{"id":13362,"date":"2015-10-14T06:15:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T11:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13362"},"modified":"2015-10-14T06:15:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T11:15:24","slug":"what-youre-supposed-to-think-vs-what-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13362","title":{"rendered":"What you\u2019re supposed to think vs. what you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/04\/what-youre-supposed-to-think-vs-what-you-think\/\" target=\"_blank\">What you\u2019re supposed to think vs. what you\u00a0think<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>I could trace my 30 years of investigative reporting as one long project emanating from what people are supposed to think.<\/p>\n<p>What they\u2019re supposed to think about nuclear weapons, pesticides, medical drugs, vaccines, presidential elections, major media, the CIA, US foreign policy, mega-corporations, brain research, collectivism, surveillance, psychiatry, immigration\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In each case, there are a set of messages broadcast to the population. These messages are projected to replace what people would think on their own, if left to their own devices.<\/p>\n<p>And in many cases, these messages have the same underlying theme: feel unlimited sympathy.<\/p>\n<p>Feel unlimited sympathy or else.<\/p>\n<p>In the area of immigration, for example, people are supposed to welcome endless numbers of refugees to their shores and cities and towns.<\/p>\n<p>If they don\u2019t put out the welcome sign, they\u2019re evil, they\u2019re cold, they\u2019re \u201ccapitalists,\u201d they\u2019re unloving, they\u2019re cruel, inhumane.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re immune to proper feelings of guilt and shame.<\/p>\n<p>There is also an interesting guilty \u201cwe\u201d attached to the issue. \u201cWe\u201d invaded other countries, \u201cwe\u201d bombed populations, imposed devastating economic sanctions, launched corporate takeovers\u2014and therefore \u201cwe\u201d should now open our doors to these refugees.<\/p>\n<p>The government didn\u2019t do these things. The State didn\u2019t do these things. \u201cWe\u201d did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u201d is a very, very popular collectivist concept. It assigns massive guilt, while somehow exonerating the political leaders of the collective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u201d is a great cheese glob that envelops all of us. \u201cWe\u201d is a metaphysical construct that replaces \u201cI.\u201d There is no \u201cI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, what some \u201cdeluded individual\u201d might think and decide and determine on his own\u2014which could very well run counter to the \u201cwe\u201d\u2014is irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>When it\u2019s time to undertake wars on a grand scale, there is a George Bush who announces what the \u201cwe\u201d wants. And when it\u2019s time for the guilt and the sympathy and the bleeding heart, there is an Obama who announces what the \u201cwe\u201d wants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you\u2019re supposed to think vs. what you\u00a0think I could trace my 30 years of investigative reporting as one long project emanating from what people are supposed to think. What they\u2019re supposed to think about nuclear weapons, pesticides, medical drugs, vaccines, presidential elections, major media, the CIA, US foreign policy, mega-corporations, brain research, collectivism, surveillance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9848,8973,5848,4039,4040],"class_list":["post-13362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-collective","tag-individual","tag-jon-rappoport","tag-thinking","tag-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13363,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13362\/revisions\/13363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}