Listen to a reading of this article: The science of modern propaganda arguably got its start over a century ago during World War I when a young Edward Bernays was recruited to help sell the conflict to a reluctant American populace, after which he took what he'd learned on that front and folded it into a lifetime of work on the study of mass-scale psychological manipulation.
"What a blessing it is for rulers that people are sheep." - A. Hitler.
The subject was cats: when Boswell said he didn’t care for them, Rousseau pounced. Men who disliked cats were tyrannical: “They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never consent to become a slave. He will do nothing to your order, as the other animals do.”
“Nor a hen, either,” Boswell objected. “A hen would obey your orders if you could make her understand them,” the philosopher rejoined, “but a cat will understand you perfectly and not obey them.”
Just after reading this post, I read another by Patrick Lawrence in Consortium News, which featured a quote by Bertrand Russell, one that struck me as so appropriate to my recollections of some of the authoritarian droning of my "colleagues" in "higher education", so-called professors who flung standard unmitigated rubbish at students as fact. This ensured that their lecture halls full of indoctrinated-since-the-cradle charges would fail to ever grasp the extent of their own mental prisons. And that grading them would be simple: Just regurgitate my truth for your grade.
Russell's simple statement reveals the embarrassing truth about the US higher educational system that most of us struggle to ignore, but which is complicit in sustaining this Dawn-of-civilization narrative control among our so-called best-educated:
“But the utility of intelligence is admitted only theoretically, not practically; it is not desired that ordinary people should think for themselves, because it is felt that people who think for themselves are awkward to manage and cause administrative problems.”
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." ~ H. L. Mencken ..... For context - from the end of WW I until the Great Depression, Mencken reached an audience unmatched by any other political or cultural figure in American history. Today he is largely forgotten.
Exactly! When John D. Rockefeller donated money to the federal government earmarked for a Department of Education he said: "I don't want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers.!!!"
Just smart enough to do the work they were programed to choose, but not smart enough to figure out that they were wage slaves. Edit: ARE wage slaves.
A topic after my own heart, thank you Caitlin! It's an interesting term, 'the dawn of civilization,' by which we usually mean Western oligarchies modeled after Greece and using a form of coinage that co-opted the populace into the conquest and enslavement of their neighbors. Those were the first two psy-ops, I think. Agriculture gets a bad rap but The Dawn of Everything by the late David Graeber and David Wengrow shows that it's not the villain--the monetization of land and labor was, in service to the lord, king, pharaoh, emperor. And the next psy-ops was the empire-generated story of Jesus, which I write about in this post, followed by two on The Dawn of Everything:
Oh what a hard choice, Alan! My book, How to Dismantle an Empire, uses Debt as its primary foundation and is dedicated to him, along with Ursula K Le Guin, Howard Zinn, Anthony Bourdain and Eduardo Galleano. Someday I'll add Wendell Berry but I don't want to jinx him. That book changed everything I thought I knew about money.
But I might agree with you. Dawn changed everything I thought I knew about governance, and the inevitability of how things are now. It continues to inform how I think and will probably be as much of a foundation of the next book, How to Build a Commonwealth. Here's the link to the first, if you're interested: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
You lost me in the past two paragraphs where you said maybe one day we can transcend our humanity essentially and become something better. I don't think so. As you outlined yourself, societies based on domination and subjugation and exploitation have always been the order and that will never change. There are improvements possible of course, but the overarching narrative determining human organization (the powerful reigning over the masses, greed, war, endless quest for control and dominance) will never change. I know you want to have hope and I don't blame you, but I am always amazed how despite being so amazingly astute, you still are holding out hope that maybe one day we can overcome our programming and thus what is in our nature and which has defined our civilizations and with it species since day one, with seemingly sheer willpower. Or by "working at it". Like work at it how? Do you think if people could will into existence a better world they wouldnt have done do already? Or maybe it is because they just don't want to. They cannot.
Humanity is going to end one way and one way only: by burning itself and this planet to the ground. There is nothing to indicate in our species' history or biology that we can just become good people not dominated by desires for power and control and conquest. Again that is not to say betterments are not possible. That we cannot do good and achieve good. They are. But the trajectory is still the same.
If there is such thing as infinity then it should stretch not just into the future but into the past as well. And that's just as far as time goes.
For whatever reason people tend to think that this is the only civilization that's been known and that it's somehow destined to succeed. That we can be simply inside some continuum most are too vain to accept.
I was about to loose faith in humanity in 1963, but it was restored on 11/22 that year when JFK was shot. I have been close to loosing faith in humanity countless times after, but it was always restored.
The last time it happened was on 17 January last year when I observed two C-130 transport planes head for Poland in the morning, and returning in the evening. This went on for five days, and I knew right then that the shit was going to hit the fan in either Belarus or Ukraine. This was a full five weeks before the first Russian boot was on Ukraine's soil.
....., but, of course, the Russian attack was unprovoked.
I think the quick pullout from Afghanistan was the leading indicator. Washington had the next war looming and had to clear the board. I think Ukraine explains our 'quick retreat'.
I have said the exact same thing elsewhere when that happened.
What I noticed in this country exactly a year ago was how obviously done and finished the talking heads on the evening news were when talking about Covid 19. It was like they couldn't get it wrapped up soon enough.
I don't watch the MSM news normally. The only reason I kept watching it for a week in January last year was the fact that I observed two C-130 airplanes take off from a field near here and head in the direction of Poland. I said to my wife that it's either Belarus or Ukraine. They returned in the evening.
This started on the morning of 17 January, and went on for five days. On Friday that week the news anchor spent five or six minutes talking about the Brutal dictator in Belarus. Then she spent the same number of minutes talking about the psychopath in the Kremlin.
The next thing she said is the most noteworthy sentence on the evening news since September of 2008 when the global economy was close to tanking. "The movement of large amounts of military equipment is NOT connected to any drill." Without further adue she went straight ahead with a fluff piece about an Oscar nomination for best foreign movie.
This was a full five weeks prior to Russia's SMO. Anyone saying it was an unprovoked attack is full of shit.
Aah Ginnie, you do not allow for Black Swan events or the transformation that can occur in nearly an instant once the human heart is awakened on a grand scale. Our new o/s is a start... https://world5.org
Ginnie - you should read Polanyi - people have always organized and found ways to check abuses and rally around a collective vision. Note, that this historical process is very from current notions of "progress".
No one is talking about Utopia, merely the reduction of abuse and reorientation towards collective visions and objectives.
As I said, I do think we can work towards a vision of a better and more just management of humanity if you so will, but it will be far from this enlightened next step in our development being talked about here. That is simply not in our nature and there is thousands of years of history to prove it.
I mean look at the Green party in the US right? Go outside and ask people on the street what they think of it. What they think of a society centered around the concepts of economic and environmental justice. At best you get smiles and chuckles about these "naive folks"/ "tree-huggers" who are so cute and quaint in their belief that we can center governance around those lofty, out of touch values At worst you have someone hurl insults at the concept of "commies" wanting something for nothing and being out of touch with how things work in the "real world."
So by all means, find ways to check abuses and rally around a collective vision but it wont be anything better than what we have already seen. There is no next step where people ascend to a more enlightened plane of existence and shed their nature.
The idea that humanity can or should be managed is actually the root of the problem. See Barbara and John Ehrenreich's essay on the professional-managerial class and their Puritan ways.
Well, we do need to have a way to organize ourselves. Can't just roam around doing whatever you feel like. Order, organization and governance are not inherently bad things as long as they happen in a just manner centered around the concepts of freedom, liberty, economic and environmental justice.
No, *you* need a *doctrine* to organize *other people* so that *you* can possess a general right of command. Such discourses are characteristic of the professional-managerial class and those who aspire to it.
Anyway, your political shibboleths are false coins for preserving the capitalist status quo by entraining others into chasing undeliverable goals, to keep them from harming the status quo order and *your* property within it. Your selflessness is an obvious scam.
It can change because it has changed. The combination of police, bureaucracy, and religion is relatively new in human society. There are suggestions from archaeology and anthropology that other forms of regimes, lacking one or two of these institutions, have existed, may well exist now among uncontacted indigenes, and that there is no inherent reason why they could not exist again. On the other hand, we have Joseph Tainter's fourth law of collapse suggesting that collapse can only occur where and insofar as it is possible. The collapsing society must retain enough complexity to hold its own against its neighbors who might annex its people and resources.
It has nothing to do with will. It has everything to do with won't.
When has there ever existed societies without police, bureaucracy, and religion - even if they were not called such but in principle were those things? Among cave dwellers you say or at a time when humanity was like 300,000 people worldwide? Maybe so. But we can never go back to that again because 1) the above institutions and modes of governance are deeply ingrained in our way of organization (even if they are called different things from what they were 2000 or 5000 years ago) and 2) because it will get harder to organize people in such a manner when you got 8 billion + of them to deal with. It is easier to reconcile differences among smaller populations and groups and tribal elements than massive ones like the ones we have now. In fact as populations get bigger the powerful and the institutions they control will tighten their grip. The opressed will not one day rise up and create a better society, they will eventually become the oppressors.
Reminds me of the DS9 Trek episode where the Ferengi working at Quark's bar are asked to form a union to stop the exploitation and Rom says "you don't understand. We don't want stop the exploitation, we want to become the exploiters."
Aren't you even the least bit embarrassed about your sneering historical arrogance, your delusions of indispensability as a professional manager, and the confidently wrong dispensation of liberal mythology and values as if they were owed respect?
YOUR way of organization doesn't need to exist, PMC shill. It too will pass. It's not my job to read _The Dawn of Everything_ to you, and given your autistic fetish for organizing other people as if your tastes were valid, giving you a pointer to the literature is more service to you than you deserve.
Actually information from recent discoveries suggests a different history. It is a nonlinear trajectory of civilizations, many far earlier than thought with different lifestyles and technologies.
Rockefeller is largely responsible for allopathic medicine's focus on petroleum based drug therapy and the elimination of alternative holistic therapies. Western medicine does NOT promote health and wellness. It promotes obesity, illness, drug dependence and unhappiness. It takes your power away.
Although I am well off by my standards, I go to the same clinic in my town as my poor neighbors. It is not free or even cheap for me, but I started going there because I do not want better healthcare than the poorest of my neighbors receives. And guess what? I'm getting better care from good old-fashioned doctors who are called to heal. My care has improved markedly from the HMO-driven cattle car operation my former doctor's practice has become. A healthcare system driven by profit will profit more from sickness than from health.
This just happens to dovetail with a food industry that can make more money removing the nutrition from food and substituting super-fats, salt, and sugar (search Bliss Point). Although addictive, those fillers do not make us less hungry. So we constantly consume calories without ever getting any food. It isn't malicious, it's nothing personal. Good clean fresh nutrition is the least profitable thing a food corporation can sell, that's all.
I have really been enjoying your comments on several of Johnstone's recent posts this morning, thank you for thinking and taking the trouble to articulate your thoughts.
When people realize that the Pfizer and other Covid injections have killed more people than they ever saved, they'll really understand the power of narrative control.
I can't think about this too much because it makes me too outrageously sad and depressed. We really are captives to elites that want us fat, sick, isolated, depressed, and distracted. They want your money, and then they want to kill you.
This society doesn't actually value freedom and democracy, except as something of which to starve others. There are other ideologies of emancipation that are not merely ideals to cajole most of humanity into sacrificing for the Few.
Ahh... to return to an innocent time when no one felt compelled to manipulate others for their own gain. People need to feel secure. They need to feel like no one will hurt them or let them starve. Without it, they just keep manipulating.
You can't make "choices" when you're starving or freezing sleeping in a tent on a city sidewalk. You are in survival mode and will do what it takes to survive--manipulate, steal, beg, etc. Only people living comfortable lives in comfortable homes with heating and food in their fridge have the option of "choice making." The rest of us are in survival mode.
I understand what you mean. Yet, we usually have a choice about our attitude toward what we are going through. Even in survival mode many hold onto their hope, faith, love and integrity, etc.
I think when our civilization was Neolithic and female led things were pretty chill. With farming the men began to control culture and once we got to Medieval times and the rise of early corporations, well, the royalty, merchants and priests made sure to maintain control. That's when the propaganda really kicked in. Corporations and healthy cultures are diametrically opposed. You cannot have both.
Corporations require totalitarian behavior to prosper and that is diametrically opposed to individual freedom of expression. Being an ex-executive of a large telecom company I think I understand this one.
It could happen but I think it's unlikely until the current 6th mass extinction event has run its' course without a significant number of the hundreds of nuclear reactors on the planet melting down and ionizing the atmosphere.
Absolutism in a complex world is spin maintenance; sophisticated consideration/specificity negates theLine. What sort of mask? What flavor of Oreos? Which style of bagua? What size of tires? Which kind of cheese?
Excelllent article. You mention “People who are just a little bit more clever than the rest, and just unprincipled enough to use that to their advantage” as those who dominate the rest. Then you mention towards the end of the article that perhaps we can overcome this by way of a conscious shift towards what the book Total Reset (www.totalreset.com.au) by author Greg Campbell describes as a holistic approach toward this change - a new lens derived from traditional perspectives - to support this change. Those who are clever see beyond the veil of greed. Those who are clever are inclusive. Those who are clever embrace diversity and all the prosperity which it can manifest for the benefit of people and Earth. Thank you for a great read.
News today from family, cancer is rearing its ugly head in weird formats. Compliance means death. People of Canada are dying. Who fucking cares? Cancer, the vicious cunts. A big cancer pandemic to cover their lies. It is close.
Another good one. Before 1492 Native Americans had a concept of the way of thinking that creates civilization - wetiko. And reading Iain McGilchrist in "The Matter with Things" you'll find that this civilized man uses the left hemisphere of the brain without paying much attention to the right. We like talking and thinking combined with "I can do it better than it is. I can control."
Agree with your exhaustive explanation of the effects of propaganda and how it has been scientifically studied and adapted to become even more effective over time. Yet a small percentage of the population, like the readers here and myself, don't get suckered into the nonsense and can still see the objective truth of our world. Much of it is due to access to honest, unimpeachable sources such as you Caitlin, and others such as the Duran, Brian Beltetic, Patrick Lawrence, Chris Hedges, Eva Bartlett, Scott Ritter, Col Douglas MacGregor, Patrick Lancaster and several others I know I am forgetting. Thank you for continuing to tell the truth to power.
"What a blessing it is for rulers that people are sheep." - A. Hitler.
The subject was cats: when Boswell said he didn’t care for them, Rousseau pounced. Men who disliked cats were tyrannical: “They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never consent to become a slave. He will do nothing to your order, as the other animals do.”
“Nor a hen, either,” Boswell objected. “A hen would obey your orders if you could make her understand them,” the philosopher rejoined, “but a cat will understand you perfectly and not obey them.”
“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” – Terry Pratchett
Just after reading this post, I read another by Patrick Lawrence in Consortium News, which featured a quote by Bertrand Russell, one that struck me as so appropriate to my recollections of some of the authoritarian droning of my "colleagues" in "higher education", so-called professors who flung standard unmitigated rubbish at students as fact. This ensured that their lecture halls full of indoctrinated-since-the-cradle charges would fail to ever grasp the extent of their own mental prisons. And that grading them would be simple: Just regurgitate my truth for your grade.
Russell's simple statement reveals the embarrassing truth about the US higher educational system that most of us struggle to ignore, but which is complicit in sustaining this Dawn-of-civilization narrative control among our so-called best-educated:
“But the utility of intelligence is admitted only theoretically, not practically; it is not desired that ordinary people should think for themselves, because it is felt that people who think for themselves are awkward to manage and cause administrative problems.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/09/patrick-lawrence-dimming-the-lights/
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." ~ H. L. Mencken ..... For context - from the end of WW I until the Great Depression, Mencken reached an audience unmatched by any other political or cultural figure in American history. Today he is largely forgotten.
Exactly! When John D. Rockefeller donated money to the federal government earmarked for a Department of Education he said: "I don't want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers.!!!"
Just smart enough to do the work they were programed to choose, but not smart enough to figure out that they were wage slaves. Edit: ARE wage slaves.
"Today he is largely forgotten."
Geee! I wonder why.
A topic after my own heart, thank you Caitlin! It's an interesting term, 'the dawn of civilization,' by which we usually mean Western oligarchies modeled after Greece and using a form of coinage that co-opted the populace into the conquest and enslavement of their neighbors. Those were the first two psy-ops, I think. Agriculture gets a bad rap but The Dawn of Everything by the late David Graeber and David Wengrow shows that it's not the villain--the monetization of land and labor was, in service to the lord, king, pharaoh, emperor. And the next psy-ops was the empire-generated story of Jesus, which I write about in this post, followed by two on The Dawn of Everything:
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/jesus-is-the-og-psy-ops
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/when-mothers-ran-the-world
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/muskrat-love-and-anarchy
"Dawn" is the best of Graeber's wonderful shelf of books. I only wish it were not his last.
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Oh what a hard choice, Alan! My book, How to Dismantle an Empire, uses Debt as its primary foundation and is dedicated to him, along with Ursula K Le Guin, Howard Zinn, Anthony Bourdain and Eduardo Galleano. Someday I'll add Wendell Berry but I don't want to jinx him. That book changed everything I thought I knew about money.
But I might agree with you. Dawn changed everything I thought I knew about governance, and the inevitability of how things are now. It continues to inform how I think and will probably be as much of a foundation of the next book, How to Build a Commonwealth. Here's the link to the first, if you're interested: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607
You lost me in the past two paragraphs where you said maybe one day we can transcend our humanity essentially and become something better. I don't think so. As you outlined yourself, societies based on domination and subjugation and exploitation have always been the order and that will never change. There are improvements possible of course, but the overarching narrative determining human organization (the powerful reigning over the masses, greed, war, endless quest for control and dominance) will never change. I know you want to have hope and I don't blame you, but I am always amazed how despite being so amazingly astute, you still are holding out hope that maybe one day we can overcome our programming and thus what is in our nature and which has defined our civilizations and with it species since day one, with seemingly sheer willpower. Or by "working at it". Like work at it how? Do you think if people could will into existence a better world they wouldnt have done do already? Or maybe it is because they just don't want to. They cannot.
Humanity is going to end one way and one way only: by burning itself and this planet to the ground. There is nothing to indicate in our species' history or biology that we can just become good people not dominated by desires for power and control and conquest. Again that is not to say betterments are not possible. That we cannot do good and achieve good. They are. But the trajectory is still the same.
If there is such thing as infinity then it should stretch not just into the future but into the past as well. And that's just as far as time goes.
For whatever reason people tend to think that this is the only civilization that's been known and that it's somehow destined to succeed. That we can be simply inside some continuum most are too vain to accept.
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I was about to loose faith in humanity in 1963, but it was restored on 11/22 that year when JFK was shot. I have been close to loosing faith in humanity countless times after, but it was always restored.
The last time it happened was on 17 January last year when I observed two C-130 transport planes head for Poland in the morning, and returning in the evening. This went on for five days, and I knew right then that the shit was going to hit the fan in either Belarus or Ukraine. This was a full five weeks before the first Russian boot was on Ukraine's soil.
....., but, of course, the Russian attack was unprovoked.
I think the quick pullout from Afghanistan was the leading indicator. Washington had the next war looming and had to clear the board. I think Ukraine explains our 'quick retreat'.
I have said the exact same thing elsewhere when that happened.
What I noticed in this country exactly a year ago was how obviously done and finished the talking heads on the evening news were when talking about Covid 19. It was like they couldn't get it wrapped up soon enough.
I don't watch the MSM news normally. The only reason I kept watching it for a week in January last year was the fact that I observed two C-130 airplanes take off from a field near here and head in the direction of Poland. I said to my wife that it's either Belarus or Ukraine. They returned in the evening.
This started on the morning of 17 January, and went on for five days. On Friday that week the news anchor spent five or six minutes talking about the Brutal dictator in Belarus. Then she spent the same number of minutes talking about the psychopath in the Kremlin.
The next thing she said is the most noteworthy sentence on the evening news since September of 2008 when the global economy was close to tanking. "The movement of large amounts of military equipment is NOT connected to any drill." Without further adue she went straight ahead with a fluff piece about an Oscar nomination for best foreign movie.
This was a full five weeks prior to Russia's SMO. Anyone saying it was an unprovoked attack is full of shit.
Aah Ginnie, you do not allow for Black Swan events or the transformation that can occur in nearly an instant once the human heart is awakened on a grand scale. Our new o/s is a start... https://world5.org
Ginnie - you should read Polanyi - people have always organized and found ways to check abuses and rally around a collective vision. Note, that this historical process is very from current notions of "progress".
No one is talking about Utopia, merely the reduction of abuse and reorientation towards collective visions and objectives.
As I said, I do think we can work towards a vision of a better and more just management of humanity if you so will, but it will be far from this enlightened next step in our development being talked about here. That is simply not in our nature and there is thousands of years of history to prove it.
I mean look at the Green party in the US right? Go outside and ask people on the street what they think of it. What they think of a society centered around the concepts of economic and environmental justice. At best you get smiles and chuckles about these "naive folks"/ "tree-huggers" who are so cute and quaint in their belief that we can center governance around those lofty, out of touch values At worst you have someone hurl insults at the concept of "commies" wanting something for nothing and being out of touch with how things work in the "real world."
So by all means, find ways to check abuses and rally around a collective vision but it wont be anything better than what we have already seen. There is no next step where people ascend to a more enlightened plane of existence and shed their nature.
The idea that humanity can or should be managed is actually the root of the problem. See Barbara and John Ehrenreich's essay on the professional-managerial class and their Puritan ways.
Well, we do need to have a way to organize ourselves. Can't just roam around doing whatever you feel like. Order, organization and governance are not inherently bad things as long as they happen in a just manner centered around the concepts of freedom, liberty, economic and environmental justice.
No, *you* need a *doctrine* to organize *other people* so that *you* can possess a general right of command. Such discourses are characteristic of the professional-managerial class and those who aspire to it.
Anyway, your political shibboleths are false coins for preserving the capitalist status quo by entraining others into chasing undeliverable goals, to keep them from harming the status quo order and *your* property within it. Your selflessness is an obvious scam.
It can change because it has changed. The combination of police, bureaucracy, and religion is relatively new in human society. There are suggestions from archaeology and anthropology that other forms of regimes, lacking one or two of these institutions, have existed, may well exist now among uncontacted indigenes, and that there is no inherent reason why they could not exist again. On the other hand, we have Joseph Tainter's fourth law of collapse suggesting that collapse can only occur where and insofar as it is possible. The collapsing society must retain enough complexity to hold its own against its neighbors who might annex its people and resources.
It has nothing to do with will. It has everything to do with won't.
When has there ever existed societies without police, bureaucracy, and religion - even if they were not called such but in principle were those things? Among cave dwellers you say or at a time when humanity was like 300,000 people worldwide? Maybe so. But we can never go back to that again because 1) the above institutions and modes of governance are deeply ingrained in our way of organization (even if they are called different things from what they were 2000 or 5000 years ago) and 2) because it will get harder to organize people in such a manner when you got 8 billion + of them to deal with. It is easier to reconcile differences among smaller populations and groups and tribal elements than massive ones like the ones we have now. In fact as populations get bigger the powerful and the institutions they control will tighten their grip. The opressed will not one day rise up and create a better society, they will eventually become the oppressors.
Reminds me of the DS9 Trek episode where the Ferengi working at Quark's bar are asked to form a union to stop the exploitation and Rom says "you don't understand. We don't want stop the exploitation, we want to become the exploiters."
Aren't you even the least bit embarrassed about your sneering historical arrogance, your delusions of indispensability as a professional manager, and the confidently wrong dispensation of liberal mythology and values as if they were owed respect?
YOUR way of organization doesn't need to exist, PMC shill. It too will pass. It's not my job to read _The Dawn of Everything_ to you, and given your autistic fetish for organizing other people as if your tastes were valid, giving you a pointer to the literature is more service to you than you deserve.
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Actually information from recent discoveries suggests a different history. It is a nonlinear trajectory of civilizations, many far earlier than thought with different lifestyles and technologies.
Rockefeller is largely responsible for allopathic medicine's focus on petroleum based drug therapy and the elimination of alternative holistic therapies. Western medicine does NOT promote health and wellness. It promotes obesity, illness, drug dependence and unhappiness. It takes your power away.
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Although I am well off by my standards, I go to the same clinic in my town as my poor neighbors. It is not free or even cheap for me, but I started going there because I do not want better healthcare than the poorest of my neighbors receives. And guess what? I'm getting better care from good old-fashioned doctors who are called to heal. My care has improved markedly from the HMO-driven cattle car operation my former doctor's practice has become. A healthcare system driven by profit will profit more from sickness than from health.
This just happens to dovetail with a food industry that can make more money removing the nutrition from food and substituting super-fats, salt, and sugar (search Bliss Point). Although addictive, those fillers do not make us less hungry. So we constantly consume calories without ever getting any food. It isn't malicious, it's nothing personal. Good clean fresh nutrition is the least profitable thing a food corporation can sell, that's all.
I have really been enjoying your comments on several of Johnstone's recent posts this morning, thank you for thinking and taking the trouble to articulate your thoughts.
When people realize that the Pfizer and other Covid injections have killed more people than they ever saved, they'll really understand the power of narrative control.
I can't think about this too much because it makes me too outrageously sad and depressed. We really are captives to elites that want us fat, sick, isolated, depressed, and distracted. They want your money, and then they want to kill you.
I don't know if they want to kill us but they don't care much about the collateral damage in their quest for money, power and control.
This society doesn't actually value freedom and democracy, except as something of which to starve others. There are other ideologies of emancipation that are not merely ideals to cajole most of humanity into sacrificing for the Few.
Everything old is new again!
Ahh... to return to an innocent time when no one felt compelled to manipulate others for their own gain. People need to feel secure. They need to feel like no one will hurt them or let them starve. Without it, they just keep manipulating.
Maybe that time existed, maybe it didn't. Each person has the opportunity to make better choices.
You can't make "choices" when you're starving or freezing sleeping in a tent on a city sidewalk. You are in survival mode and will do what it takes to survive--manipulate, steal, beg, etc. Only people living comfortable lives in comfortable homes with heating and food in their fridge have the option of "choice making." The rest of us are in survival mode.
I understand what you mean. Yet, we usually have a choice about our attitude toward what we are going through. Even in survival mode many hold onto their hope, faith, love and integrity, etc.
I think when our civilization was Neolithic and female led things were pretty chill. With farming the men began to control culture and once we got to Medieval times and the rise of early corporations, well, the royalty, merchants and priests made sure to maintain control. That's when the propaganda really kicked in. Corporations and healthy cultures are diametrically opposed. You cannot have both.
Corporations require totalitarian behavior to prosper and that is diametrically opposed to individual freedom of expression. Being an ex-executive of a large telecom company I think I understand this one.
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Thousands of years of patriarchy cause war, conquest and unhealthy competition. Why we so desperately need balance.
Yes Carol, completely agree. Or perhaps 'rebalance' if we look way back...
It could happen but I think it's unlikely until the current 6th mass extinction event has run its' course without a significant number of the hundreds of nuclear reactors on the planet melting down and ionizing the atmosphere.
Won't have to wait long ... just around the corner!
Good point. As long as we have governments and control freaks, we will have lies and propaganda.
Absolutism in a complex world is spin maintenance; sophisticated consideration/specificity negates theLine. What sort of mask? What flavor of Oreos? Which style of bagua? What size of tires? Which kind of cheese?
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Excelllent article. You mention “People who are just a little bit more clever than the rest, and just unprincipled enough to use that to their advantage” as those who dominate the rest. Then you mention towards the end of the article that perhaps we can overcome this by way of a conscious shift towards what the book Total Reset (www.totalreset.com.au) by author Greg Campbell describes as a holistic approach toward this change - a new lens derived from traditional perspectives - to support this change. Those who are clever see beyond the veil of greed. Those who are clever are inclusive. Those who are clever embrace diversity and all the prosperity which it can manifest for the benefit of people and Earth. Thank you for a great read.
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News today from family, cancer is rearing its ugly head in weird formats. Compliance means death. People of Canada are dying. Who fucking cares? Cancer, the vicious cunts. A big cancer pandemic to cover their lies. It is close.
Do Not Comply.
Another good one. Before 1492 Native Americans had a concept of the way of thinking that creates civilization - wetiko. And reading Iain McGilchrist in "The Matter with Things" you'll find that this civilized man uses the left hemisphere of the brain without paying much attention to the right. We like talking and thinking combined with "I can do it better than it is. I can control."
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Agree with your exhaustive explanation of the effects of propaganda and how it has been scientifically studied and adapted to become even more effective over time. Yet a small percentage of the population, like the readers here and myself, don't get suckered into the nonsense and can still see the objective truth of our world. Much of it is due to access to honest, unimpeachable sources such as you Caitlin, and others such as the Duran, Brian Beltetic, Patrick Lawrence, Chris Hedges, Eva Bartlett, Scott Ritter, Col Douglas MacGregor, Patrick Lancaster and several others I know I am forgetting. Thank you for continuing to tell the truth to power.
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