Most of what we consider public life in modern societies is public reactions to things done by the powerful. The New York Times makes up a new hoax and the week is spent on the hoax. The usual suspects swear by the obvious lies and normal people spend days picking apart the lies. Occasionally, we get the reverse where some uncomfortable truth gets loose and the usual suspect go bananas trying to “debunk” it while normal people cling to it as blessed relief.
This is the news cycle in a nutshell. There is very little news. It has been at least a generation since the major news outlets in America have done reporting. Most of it is just stenography. The “journalist” copies what a government spokesbot has sent to them and dresses it up with some commentary. Then there are the narratives that are designed to give the public a way to repeat the official truth that sounds convincing to them and their acquaintances.
The source of this is the “new journalism” that emerged in the 1960’s. The late British reporter Chris Munnion chronicled this in his book Banana Sunday. He spent most of his life covering Africa for the Telegraph. In the 1960’s he noticed Americans showing up with pre-written narratives. They would seek out quotes and pictures to fill out the story they had prepared for the trip. Even if the facts contradicted the narrative, they stuck with the narrative because that was the new journalism.
[...] In the Washington Post we have another version of the Alamo narrative [about the Azov guys in the Ukraine]. This one is authored by a someone named David Stern. The Post identifies him as a journalist based Ukraine. In reality he is most likely an operative of the American foreign policy establishment charged with peddling their narratives in Western media. Note that his copy does not mention that the holdouts are Azov fighters. The Post does not want anyone noticing those guys in the story.
If you scan the Washington Post, what you quickly see is that most of their Ukraine “reporting” relies on operatives from NGO’s and the intel community. They know that the information they are being fed is from partisan sources. That would be fine if they made that clear, but they go out of their way to conceal this truth. Their job is to sell the official lies and they take that job seriously. They are lying and they know they are lying but they keep lying because that is their job.
Of course, a real journalist would be curious about these sources that all seem to say the same things about current events. For example, a story on the “Institute for the Study of War” and who pays their bills would be interesting. It would provide the public with some understanding about who is trying to convince them that nuclear war is the price we must pay to defend Ukraine. Instead, they investigate a popular Twitter account called The Libs of TikTok.
That last bit is another good example of the mendacity of the media. This story was created by the Washington Post. They assigned credit for it to a vulgar dingbat calling herself Taylor Lorenz. This woman is so dumb she could count her boobs twice and get the wrong number both times. The real source was German intelligence who employs a former Twitter employee named Travis Brown. He works for the Protoype Fund, which is funded by the German government.
Again, like the Examiner piece using the “Institute for the Study of War”, the real story her is a foreign government attacking an American citizen. A real news organization would want to know who facilitated this. The Post surely knows that Taylor Lorenz is too stupid to work a phone so she did not call Travis Brown. Of course, that story will never happen because that idea would never cross the minds of the editors. Their job is to sell the official lies and they take that job seriously.
That is the main point of this exercise. At all levels of what is called journalism you will find people who lie with enthusiasm. The selection pressure is all in favor of people who enjoy lying to the public. They like the scheming and the deception. Like all sociopaths, they are shameless about it. Shame requires a soul. As Solzhenitsyn put it, “We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”
However, the Z-man is wrong. At least there at the end. While many people do in fact know that the media are lying, many people still believe most of what they read in the media anyway. The Z-man himself talks about the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect in yesterday's post. This is still a real thing. I think most people are still convinced that Putin is a terrible person who unjustly invaded the Ukraine because he's just a bully who wants to create a new Russian Empire or something. While Putin may indeed be a terrible person—in fact, he very probably is—nothing else about that narrative is correct. As I've said before, with all of the facts (or at least more of the facts—facts that aren't even very difficult to uncover, because they're not secrets, they're just not part of the narrative) it quickly becomes clear that Washington is the villain in the Ukraine story, Zelensky is a thoroughly corrupt puppet of Washington, and you could actually make a reasonable case that Russia is rushing in to save the Ukrainians, and even more specifically the ethnic Russians of the Donbass region in a humanitarian effort because of the oppression and corruption and outright violence in the case of the Donbass Russians that they face on a daily basis. Their care, even though it is costing them dearly, to try and preserve as much of the infrastructure and civilian populace as they can, is proof of that.
In fact, again using facts that aren't exactly secret and are actually easy to dig up, although most people don't know them, it's easy to make the case that Washington has been the villain for most of the world since about 1860. It's no wonder that there's a stereotype that everyone hates Americans, even though Americans themselves—normal everyday Americans—tend to be fairly nice, likeable people. It's because our government has been infiltrated with thoroughly corrupt sociopaths for generations, who make a living by rapine across the globe whenever there's an excuse to do so. Even the Washington Post, while lying about the Russia Collusion hoax with regards to the Trump presidency, admitted in 2016 that the US attempted to overthrow 72 legitimate governments during the course of the Cold War alone for their own economic-political reasons. Following the Cold War, they hardly seem to have been bothered to hide these efforts. They made a big public show of overthrowing Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan, for instance.
Unsurprisingly, the Ukraine makes the list of one that had it's government successfully overthrown and replaced by Washington. Twice, even, since the beginning of the century. Most recently, with the installation of Zelensky's fraudulent, illegitimate government in 2014 during the so-called Maidan Revolution. The US government are not the good guys. They aren't good guys at all.
2 Nephi 28:21 "And others will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will say: All is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, all is well--and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell."
That scripture isn't just spiritual, although it mostly is. I'm often shocked and disappointed by how many people refuse to see wickedness all around them, and put themselves and their families under its power because of their naïve belief that all's well in Zion. The fact that our government is thoroughly corrupt is actually less important personally to most than the fact that everything else around them is corrupt—unless you work for the government or are thinking of joining the military. But the entire ecosystem is corrupt, and seeing the corruption clearly in one place helps us to understand that the rot is almost certainly present everywhere else in the ecosystem too. How many parents would send their kids to school knowing that they are being exposed to not only adult groomers trying to teach them the wonders of gay sex at a young age, but to a toxic environment where their kids' own friends and peers will talk them into believing that they are "pangender" or whatever the latest fad is? (I can attest to that from several personal albeit second hand experiences. But what I heard from my own kids was enough to convince me that I should have homeschooled them, and what I've seen from my own nieces, nephews, and kids in my ward and stake is bad enough.) Some will come out on the other side of this toxic environment OK. Others will have had problems even in a more nurturing, controlled environment because of friends in the neighborhood or even in their wards and stakes. Nothing is perfect. But having a clearer understanding of the lay of the land is crucial to make good decisions that will minimize the losses due to the spiritual casualties of the world. All is not well in Zion.
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