{"id":59583,"date":"2021-09-29T08:52:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59583"},"modified":"2021-09-29T08:52:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:52:28","slug":"people-dont-understand-how-unfree-we-already-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59583","title":{"rendered":"People Don\u2019t Understand How Unfree We Already Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/09\/26\/people-dont-understand-how-unfree-we-already-are\/\">People Don\u2019t Understand How Unfree We Already Are<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10522\" class=\"post-10522 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-capitalism tag-narrative tag-propaganda tag-surveillance tag-totalitarianism\">\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\/2021\/09\/medium-2.png?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/medium-2.png 1080w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/medium-2-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/medium-2-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/medium-2-1024x569.png 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"600\" \/><\/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\/people-dont-understand-how-unfree-we-already-are\">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%2F1131339280&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>The biggest and most widespread blind spot among those who oppose totalitarian control by the powerful is the assumption that it has not already been achieved.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been so busy watching out for the next overtly totalitarian dictatorship that wants to put the jackboot on our necks we never noticed the covert totalitarians sliding the shackles around our minds.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone thinks about the abusers who beat their spouses, but not the abusers who dominate their spouses\u2019 minds with psychological manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone thinks about psychopathic killers prowling the streets, but not the psychopathic killers who rule our world via mass-scale manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>Conspiracy analysts warn that the government is trying to give everyone a social credit score to force us all to comply with the agendas of the powerful, in nations where mass-scale narrative management through the media and online algorithms already manipulates everyone into complying with the agendas of the powerful.<\/p>\n<p>People assume that they aren\u2019t already behaving exactly how the powerful want them to behave within a civilization whose political, monetary and economic systems are already completely under the control of the powerful.<\/p>\n<p>People think they are free just because they can go and buy whatever they want in an economy rigged for the powerful using money rigged for the powerful, because they can say whatever they want on internet platforms whose algorithms are manipulated by the powerful, because they can vote for a politician who only got on the ballot by being owned by the powerful.<\/p>\n<p>People think they are free because the system let them elect a \u201cpopulist\u201d like Donald Trump, even after that \u201cpopulist\u201d spent four years doing nothing but advancing the interests of the powerful.<\/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>People Don\u2019t Understand How Unfree We Already Are Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 The biggest and most widespread blind spot among those who oppose totalitarian control by the powerful is the assumption that it has not already been achieved. We\u2019ve been so busy watching out for the next overtly totalitarian dictatorship that [&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":[9336,17039,3800,338,927,512,26071,29490,643,655,1213],"class_list":["post-59583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-big-tech","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-conspiracies","tag-freedom","tag-manipulation","tag-media","tag-narrative-management","tag-narrative-matrix","tag-power","tag-propaganda","tag-totalitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59583","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=59583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59584,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59583\/revisions\/59584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}