Friday, November 18, 2016

Pepe Escobar — Welcome to the Brave New (Trumpolitical/Trumponomic) World

Welcome to the Brave New (Trumpolitical/Trumponomic) World.
This does not mean that the Soros regime change racket and its multiple tentacles, in parallel to the Clinton machine-dominated DNC, will quit. Plan A – Maidan in the USA – is not exactly a winner among the masses. Thus Plan B – long-term harassment – was decided this past weekend at a summit in a Washington hotel.
The endless snowflake whining – we lost the presidential election because of “rogue” FBI, WikiLeaks, the Russians, etc. – was predictable. Yet among the corrupt-to-the-core DNC it seems like no apparatchik has ever read Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. Or is familiar with how showbiz – and talk radio – works.
Paris is arguably the world capital of critical thinking. Perplexed Parisian intellectual circles at least have found out that the current pan-Western crisis is not only about economics, politics, finance, security and immigration; it’s about “political discourse” itself.
The easy chic café diagnostic is that Trump’s victory is the symptom of language distorting reality by playing to emotions. It’s true that complex rational discourse does not deliver anymore. The masses don’t read 3,000-word essays; this is for the elites and self-described “experts”. But they do respond to outrageous tweets. More than ever, perception is indeed reality.…
Strategic Culture Foundation
Welcome to the Brave New (Trumpolitical/Trumponomic) World
Pepe Escobar

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