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Millard J Melnyk's avatar

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.

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Riff McClavin's avatar

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.

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