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Watch the pretty mainstream movie "Get Me Roger Stone" about how gamed certain segments of the population is to mobilise them politically, maybe read the book "
by MyFirstSass 3y ago
Watch the pretty mainstream movie "Get Me Roger Stone" about how gamed certain segments of the population is to mobilise them politically, maybe read the book "Toxic sludge is good for you" about the history of astroturfing in the US - all what used to be mainstream views, that propaganda and fake grassroots group mobilisation has been rampant for over 100 years, then realise how many fed and mil connected people were in Q, and how there's been hundreds of thousands people rioting right in front of the white house with no one getting near the entrance, then suddenly a tiny group of people waltz in with cameras all over - makes absolutely zero sense in a historical or organisational context but already functions as judicial and political leverage almost weekly.
I'm not concluding anything, but sceptical speculation about state-, military pretexts, or corporate action like this didn't use to be as fringe as it is today, where it will quickly earn you an "enemy actor", "russia bot", "china bot", or "enemy of the state" badge - the oldest play in the book in my opinion, echoing mccarthyism, ww2 state sponsored xenophobia or similar strategies.
Since Bernais et. al. wrote about propaganda and the mouldable psyche of the masses for state power and profit in the 1920's it's like these perspectives have been forgotten.
In my view this is how business and politics have always worked until the modern "everything is just chaos and randomness" discourse conveniently became the paradigm - and conveniently that is for the ownership classes - even rather tame marxist historians or a plurality of historiographies outside of the tiny anglosphere bubble would laugh at this perspective and say the state and the upper classes have always and will always conspire in class warfare, propaganda and PR to spin, mobilise and smokescreen resource political and judicial strategies that people wouldn't support organically via PR playbooks, campaigning and event driven political action.
- realreality 3y agoRegardless of the source of illness, the pandemic response was another iteration of economic “shock therapy”, ushering us one step closer to a world of technofeudalism, which our leaders openly endorse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics)