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Mattias, Thx for this post, which I’ve restacked FYI. Notwithstanding the collapse of the Nordstream narrative, the Big Lie will persist for many, the seed of the weed has been planted, and no matter how many times we try and pull the weed out it grows back. Those who plant and propagate the weed, know this all too well.

In 2019 I penned an essay titled “Inside the Submissive Void — Propaganda, Censorship, Power, and Control”. You will see the link and more details below. As the title suggests it touches on some of the key themes you’ve highlighted above. Readers herein might find it of interest. Best, GM 👍🙏====

ARTICLE: Inside the Submissive Void — Propaganda, Censorship, Power, and Control, By Greg Maybury

Brief: The use of propaganda and censorship is more frequently associated with totalitarian, corrupt and/or despotic regimes, not modern democracies in the West. Yet the history of how western governments and their ever-vigilant, ever inventive globalist overlords and their political underlings have controlled the narrative of the time via these means is a long, storied and ruinous one, going back well before 1914. 

No matter how clever we think we are, or how mindful we might be of—and from that consciously resistant to—the corrosive effects of propaganda and censorship, misinformation, disinformation and the incessant lies of officialdom, we’re all susceptible to the forces they unleash, with complacency, arrogance, presumption, ignorance, paranoia, & self-delusion being but a few of them.

Much as the pharmaceutical industry is in the business of poisoning the very life-blood of our physical bodies (on the pretext of protecting our health and well-being), the propagandists and the gatekeepers of the flame are in the business of poisoning the very life-blood of the body politic itself. In their case it’s invariably under the guise of protecting our democracy and preserving our freedom. Or saving us from some vaguely identified, spuriously concocted, yet always existentially threatening, hobgoblin.

Along with serving the contemporaneous political objectives of its perpetrators as contrived, such activities often continue to inform our understanding, and cement our interpretation, of our past. If as Hegel suggested, the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history, we need look no further as to the main reason why we repeatedly do this.

In this wide-ranging ‘safari’ into the fake news, myth-making, misinformation and disinformation wilderness—aka The Big Shill—Greg Maybury does indeed look further, and concludes that in the main, truth is always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

READ NOW: Inside the Submissive Void — #Propaganda, #Censorship, #Power, & #Control

👀🔗👉 https://tinyurl.com/4tty3dc7

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Aug 17Edited

Always be wary of an authority insisting they are doing something for your protection or wellbeing. Oldest trick in the book.

Why do we repeatedly fall for these mind games? That was sorted long ago, Greg. Many thinkers/writers have delved into this. We do have answers.

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