{"id":54139,"date":"2020-07-13T06:10:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T11:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54139"},"modified":"2020-07-13T06:10:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T11:10:36","slug":"propaganda-brainwashing-and-other-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54139","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda Brainwashing, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/07\/12\/propaganda-brainwashing-and-other-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Propaganda Brainwashing, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/medium-2-2.jpg?fit=720%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Propaganda is so advanced that rank-and-file members of the public will openly cheerlead their government\u2019s imprisonment of Assange so that their government can continue to lie to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The focus shouldn\u2019t just be on bad things done by individual plutocrats \u2013 Gates did X, Bezos did Y etc. The primary focus should be on how we shouldn\u2019t have a system which allows&nbsp;<em><strong>any<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;individual to have that much power over our world.&nbsp;<strong><em>No<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;individual should have that much power to do that much harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You couldn\u2019t create a more perfect profit-generating scheme than war. Entire civilizations can be streamlined into the task of cranking out top-of-the-line, name-brand killing machines at the drop of a false flag. War will continue as long as human behavior is driven by profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want more of something, apply capitalism; if you want less of something, apply socialism. Capitalism is great for making a ton of stuff, but for making less stuff it\u2019s shit, whether that be making less illness, less pollution, less ecocide, less war, less prisoners, etc.&nbsp;Right now we live in a world that needs a great reduction of a great many things, and there\u2019s just no way to get there as long as human behavior is driven by profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is obviously true of things like healthcare, where actually eliminating illness kills demand. But it\u2019s also true of even things like charity programs, where if you actually fix the problem people are throwing money at then a lot of professionals lose their income sources.\u00a0You\u2019ve got to actually incentivize people to disappear the problems, but capitalism doesn\u2019t have an effective way of disappearing things. It necessarily incentivizes people to perpetuate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Propaganda Brainwashing, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Propaganda is so advanced that rank-and-file members of the public will openly cheerlead their government\u2019s imprisonment of Assange so that their government can continue to lie to them. ~ The focus shouldn\u2019t just be on bad things done by individual plutocrats \u2013 Gates [&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":[17039,14545,655],"class_list":["post-54139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-narrative-control","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54139","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=54139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54140,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54139\/revisions\/54140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}