{"id":59934,"date":"2021-10-17T07:19:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T12:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59934"},"modified":"2021-10-17T07:19:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T12:19:55","slug":"it-takes-a-lot-of-education-to-keep-us-this-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59934","title":{"rendered":"It Takes A Lot Of Education To Keep Us This Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/10\/16\/it-takes-a-lot-of-education-to-keep-us-this-stupid\/\">It Takes A Lot Of Education To Keep Us This Stupid<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-10623\" class=\"post-10623 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-hope tag-narrative tag-propaganda tag-psyops\">\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\/medium-6.jpeg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-6.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-6-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-6-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/medium-6-128x86.jpeg 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><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/it-takes-a-lot-of-education-to-keep-us-this-stupid\"><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%2F1142621212&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 oligarchic empire is working harder and harder to bolt down our minds in service of its agendas.<\/p>\n<p>Silicon Valley is working\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/WFLKd\">more<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/07\/16\/biden-administration-completely-kills-the-its-a-private-company-so-its-not-censorship-argument\/\">more openly<\/a>\u00a0in conjunction with the US government, and its algorithms\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/silicon-valley-algorithm-manipulation\">elevate empire-authorized narratives<\/a>\u00a0while hiding unapproved ones with increasing brazenness.<\/p>\n<p>The mass media have become so blatantly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZPazn1XNDQI\">propagandistic<\/a>\u00a0that US intelligence operatives are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/the-cia-used-to-infiltrate-the-media\">now openly employed<\/a>\u00a0by news outlets they used to have to infiltrate covertly.<\/p>\n<p>NATO and military institutions are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/the-science-of-propaganda-is-still\">studying and testing<\/a>\u00a0new forms of mass-scale psychological manipulation to advance the still developing science of propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mtracey.substack.com\/p\/the-fakest-whistleblower-ever\">transparently fake \u201cwhistleblower\u201d<\/a>\u00a0is being promoted by the US political\/media class to manufacture support for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/democrats-and-media-do-not-want-to\">more internet censorship<\/a>\u00a0and shore up monopolistic control for institutions like Facebook who are willing to enforce it.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thegrayzone.com\/2020\/06\/10\/wikipedia-formally-censors-the-grayzone-as-regime-change-advocates-monopolize-editing\/\">is an imperial narrative control operation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve imprisoned a journalist for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2021\/06\/15\/revisiting-the-case-of-julian-assange-and-the-reality-of-the-rule-of-law\/\">exposing US war crimes<\/a>\u00a0after the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html\">CIA plotted<\/a>\u00a0to kidnap and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/pompeo-effectively-admits-to-assange\">assassinate him<\/a>.<\/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=1447587165911896065&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F10%2F16%2Fit-takes-a-lot-of-education-to-keep-us-this-stupid%2F&amp;sessionId=bb33fe809f1398f70df4524d8ecdf5071dff0d26&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=fcb1942%3A1632982954711&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1447587165911896065\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The powerful work so hard at such endeavors because they understand something that most ordinary people do not: whoever controls the dominant narratives about the world controls the world itself.<\/p>\n<p>Power is controlling what happens; absolute power is controlling what people\u00a0<em>think<\/em>\u00a0about what happens.<\/p>\n<p>If you can control how people think about what\u2019s going on in their world, if you can control their shared how-it-is stories about what\u2019s happening and what\u2019s true, then you can advance any agenda you want to. You\u2019ll be able to prevent them from rising up against you as you steal their wealth, exploit their labor, destroy their ecosystem and send their children off to war. You can keep them voting for political institutions you own and control. You can keep them from interfering in your ability to wage wars around the world and sanction entire populations into starvation to advance your geostrategic goals.<\/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>It Takes A Lot Of Education To Keep Us This Stupid Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 The oligarchic empire is working harder and harder to bolt down our minds in service of its agendas. Silicon Valley is working\u00a0more\u00a0and\u00a0more openly\u00a0in conjunction with the US government, and its algorithms\u00a0elevate empire-authorized narratives\u00a0while hiding unapproved ones [&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":[17039,2299,259,496,14545,643,655,3142,868],"class_list":["post-59934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-control","tag-empire","tag-mainstream-media","tag-narrative-control","tag-power","tag-propaganda","tag-us-empire","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934","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=59934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59935,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934\/revisions\/59935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}