|
People who still believe that the news media tell them the truth and that their nation and their world work pretty much the way they were taught in school are just as brainwashed and deluded as any QAnon cultist...
The only difference is that their delusions are much more widely shared, and that the mechanisms used to brainwash them are much more high-budget and sophisticated.
It's actually difficult to wrap your mind around the scale and pervasiveness of the mountain of lies upon which this dystopian civilization is built.
You think you're starting to get a read on things, then you gain more knowledge and insight and realize it goes so much further than you thought.
You start pulling on one thread, maybe some obvious lie about Iraq or Palestine or whatever, and the whole thing just keeps unraveling and unraveling and unraveling.
Before you know it you're staring at a society
that is not just riddled with untruth, but actually woven entirely
from the fabric of untruth.
It's all made-up narrative all the way down, and
all of those narratives are made up by the powerful, in the service
of the powerful.
If you've really got your eyes open, you understand that as a whole we could not actually be more effectively enslaved to the will of the powerful than we are right now, even if we were all wearing chains around our necks and had mind control computer chips in our brains.
As a collective we're always thinking, speaking,
laboring, spending, living, acting and voting exactly as the
wealthiest and most powerful people in our society want us to, our
entire lives completely dedicated to the service of their continued
power and profit while our information systems keep pummeling us
with the message that we are free.
We sing of our freedom while marching in unison to the beat of the imperial drum, our minds so fully subjugated that we don't even realize that we are marching.
And sure there are a few of us who manage get our minds unplugged from the propaganda matrix, but our numbers are kept so few as to be inconsequential.
Everyone else is told we are paranoid conspiracy
theorists and victims of Russian propaganda and disinformation in
order to inoculate the mainstream herd against infection from our
wrong-think, while the volume on the imperial indoctrination machine
is simply cranked up a notch.
The empire is a house of cards resting on a closed pair of eyelids, and at some point those eyelids are going to flutter open.
At some point everyone's going to start noticing
the loose threads in the fabric of all this, and keep pulling and
pulling until they see through the entire scam...
|
