{"id":57477,"date":"2021-04-15T10:03:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T15:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57477"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T15:03:03","slug":"its-the-medias-job-to-normalize-war-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57477","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s The Media\u2019s Job To Normalize War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s The Media\u2019s Job To Normalize War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Exactly zero percent of the world\u2019s worst criminals are in prison. Imperialists. War profiteers. Ecocide profiteers. The very worst of thieves are financial elites. The system isn\u2019t designed to protect us from society\u2019s worst, it\u2019s designed to protect society\u2019s worst from us.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t write much about the specific individuals who drive the oligarchic empire because individuals are not the problem, the system is. Right-wing conspiracy analysts prefer to focus on specific corrupt elites because they like to think if you just got rid of them, capitalism would work fine.\u00a0And it just wouldn\u2019t. If you rounded up and executed all the sociopathic ruling elites today but left our current systems intact they\u2019d just be replaced tomorrow. A competition-based model where war, corruption, oppression and exploitation remain profitable guarantees this.<\/p>\n

A lot of right-wing conspiracy analysis today ultimately boils down to \u201cThese bastards are ruining the capitalism!\u201d But capitalism is already ruined, and ruinous. As long as it\u2019s profitable to destroy each other and our ecosystem, the ruin will continue. That\u2019s the real<\/em> problem.\u00a0Making it about individuals feeds into the false impression that the individuals are the problem, and absolves us of our collective responsibility to move out of our competition-based model to one in which we collaborate with each other and our ecosystem to create a healthy world.<\/p>\n

As long as we have systems in which it\u2019s advantageous to be sociopathic enough to do whatever it takes to get ahead, we will find ourselves ruled by sociopaths. The names and faces on those sociopaths are ultimately irrelevant. They\u2019re a symptom of the underlying disease.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the mass media\u2019s job to normalize war and abnormalize peace. It\u2019s our job to do the exact opposite.<\/p>\n

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