Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
CaitlinJohnstone.com
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The most powerful empire that has ever existed, which is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and continuously works to destroy any nation who challenges its global dominion, claims that it is in a global power struggle against “authoritarianism”.
Russia will lose the propaganda war on every front, at least in the west. It will lose every narrative dispute about alleged war crimes in the court of public opinion, whether those allegations are true or not. The US military is beatable, the US dollar is beatable, but the US propaganda machine is an unstoppable juggernaut.
Can’t believe we’ve been watching people lose their social media accounts for posting “misinformation” this whole time only for US officials to come right out and admit that they’ve been running an active disinformation campaign where they knowingly circulate lies about Russia.
A random guy says something on social media that differs from mainstream consensus? That’s misinformation; he needs to be de-platformed. The most powerful government in the world uses the most powerful media institutions in the world to circulate disinfo? That’s just fine normal stuff.
It’s actually really disturbing that US empire managers now feel comfortable just leaking the fact that they are blatantly lying to the public to win a psywar against Putin. It means they’re confident they can get the public to consciously consent to their rulers lying to them for their own good.
US officials: We are circulating disinformation in an infowar against Russia.
Me: Those US officials said they’re circulating disinformation in an infowar against Russia.
Liberals: Oh yeah right Caitlin, everything’s just a big, giant conspiracy!
Twitter consults with the US government when deciding what to censor, consults with US government-funded think tanks to determine what people see on the platform, conducts censorship in favor of US government narratives, and has the gall to label others “state-affiliated media”.
Twitter is state-affiliated media.
Don’t take life advice from unhappy people, don’t take creative advice from people who don’t create, don’t take career advice from people whose careers aren’t where you want yours to be, don’t take advice on the Ukraine war from people who supported the Iraq invasion.
People tell me, “Talk to Ukrainians!”
No matter how many Ukrainians I talk to, it will still be an objective fact that the US government and western media have a well-documented history of lying about every war, and that wanting direct hot warfare between nuclear superpowers is fucking insane.
It’s amazing how many arguments I run into that essentially boil down to “Your opinion is Russian.” It’s like the word “Russian” stopped referring to a nation and its population and now refers to some sort of metaphysical quality of one’s soul, similar to the word “Satanic”.
The other day a longtime lefty follower called me a bootlicker for saying the US military should not directly attack the Russian military in Ukraine. Opposing US military interventionism and World War 3 is bootlicking now. War propaganda is turning people’s brains into soup.
The agenda to create a one world government is not some hidden conspiracy involving secret societies and shadowy figures with Jewish surnames. The US empire is openly working to unite the planet under a single power structure which effectively functions as one government.
Washington DC is the hub of the imperial political machine, Virginia is the hub of the imperial war machine, California is the hub of the imperial propaganda machine.
In the end we’re just a confused species who entered into an awkward developmental transition phase because our brains evolved too fast.
We wound up with the ability to think abstract thoughts but without the wisdom to refrain from identifying with them. With the ability to invent nuclear weapons but without the wisdom to refrain from building them. The ability to conquer our ecosystem without the wisdom to refrain from doing so. To write vast tomes of philosophy that contain not one line telling us how to feel content in our own bodies, on our own home planet. To construct entire belief systems that are utterly useless for living in harmony with what is.
I’m sure birds and whales went through awkward evolutionary transition phases as well before they turned into the graceful flyers and swimmers they are today. Their early ancestors probably looked downright ridiculous for a while. It’s just that their transitions didn’t involve giant prefrontal cortices in their skulls that make childbirth painful and could easily give rise to the end of all life on earth.
The birth of a human baby is difficult due to the size of our enormous, rapidly evolved brains relative to the more slowly evolved pelvic bone. The birth of a sane humanity will be difficult for similar reasons.
I do believe we have the ability to make the jump from this awkward transition phase to become a truly conscious species. But it looks like if we make it, it’s going to be by the skin of our omnivore teeth.
It is not true that the MSM has admitted lying about Russia. It is not true that the atrocity allegations against Russia are lies. There is too much audiovisual and documentary evidence to support these allegations.
It is true that the Communications giants (Google, Facebook et all) has tried to ban opinions and statements of fact that contradict their owner’s opinions. That kind of behavior is outrageous and should be banned by government regulators. However, they are not so powerful and their staff are not such geniuses that they are able to invent Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine or the atrocities that have accompanied it.
Russia’s efforts to prevent its citizens to learn the truth about what their soldiers are doing in Ukraine have been far more blatant and extreme than any attempted by the U.S. communications companies. They have made it a crime to call thie so-called “special operation” and “invasion,” or to “spread misinformation” aboutRussian atrocities and military setbacks, or to advocate a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine. And press censorship, and the suspicious murders of opposition journalists, have been a fact of life in Putin-ruled Russia since 2000.
It is true that the U.S. intelligence has circulated some false rumors about Russia during the war, as have Ukrainian intelligence. The one that I have heard about is that they have circulated the rumor that members of Russia’s elite are conspiring to overthroow Putin. Several MSM journalists have said that the rumor is false. However, Russia’s falsehoods seem to be far more blatant, such as the claim that Ukraine is guilty of “genocide” against ethnic Russians in the Donbass, and that is the reason why they launched their “special operation.” They have presented no credible evidence to support these allegations.
It is true that there is considerable hypocricy on the part of the United States , which has committed many unfustied military interventions in the past, is true. Also true that the U.S. has a vastworldwide network of military bases and outposts, some of them secret. However, it is also true that the present administration and the last two administrations have been withdrawing soldiers from foreign conflicts, not sending new soldiers to them, before the Ukraine invasion. The U.S. has kissed and made up with Vietnam, the country that it hurt the most through its armed interventions, and the two countries have become the best of friends.
With American behavior overseas gradually improving, there was no excuse for Russia to launch the most brutal foreign invasion of a country not at war with them that it has conducted in over 170 years. (Since 1849, when it helped Austria crush the Hungarian revolt of that year). Russia seems intent on filling the “vacuum” created by American troop withdrawals in Europe and elsewhere to make itself the dominant power in Europe, using armed force as its means. In my opinion, that is wrong.
Their lies is their truth!.
“J.M. Stibel, a brain scientist at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum and author of the study, published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Evolution, says that the size of human brains has greatly decreased in the past 50,000 years. In fact, the study found that brain size has decreased by more than five percent in modern homosapiens?
The birth of a “sane humanity” will require a new beginning!
G-D cannot afford having humans outsmart “HIM”!