I saw a recent post by the WikiLeaks Twitter account which referred to the corporate media as “the narrative business pretending to be in the news business,” which is in my opinion a perfect way to phrase it. The real currency of the world is not gold, nor is it bureaucratic fiat, nor even raw military force; it’s narrative control. The ability to control the stories people tell about what’s going on in their world means the ability to control how they think, how they vote, how they behave, and how they all agree money and power itself operates within our society. Since society is made of narrative, controlling the narrative is controlling that society.
Conspiracy theories are a way for those in power to manipulate the narrative without actually giving the public any hard facts and evidence, and the world’s most powerful institutions are increasingly relying on conspiracy theories because they don’t have facts and evidence on their side. And why would they? The same power establishment which deceived the world into destroying Iraq is obviously far too depraved to be able to justify its global hegemony with factual evidence. All they have is narrative control, and they’re starting to lose even that.Another good rant.
Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue Journalist
The Largest Conspiracy Theory Peddlers Are MSM And The US State Department
Caitlin Johnstone
See also
The Greanville Post
How Big Brother Grips Americans’ Minds to Support Invasions
Eric Zuesse, Senior Contributing Editor
3 comments:
Establishment toadies are claiming that the yellow vest protests are a Russian plot.
“The only surprising thing is how long it took.”
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Caitlin Johnson writes, “Those who dismiss an idea by calling it a ‘conspiracy theory’ without providing further argumentation are admitting to you that they have no argument.”
I agree.
“Fake news” is the same.
“Fake news” and a “conspiracy theory” are whatever I don’t believe, or I don’t personally agree with.
And since no human agrees with me on everything, every human in the word (except me) is guilty of “fake news” and “conspiracy theories.”
Johnstone
The Guardian is fake news, so is most of the mainstream western media. I told my brother this whole place is Orwellian, the West is like Big Brother. Even our capitalism is fake. When I told him about Wilkileaks and the released drone footage of the US murdering innocent civilians he told me to stop, it was too depressing. It was turning his world up-drop-down to think that the West was evil and full of lies. He don't want to know that.
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