When Enough People Become Disillusioned New Illusions Are Provided

The News is What Someone Else Wants You to Think About!

I have recently written, that “Rival nations on both sides of every conflict have some important trends in common.”, and that “Preparations are being made to adopt digital I.D. and Central Bank Digital Currencies worldwide. Ukraine, while at war with Russia, has issued digital I.D.s with digital wallets. Russia is issuing its own digital currency. At least one hundred countries are developing CBDCs. A feature of these digital currencies is programmability. The use of your own money will be monitored and regulated in any way that those with authority may choose. The Bank for International Settlements has proposed a Universal Ledger to register and to control ownership of assets.”

I think that it is safe to assume that Tucker Carlson’s February 6th interview of Vladimir Putin can be seen as a tool of narrative management, after all both Tucker’s and his father’s careers have been devoted to this purpose. When the public was being led to want military aggression after 9/11 Tucker was on that team. Now that we are being told (better late than never) that the American Empire is in rapid decline he is serving to condition our responses. Tucker spoke about the Putin interview at the World Government Summit in Dubai. If you were favorably impressed by the Putin interview you may like what he said in Dubai, but consider this, globalist venues are not known for hosting truly adversarial conversations. Whether Carlson asked, or was asked, to speak at the World Government Summit clearly he was allowed to share their stage. His presence there must serve some purpose.

Government and corporate entities involved in governance build upon failure. Just as having an election every few years serves to facilitate the need to blame the other team for any perceived problem, while excusing your own champion for never really succeeding, any wave in cultural shift can be ridden by those who presume to have authority.

Regardless of what the narrative managers real personal opinions about cultural trends may be, the current backlash against a label, such as “woke-ism” can be guided to serve the perennial lust for authoritarianism. The historic trend is consistent. Consider this, Kitty Werthmann’s account of Austria’s having welcomed Hitler’s government. With Communist and Nazis fighting in the street, Austrians were desperate. Communist were rioting and destroying property. Austria held a referendum and invited Hitler to restore order. Does the situation that she described not resemble what we have witnessed in recent years? Should we presume that we are somehow inherently wiser than they were? Beyond Hitler’s rise consider his defeat as documented, by James Corbett, in Why We Must Oppose Bilderberg. This documentary, about the once infamous Bilderberg group, proceeds to reveal how after Germany’s defeat became imminent, Nazi industrialists and collaborators conspired to form the European Union and to establish influential groups to guide international relationships.

At first glance the E.U. and Nazi Germany may not appear similar. Repeating patterns in human societies are not easily recognized while they are in progress because we tend to focus on labels. We will be better served to strive to recognize trend lines that transcend political shifts. Labels are changed, actors, groups acting, and roles that these groups play change with each cycle. We, the shortsighted, maintain our loyalties to some standard-bearer, while failing to strive to discern what standards should be born.

“How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?”

Camille Paglia “a critic of contemporary American feminism and of post-structuralism, as well as a commentator on multiple aspects of American culture such as its visual art, music, and film history” is notably different than most social commentators in that she is often reviled by those with whom she has much in common, and she is often embraced by many who may seem to be her natural enemies. Watch as Dr. Steve Turley offers remarks about one of her earlier interviews. Notice how readily he accepts the flattery of a cultural outsider whose opinions serve to bolster his own. Now consider his failure to recognize the good example that she is setting by not being a team player. He seems to suggest that marginally informed and emotionally driven traditionalists can prevail even though history teaches that frightened desperate people will suspend their personal responsibility and judgement in support of an authoritarian, one who promises quick and easy, rewarding solutions, without sacrifice, without thoughtfulness, and without risk. Turley, like ourselves, seems to not realize that roles in the repeating cycles of history are appointed, but only because we neglect to become conscious enough to make our own choices. If political winds shift left or right why shouldn’t we expect those who are ambitious and resourceful enough to ride those waves? Stepping away from the apparent security of conformance and into the uncertainty of attempting independent thought is frightening. The affirmation of peers is comforting but answering the questions that arise whenever we are out of step requires effort.

The News is What Someone Else Wants You to Think About!

During G.W. Bush’s presidency Cindy Sheehan’s protests were prominent in the news-cycle. After Barack Obama’s election she seemed to disappear. Even though her antiwar protest didn’t end with Obama’s election the custodians of mediated reality quickly wrote her out of the story. A story-line that is constantly being imposed on the masses.

The News really is what someone else wants you to think about. When consuming media, consider your own reaction to what you are shown. What purposes do the things you feel, think, or do in response serve? Did you choose those purposes or did someone else? Do you ever properly vet the worthiness of the influences that cause you to always react predictably?

During the 2020 Democratic primary presidential debates Tulsi Gabbard got attention for her unique antiwar position. Her claim was that monies saved by a rollback of the United States Empire could be spent on domestic programs. Notably it also appeared that her campaign’s exposure may have been suppressed by tech companies.

“Tulsi Now Inc., the campaign committee for Ms. Gabbard, said Google suspended the campaign’s advertising account for six hours on June 27 and June 28, obstructing its ability to raise money and spread her message to potential voters.

After the first Democratic debate, Ms. Gabbard was briefly the most searched-for candidate on Google. Her campaign wanted to capitalize on the attention she was receiving by buying ads that would have placed its website at the top of search results for her name.

The lawsuit also said the Gabbard campaign believed its emails were being placed in spam folders on Gmail at “a disproportionately high rate” when compared with emails from other Democratic candidates.”

Similarly Donald Trump has been and sometimes still is billed as a peace candidate. His current, emotionally gratifying, tough talk includes threats to not aid in the defense of fellow NATO members that do not pay their fully assessed dues to the organization.

Both of their proposals are similarly flawed. Gabbard promised riches from the cost savings of a diminished military footprint. She failed, however, to warn her base of support, that the prestige and value of the U.S. Dollar depends on military enforcement. The phantom wealth that she promised was never certain, but the difficult adjustments of a failing national currency certainly would have been. Trump’s assertion that American money can continue to buy influence as an unchallenged hedgemon denies that the U.S Dollar’s prestige is already crumbling. They both are selling fantasies.

As for Trump being a peace candidate, consider this from 2011. Here he was seen egging President Obama on to invade Libya. He even suggested that we could have profited by being rewarded with Libyan oil. The characters used for narrative management maintain their personas from one season to the next but alter their positions and emphasis to suit the needs of the current version of the story-line being promoted.

Whether it is matters of war, domestic surveillance, financial security, or any other pressing matter, the public seems to be easily led to support actions that do not serve them well. We are quick to forget these failures when other hazards, real or imagined, are injected into our collective consciousness.

Now is a good time to sharpen our tools. A review of the history that brought us to crisis, and a pursuit of dispassionate critical independent thought are desperately needed. Choosing the lesser evil again and again, then hoping that the professional managerial class will serve us well while we sleep, has served to increase our tolerance for evil. Not assuming responsibility for the future is effectively unconditional surrender.

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May 6, 2020

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We’ve been asleep at the wheel for a long time already!

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