{"id":59740,"date":"2021-10-08T06:38:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59740"},"modified":"2021-10-08T06:38:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:38:20","slug":"all-our-problems-are-built-on-us-vs-them-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59740","title":{"rendered":"All Our Problems Are Built On Us-Vs-Them Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/10\/07\/all-our-problems-are-built-on-us-vs-them-propaganda\/\">All Our Problems Are Built On Us-Vs-Them Propaganda<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10585\" class=\"post-10585 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-ecocide tag-empire tag-enlightenment tag-keith-olbermann 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\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-7.35.54-PM-1200x750.jpg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-7.35.54-PM-1200x750.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-7.35.54-PM-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-7.35.54-PM-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-7.35.54-PM-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-07-at-7.35.54-PM.jpg 1440w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" \/><\/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\/all-our-problems-are-built-on-us-vs-them-propaganda\"><em>Listen to a reading of 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%2F1137618139&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>Liberal pundit Keith Olbermann\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I_rNlEVdBOs\">shared a video<\/a>\u00a0the other day where he ranted about people who don\u2019t want to take the Covid vaccine with such emotional vitriol that spittle flew from his mouth and drool poured down his chin. I found it hard to watch, partly because it\u2019s always uncomfortable to see someone come apart like that and partly because it made me realize that I\u2019ve probably spent the last few years making fun of a media personality who has some actual diagnosable psychological disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than lay out what he thinks are the best arguments for taking the vaccine as most of his peers have been doing, Olbermann instead spouts vituperations about what \u201ccowards\u201d and \u201csnowflakes\u201d unvaccinated people are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re\u00a0<em>afraid<\/em>!\u201d Olbermann screams over and over again, as though being afraid of something makes you some sort of monster. As though we\u2019re not all afraid of something, whether it be the vaccine or the virus or being alone or the fact that thawing arctic permafrost is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/ticking-timebomb-siberia-thawing-permafrost-releases-more-methane-180978381\/\">pouring methane into the atmosphere<\/a>. This commonality should draw us closer together, but here it\u2019s being used for partisan us-vs-them theatrics which drive us further apart.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluidvids\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player fluidvids-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I_rNlEVdBOs?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>Us-vs-them frameworks are used constantly to manipulate people into espousing various narratives, and narrative manipulation is the underlying source of all of humanity\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s world is dominated by a unipolar power structure loosely centralized around the United States government. It is comprised of many nations which are ostensibly independent, but, since they move in near-complete alignment with each other on all international issues of major importance, this power structure can effectively be called an empire. This empire sets the economic, environmental and military policies which are causing all the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/our-rulers-have-all-the-power-and\">ecocide<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/you-need-to-understand-that-the-us\">war<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/detente-the-vital-word-missing-from\">nuclear brinkmanship<\/a>\u00a0we see driving humanity toward its destruction today.<\/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>All Our Problems Are Built On Us-Vs-Them Propaganda Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 Liberal pundit Keith Olbermann\u00a0shared a video\u00a0the other day where he ranted about people who don\u2019t want to take the Covid vaccine with such emotional vitriol that spittle flew from his mouth and drool poured down his chin. I found [&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":[17039,512,2275,14545,655,827,3142],"class_list":["post-59740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-media","tag-media-control","tag-narrative-control","tag-propaganda","tag-united-states","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59740","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=59740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59741,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59740\/revisions\/59741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}