Bono Is Doing Illustrations For The Atlantic Now, Because Everything Is Fake And Stupid by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-05-04 at 00:57:21 )

Bono Is Doing Illustrations For The Atlantic Now, Because Everything Is Fake And Stupid by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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So U2 singer Bono is literally just doing illustrations for the imperialist propaganda rag The Atlantic now, because that is the sort of thing that happens in a dystopian civilization during the death throes of a globe-spanning empire.

A Washington Post article titled "Bono likes to sketch Atlantic covers, so the magazine hired him" reports that "Bono is into Atlantic cover fanfic - so much so that he was invited to illustrate the magazines June cover featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky."

Bonos latest contribution to the mountain of cringe-inducing Zelensky moments we have been seeing for the past year provides a cover image for an article by lifelong war propagandists Anne Applebaum and Jeffrey Goldberg. The article endorses a Ukrainian offensive to recapture Crimea, which experts largely agree would be the move most likely to trigger a nuclear war in this conflict.

Here is a paragraph from Applebaum and Goldbergs article, just to give you a taste of the infantile "Good Guys vs Bad Guys" framing that western liberals are being fed by mass media war propagandists these days:

"Sometimes, the war is described as a battle between autocracy and democracy, or between dictatorship and freedom. In truth, the differences between the two opponents are not merely ideological, but also sociological. Ukraines struggle against Russia pits a heterarchy against a hierarchy. An open, networked, flexible society-one that is both stronger at the grassroots level and more deeply integrated with Washington,D.C., Brussels, and Silicon Valley than anyone realized-is fighting a very large, very corrupt, top-down state. On one side, farmers defend their land and 20‑something engineers build eyes in the sky, using tools that would be familiar to 20‑something engineers anywhere else. On the other side, commanders send waves of poorly armed conscripts to be slaughtered-just as Stalin once sent shtrafbats, penal battalions, against the Nazis-under the leadership of a dictator obsessed with ancient bones. "The choice," Zelensky told us, "is between freedom and fear.""

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Bono is into Atlantic cover fanfic. So the magazine hired him:-Elahe Izadi (ElaheIzadi) May 1, 2023

Many westerners felt their first stirrings of youthful rebellious passions while listening to U2 songs like "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "Pride (In the Name of Love)", but nowadays Bonos voice is heard saying that he has "grown very fond" of war criminal George W Bush, praising capitalism at the World Economic Forum, teaming up with warmonger Lindsey Graham to promote United States empire narratives about Syria, and singing "Stand by Ukraine" in support of United States empire narratives in a Kyiv subway. And just when it looks like he can not become any more of a tool of the empire, he gets hired by one of the worlds worst militarist smut rags to draw a cover image of Mr. Zelensky.

Because that is just how things go in a highly controlled society where mainstream culture is designed to serve the powerful. A society where the minds of the public are continually being shaped by mass-scale psychological manipulation to ensure that they keep thinking, speaking, working, consuming and voting in ways which serve the rich and powerful. Everything that gets elevated to the top of mainstream attention facilitates this agenda (or is at least harmless to it), and as soon as it becomes potentially threatening to this agenda it is either corrected or marginalized away from mainstream attention.

This dynamic can cause some truly jaw-dropping flotsam and jetsam to surface in the roilings of our cultural waters, like Simpsons characters waving Ukrainian flags, or an opera about a drone operator sponsored by General Dynamics.

Not the Onion: The Kennedy Center is putting on an opera about a drone operator torn between her job killing targets and mom duties at home.

It is sponsored by-General Dynamics.-Robert Maguire (RobertMaguire April 18, 2023

Here is Responsible Statecrafts Connor Echols on that last one:

This fall, DC denizens will be treated to the world premiere of "Grounded," an opera following an Air Force ace named Jess whose unexpected pregnancy forces her to leave behind her beloved F-16 and join the "chair force."

Throughout the show, the "hot shot" pilot wrestles with the mental impact of firing rockets from a drone in Afghanistan from a trailer in Las Vegas. "As Jess tracks terrorists by day and rocks her daughter to sleep by night, the boundary between her worlds becomes dangerously permeable," an ad tells us.

The production is brought to you by presenting sponsor General Dynamics, one of the worlds largest weapons companies (and, would you not know it, the maker of Jess favorite plane). Playwright George Brant wrote the libretto, which will be brought to life by mezzo-soprano Emily D Angelo and Tony-winning composer Jeanine Tesori.

You will also see things like "humanitarian intervention" champion Samantha Power enthusiastically tweeting about the collaboration between the Sesame Street franchise and the Central Intelligence Agency cutout USAID in Iraq:

Great to hear from Basma & Jad about the new friends they are making in Iraq through Ahlan Simsim-a USAID & SesameWorkshop early learning activity that promotes inclusion, respect, and understanding by showing children from all different backgrounds coming together.-Samantha Power (PowerUSAID) April 19, 2023

You see things like this all the time under the shadow of the United States empire, and individually they do not look like much, but once you start noticing them you come to recognize them as symptoms of the profoundly diseased civilization that we are living in.

One where our heart strings are pulled in the most obnoxious ways imaginable to get us to support capitalism, empire and oligarchy, where we are manipulated into espousing values systems which benefit powerful sociopaths under the cover of noble-sounding causes. Where we are trained like rats to support systems that are driving our species toward extinction because our rulers gave lip service to humanitarianism and waved a rainbow flag.

This is what dystopia looks like!!!

Like a bunch of thought-controlled automatons mindlessly marching toward ecocide and omnicide to a beat played out by screens who tell them every day and in every way that there is no higher purpose than this.

Like military industrial complex-funded feminist rock operas about drone operators and Cookie Monster helping Samantha Power psychologically colonize Iraqi children. Like Bono coming home from singing a heartfelt number about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to illustrate a cover for a war propaganda piece in The Atlantic.

It is like they are pouring concrete over our hearts!

Sewing blindfolds over our souls!

Numbing us, distracting us, sedating us, so that the local riff raff will not interfere in the workings of the imperial machine!

They are killing off something beautiful and sacred in humanity, and they are doing it to roll out some of the ugliest visions this planet has ever seen!!

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