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Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media ~ Michael Parenti
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The Covidian Cult by C.J. Hopkins / October 13th, 2020
Source: https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/the-covidian-cult/
One of the hallmarks of #totalitarianism is mass conformity to a psychotic official #narrative.
Nazism and Stalinism are the classic examples, but the phenomenon is better observed in cults and other sub-cultural societal groups.
These narratives are invariably paranoid, portraying the cult as threatened or persecuted by an evil #enemy or antagonistic force which only unquestioning conformity to the cult’s #ideology can save its members from.
Moreover, cult leaders will often radically change these narratives for no apparent reason, forcing their cult members to abruptly forswear (and often even denounce as “heresy”) the beliefs they had previously been forced to profess, and behave as if they had never believed them, which causes their minds to further short circuit, until they eventually give up even trying to think rationally, and just mindlessly parrot whatever nonsensical gibberish the cult leader fills their heads with.
The cult leader isn’t trying to communicate. He is trying to disorient and control the listener’s mind.
If all this sounds familiar, good. Because the same #techniques that most cult leaders use to control the #minds of the members of their cults are used by #totalitarian systems to control the minds of entire #societies: Milieu Control, Loaded Language, Sacred #Science, Demand for Purity, and other standard mind-control techniques.
It is happening to most of our societies right now. An official narrative is being implemented. A totalitarian official narrative. A totally psychotic official narrative, no less delusional than that of the Nazis, or the Manson family, or any other cult.
This is what totalitarians and cult leaders count on, and exploit to implant their narratives in our minds, and why actual initiation rituals (as opposed to purely symbolic rituals) begin by attacking the subject’s mind with terror, pain, physical exhaustion, psychedelic drugs, or some other means of obliterating the subject’s perception of reality.
Nor can they perceive the delusional nature of the official “#Covid-19” narrative, no more than those in Nazi Germany were able to perceive how completely delusional their official “master race” narrative was.
Their initiation into the Covidian #Cult began in January, when the medical authorities and corporate #media turned on The Fear with projections of hundreds of millions of deaths and #fake photos of people dropping dead in the streets. The psychological conditioning has continued for months. The global masses have been subjected to a constant stream of #propaganda, manufactured #hysteria, wild speculation, conflicting directives, exaggerations, lies, and tawdry theatrical effects.
Facts do not matter to totalitarians and cult members. What matters is loyalty to the cult or the party.
What we are up against is not a misunderstanding or a rational argument over scientific facts. It is a fanatical ideological movement. A global totalitarian movement … the first of its kind in human history.
Instead of the #cult existing as an island within the dominant culture, the cult has become the dominant culture, and those of us who have not joined the cult have become the isolated islands within it.
I wish I could be more optimistic, and maybe offer some sort of plan of action, but the only historical parallel I can think of is how #Christianity “converted” the pagan world … which doesn’t really bode so well for us. While you’re sitting at home during the “second wave” lockdowns, you might want to brush up on that history.
Reposted from: https://diasp.org/posts/f9bf60e0f07d0138cc162a0000053625
It's often said that reality has a political bias
Most famously Stephen Colbert's "reality has a well-known liberal bias" at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner.
But truth and facts aren't political. It is political ideologies are selective about truth, or reject it entirely.
What do you stand for? Truth? Or ideology?
The difference between the elections of Trump in the U.S. and #Bolsonaro in Brazil is:
#memes ALONE elected Bolsonaro, which actually is similar to the campaign for Trump, but on steroids: pratically no mainstream media was used, except of allies of Bolsonaro.
If we, as people, can be defeated by memes, I don't know what to say. I quit.
I really believe people are to blame for being defeated by such things as memes. Not that memes have no importance, it's just that this phrase applies to a wider variety of subjects than we could have imagined: Either people control technology, or the technology controls people. It's not about the memes, but how far people let memes influence life. Shit, a fuckload of people actually commemorate the death of a 7 year old of meningitis, just because he was the grandchild of a political figure hated by them. How far is the public going? That's a public shaped and constructed by these people.
We must face it: we fucking failed as community.
Either we learn how to fight back, or these ridiculous things will take over and destroy the little (not so little) we built so far. Either we learn to not be carried away by anger and act more efficiently, either we learn how to be subversive and actually congregate society once again for fighting for what's is right, or we are fucking done.
This is not about server or chat software. This is about letting liberty slip for governments, markets and companies to do whatever they please, just like sand in the hands. They learned with the holocaust that they can't do whatever they please, they must the people consent and support to do so. And they are getting it. Iraq, Syria, soon Venezuela. Public opinion has proven to be easily shaped by groups, and this is the extent they can reach. And everyday they reach further.
This is now the era they get, as we here say, minions that will do the job for them, using militant tactics, just because they've been so convinced that what they do is right they will die for their cause (I'd say brainwashed, but that's not it, this is underestimating). These minions are not responding to a central command, nor know exactly what they are doing, nor are manipulated by people, but being manipulated by the narrative of power that through #dialetics get their message through and convert them for their side and projects. This is #ideology. And ideology and dialetics used to belong to us!. Not anymore, though, but we still have it, it's just dim, stressed out and beaten up.
Don't ever forget that, whether technology controls people, this same technology responds to other people and that is only one of their tools for thought control. It's being perfected and gown to this state we see today.
We either shake this shit off and get back on track, or the dystopia will be very close. Fucking wake up, my loves.