{"id":57796,"date":"2021-05-12T06:31:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57796"},"modified":"2021-05-12T06:31:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:31:45","slug":"if-you-believed-something-else-you-wouldnt-be-sitting-here-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57796","title":{"rendered":"If You Believed Something Else, You Wouldn\u2019t Be Sitting Here: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/05\/10\/if-you-believed-something-else-you-wouldnt-be-sitting-here-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">If You Believed Something Else, You Wouldn\u2019t Be Sitting Here: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-9918\" class=\"post-9918 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-censorship tag-empire tag-journalism tag-media tag-propaganda tag-social-media\">\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\/2021\/05\/medium-5.jpg?fit=1199%2C688&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1199px) 100vw, 1199px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-5.jpg?w=1199&amp;ssl=1 1199w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-5.jpg?resize=300%2C172&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-5.jpg?resize=768%2C441&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-5.jpg?resize=1024%2C588&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1199\" height=\"688\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/if-you-believed-something-else-you-wouldnt-be-sitting-here\"><em>Listen to this article:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1046096470&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxwidth=1060&amp;maxheight=1000\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It sure is interesting how stuff keeps happening that makes free speech on the internet something dangerous which must be curtailed. Covid, the Capitol riot, Russian propaganda, all of which just happen to require tightening restrictions on our single best tool against the powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Had online platforms not agreed to curtail speech in alignment with the US empire, they would with 100 percent certainty have been broken up by antitrust cases and been replaced by other monopolistic companies that would censor in alignment with imperial interests.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re not permitted to ascend to power within the system unless you cooperate with existing power structures. If you don\u2019t, you\u2019ll be stopped in your tracks and replaced with someone who will.<\/p>\n<p>A rookie journalist who doesn\u2019t advance narratives favorable to US imperialism will keep getting called to the editor\u2019s desk until they get the message. When rookie social media sites first showed up it was the same thing, except instead of the editor\u2019s desk, it was US congressional hearings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Western journalists learn very quickly that they can only get published by mainstream outlets by promoting narratives that are favorable to US imperialism. Example:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1389880460558454784&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F05%2F10%2Fif-you-believed-something-else-you-wouldnt-be-sitting-here-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix%2F&amp;sessionId=b929b7e35c22de68b3989905cc91155c01b41662&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1389880460558454784\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is how propaganda occurs in the west. It\u2019s not that Jeff Bezos emails\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0reporters saying \u201cPromote US wars!\u201d, it\u2019s that only reporters who support imperialism see their articles published and their careers rise. As Noam Chomsky\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lLcpcytUnWU\">famously said<\/a>\u00a0in an interview with Andrew Marr, \u201cIf you believed something different, you wouldn\u2019t be sitting where you\u2019re sitting.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluidvids\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player fluidvids-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lLcpcytUnWU?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"1060\" height=\"597\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-fluidvids=\"loaded\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\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>If You Believed Something Else, You Wouldn\u2019t Be Sitting Here: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to this article: It sure is interesting how stuff keeps happening that makes free speech on the internet something dangerous which must be curtailed. Covid, the Capitol riot, Russian propaganda, all of which just happen to [&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":[17039,462,14545,29490,31216,3142],"class_list":["post-57796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-journalism","tag-narrative-control","tag-narrative-matrix","tag-social-power-structures","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57796","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=57796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57797,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57796\/revisions\/57797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}