Listen to a reading of this article: In the later years of an abusive relationship I was in, my abuser had become so confident in how mentally caged he had me that he'd start overtly telling me what he is and what he was doing. He flat-out told me he was a sociopath and a manipulator, trusting that I was so submitted to his will by that point that I'd gaslight myself into reframing those statements in a sympathetic light. Toward the end one time he told me "I am going to rape you," and then he did, and then he talked about it to some friends trusting that I'd run perception management on it for him.
Look at yourself in a mirror. Imagine the synapses of your brain being crowbarred into a more receptive configuration (a half-assed metaphor because, in reality it's usually altered brain biochemistry rather than any distinctly mechanical change). Your brain's been drowning in propaganda since you became linguistically competent in your first three years. If relevant, religious fables began that process, their danger being a sort of softening-up of any resistance to being lied to --- propagandized. Those early years of conditioning the propaganda-receptivity of your brain were followed by a tsunami of patriotic-rubbish brainwashing, as they pumped bogus US history into you, especially in secondary school. Then you get Western civilization (neglecting alternatives) and the primacy and un-questioning glorification of capitalism in a typical university curriculum. Followed by a lifetime of lies inserted into popular discourse by the media in cooperation with initiatives like Operation Mockingbird. And don't forget the advertising industry, whose job it is to propagandize us continually with lies and hyperbole. Based on a mind-brain drowning in this gold-plated fecal matter, they urge us to participate in "democracy" by casting meaningless votes for mediocrities that are presented to us as packages swathed in propaganda. Is it any wonder that living in such a society makes us either complete serfs or alternatively provokes us to question the entire American fairy tale?
I think this article is a "book-end" to yesterday's, "Humanity Is Sloppily, Awkwardly Lumbering Toward Consciousness". All of Humanity has been suffering from an abusive relationship with the Oligarchy. Like Al Capone, they once in a great while do "nice things" so that we love them even while they gaslight us into believing in those institutions that control and abuse us.
I'm guessing the cratering of cable news viewership post Trump is behind the latest democratic censorship orgasm and the Biden repackaging of valid criticism as domestic terrorism. Seems we are in a race between avalanching repression disguised as hugs and kisses vs. waking up to a wet towel in the face. I daily wonder if humanity is up for the hard but necessary choice.
"So they're just getting more and more brazen the more confident they feel about how propaganda-addled and submissive the population has become. " This is a really negative interpretation of what's going on. I'd say it's more that they know what the asset is worth and who values it, and have decided there's not much point in trying to be subtle or secretive anymore: the people who still believe these sources are likely to do so regardless, and the ones who are lost are going to stay lost. I find they idea that the believers aren't going to budge regardless counter-intuitive, but you can be sure they've considered the question.
Martin promised a spreadsheet naming those Democrats, but I've been unable to find it. He drops a few names here and there but (for me) it never adds up to the number he claims. If someone knows where to find a list, that could be very helpful.
Perhaps someone has already published the list on the web only to have it "sanitized"?
As the game escalates it naturally becomes more obvious, and political sociopaths (psychopaths) as with everyday sociopaths and psychopaths become more direct - because they can, until the critical mass of bullshit on the ground is arrived at. Then choices must be made. And that is scary, but unavoidable. We know what they are capable of - the deaths of the 99% from COVID, lack of employment, lack of health care, housing and proper food, compared with the massive profit of elites says they can't be trusted. Not domestically, and not on foreign policy. They are not tilting at nuclear war for our benefit, we can be sure of that.
Dan Kovalik is an American human rights, labor rights lawyer and peace activist. He has contributed articles to CounterPunch, The Huffington Post and TeleSUR. He teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Today we talk about his new book Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture.
Look at yourself in a mirror. Imagine the synapses of your brain being crowbarred into a more receptive configuration (a half-assed metaphor because, in reality it's usually altered brain biochemistry rather than any distinctly mechanical change). Your brain's been drowning in propaganda since you became linguistically competent in your first three years. If relevant, religious fables began that process, their danger being a sort of softening-up of any resistance to being lied to --- propagandized. Those early years of conditioning the propaganda-receptivity of your brain were followed by a tsunami of patriotic-rubbish brainwashing, as they pumped bogus US history into you, especially in secondary school. Then you get Western civilization (neglecting alternatives) and the primacy and un-questioning glorification of capitalism in a typical university curriculum. Followed by a lifetime of lies inserted into popular discourse by the media in cooperation with initiatives like Operation Mockingbird. And don't forget the advertising industry, whose job it is to propagandize us continually with lies and hyperbole. Based on a mind-brain drowning in this gold-plated fecal matter, they urge us to participate in "democracy" by casting meaningless votes for mediocrities that are presented to us as packages swathed in propaganda. Is it any wonder that living in such a society makes us either complete serfs or alternatively provokes us to question the entire American fairy tale?
I think this article is a "book-end" to yesterday's, "Humanity Is Sloppily, Awkwardly Lumbering Toward Consciousness". All of Humanity has been suffering from an abusive relationship with the Oligarchy. Like Al Capone, they once in a great while do "nice things" so that we love them even while they gaslight us into believing in those institutions that control and abuse us.
You did a better job waking me up today than my fourth cup of coffee. Keep it up.
I'm guessing the cratering of cable news viewership post Trump is behind the latest democratic censorship orgasm and the Biden repackaging of valid criticism as domestic terrorism. Seems we are in a race between avalanching repression disguised as hugs and kisses vs. waking up to a wet towel in the face. I daily wonder if humanity is up for the hard but necessary choice.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/527187-ben-affleck-cia-agency/
Merely confirming what everybody already should have known. And if you think that this is where it ends....
"So they're just getting more and more brazen the more confident they feel about how propaganda-addled and submissive the population has become. " This is a really negative interpretation of what's going on. I'd say it's more that they know what the asset is worth and who values it, and have decided there's not much point in trying to be subtle or secretive anymore: the people who still believe these sources are likely to do so regardless, and the ones who are lost are going to stay lost. I find they idea that the believers aren't going to budge regardless counter-intuitive, but you can be sure they've considered the question.
As an aside, Peter B. interviewed Patrick Martin on the CIA Democrats. https://www.peterbcollins.com/2018/03/23/in-depth-interview-reporter-patrick-martin-explains-how-democrats-are-running-dozens-of-cia-military-vets-for-congress/
Martin promised a spreadsheet naming those Democrats, but I've been unable to find it. He drops a few names here and there but (for me) it never adds up to the number he claims. If someone knows where to find a list, that could be very helpful.
Perhaps someone has already published the list on the web only to have it "sanitized"?
As the game escalates it naturally becomes more obvious, and political sociopaths (psychopaths) as with everyday sociopaths and psychopaths become more direct - because they can, until the critical mass of bullshit on the ground is arrived at. Then choices must be made. And that is scary, but unavoidable. We know what they are capable of - the deaths of the 99% from COVID, lack of employment, lack of health care, housing and proper food, compared with the massive profit of elites says they can't be trusted. Not domestically, and not on foreign policy. They are not tilting at nuclear war for our benefit, we can be sure of that.
Do not forget where the Bushes hailed from. https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/george-h-w-bush-the-11th-director-of-central-intelligence/
and there is still a lot of questions out about the Libertarian, Timothy Leary.
Dan Kovalik is an American human rights, labor rights lawyer and peace activist. He has contributed articles to CounterPunch, The Huffington Post and TeleSUR. He teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Today we talk about his new book Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture.
Covert is right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX0bnXbwqQw