Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Caitlin Jonestone - The Just World Fallacy: Why People Bash Assange And Defend Power

Caitlin Jonestone explains how propaganda works, that people blame the unfortunate and those who are are the victims of what is wrong in our society on them, and so the poor are 'undeserving' and Jullian Assange is suffering because he did some 'bad things'.

 And so Iraq is in the mess it is today because it is a bad country with bad people (poor Muslims), and not because it has always had its economy wrecked by the West, its dictators installed by the West, and then, finally, attacked and destroyed by the West. It is a 'Shithole country' .

This gives people a feeling that the world is just, and if everyone behaves themselves and are good, then everything will be just fine for them. The skilled propagandists in the West know all about this and have studied the psychology of this phenomenon for a long time. And so, the Japanese people, women and children too, 'deserved' to have atomic bombs dropped on them.

The rich imperialists of the West have done so well because they are 'extremely good', and not because they are the biggest crooks on the planet.


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Caitlin Jonestone - The Just World Fallacy: Why People Bash Assange And Defend Power

4 comments:

Andrew Anderson said...

Due to government privilege, the US economy runs largely on bank deposits, not the Nation's fiat.

This results in the banking cartel controlling more US fiat than they need* so they use the excess to drive other nations into debt.

So if you defend privilege for the banks, you also defend the oppression of foreigners as well as US citizens.

*Hence the so-called "natural interest rate" tends toward zero though that rate is anything but natural.

Kaivey said...

I don't have any problem with putting money into the central or public bank. What puts people off is the lack of interest, but if the government pays interest on bonds, then why not pay some interest on people's deposits too, then you would have more takers for your ideas, Andrew? Using the nation's fiat sounds good to me.

Andrew Anderson said...

but if the government pays interest on bonds, then why not pay some interest on people's deposits too, kaivey

Since the debt of a monetary sovereign is inherently risk-free, then positive yields or interest on it is welfare, but not welfare according to need, but welfare proportional to account balance, i.e. welfare for the richer at the expense of the poorer.

Is it any wonder then if the rich get richer and the poor get poorer?

Otoh, a Citizen's Dividend would go to all citizens EQUALLY and is an (the only?) ethical way to create new fiat beyond that created by deficit spending for the general welfare.

Andrew Anderson said...

As for interest, banks would still exist but as purely private businesses with purely voluntarily depositors.

There people could earn honest interest for bearing honest risk.