The Costs and Casualties Of Government's Information Total War
Too long and well written to bust up into Cut n Paste chunks. Go read it in it’s original format. The author takes account of the damage wrought by government propaganda the last few years. And presents “receipts”. An absolute MUST READ!
This information total war has been largely successful. Regime critics have been swiftly censored, defamed, and marginalized. The result is that most of the population continues to believe that the criticisms of government policies and actions over the past several years were levied by a bunch of cranks whose objections were largely based on gut level assumptions, political affiliation, or knee-jerk reactions. That many of those criticisms and warnings ended up being accurate is attributed to dumb luck. Thus, the public has little sympathy for the targets of government censorship, precisely because of the success of the censorship, and its complement, the propaganda generated to fill the vacuum left by the disappearance of truth. However, the public itself is harmed in myriad ways by this censorship, and not in any abstract fashion.
I would add that the characterization of government assuming the role of a marketing department for private corporations is spot on.
And not just in the pharmaceutical markets. Look at any piece of propaganda being rammed down our throats and drill down through it….you’ll find a corporation greedily vacuuming up the grift. The Ukraine War is a perfect example. The “Human Caused” Climate change psyience claims. A corporation always benefits. The taxpayer is paying for this corporate marketing campaign. Instead of objective truth we get PR. Don’t mistake this as some kind of call for communism. It is not. It is pointing out the collusion of corporations and government which we all know was given a name in Italy during the 1930s.
How tragically ironic that the clowns who claim to be ANTIFAcist are the very same clowns propping this form of governance up. So complete and effective the “government” indoctrination camps have been.
Our speech may be free…..but our minds are certainly not.
It’s why there are times I believe the proper course of action would be too agree and amplify the Collectivists claims for no other reason than to turn the monster against it’s creator. We all know that despite all the political pandering the Elite Looter class will NEVER allow their wealth to be redistributed equally. Nancy Pelosi will NEVER agree to house homeless in one of her homes. Barack Obama will NEVER allow “asylum seekers” to camp out on his Martha’s Vineyard lawn. Let’s call their bluff. So the brainwashed sheep can see the true ideological leanings of those they pledge loyalty too. It’s a political Judo move. And if someone figures out how to execute it they’ll do more damage than any amount of “voting harder” will ever do.