"Instead, the empire has opted to barrel forward with its aggressions against Russia and is now doing the same with China, and anyone who points out that these are terrifyingly incendiary provocations gets shouted down by what essentially amount to arguments against reality."
That's geo-political gaslighting, a US government speciality.
Our elites are out of control with the smug superiority of their incompetence, and the political system is useless to replace them, even just with better elites. I doubt that we can avoid catastrophe thanks to these schmucks.
It’s not a huge prophesy any analyst worth his salt would have told you as much... Most don’t realise that Russia has been invaded three times since the 19th Century by Western forces.
As someone not very knowledgeable about history, I'd be most grateful if you would spell out (what I imagine is to you) the obvious? What are those 3 occasions please?
Empire and its managers deal in rationalizations, not Reason. At least in the West, our leadership class seems composed of brain-chipped robots, with Canada's "Applaud-a-Nazi!" Trudeau taking the brain-chipped cake most recently...
There's something about the way MSM newsreaders talk that makes a certain kind of person forget about reason and believe what they're saying, no matter what it is. It's comforting to be told that your side is always in the right, especially if everyone around you agrees
You noticed! NPR is soothing ,Fox screaming and MSNBC is serious and a how can this happen. Tailoring to the particular personality types of the audience.
I don't know much about how newsreaders talk, but years ago I got the NYT newsletter & unsubscribed when the writing all seemed edited by the same person or team. It read/reads like bland TV news.
Yes there's a lot of neuro linguistic programming going on. People hear phrases like "Putin's brutal unprovoked full scale war of aggression" enough times that they start unconsciously believing it
"It is perhaps difficult for those who have not themselves experienced it to realize how 'blessed' it is to face the truth about oneself and what a 'cursed' state it is to cherish illusions." ~Barbara Hannah
True, Russia's position on Ukraine is a fact, but it is a fact that is the consequence of some emotional content: insane hatred and distrust of Russia to the point that murderous proclivities and activities are considered by some as less important in themselves than their alleged usefulness for Russian propaganda. That seems to be what the prime minister of Canada was saying in his twisted apology re the unfortunate Yaroslav Hunka affair in the Canadian House of Commons - Hunka having been fulsomely applauded when introduced as a freedom fighter -instead of what he was: a murderous officer in the Waffen SS.
i don't think deep down it really is an 'insane hatred and distrust of Russia', in the end there's just some people who want to take away (steal) stuff (resources, markets, labour, ...) from russia and they have the means and the system to wind up entire populations in their support.
They use anti-Russia propaganda to this end. Russia was just mentioned in the Canadian Parliament last week as the enemy we were fighting in WWII, instead of our ally against Nazism. That kind of historical misinformation doesn't happen without preexisting and deep-rooted prejudice, because it can't succeed otherwise. Russia supplies cheap oil and gas that Europe badly needs, but their pipeline was destroyed even though jointly owned by Germany. That was done to force Europe to buy much more expensive US gas. That can't be accomplished successfully without roiling up hatred and prejudice against the better supplier. Now India is buying Russian gas and reselling to the EU. Not unexpectedly, India is being accused by Canada of complicity in the murder of a Canadian resident- a Khalistani activist and murderer no one even in India supported. I call that true insanity even though it is deliberate and purposeful.
This is a reminder of the geopolitical games we play, and how most of us still believe in our tribe’s moral authority without question. I guess that’s been true since dawn of time.
But maybe it will change? I think Ukraine maybe a notable because the internet will ultimately breach propaganda control, and the war seems unlikely to have a clear victor who can own the “historisation”. We’ll just be left with a death count unseen since WW2 and reviews of our role from both supportive and non-supportive perspectives. I think the unknown is whether we’ll feel any guilt given that our tribal supremacy will still be under threat.
Life in the empire is a carousel of wars, each displacing the last one and pointing towards the next one. A sense of the present is handed down from on high, the role of an instrumental media that practices ahistorical pseudo-journalism.
Don't compare contemporary Russia with contemporary China (PRC). Taiwan's culture is different from the PRC's. Taiwanese see themselves as Taiwanese, not as Chinese (PRCers). They do not want to end up like Hong Kong & Hong Kongers. Nixon didn't have the right to hand over Taiwan to the PRC. Nor did Japan. PRC never ruled Taiwan. If you don't live & work in Taiwan, stay out of the discussion bc you don't know what you're talking about.
If the Taiwanese are watching Ukraine, they ought to think twice about having their sovereignty and identity kept intact by getting in bed with the Americans. The American State has consistently shown that all of its actions are transactional, and its pronouncements have never been in line with its decisions. The Ukrainians that the U.S. claims to be supporting are being erased. China may feel nervous about American plans to use Taiwan as a launching point to attack the mainland, but the Taiwanese fear and hatred of the PRC ought not blind it to the likelihood that it will be obliterated if they allow the Americans to do just that. By signaling to their most hated foe that they have no intention of being an American pawn, they would have the best possible outcome.
The only way to impose an order that benefits the Elite at the expense of everyone else is to create a chaos large enough that the desired 'order' is the only logical solution.
This is exactly what is quite intentionally being done today on a worldwide scale.
None of this is taking place by accident or as the result of poor judgement or misguided ideals. It's all done on purpose in order to accomplish a specific goal - World Government; of the Elite by the Elite and decidedly, for the Elite.
This isn't a recent development either. It's an open conspiracy that can be easily traced back for well over a hundred years.
We just happened to live during a time when they may very well be able to accomplish The Great Work.
The US isn't arguing with reality at all. It's creating it's own version of it. Irrational and insane. And although one can't argue with reality one can argue with those who are creating it for their own gain by their actions. The reality of what the majority of Americans are living in (debt slavery etc) has been created by the government and corporations. The US government is dealing with international issues the same way as domestic issues. Doing as they will for their own gain without regard to citizens or countries and doing so with the threat of force or force itself if necessary. Russia,China and North Korea may not be as passive or tolerant as American citizens have been. A country is not the same as a single person. The US may push them over the brink of nuclear brinkmanship. In the last few weeks we have acquired a new cold war over virtually nothing but the US pushing for it.
And virtually no one I know gives a rats ass or will get off theirs to do anything. But I do like the reaction when I look towards the army base to the north east and say "Can't wait to see the bright flash and the pretty colors with the mushroom cloud".
"Instead, the empire has opted to barrel forward with its aggressions against Russia and is now doing the same with China, and anyone who points out that these are terrifyingly incendiary provocations gets shouted down by what essentially amount to arguments against reality."
That's geo-political gaslighting, a US government speciality.
Our elites are out of control with the smug superiority of their incompetence, and the political system is useless to replace them, even just with better elites. I doubt that we can avoid catastrophe thanks to these schmucks.
I wish the richest country in the world could find something better to do with its money than destroy the world and have a huge war.
Only in your dreams
It’s not a huge prophesy any analyst worth his salt would have told you as much... Most don’t realise that Russia has been invaded three times since the 19th Century by Western forces.
As someone not very knowledgeable about history, I'd be most grateful if you would spell out (what I imagine is to you) the obvious? What are those 3 occasions please?
Excellent article. As TS Eliot said, empire symps cannot bear too much reality.
Empire and its managers deal in rationalizations, not Reason. At least in the West, our leadership class seems composed of brain-chipped robots, with Canada's "Applaud-a-Nazi!" Trudeau taking the brain-chipped cake most recently...
Trudeau is now the weakest link in the WEF chains. Heave ho, my hearties! He has to go and go now!
There's something about the way MSM newsreaders talk that makes a certain kind of person forget about reason and believe what they're saying, no matter what it is. It's comforting to be told that your side is always in the right, especially if everyone around you agrees
You noticed! NPR is soothing ,Fox screaming and MSNBC is serious and a how can this happen. Tailoring to the particular personality types of the audience.
Yes it's remarkable how people watch news that communicates similarly to how they do isn't it? 🤔
They are not paid fantastical salaries for nowt.
Yes. I read the comments on WAPO.
Oof why do that to yourself
Purely out of interest. Psychogically
I think it is a sort of herd instinct.
Yes. The Bandwagon Effect is an important method of propaganda.
I don't know much about how newsreaders talk, but years ago I got the NYT newsletter & unsubscribed when the writing all seemed edited by the same person or team. It read/reads like bland TV news.
Yes there's a lot of neuro linguistic programming going on. People hear phrases like "Putin's brutal unprovoked full scale war of aggression" enough times that they start unconsciously believing it
I think in the US the 2 words: Communism and Socialism have been batted around for years!
Have to have an 'evil empire' for the people?
It's a war campaign. Which needs a marketing campaign.
"It is perhaps difficult for those who have not themselves experienced it to realize how 'blessed' it is to face the truth about oneself and what a 'cursed' state it is to cherish illusions." ~Barbara Hannah
“Would you rather be illusioned or disillusioned.” -Gabor Mate’
When wealth is inherited, privileged stupidity becomes the norm.
True, Russia's position on Ukraine is a fact, but it is a fact that is the consequence of some emotional content: insane hatred and distrust of Russia to the point that murderous proclivities and activities are considered by some as less important in themselves than their alleged usefulness for Russian propaganda. That seems to be what the prime minister of Canada was saying in his twisted apology re the unfortunate Yaroslav Hunka affair in the Canadian House of Commons - Hunka having been fulsomely applauded when introduced as a freedom fighter -instead of what he was: a murderous officer in the Waffen SS.
i don't think deep down it really is an 'insane hatred and distrust of Russia', in the end there's just some people who want to take away (steal) stuff (resources, markets, labour, ...) from russia and they have the means and the system to wind up entire populations in their support.
They use anti-Russia propaganda to this end. Russia was just mentioned in the Canadian Parliament last week as the enemy we were fighting in WWII, instead of our ally against Nazism. That kind of historical misinformation doesn't happen without preexisting and deep-rooted prejudice, because it can't succeed otherwise. Russia supplies cheap oil and gas that Europe badly needs, but their pipeline was destroyed even though jointly owned by Germany. That was done to force Europe to buy much more expensive US gas. That can't be accomplished successfully without roiling up hatred and prejudice against the better supplier. Now India is buying Russian gas and reselling to the EU. Not unexpectedly, India is being accused by Canada of complicity in the murder of a Canadian resident- a Khalistani activist and murderer no one even in India supported. I call that true insanity even though it is deliberate and purposeful.
This is a reminder of the geopolitical games we play, and how most of us still believe in our tribe’s moral authority without question. I guess that’s been true since dawn of time.
But maybe it will change? I think Ukraine maybe a notable because the internet will ultimately breach propaganda control, and the war seems unlikely to have a clear victor who can own the “historisation”. We’ll just be left with a death count unseen since WW2 and reviews of our role from both supportive and non-supportive perspectives. I think the unknown is whether we’ll feel any guilt given that our tribal supremacy will still be under threat.
Life in the empire is a carousel of wars, each displacing the last one and pointing towards the next one. A sense of the present is handed down from on high, the role of an instrumental media that practices ahistorical pseudo-journalism.
I hope our sense of the present will become more accurate as the media becomes more fragmented.
“Plenty breeds Pride; Pride, Enuy, Enuy, Warre, Warre, Pouerty,
Pouerty, Humble Care. Humility breeds Peace, and Peace breeds Plenty;
Thus round this world doth rowle alternately.”
~ The World’s Whirlegigge
Robert Hayman
Governor of Newfound-Land
Anno Domini : 1631
Newfoundland 1631! He certainly succeeded in getting away from it all.
Love. Gulliver's Travels, annoted, is filled with such wisdoms.
Don't compare contemporary Russia with contemporary China (PRC). Taiwan's culture is different from the PRC's. Taiwanese see themselves as Taiwanese, not as Chinese (PRCers). They do not want to end up like Hong Kong & Hong Kongers. Nixon didn't have the right to hand over Taiwan to the PRC. Nor did Japan. PRC never ruled Taiwan. If you don't live & work in Taiwan, stay out of the discussion bc you don't know what you're talking about.
If the Taiwanese are watching Ukraine, they ought to think twice about having their sovereignty and identity kept intact by getting in bed with the Americans. The American State has consistently shown that all of its actions are transactional, and its pronouncements have never been in line with its decisions. The Ukrainians that the U.S. claims to be supporting are being erased. China may feel nervous about American plans to use Taiwan as a launching point to attack the mainland, but the Taiwanese fear and hatred of the PRC ought not blind it to the likelihood that it will be obliterated if they allow the Americans to do just that. By signaling to their most hated foe that they have no intention of being an American pawn, they would have the best possible outcome.
The only way to impose an order that benefits the Elite at the expense of everyone else is to create a chaos large enough that the desired 'order' is the only logical solution.
This is exactly what is quite intentionally being done today on a worldwide scale.
None of this is taking place by accident or as the result of poor judgement or misguided ideals. It's all done on purpose in order to accomplish a specific goal - World Government; of the Elite by the Elite and decidedly, for the Elite.
This isn't a recent development either. It's an open conspiracy that can be easily traced back for well over a hundred years.
We just happened to live during a time when they may very well be able to accomplish The Great Work.
The US isn't arguing with reality at all. It's creating it's own version of it. Irrational and insane. And although one can't argue with reality one can argue with those who are creating it for their own gain by their actions. The reality of what the majority of Americans are living in (debt slavery etc) has been created by the government and corporations. The US government is dealing with international issues the same way as domestic issues. Doing as they will for their own gain without regard to citizens or countries and doing so with the threat of force or force itself if necessary. Russia,China and North Korea may not be as passive or tolerant as American citizens have been. A country is not the same as a single person. The US may push them over the brink of nuclear brinkmanship. In the last few weeks we have acquired a new cold war over virtually nothing but the US pushing for it.
And virtually no one I know gives a rats ass or will get off theirs to do anything. But I do like the reaction when I look towards the army base to the north east and say "Can't wait to see the bright flash and the pretty colors with the mushroom cloud".
So how far will the US go is the question.