Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The oligarchic empire is working harder and harder to bolt down our minds in service of its agendas. Silicon Valley is working more and more openly in conjunction with the US government, and its algorithms elevate empire-authorized narratives
Is anyone talking about the incredible power differential between propagandists and propagandized, the one that's hundreds of times more disparate in favor of the supposed victims than its opposite?
I don't know what it's called but there's a narrative driven phenomenon that literally renders us blind to what happens right in front of our noses. We see it happen, someone can say did you just see that happen and we'd say yes, but then some renegade water-cannons the bullshit away and calls out what happened for what it essentially is, which means what it really is, everyone insists that the "fool" or "moron" or "subverter" doesn't know what they're talking about because you can't say *that* about *this*. I've had people argue that when authorities murder people it's not murder, and when authorities perpetrate violence, it's not violence, and when their war dogs decimate and pillage and rape, those aren't crimes against humanity, those are unavoidable collateral damage.
Not kidding.
That's how powerful compartmentalization can be. Put the same thing in a different box and put a different label on it and suddenly, subliminally, it feels like a different thing.
In terms of the inordinate expense and resource drain required to keep the propaganda juggernaut going and defend it against the truth -- which notice, means defending a little pack of lies against the entire universe that has no interest in playing along -- compared to lies, the ease and efficiency and speed at which truth spreads without any special support or encouragement and the difference in its impact wherever it goes makes it a no-brainer, hands down winner crossing the finish line before lies have managed three steps from the post.
It's bizarre to see how it works and then look at people dumbly staring as if they were blind would they just saw.
The only way it can work is if thousands and millions choose to lie right along with it.
Our complicity in the lies blinds us to the lies and blinds others who mistake the arrogance of the insensate for the confidence of the experienced.
We can't know what we can't see, when we don't see but pretend we know, in terms of what takes place in us cognitively, neurologically, it's like we opened an inner portal straight into the depths of the insane delusions of hell.
As soon as people realize where the power actually resides and that they were light to all this time to cringe in dread at the horrendous illusions played out on "world stage" -- does anyone notice what that expression implies in terms of humanity versus psychopathy? -- we'll finally see the insane and infantile games of the rich which cover and distract from their bloody, rape crazed secrets for what they are. The glory in their shame, and the smoke from the cataclysm that is coming to destroy all their works will go up forever and ever. We've never been closer to that tipping point.
I don't know I entirely agree with Caitlin's premise; if the Wizard no longer feels the need to even hide behind a curtain, is he working harder or easier?
It's true that trust in legacy media is at an all time low, and viewership of that media by the under 55 age group is almost non-existent, so the fight for control and censorship of on-line content is furious.
I'd like to believe that there's a bright dawn looming just beyond our dark horizon. I would also like to believe that there's a suitcase under my bed containing two million dollars, but at this point I can't tell which is the more likely.
I'm not as hopeful for the USA b/c of the deeply ingrained glorification and use of violence.
When I see police departments resemble Hunger Games 'peace keepers' and the airways filled with Ceaesar Flickerman clones, I think it's more likely that the USA will first descend into a revolution that will fail, leading to a rise of a Panem society.
Which, I believe will ultimately fail, but not after rivers of blood are spilled.
The rest of the world? Huh. I'm not so sure. I have opinions about other societies, but my experience and knowledge are shallow so I'll keep my mouth shut on that.
However I do live in Canada (left NYC in the mid 80's).
I think we're going to be OK here. First of all, our Federal Gov't is a minority one which inherently makes it more responsive to the people. Secondly, we've avoided the major stumbling blocks of the USA (living wage, universal health care, reasonable education system). While our own MSM is as captured as the USA, there's not the sense of desperate rage and fear that percolates up from the USA.
Canada if FAR from Utopia. But it is a much better functioning society overall.
I've become a fan of Robert Barnes. He fights for individual rights in court, but has a very cynical view of judges in general. He thinks the American people will awaken an put enough pressure on the courts and politicians to halt the growing totalitarianism, which as Caitlin says is rooted in propaganda. Like Caitlin, Barnes believes the narrative is collpasing.
Most piquant in my experience is how the American Gumby is conditioned to pavlovian hatred-on -demand. The most fear inspring experience from America is the use and abuse of Hatred, at the flick of a switch. That's why i call them gumby toys. They're not people anymore.
Americans can love Mexicans then Hate them viscerally with great bodily harm; Love Saudi Arabia, hate it tolerably, then cooperate again; Hate Afghanistan, Love Pakistan; Hate Lebanon Love UAE; Love China while corporate profits flow, then hate it when it's time to switch off; Love Philippines, fight war with Philippines. Nothing is too petty to fight over, but also nothing is so grave that it cannot be wilfully ignored via benign neglect.
All that is needed is to bend the gumby. That's where Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, Yale et al come in. Writing the narrative and justification. Then the last step is promotion/launch. This where Hollywood studios and their news divisions come in. Rinse Wash Repeat. It's quite a remarkable thing watching the gumby dance.
The longer we keep thinking that the source of our problems lies exclusively with the corporations, et al., the longer we self-propagandize. The cold hard fact is: many, many people have a stake in keeping the world the way it is now. This includes virtually all of (y)our readers. As long as the world as it is is at least partially the world as we think it ought to be, then that 'uprising' you mention will be delayed a long time. The corporations don't have all the power, you know - their power is nothing compared to ours. We just exercise it apathetically, giving them license to move freely. So long as the working class evades taking responsibility for capitalism, capitalism will continue to run its course.
"But I just can't help it. I look at how hard they are struggling to keep the light from bursting in and driving out the darkness, and I can't help but think, "Those poor bastards can't keep that up much longer.""
Except that they will now be deploying autonomous robots to do their bidding for them, that will never get tired. Autonomous robots that have been trained in psychology and neuroscience, trained on all the information that every individual has contributed about themselves on social media and their phones.
Thank you Caitlin, one of your best pieces ever, IMO. Look no further than Vanguard and Blackrock, and the few Others: the They. The They that does exist. There is a They and the They are now planning in league with all of their lower minion's and co-conspiritors (knowing and/or unknowing) in all governments, but not all the 'minds' or 'guns taken' yet of the People, particularly the US. Yes, be of good cheer the cat is out of the bag...finally. It's more than Hope. We all feel it. Similar too, in a way, to when the Berlin Wall fell, the Communist Party's members, in particular, the bureaucrat's and socialist's were totally in shock as the official narrative had been the exact opposite. Boom! The They couldn't control or stop it... This time we cannot let them make a come back, that's the big issue now, because they will just fall back (retreat is better than head on) and equivocate (reinforce the fear, deflect (economic disaster or biowarfare, who knows?), and use guerrilla warfare 4th and 5th Gen-style and it will be easy for them to do so. Know that. We can't be duped again and we absolutely have to maintain the Freedom of the Internet. The Comms. Even this little glimpse of Freedom does feel so damn good and I want more of it!!!
The claim that education make people stupid. For example, regarding the SARS-CoV-2 virus, it's disease Covid-19, and the vaccines, all one needed to do was to pay attention to only virologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, go only to valid scientific and medical web sites, watch Vincent Racaniello's college virology lectures and Brianne Barker's immunology lectures on youtube, listen to Vincent Racaniello's This Week in Virology (microbe.tv/twiv) podcast, etc, in other words educate yourself!
Stupid people support Trump for a variety of selfish, ignorant, narcissistic reasons. They made this problem in their support of the GOP and its lies told during elections and its appeal to their fear and sense of entitlement. Understand that the stupid people acted against the Civil Rights Act, they are not for individual rights, they fully supported the GOP's trickle-down and laissez-faire economic policies that created this mess. But they're too stupid to understand that they are the problem. They aren't educated enough to understand the connection between their choices, based on their beliefs, and the reality that they whine about. They are the problem.
Is anyone talking about the incredible power differential between propagandists and propagandized, the one that's hundreds of times more disparate in favor of the supposed victims than its opposite?
I don't know what it's called but there's a narrative driven phenomenon that literally renders us blind to what happens right in front of our noses. We see it happen, someone can say did you just see that happen and we'd say yes, but then some renegade water-cannons the bullshit away and calls out what happened for what it essentially is, which means what it really is, everyone insists that the "fool" or "moron" or "subverter" doesn't know what they're talking about because you can't say *that* about *this*. I've had people argue that when authorities murder people it's not murder, and when authorities perpetrate violence, it's not violence, and when their war dogs decimate and pillage and rape, those aren't crimes against humanity, those are unavoidable collateral damage.
Not kidding.
That's how powerful compartmentalization can be. Put the same thing in a different box and put a different label on it and suddenly, subliminally, it feels like a different thing.
In terms of the inordinate expense and resource drain required to keep the propaganda juggernaut going and defend it against the truth -- which notice, means defending a little pack of lies against the entire universe that has no interest in playing along -- compared to lies, the ease and efficiency and speed at which truth spreads without any special support or encouragement and the difference in its impact wherever it goes makes it a no-brainer, hands down winner crossing the finish line before lies have managed three steps from the post.
It's bizarre to see how it works and then look at people dumbly staring as if they were blind would they just saw.
The only way it can work is if thousands and millions choose to lie right along with it.
Our complicity in the lies blinds us to the lies and blinds others who mistake the arrogance of the insensate for the confidence of the experienced.
We can't know what we can't see, when we don't see but pretend we know, in terms of what takes place in us cognitively, neurologically, it's like we opened an inner portal straight into the depths of the insane delusions of hell.
As soon as people realize where the power actually resides and that they were light to all this time to cringe in dread at the horrendous illusions played out on "world stage" -- does anyone notice what that expression implies in terms of humanity versus psychopathy? -- we'll finally see the insane and infantile games of the rich which cover and distract from their bloody, rape crazed secrets for what they are. The glory in their shame, and the smoke from the cataclysm that is coming to destroy all their works will go up forever and ever. We've never been closer to that tipping point.
I don't know I entirely agree with Caitlin's premise; if the Wizard no longer feels the need to even hide behind a curtain, is he working harder or easier?
It's true that trust in legacy media is at an all time low, and viewership of that media by the under 55 age group is almost non-existent, so the fight for control and censorship of on-line content is furious.
I'd like to believe that there's a bright dawn looming just beyond our dark horizon. I would also like to believe that there's a suitcase under my bed containing two million dollars, but at this point I can't tell which is the more likely.
This is an OUTSTANDING new video once it is released and unlocked (on sub-stack and Rumble):
https://censorednews.substack.com/p/caa983ee-05d6-4e7d-8ba3-2cc9691ce4f7
YouTube Promotes CNN Lies and Hate Speech
Matt Orfalea -- Draft
I'm not as hopeful for the USA b/c of the deeply ingrained glorification and use of violence.
When I see police departments resemble Hunger Games 'peace keepers' and the airways filled with Ceaesar Flickerman clones, I think it's more likely that the USA will first descend into a revolution that will fail, leading to a rise of a Panem society.
Which, I believe will ultimately fail, but not after rivers of blood are spilled.
The rest of the world? Huh. I'm not so sure. I have opinions about other societies, but my experience and knowledge are shallow so I'll keep my mouth shut on that.
However I do live in Canada (left NYC in the mid 80's).
I think we're going to be OK here. First of all, our Federal Gov't is a minority one which inherently makes it more responsive to the people. Secondly, we've avoided the major stumbling blocks of the USA (living wage, universal health care, reasonable education system). While our own MSM is as captured as the USA, there's not the sense of desperate rage and fear that percolates up from the USA.
Canada if FAR from Utopia. But it is a much better functioning society overall.
I've become a fan of Robert Barnes. He fights for individual rights in court, but has a very cynical view of judges in general. He thinks the American people will awaken an put enough pressure on the courts and politicians to halt the growing totalitarianism, which as Caitlin says is rooted in propaganda. Like Caitlin, Barnes believes the narrative is collpasing.
Very hopeful, indeed.
kiersjust now
Amen: "you can advance any agenda you want to".
Most piquant in my experience is how the American Gumby is conditioned to pavlovian hatred-on -demand. The most fear inspring experience from America is the use and abuse of Hatred, at the flick of a switch. That's why i call them gumby toys. They're not people anymore.
Americans can love Mexicans then Hate them viscerally with great bodily harm; Love Saudi Arabia, hate it tolerably, then cooperate again; Hate Afghanistan, Love Pakistan; Hate Lebanon Love UAE; Love China while corporate profits flow, then hate it when it's time to switch off; Love Philippines, fight war with Philippines. Nothing is too petty to fight over, but also nothing is so grave that it cannot be wilfully ignored via benign neglect.
All that is needed is to bend the gumby. That's where Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, Yale et al come in. Writing the narrative and justification. Then the last step is promotion/launch. This where Hollywood studios and their news divisions come in. Rinse Wash Repeat. It's quite a remarkable thing watching the gumby dance.
The longer we keep thinking that the source of our problems lies exclusively with the corporations, et al., the longer we self-propagandize. The cold hard fact is: many, many people have a stake in keeping the world the way it is now. This includes virtually all of (y)our readers. As long as the world as it is is at least partially the world as we think it ought to be, then that 'uprising' you mention will be delayed a long time. The corporations don't have all the power, you know - their power is nothing compared to ours. We just exercise it apathetically, giving them license to move freely. So long as the working class evades taking responsibility for capitalism, capitalism will continue to run its course.
"But I just can't help it. I look at how hard they are struggling to keep the light from bursting in and driving out the darkness, and I can't help but think, "Those poor bastards can't keep that up much longer.""
Except that they will now be deploying autonomous robots to do their bidding for them, that will never get tired. Autonomous robots that have been trained in psychology and neuroscience, trained on all the information that every individual has contributed about themselves on social media and their phones.
Just walk away from social media.
Fakest whistle blower update:
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/21/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-us-intelligence/
"Those poor bastards". There's the empathy that we're sorely lacking towards the official Bad Guys. Maybe there really is hope.
Thank you Caitlin, one of your best pieces ever, IMO. Look no further than Vanguard and Blackrock, and the few Others: the They. The They that does exist. There is a They and the They are now planning in league with all of their lower minion's and co-conspiritors (knowing and/or unknowing) in all governments, but not all the 'minds' or 'guns taken' yet of the People, particularly the US. Yes, be of good cheer the cat is out of the bag...finally. It's more than Hope. We all feel it. Similar too, in a way, to when the Berlin Wall fell, the Communist Party's members, in particular, the bureaucrat's and socialist's were totally in shock as the official narrative had been the exact opposite. Boom! The They couldn't control or stop it... This time we cannot let them make a come back, that's the big issue now, because they will just fall back (retreat is better than head on) and equivocate (reinforce the fear, deflect (economic disaster or biowarfare, who knows?), and use guerrilla warfare 4th and 5th Gen-style and it will be easy for them to do so. Know that. We can't be duped again and we absolutely have to maintain the Freedom of the Internet. The Comms. Even this little glimpse of Freedom does feel so damn good and I want more of it!!!
The claim that education make people stupid. For example, regarding the SARS-CoV-2 virus, it's disease Covid-19, and the vaccines, all one needed to do was to pay attention to only virologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, go only to valid scientific and medical web sites, watch Vincent Racaniello's college virology lectures and Brianne Barker's immunology lectures on youtube, listen to Vincent Racaniello's This Week in Virology (microbe.tv/twiv) podcast, etc, in other words educate yourself!
Stupid people support Trump for a variety of selfish, ignorant, narcissistic reasons. They made this problem in their support of the GOP and its lies told during elections and its appeal to their fear and sense of entitlement. Understand that the stupid people acted against the Civil Rights Act, they are not for individual rights, they fully supported the GOP's trickle-down and laissez-faire economic policies that created this mess. But they're too stupid to understand that they are the problem. They aren't educated enough to understand the connection between their choices, based on their beliefs, and the reality that they whine about. They are the problem.