>In politics, narratives are not true or false in the scientific sense. They're created purely for persuasive purposes, as expedient air cover used to justify s

>In politics, narratives are not true or false in the scientific sense. They're created purely for persuasive purposes, as expedient air cover used to justify social actions. Factually the narratives may be completely true but selectively chosen, partially true and distorted, or even completely untrue. The people ok with this are what the world religions typically define as Evil, which generally reduces not to violence, but to deception. From what I can tell on the interwebs, post-Marxist thinkers, particularly Gramsci and the social constructivists are the architects of this total deception as politics view. Atheists may not percieve the difference between what they see as the One Big Delusion, vs. Everything is a Delusion and to them there is only power and solidarity, but the crux of this constructivist view of narrative is a belief that decieving others into committing violence is more politically legitimate than committing it onesself. As though deception were somehow a virtue. Deception is certainly powerful, but not virtuous, except to people who can't tell the difference. The enemy propaganda in Signal was designed to establish the edges of a wedge to destabilize western social order and make it vulnerable to the chaos that totalitarian movements require for their atomizing hall-of-mirrors effect. Helpfully to them, we have all the ingredients of an unmoored society ready for liquidation. Such interesting times.