" Let in the despair. The grief. The rage. The pain. Let it move all the way through your system without resisting... "
Wise compassionate words from Caitlin. I like to think this is what most of us have been doing taking a sort of refuge in Caitlin's Newsletter, where we get to release some of our tensions - not that it makes an iota of difference to the psychopaths ruling over us, or the suffering of the Palestinians.
But reading Caitlin's earlier essay "Israeli Officials Explain Balancing Act Between Overt Genocide And Maintaining Western Support", I just couldn't contain my rage and despair.
A pretend concern, a hypocrisy is going on. "We will give them some food" said the President! But strictly on our's and Israel's terms. And what were these terms: the barest minimum of food that they decide is necessary for their victims and administered by Israeli army and American mercenaries! No doubt the western media will call them the peacemakers!
Western leaders have now come out mouthing inanities, when the carnage is already done.They are now okay to lifting the blockade a little. As if it wasn't the ultimate atrocity of using food as a weapon of war.
It is as if they weren't aware of the live-streamed genocide of the Palestinians the rest of us were witnessing for the past year and more. It is as if they didn't aid and abet with bombs, weapons, intelligence. Nurtured their partner in crime with diplomatic cover rendering the feeble UN more toothless than ever.
Did you notice that all these western powers talking of lifting the blockade, are not talking of lifting the siege. An end to the war?
They no doubt will write the history books distorting and lying and covering up, when and if all this is over. More academic tracts will be written. The Western media will wrap it all up in their usual propaganda spin.
Brainwashing us to make us forget and forgive!! We have done it before - being brainwashed -let's not do it again!
>>"They no doubt will write the history books distorting and lying and covering up, when and if all this is over. More academic tracts will be written. The Western media will wrap it all up in their usual propaganda spin.
Brainwashing us to make us forget and forgive!! We have done it before - being brainwashed -let's not do it again!"
Well said Indu! That is apparently how history seems to work. I wonder how much of what we know about the past is really true and how much of it is made up narratives, justifications, rationalizations, various distortions of truth, and more...
I understand the limitations of the past (in terms of preservation of information/archives/etc.), but what about in OUR current technological age? Will they (TPTB) be able to get away with the falsification of truth as easily as they have been able to do in the past?
Probably, the technology will make erasure even easier. Tick the items, click delete, and “poof” it never happened. Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” was never more relevant than now.
Possibly - especially with AI created fabrications... hence the need and importance for humans to be taught about critical thinking, propaganda, narratives, logic, skepticism, basic probability & statistics, etc. - so that people are equipped with the tools that are going to be needed in the coming AI-technology age of mass-deception and gaslighting narratives.
" Let in the despair. The grief. The rage. The pain. Let it move all the way through your system without resisting... "
Wise compassionate words from Caitlin. I like to think this is what most of us have been doing taking a sort of refuge in Caitlin's Newsletter, where we get to release some of our tensions - not that it makes an iota of difference to the psychopaths ruling over us, or the suffering of the Palestinians.
But reading Caitlin's earlier essay "Israeli Officials Explain Balancing Act Between Overt Genocide And Maintaining Western Support", I just couldn't contain my rage and despair.
A pretend concern, a hypocrisy is going on. "We will give them some food" said the President! But strictly on our's and Israel's terms. And what were these terms: the barest minimum of food that they decide is necessary for their victims and administered by Israeli army and American mercenaries! No doubt the western media will call them the peacemakers!
Western leaders have now come out mouthing inanities, when the carnage is already done.They are now okay to lifting the blockade a little. As if it wasn't the ultimate atrocity of using food as a weapon of war.
It is as if they weren't aware of the live-streamed genocide of the Palestinians the rest of us were witnessing for the past year and more. It is as if they didn't aid and abet with bombs, weapons, intelligence. Nurtured their partner in crime with diplomatic cover rendering the feeble UN more toothless than ever.
Did you notice that all these western powers talking of lifting the blockade, are not talking of lifting the siege. An end to the war?
They no doubt will write the history books distorting and lying and covering up, when and if all this is over. More academic tracts will be written. The Western media will wrap it all up in their usual propaganda spin.
Brainwashing us to make us forget and forgive!! We have done it before - being brainwashed -let's not do it again!
>>"They no doubt will write the history books distorting and lying and covering up, when and if all this is over. More academic tracts will be written. The Western media will wrap it all up in their usual propaganda spin.
Brainwashing us to make us forget and forgive!! We have done it before - being brainwashed -let's not do it again!"
Well said Indu! That is apparently how history seems to work. I wonder how much of what we know about the past is really true and how much of it is made up narratives, justifications, rationalizations, various distortions of truth, and more...
I understand the limitations of the past (in terms of preservation of information/archives/etc.), but what about in OUR current technological age? Will they (TPTB) be able to get away with the falsification of truth as easily as they have been able to do in the past?
Probably, the technology will make erasure even easier. Tick the items, click delete, and “poof” it never happened. Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” was never more relevant than now.
Thank you Chang for a very perceptive comment. Like Joy here says maybe it will be even easier to create false narratives in this technological age.
Possibly - especially with AI created fabrications... hence the need and importance for humans to be taught about critical thinking, propaganda, narratives, logic, skepticism, basic probability & statistics, etc. - so that people are equipped with the tools that are going to be needed in the coming AI-technology age of mass-deception and gaslighting narratives.