{"id":61858,"date":"2022-02-12T14:15:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T19:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61858"},"modified":"2022-02-12T14:15:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T19:15:41","slug":"they-dont-just-lie-to-us-about-wars-they-lie-to-us-about-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61858","title":{"rendered":"They Don\u2019t Just Lie To Us About Wars. They Lie To Us About Everything."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\">\n<h3 id=\"8bcf\" class=\"gq gr gs cg gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd he hf hg hh hi hj hk hl hm hn ho ff\" aria-label=\"title paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caityjohnstone.medium.com\/they-dont-just-lie-to-us-about-wars-they-lie-to-us-about-everything-1b73ff055f82\">They Don\u2019t Just Lie To Us About Wars. They Lie To Us About Everything.<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"eo eq hq hr hs ht ek el paragraph-image\">\n<div class=\"hu hv cj hw dq hx\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">\n<div class=\"ek el hp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"dq hy hz\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/1400\/1*logpLVckIim5m7qDpp3IhA.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"455\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<section class=\"post body paragraphs wrapper\">\n<p id=\"aa19\" class=\"ia ib gs ic b id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix gl ff\" aria-label=\"post body paragraph\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><a class=\"au iy\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/they-dont-just-lie-to-us-about-wars-they-lie-to-us-about-everything\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"iz ja jb jc ew ht\">\n<div class=\"m l cj\">\n<div class=\"uw je l\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"fc aq as ag dq\" title=\"They Don't Just Lie To Us About Wars. They Lie To Us About Everything by Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fw.soundcloud.com%2Fplayer%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fapi.soundcloud.com%252Ftracks%252F1213032796%26show_artwork%3Dtrue&amp;display_name=SoundCloud&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fgoing_rogue%2Fthey-dont-just-lie-to-us-about-wars-they-lie-to-us-about-everything&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi1.sndcdn.com%2Fartworks-U1awyhr7bqfdCphl-OdyyhA-t500x500.jpg&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=soundcloud\" width=\"692\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<section class=\"post body paragraphs wrapper\">\n<p id=\"bb3c\" class=\"ia ib gs ic b id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix gl ff\" aria-label=\"post body paragraph\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">\u2756<\/p>\n<p id=\"a43c\" class=\"ia ib gs ic b id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix gl ff\" aria-label=\"post body paragraph\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Propaganda isn\u2019t just about manufacturing consent for wars and ridiculous governmental measures we\u2019d never normally accept. That\u2019s what most people think of when they hear that word, but there\u2019s so very, very much more to it than that.<\/p>\n<p id=\"b9b4\" class=\"ia ib gs ic b id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix gl ff\" aria-label=\"post body paragraph\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">The lion\u2019s share of propaganda goes not toward convincing us to accept new agendas of the powerful, but toward keeping us entranced in the status quo dream world which enables the powerful to have power in the first place. Toward normalizing status quo systems and training us to shape ourselves to fit into them like neat little cogs in a well-oiled machine.<\/p>\n<p id=\"1d51\" class=\"ia ib gs ic b id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix gl ff\" aria-label=\"post body paragraph\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">And it\u2019s not even a grand, monolithic conspiracy in most cases. The giant corporations who indoctrinate us with their advertisements, their Hollywood movies and shows, their apps, their websites and their news media are all naturally incentivized to point us further and further into delusion by the fact that they benefit from the status quo systems which have elevated them to wealth.<\/p>\n<p id=\"b1f1\" class=\"ia ib gs ic b id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix gl ff\" aria-label=\"post body paragraph\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">So day in and day out we are presented with media which train us what to value, where to place our interest and attention, what success looks like, and how a normal human behaves on this planet. And it always aligns perfectly with the interests of the rich and powerful.<\/p>\n<p id=\"f69d\" class=\"ia ib gs ic b id ie if ig ih ii ij ik il im in io ip iq ir is it iu iv iw ix gl ff\" aria-label=\"post body paragraph\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">They don\u2019t just teach us what to believe. They teach us who we are. They give us the frameworks upon which we cast our ambitions and evaluate our success, and we build psychological identities out of those constructs. I am a businessman. I am unemployed. My life is about making money&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They Don\u2019t Just Lie To Us About Wars. They Lie To Us About Everything. Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 Propaganda isn\u2019t just about manufacturing consent for wars and ridiculous governmental measures we\u2019d never normally accept. That\u2019s what most people think of when they hear that word, but there\u2019s so very, very much [&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":[15,17039,171,379,8972,2864,24234,2081,512,1426,14545,655],"class_list":["post-61858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-advertising","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-corporations","tag-government","tag-indoctrination","tag-lies","tag-manufacturing-consent","tag-marketing","tag-media","tag-misinformation","tag-narrative-control","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61858","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=61858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61859,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61858\/revisions\/61859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}