{"id":60415,"date":"2021-11-14T07:10:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T12:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60415"},"modified":"2021-11-14T07:10:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T12:10:13","slug":"call-it-the-department-of-aggression-not-defense-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60415","title":{"rendered":"Call It The Department Of Aggression, Not \u2018Defense\u2019: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call It The Department Of Aggression, Not \u2018Defense\u2019: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Most of what consumes human attention is narrative; stories about what\u2019s happening, which can be easily manipulated by the powerful. Things that are\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0narrative include weapons, troops, and resources. You can punch through the narrative distortion by just watching where the weapons, troops and resources go.<\/p>\n

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If you believe the mainstream narrative about any US-targeted nation you will wind up on the wrong side of debates about that nation. This is because the US empire is the single most corrupt and murderous institution on earth and its power is held in place by lies and propaganda.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s so obnoxious how the empire destroys entire countries and sows chaos, destruction and poverty around the world and the only mainstream pushback we ever see against any part of this is opposition to the arrival of immigrants who are fleeing that devastation.<\/p>\n

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Hey remember when it was confirmed that the CIA still plots assassinations of journalists, with a known plan drawn out in 2017 against Julian Assange, and then nothing whatsoever was done about this horrifying fact?<\/p>\n

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I still routinely run into people online who think Assange\u2019s extradition case is about the 2016 WikiLeaks publications. It\u2019s probably believed by a majority of politically active liberals, even though the news media never actually told them this. Gaslight people enough about reality and eventually they\u2019ll start gaslighting themselves.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s silly to call the US war machine the Department of Defense. The US military doesn\u2019t do \u201cdefense\u201d, it does nonstop unprovoked aggression around the world. Defense is what the nations who resist US acts of aggression against them are doing.<\/p>\n

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