You see, all around the Western world, the news is actually preaching a religious world view, something I call; a religion of hatred. Already, these few words you've read here make you want to tune out, label this piece as a "mindless rant," and move on to something else. What if I told you those thoughts are not your own, but rather conditioned responses from years of programming? Of all the things we think are truly ours, surely our thoughts are the deepest and most personal aspect of our identity. We all like to believe we are free thinkers. Let me show you, we are not.
I'm using the word "religion" here to describe our world view. In that sense we all have one. All religions must answer three basic questions; origin, purpose, and destiny. Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? But one of the most important aspects of a religion, is that it must be morally and logically defendable.
So, what does this have to do with the nightly news? Everything.
Here's an interesting experiment you can do. Invite two friends round, if you live in the Western world, I hope you can find one each from the "left" and the "right." (if you can't, shame on you) Sit them down to watch the "news." Just a regular "news" channel like CNN, NBC, CBS, BBC, etc. I leave out FOX because it's been quite labeled in the media, perhaps even CNN has too. You will be quite amazed at the magic of the propaganda message on your two friends.
Now remember, they both just watched the exact same broadcast, but the person from the "left" will be convinced that the news was from a right wing perspective, while the person from the "right" will be certain that the program was from a left wing perspective. I left the quotes off the perspectives there because these paradigms are entirely real to these people (and usually, no amount of evidence will sway them from this belief). Both of your friends are now feeling anxiety, their religion is under attack, they have elevated stress levels and all sorts of chemical reactions running amok inside. How many rational intelligent people do you know that can watch the news and not be emotionally effected? Lets pause and reflect on the mastery of this achievement. Your friends aren't idiots, they're probably both well educated, perceptive, involved with the issues, how can this little "news" broadcast perform such alchemy in your living-room?
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Your Nightly News: Understanding Propaganda - Part 1
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I've been writing for 20 years that neoclassical economics, and for all practical purposes, all past and present economic theories, have been and are pseudo religions.
The neoclassical being the worst in history. The religion of the Money God, who hath no physical presence, but exists in, and giveth His divine orders through the computers of the deregulated banking systems, licencing the expropriation and destruction of the ecology and humanity as "wealth creation".
Here I have to come back once again to my favourite subject and statement that it isn't necessarily the controlled media who are the worst brainwashing instruments, or the politicians who act as executioners, but the universities, where the scriptures, justifying the destruction of Earth and humanity, originate.
Therefore, complaining against the media and the politicians is, for the most part, a waste of time. There's no point in fighting the symptoms, while leaving the origins of the illness unexplored and untouched.
Academic freedoms hardly ever existed, but have died since the corporations have been permitted to take over whole university departments. As far I'm concerned, economics should be transferred to divinity, as part of religious studies.
Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.
BTW: I'm attempting to contribute another article about the nightly news with dovetails very nicely with this and would add a lot of credibility to it. For some reason, the spam filter keeps killing it though - I emailed Vive to try and figure out why.
You fragment the population into at least 2 conflicting groups, and while they're busy watching each other the real bad guys are sneaking in behind them and robbing the place.
The real genius of this method is that the combatants are so distrustful of each other than they each blame the ransacking of the nation on their ideological opponents while the real bandits get away without even being noticed.
The talking heads and pundits provide the smoke for this little parlor trick, and the political\business\finacial elite provide the mirrors.
And you dear reader, are the audience and the target in this scam.
So now the question quite rightly becomes: how much more are you going to take of their fun and games?
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
The best example was the so called Cold War, between the Soviet and US blocs. Either side has always been in position to ruin the other's economy without a shot fired, but neither has done it, as the artificial conflict gave the ruling sectors the tool to divert attention from their criminal activities against their own peoples. E.g. the Soviets always had the money, knowledge and the right people to wreck all the stock markets of the West at any time they wanted, but never have.
And so it goes on throughout history in the case of all conflicts. Millions killed and suffered to keep ruling classes in power and obscene wealth with the power of persuasion, counting on people's gullibility that never failed yet.
The world has always been a giant rock concert with various performers whipping up public hysteria and it never has been easier than now.
Ed Deak,