{"id":61047,"date":"2021-12-22T07:52:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T12:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61047"},"modified":"2021-12-22T07:52:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T12:52:31","slug":"maturity-is-realizing-that-propaganda-isnt-something-that-only-happens-to-other-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61047","title":{"rendered":"Maturity Is Realizing That Propaganda Isn\u2019t Something That Only Happens To Other\u00a0People"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/12\/22\/maturity-is-realizing-that-propaganda-isnt-something-that-only-happens-to-other-people\/\">Maturity Is Realizing That Propaganda Isn\u2019t Something That Only Happens To Other\u00a0People<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-10913\" class=\"post-10913 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-china tag-media tag-news 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\/12\/medium-4-4.jpg?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/medium-4-4.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/medium-4-4-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/medium-4-4-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/medium-4-4-1024x536.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"565\" \/><\/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\/maturity-is-realizing-that-propaganda-isnt-something-that-only-happens-to-other-people\">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%2F1182263959&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>I\u2019ve been doing a lot of commentary on the western propaganda campaign against China lately, so my online notifications have been full of brainwashed human livestock regurgitating all the lines they\u2019ve been programmed to bleat about that nation by the very propaganda campaign I\u2019m criticizing.<\/p>\n<p>What I find interesting is that it\u2019s not just coming from complete mainstream normies; a lot of the pushback I\u2019m getting comes from people who\u2019ve succeeded in seeing through other western propaganda narratives on fronts like Russia, Syria, or Julian Assange. They\u2019re just as brainwashed about China as any uncritical consumer of TV news, but because they get their information from people like Tucker Carlson and other so-called \u201cright-populists\u201d who have disputed those other narratives, they assume they are safe from mass media indoctrination.<\/p>\n<p>And a liberal who gets their information from The New York Times will look over at the Tucker Carlson viewer and tut-tut about Fox News propaganda, then go back to reading a fearmongering article about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/21\/world\/europe\/russia-military-putin-kremlin.html\">how the Kremlin is militarizing Russian society<\/a>. And both the Tucker Carlson viewer and the New York Times reader will look at nations like China and North Korea and shake their heads about how propagandized the people who live there are.<\/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=1472018652941717506&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F12%2F22%2Fmaturity-is-realizing-that-propaganda-isnt-something-that-only-happens-to-other-people%2F&amp;sessionId=edaff7055d5ee46da85ada498fa42004ed5ab786&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9fd78d5%3A1638479056965&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1472018652941717506\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Western mass media consumers are no less propagandized than North Koreans or any of the other nations we\u2019re told to pity because their government indoctrinates them with state media, in fact they are arguably\u00a0<em>more<\/em> propagandized, which is why Noam Chomsky said that any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the US media&#8230;<\/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>Maturity Is Realizing That Propaganda Isn\u2019t Something That Only Happens To Other\u00a0People Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 I\u2019ve been doing a lot of commentary on the western propaganda campaign against China lately, so my online notifications have been full of brainwashed human livestock regurgitating all the lines they\u2019ve been programmed to bleat [&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":[17039,130,927,14545,655,827],"class_list":["post-61047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-china","tag-manipulation","tag-narrative-control","tag-propaganda","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61047","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=61047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61048,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61047\/revisions\/61048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}