{"id":56185,"date":"2020-12-27T08:15:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T13:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56185"},"modified":"2020-12-27T08:15:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T13:15:34","slug":"mass-media-propaganda-is-enemy-1-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56185","title":{"rendered":"Mass Media Propaganda Is Enemy #1: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/12\/27\/mass-media-propaganda-is-enemy-1-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Mass Media Propaganda Is Enemy #1: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-9307\" class=\"post-9307 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-china tag-democrats tag-iran tag-media tag-msm tag-narrative-matrix tag-propaganda tag-war\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/medium-7.png?fit=727%2C370&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/medium-7.png?w=727&amp;ssl=1 727w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/medium-7.png?resize=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"727\" height=\"370\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>The most Orwellian tool of our rulers which does the most damage and affects the most lives is not surveillance, nor police militarization, nor government secrecy, but domestic mass media propaganda. It\u2019s also the most overlooked. It\u2019s good to protest the other mechanisms of authoritarian control, but propaganda is enemy number one.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need the ability to spy on dissident groups if you can control public thought enough to prevent those groups from forming in the first place. You don\u2019t need the ability to quash public uprisings if you can propagandize people away from rising up at all. And they can. And they do.<\/p>\n<p>The ability of the plutocratic class to manipulate public thought at mass scale is the single most overlooked and under-appreciated aspect of our society. It warps the entirety of our political spectrum, all our thinking, all our discourse, and what we perceive as normal.\u00a0And you just don\u2019t see people fighting it. The ACLU\u00a0isn\u2019t protecting people\u2019s mental sovereignty from the manipulations of sociopathic government-aligned oligarchs. People aren\u2019t taking the media-owning class to the Supreme Court for brazen election interference. People aren\u2019t taking to the streets protesting it. But they could.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the effect it has on society, no control tool comes remotely close to advancing as many interests of the powerful against the interests of the people as domestic plutocrat-sponsored propaganda. Nothing will change until people start noticing and resisting this.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Theories about elite conspiracies to shore up more control over the population tend to greatly underestimate how much control they already have.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Wanting the US government to have a \u201ccompetent leader\u201d is like wanting a serial killer to be skilled at evading detection.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass Media Propaganda Is Enemy #1: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix The most Orwellian tool of our rulers which does the most damage and affects the most lives is not surveillance, nor police militarization, nor government secrecy, but domestic mass media propaganda. It\u2019s also the most overlooked. It\u2019s good to protest the [&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":[17039,2299,2384,496,512,14545,643,655],"class_list":["post-56185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-control","tag-elite","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-narrative-control","tag-power","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56185","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=56185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56186,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56185\/revisions\/56186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}