The State media are hard at work concocting the trigger-happy bogeyman Americans are always too eager to declare war upon. They use their control of the print, radio and television media, to condition us into accepting their version of reality.
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Yet another 9/11 anniversary, when Americans are fed the fiery rhetoric of imminent danger, a cocktail of fear, terror and warmongering to satisfy enemy-addicted knee-jerks.
The State media are hard at work concocting the trigger-happy bogeyman Americans are always too eager to declare war upon.
They are working overtime, using their control of the print, radio and television media, to condition us into accepting their version of reality.
Staying on message, the big lie is repeated over and over by this army of manipulators, attacking the airwaves, and thus our brains, in a constant stream of appearances.
Ignorant, ideological and delusional Machiavelli’s, this legion of propagandists is given free rein to saturate both televised and written media with their talking points.
They appear as “guests” on news shows, making the rounds, regurgitating the message their group wants disseminated, never being challenged, always having a loudspeaker from which to reach the masses.
Without merit, these operatives are placed as opinion writers, reporters and editors in America’s most influential magazines and newspapers, free to manipulate and condition the minds of readers, free to shift the nation’s discourse in a particular direction.
It was 9/11 that would forever alter the course of American history, along with the psyches of her people, becoming an untouchable, almost religious myth whose original story was sacrosanct, an untouchable story no matter how unrealistic it was.
Of course, 9/11 became a most fortuitous event to several entities, benefiting, first and foremost, the military-industrial-energy complex.
They were desperately in search of an enemy and a region to exploit, as well as those seeking American hegemony around the globe, and fitting perfectly with the master plans of the Likudnik neocons and their Project for a New American Century.
Thanks to 9/11, America had her new enemy, one evolved to suit the best interests of America’s warmongering class, one designed as a failsafe entity that could be counted on, in relative confidence, for a perpetual stream of conflict, war, destruction, hegemony, profit and power.
9/11 and its myth was needed to militarize the American masses into supporting the invasions and occupations of Middle East nations.
In that sense, 9/11 rapidly became a hyper-real event, staged specifically to manipulate the emotions and psychology of us in the expectation that we would march lock step with the warmongering aspirations of the state.
Its horrors were heightened and exploited to act as conduit between calls for revenge, hatred of the Muslim world, and acquiescence to pre-9/11 invasion plans.
9/11 ushering in a new American Century, just as the neocons had predicted, just as they had fortuitously envisioned.
Using the power of the State media and its battalions of propagandists, the psychological war was only just beginning.
Never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him
for everything that goes wrong. We'll believe a big lie sooner than a
little one. If you repeat it frequently enough we'll sooner or later
believe it. Above all, keep on spinning.
Bush Spins Al Qaeda in Iraq
Remember what Bush said at the beginning of the neocon campaign of imperial conquest: “You are either with us or against us.”
If he can only convince the people that everyone who opposes us is Al
Qaeda, then the neocons will have accomplished their primary goal:
perpetual war.
The president speaks and we no longer hear his words:
“The facts are that Al Qaeda terrorists killed Americans on 9/11,
they’re fighting us in Iraq and across the world and they are plotting
to kill Americans here at home again.”
No, the Islamic radicals who planned 9/11 are still in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan — our sometime ally.
They are plotting to attack us more than ever because we are responsible for hundreds of thousands of innocent lives lost.
Their numbers are growing because we chose the path of blind vengeance,
invading a nation that had nothing to do with the original crime.
They are planning to attack us because we have implanted permanent
military installations in the oil rich land of ancient Mesopotamia —
just as they attacked us for planting military bases on the holy lands
of Saudi Arabia.
Capitalism's success is due to popular support or ideological consent.
Rather than using force to make workers submit to degrading jobs,
corporations can call their wage-slaves “associates” or give them
prizes for selling the most french fries.
Right-wing propagandists use 'ideology' to describe 'islamofascism',
communism, or 'authoritarian' regimes. These capitalist hacks infer
that there is no such thing as an American ideology. As if capitalism
weren't an ideology!
Those who benefit most from capitalism - the ruling class- feed the
fears and ignorance that provide a foundation for the ideology.
As the mass media are part of the ideological structure [the 'ministry of truth'] the ideological word is easily spread.
Capitalism always provides a scapegoat. Capitalist propaganda
encourages poor members of the dominant group (e.g. poor whites or poor
Christians) to hate some other group, so that their real enemy will be
safe. Poor people have good reason to hate rich people.
If Jews can stand in for rich people (as part of some international
bankers’ conspiracy), then poor people will hate Jews, and Judaism,
rather than hating rich people, and capitalism.
When this happens, the elite can smile and be at peace: they are safe from the anger of those they exploit.
It is rich white people, the capitalists and government elite, who
become rich from slavery, immigrant labor, and other forms of
exploitation, but it is the working-class whites who must play the role
of police.
They get little material benefit, but fool themselves with
psychological benefit, by pretending they are powerful and superior as
members of some mythical white race.
The rich whites can laugh all the way to the bank that they have made
so many working-class whites into their tools so easily, and so cheaply.
For many years, American society has lived under a state of siege. We
have constantly been bombarded, every minute of every day, with
psychological conditioning that is meant to lead us into a state of
hopelessness. We've become Pavlov's dogs.
Fear & Conditioning
When a dog encounters food, saliva starts to pour from the salivary
glands located in the back of its oral cavity. This saliva is needed in
order to make the food easier to swallow.
The fluid also contains enzymes that break down certain compounds in
the food. In humans, for example, saliva contains the enzyme amylase,
an effective processor of starch.
Ivan Pavlov became interested in studying reflexes when he saw that the dogs drooled without the proper stimulus.
Although no food was in sight, their saliva still dribbled. It turned out that the dogs were reacting to lab coats.
Every time the dogs were served food, the person who served the food
was wearing a lab coat. Therefore, the dogs reacted as if food was on
its way whenever they saw a lab coat.
In a series of experiments, Pavlov then tried to figure out how these
phenomena were linked. For example, he struck a bell when the dogs were
fed.
If the bell was sounded in close association with their meal, the dogs
learnt to associate the sound of the bell with food. After a while, at
the mere sound of the bell, they responded by drooling. More...
Replace the bell with endless TV 'news' telling us to be fearful of the
next terrorist strike and you realise that fear is a conditioned
response.
We're programmed to be scared. The essence of a modern warfare State.
Fear-Inspired Propaganda
The Bush Regime has used propaganda to impress its policies on the American people.
They have utilized one of the most easily-controllable human emotions - fear.
They have used fear to overstate terrorists threats, driving American
taxes into defense contracts, while at the same time ignoring relevant
issues on home soil (see Hurricane Katrina).
They have even used fear to engage in a war which is of no benefit to United States safety or diplomatic relations.
The administration has manipulated its citizens' fear of death and has
unjustly used it to promote its agendas, hiding behind a guise of
patriotism.
This regime uses fear to vilify people of the Muslim world and equate Islam with fascism.
This enables us to support war, under the impression that if we do not
extend our imperialist might over these countries and smash their
governments and ways of life, we are all going to die.
Daft Punk’s reputation is based on their colossal influence, their
peerless agenda-setting, on the dance floor and in the charts. Can they
also usher in a new era of credible, pop-based cinema as they unveil
their 73-minute arthouse film, Electroma?
Advanced 'techno' civilisation:
The rational character of its irrationality.
It doesn’t take a great deal of grey matter to decipher what Daft Punk are mulling over here.
In many ways Electroma [the Daft Punk movie] seems an
outgrowth of Daft Punk’s third album, 2005’s Human After All, wherein
the songs suggested a tension between being liberated and dominated by
technology.
In Electroma, there’s an obvious and simplified nod to Herbert
Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man and his tract that modern-day technology
has helped regiment and stifle our humanity and freedom.
In particular, the suburban robots seem to play out Marcuse’s notion
that "individuals identify themselves with the existence which is
imposed upon them" and that "the subject which is alienated is
swallowed up by its alienated existence".
The two hero robots attempt to break out of such ‘one-dimensional
conformity’ by attempting to be more real and human, playing on much of
the counterculture ethos that Marcuse’s book influenced.
While it might appear that Daft Punk are endorsing over-familiar themes
here, the film’s closing scene suggests a critique of such ideas that
has chilling contemporary resonance.
As the hero robots become obsessed with being different to the
suburbanites, their only way of fulfilling this desire is by being
altogether estranged from them - hence their isolated hike across the
desert.
But rather than this providing fulfilment and meaning to their
existence, they eventually become suicidal and blow themselves up.
While it might be screamingly obvious to think of Islamic jihadists
here, the murder/suicide pact in Electroma echoes that of other
loathers of modern society: deep greens, perhaps, some of whom believe
that voluntary euthanasia is a dignified choice in the name of saving
the planet.
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