ability to amplify our own voices and share ideas and information has never been higher!

We can use this opportunity to free the collective mind from the chains of propaganda, so that we can finally get real change!!

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Ah, the Buddha Ms Caitlin speaks the truth!!! - Cousin Lucky