{"id":55606,"date":"2020-11-14T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T12:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55606"},"modified":"2020-11-14T07:20:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T12:20:24","slug":"from-propaganda-to-ego-all-our-major-problems-are-due-to-misperception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55606","title":{"rendered":"From Propaganda To Ego, All Our Major Problems Are Due To Misperception"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Propaganda To Ego, All Our Major Problems Are Due To Misperception<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The Biden transition team responsible for ushering in the nation\u2019s Return to Decency\u2122\ufe0f is as packed full of\u00a0military-industrial complex lackeys<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0imperialist sociopaths<\/a>\u00a0as you\u2019d expect, with one such manipulator being the Obama administration\u2019s \u201cchief propagandist\u201d Richard Stengel.<\/p>\n

The Grayzone<\/em>\u2018s Ben Norton\u00a0has a new write-up<\/a>\u00a0on TIME Magazine editor-turned State Department spinmeister-turned MSNBC pundit-turned Biden transition team official Stengel, documenting the political insider\u2019s calls to\u00a0\u201crethink\u201d the First Amendment<\/a>\u00a0in the name of practicality and his\u00a0support for the use of propaganda<\/a>\u00a0both at home and abroad by the US government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s another word for master narratives: it\u2019s called history,\u201d Stengel said at a 2018 event organized by the\u00a0immensely influential think tank<\/a>\u00a0Council on Foreign Relations. \u201cBasically every country creates their own narrative story. My old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist. I\u2019m not against propaganda. Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population. And I don\u2019t necessarily think it\u2019s that awful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving once been almost a First Amendment absolutist, I have really moved my position on it, because I just think for practical reasons in society, we have to kind of rethink some of those things,\u201d Stengel said at the same event of the difficulties posed by people freely sharing information on the internet.<\/p>\n

Think tank conferences are great, because it\u2019s the best opportunity for ordinary people to see the thought streams of power at their most honest. Think tank denizens love showing off how much they know in front of such audiences, so they\u2019ll often\u00a0get baited<\/a>\u00a0into\u00a0revealing a lot more<\/a>\u00a0than they\u00a0normally would<\/a>.<\/p>\n