{"id":59386,"date":"2021-09-19T06:56:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T11:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59386"},"modified":"2021-09-19T06:56:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T11:56:20","slug":"propaganda-scrambles-our-minds-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59386","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda Scrambles Our Minds: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/09\/17\/propaganda-scrambles-our-minds-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix\/\">Propaganda Scrambles Our Minds: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10467\" class=\"post-10467 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-australia tag-capitalism tag-great-reset tag-narrative-matrix tag-politics tag-propaganda\">\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:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/medium-3-2.jpg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/medium-3-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/medium-3-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/medium-3-2-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/medium-3-2-128x86.jpg 128w\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/propaganda-scrambles-our-minds\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1126054585&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>America is a unipolar superpower governed by octogenarians who work for corporations and banks where military weapons are made by prison slaves to be launched at impoverished foreigners while celebrities attend lavish galas and police guard food in dumpsters from the homeless.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Propaganda warps people\u2019s perspectives so drastically their own opinions don\u2019t even adhere to the values they\u2019ll tell you they hold. A liberal will get angrier about a random member of the public circulating a conspiracy theory than about government agencies killing children with bombs. Political Twitter got angrier about Joe Rogan taking ivermectin than the Pentagon murdering an entire Afghan family and lying about it. All sense of proportion and perspective has been scrambled.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/K5yv5\">has had a two-tiered system<\/a>\u00a0where famous people won\u2019t be censored or suspended for posts normal people would be. Politicians and celebrities\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/the-masking-of-the-servant-class\">freely ignore mask rules<\/a>\u00a0while their servants are forbidden to. They all think they\u2019re better than us, and our systems agree with them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/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=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1437592234321350666&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F09%2F17%2Fpropaganda-scrambles-our-minds-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix%2F&amp;sessionId=d8b260689193dd973bedf0559cf94686ab67e8ad&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=1890d59c%3A1627936082797&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1437592234321350666\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>If you rise to a position of influence in the western world you will immediately find yourself surrounded by people who are very interested in making sure you support status quo power structures, whether you\u2019re a celebrity, a politician, or a social media executive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s weird how nobody\u2019s even saying the vaccine isn\u2019t working as well as they\u2019d hoped it would. You\u2019re not even allowed to say that. Everyone\u2019s really disappointed but they\u2019re pretending they\u2019re not because anything but 100 percent big-smile cheerleading gets you branded an anti-vaxxer.\u00a0Everyone\u2019s gotta do this weird, super tense, phoney happy smiley dance about how perfect and not-at-all-disappointing the vaccine is, because being truthful about how disappointed you feel hurts the vaccination campaign and therefore means you\u2019re worse than Hitler.<\/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>Propaganda Scrambles Our Minds: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 America is a unipolar superpower governed by octogenarians who work for corporations and banks where military weapons are made by prison slaves to be launched at impoverished foreigners while celebrities attend lavish galas and police [&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":[17039,496,29490,655],"class_list":["post-59386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-mainstream-media","tag-narrative-matrix","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59386","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=59386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59387,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59386\/revisions\/59387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}