Wednesday, April 7, 2021

The Mainstream Worldview Is As Garbage As Mainstream Music And Movies — Caitlin Johnstone

I hate the mainstream scoff.

Do you know the mainstream scoff? It’s the scoff people who’ve been indoctrinated into the mainstream worldview make when you say something which falls outside that worldview. Something like “Nothing of substance has changed since the Trump administration.” Or “The west sided with al Qaeda in Syria.” Or “Check out this link to an article from an alternative media outlet.”

It’s any kind of swift, vapid dismissal someone makes when you offer a perspective that isn’t a part of the mainstream perspective, solely on the basis that it is not part of the mainstream perspective. A laugh. A “Pfft!”. A “LOL”. A laugh-cry emoji. Whatever form it takes, the dismissal can be summed up as “That’s a fringe position, so I’m dismissing it.” Which is really just saying “That’s not how they told me it works on CNN, therefore it’s not real.”

One of the many major obstacles to spreading awareness of what’s really going on in the world is the widespread belief that the mainstream worldview is mainstream because it is better. More accurate, more sensible, more reflective of objective reality. And of course this is nonsense. The mainstream perspective isn’t mainstream because it is better, it’s mainstream because wealthy and powerful people have poured a vast amount of energy and wealth into making it mainstream....
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The Mainstream Worldview Is As Garbage As Mainstream Music And Movies
Caitlin Johnstone

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13 comments:

lastgreek said...

Also have to include the crazies who think there’s a “Rothschild” conspiracy behind every major world event.

Peter Pan said...

Putin is making frogs gay. It's true, it's true!

Matt Franko said...

The gay frogs thing was an Alex Jones... he’s not a Russia phone in this....

You need a better analogy...

Matt Franko said...

Maybe like “Putin is a neoliberal shill!” or something like that...

It’s gotta be a BlueAnon conspiracy theory...

Peter Pan said...

Alex is just the messenger. Putin & The Rothschilds are behind it.

lastgreek said...

The Frog of War

Peter Pan said...

Exactly!

Matt Franko said...

Get out of here this whole war thing is a blue wave policy... this is 100% on the left...

Matt Franko said...

This is what you lefties always do... you say “anti-war!” ... THEN you have an anti war GOP candidate Trump who you don’t support then the Democrat gets in there and you say “the US is starting another war!”” when the GOP guy was just anti war..

How do your zombie brains work?

Your doing the same thing here with your analogy ... you taking the anti war Alex Jones gay frog conspiracy theory and twisting it to apply to the Democrat pro war policy saying it’s “the US!” now...


Matt Franko said...

“Hypocrite “ from hypo-krises or under-decide

You lefties are not capable of making decisions...

If you are “anti war” then you have to go with the “anti war” people...

What you guys are doing is saying “anti war” then not supporting the anti war candidate and supporting the pro war candidate then when that prowar candidate starts the war you are becoming indignant...

Make a decision already... are you prowar or anti war?

Matt Franko said...

Instead in classic Art degree fashion you form a synthesis of the two theses and end up pro war and anti war at the same time...

Good thing we don’t have you people building infrastructure (yet?) . all the stuff would be collapsing and blowing up all the time...

lastgreek said...

Matt’s on a tear... tearing his brains out, that is :(

Peter Pan said...

Biden must take a stand against the Frog of War... the fate of the universe depends on it!