In
een mooi artikel van Caitlin Johnstone gaat zijn in op de huidige
status quo, waarin de media gestuurd door hun steenrijke eigenaren
dan wel beursgenoteerde bedrijven, de belangen behartigen van
westerse regeringen* (al spreekt Johnstone over de VS, dit
verschijnsel zien we hier ook), het militair-industrieel complex,
oliemaatschappijen, financiële instellingen en geheime diensten…..
Dat
die status quo zo rot is als een mispel interesseert deze media niet, noch
dat de wereld naar de kloten gaat, of mensen moedwillig worden
geofferd voor belangen in de olie- en gasindustrie en dat in landen waar we niets, maar dan
ook helemaal niets te zoeken hebben……. Neem de illegale oorlog
tegen Irak, deze heeft intussen aan meer dan 1,5 miljoen mensen het
leven gekost….. We werden niet alleen voorgelogen over de reden
voor die aanval (niet bestaande massavernietigingswapens), maar ook
over het werkelijke doel: niet democratie brengen, maar westerse
belangen veilig stellen, met als gevolg een groot meer gevuld met
menselijk bloed en tranen………
Om nog maar te zwijgen over de enorme stromen vluchtelingen, op gang gebracht door de VS en haar westerse hielenlikkers van andere NAVO lidstaten, terwijl nu juist dat westen stelt niet een zo groot aantal vluchtelingen op te kunnen nemen (in een arm land als Libanon is 1 op de 5 inwoners vluchteling….. Op het hoogtepunt was dit 1 op de 4 inwoners, er zijn intussen al veel vluchtelingen teruggekeerd naar door het reguliere Syrische leger bevrijde gebieden. Het westen heeft amper wat gedaan voor de echte vluchtelingencrisis, die niet in het westen bestaat, maar in Libanon en ander vergelijkbare landen…..)
Met
de opkomst van de sociale media kregen de reguliere (massa-) media
concurrentie en werden hun leugens voor het eerst echt goed
doorgeprikt, iets wat deze media natuurlijk niet konden en kunnen
laten gebeuren. Vandaar de uitvinding van het woord ‘fake news’ (nepnieuws), NB
vooral door die reguliere media gebracht (neem de illegale oorlog tegen Irak), echter omgekeerd evenredig totaal onterecht door deze media
gebruikt om de sociale media van het brengen van ‘fake news’ te
beschuldigen……
Uiteraard
zijn er kul sites waar men van alles beweert, echter daar prikt de
grote meerderheid van de mens echt wel doorheen, nee het echte nieuws
moet tegen worden gehouden, daar hiermee de reguliere media, hun broodheren en overheden als
onbetrouwbaar te boek komen te staan (en gelukkig vinden velen dit
al).
Johnstone
stelt dat de reguliere media in feite altijd liegen, waar ze opmerkt
dat deze media uiteraard ook echt nieuws brengen (bijvoorbeeld een zwaar ongeluk kan je
niet verhullen, of een politicus die stelend door de mand
viel, zoals zoveel VVD’ers), echter een goede leugenaar is er één
die vooral ook de waarheid spreekt (en vooral als het in het straatje
van de machthebbers past), immers anders valt deze zo door de
mand…… Door deze manier van werken, stelt Johnstone liegen deze media
daarmee in feite altijd, ofwel ze zijn totaal onbetrouwbaar…….
Lees
het volgende artikel van Johnstone, geeft het ajb door en kom in
actie!!! (voor het te laat is, met alle vormen van toezicht die de overheid tegenwoordig voorhanden hebben, kan je straks nog geen scheet laten en de overheid weet het, ofwel een 1984
dat zelfs Orwell niet had voorzien…… (waar men ook nog eens bezig is met de ontwikkeling van kunstmatige insecten, uitgerust met camera’s…..) Intussen is onze internet geschiedenis en zijn onze computers/smartphone’s al toegankelijk voor de overheid……..
Als het zover komt, dus een totale controle van de burgers en daar twijfel ik niet aan, zal de roep van de machthebbers groot zijn om de democratie aan de kant te zetten, uiteraard met een beroep op de staatsveiligheid……. Vandaar ook dat we zo snel mogelijk uit de EU moeten stappen, immers de kans dat een zo grote vereniging van staten zal leiden tot één grote EU dictatuur is levensgroot, zeker als je ziet dat de fascistische partijen in de EU blijven groeien en in een paar EU landen zelfs al de grootste zijn….. Deze partijen zijn nu nog anti-EU, maar let op als ze straks de grootste fractie in het EU parlement zijn…..)
They
Work to Manufacture Consent Because They Need It. Don’t Give It to
Them.
August
3, 2018 at 9:41 am
Written
by Caitlin
Johnstone
(CJ Opinion) — Plutocrat-owned
news media outlets lie constantly. When I say this I don’t mean
that everything they say is false; many of the events reported by
mass media are for the most part factual. Whenever it’s convenient
for the loose alliance of western plutocrats, the political
establishment those plutocrats own and operate, and the secretive
government agencies with which they are allied, the plutocratic media
tell the truth to the extent that it advances plutocratic agendas.
But only telling the truth when it suits one’s agendas is the same
as lying constantly.
A
good liar doesn’t simply say the opposite of what’s true all the
time; nobody does that. A good liar tells the truth enough of the
time to gain a reputation as an honest and trustworthy source of
information, and then, when the truth poses an obstacle to their
agendas, they put the slightest spin possible on it to nullify that
obstacle. They tell half-truths, they omit key pieces of information,
and, with really important maneuvers like manufacturing consent for a
strategic military destabilization in the Middle East or new cold war
escalations against a nuclear superpower, they shift accountability
for factual reporting from themselves onto secretive military and
intelligence agencies. In this way they keep full control of the
narrative and still ensure that the public supports agendas which do
not serve the public interest.
This
is evidenced by the fact that the public has continued collaborating
with a system which kills the ecosystem we depend on for survival and
allows people to die of poverty while spending trillions of dollars
in needless wars overseas and an ever-expanding Orwellian
surveillance network. Everyone besides the most powerful and their
lackeys is aware on some level that the current system is not working
for them, and yet the overwhelming majority of people keep playing
into it by supporting mainstream parties that are fully owned and
operated by wealthy oligarchs, and then shrugging and sighing when
things keep getting worse.
This
is because their
consent has been successfully manufactured.
Due to the fact that the governed will always vastly outnumber their
government, any government necessarily depends upon the consent
of the governed.
The entire American populace could theoretically wake up tomorrow
morning and decide they want to literally eat everyone on Capitol
Hill, and there’s not actually anything anyone could do to stop
them. The only thing holding existing power structures in place is
the fact that the public consents to it, and, in a system which does
not serve the interests of the public, the only thing holding that
consent in place is the ability of those in power to manufacture it.
So
if there’s ever any doubt that international
network of ruling elites would
pour billions of dollars into controlling public narratives, remember
that their power (and potentially their very lives) fully depends on
their ability to manufacture the consent of the governed. Whoever
controls the narrative controls the world.
If they lose control of the narrative, they lose everything.
For
this reason it is absolutely essential that consent remains seamless
and unbroken throughout every step of the march toward greater and
greater oligarchic dominance. If they are unable to manufacture
consent for a new war or a new escalation in domestic surveillance or
what have you, then they don’t get to have it. This is why no
full-scale intervention has happened in Syria or Iran for example,
despite relentless mass media propaganda campaigns against the
governments of those nations. They work so hard to manufacture
consent because they absolutely require that consent, and they can’t
move forward with their agendas until they get it.
This
is not to suggest that an Iraq-style invasion of Syria or Iran would
likely cause a revolutionary war or anything like that; that would be
naive. If the US and its allies launched such an invasion the people
in those allied nations would be outraged, but they would not be
outraged enough to kill and die over it. What would happen, though,
is a total collapse in their ability to manufacture consent. And that
would be just as fatal to their rule as a full-scale violent
revolution.
The
invasion of Iraq had broad public support, but after it was
discovered to have been a catastrophic, immensely costly intervention
based on nothing but lies, it is now looked upon unfavorably. If they
tried to force another Iraq-style invasion through, the public would
not accept the narratives they were fed about it, and they would see
the MSM lie factory for what it is. This collapse of the public’s
trust in anything the talking heads on TV say would make everyone
impossible to propagandize, and thus impossible to rule over. The
people would begin telling their own stories about what’s going on,
in a way which better reflects reality and better serves themselves
instead of the alliance of sociopathic billionaires. If this
happened, the old power structures could be shrugged off like a heavy
coat on a warm day without anyone firing a shot, simply by the public
deciding to rewrite the rules in a way which benefits the public.
This
is absolutely essential to be aware of, because it means that we can
collectively prevent any agenda from being advanced as long as enough
of us refuse to consent to it. And all that needs to happen for that
consent to be withdrawn is the exposure of the lies that the mass
media is spinning to advance a given agenda.
We’ve
already seen this happen with Syria. There
was a stretch in April of this year where
the mass media machine was cranking out attack editorials on
alternative media voices who’d cast doubt upon the establishment
Syria narrative, because there was so much opposition to what we were
being told to believe about the Assad government that the alliance of
plutocrats and intelligence/defense agencies were unable to
manufacture support for a large-scale invasion. All they got out of
their massive MSM propaganda blitz in April was a meaningless bombing
which accomplished essentially nothing, and now the Syrian government
is recapturing
its territory from
the violent jihadists who had seized it with western backing. Had the
“think of the children!” propaganda campaign succeeded in the
wake of the highly suspicious Douma incident, we would likely have
seen a very dangerous and costly western regime change intervention
in Syria by now.
We
can do this with literally anything. The people don’t need to
consent to another idiotic war. The people don’t need to consent to
a two-headed one-party system which pretends that domestic espionage
is acceptable or that wanting the US to stop facilitating the
slaughter of Yemeni civilians is some crazy, radical fringe position.
The people don’t need to consent to the persecution of Julian
Assange. The people don’t need to consent to the rule of the
oligarchs at all. By collectively withdrawing our consent for those
things in our own self-interest, we can make them unsustainable.
Whoever Controls The Narrative Controls The World#JoyReid #propaganda #MSMmedium.com/@caityjohnston…
And
of course, our rulers are acutely aware of this possibility. This is
the reason for the current moral panic about “Russian bots”,
“Kremlin propaganda” and “fake news”. It’s the reason for
the smear campaign against WikiLeaks and the attempts to imprison
Julian Assange. It’s the reason for the tightening corporate
censorship we’re seeing with Google, Facebook and Twitter. Our
rulers are aware that any of their agendas can be thwarted simply by
their failing to manufacture consent for them, so any voices which
disrupt that consent-manufacturing machine are in the crosshairs for
attack and silencing.
But
they can’t be too ham fisted about their censorship attempts,
because the public would never consent to full-scale totalitarian
censorship out in the open. The illusion of freedom and democracy
would be shattered, trust in the propaganda machine would die, and
the oligarchs would completely lose control of the narrative. The
nice guy mask needs to remain firmly in place for any consent
manufacturing to take effect; as soon as they remove it they lose the
mechanism of manipulation and control that their entire system of
rule is built upon. This buys us some time. Not a lot of time, but
some.
So
the time to strike is now, while the iron is hot. Disrupt the
consent-manufacturing machine at every opportunity, because it’s
the only thing holding the bars of our cage in place. The new media
environment is still ripe for a grassroots campaign to expose the
lies of our rulers and shine light on the puppeteers of the kabuki
theater using facts, information and intelligent arguments.
So
let them have it with both barrels. Blog, tweet, make videos, make
memes, engage in debates; any day you can weaken the trust that even
one person has in any part of the deception machine is a gain in this
battle. Fight their lies with truth and their evil with good will.
When you are opposing a depraved power establishment which relies on
deceit to sustain its rule, you have truth and light on your side. So
fight with absolute certainty in yourself, and give them everything
you’ve got. This might be humanity’s last chance.
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Opinion
by Caitlin
Johnstone /
Republished with permission / Medium / Report
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* Regeringen die voor het grootste deel lobbyisten van alle genoemde bedrijvigheid zijn, hoewel deze regeringen volksvertegenwoordigers zouden moeten zijn……
Zie wat betreft Assange: ‘Julian Assange, valse beschuldigingen, Big Brother en VS steun voor terrorisme‘ (en zie daarvoor ook de links in dat bericht)
