Thread by @caitoz

Oligarchic Imperialism Is The New Dominant World Religion

"It is what shapes our culture. It is what holy wars are fought over and acts of terrorism committed for. It's what power is built around. It's what you're branded a heretic for rejecting."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/oligarchic-i…

I was just watching a gaggle of blue-checkmarked narrative managers attack progressive commentators @kthalps and @briebriejoy for platforming antiwar journalist @RaniaKhalek on the grounds that Khalek is an "Assadist", which is imperialist for "heretic".

https://twitter.com/JasminMuj/status/1331369536663085057

At no point do any of these narrative managers bother to address the actual things these women were discussing together or why anything Khalek was saying in their video conference was wrong.

There are many such labels that are used to exclude people from positions of influence and power for simply disagreeing with the official doctrine of status quo oligarchic imperialism in any way.

In reality, these labels are interchangeable with the word "heretic". They mean "Someone who disagrees with the mainstream consensus religion of oligarchic imperialism".

Oligarchic imperialism is the new dominant world religion. It's the scripture everyone reads. It's what forms our culture. It's what holy wars are fought over. It's what terrorism is committed for. It's what power is built around. It's what you're branded a heretic for rejecting.

It's just as fake as any other religion, just as crafted toward the advantage of the powerful as any other religion, and just as dependent upon blind faith in insubstantial narratives as any other religion. But it lets adherents feel smug and superior to other religious people.

Adherents of the old dominant religion used to read the Bible; adherents of the new dominant religion read The New York Times. Adherents of the old dominant religion used to go to church on Sunday; adherents of the new dominant religion go to Hollywood movies.

Adherents of the old dominant religion fought in the crusades; adherents of the new dominant religion kill families with drones and Tomahawk missiles overseas.

These labels exist because if mainstream platforms admitted that they refuse access to literally anyone who disagrees with status quo oligarchic imperialism, they would have to admit that they are in fact propagandists for a very specific belief system.

They would have to admit that they are not tasked with the responsibility of reporting the news, but with promoting the doctrine of the new dominant world religion. That they aren't news reporters, but high priests.

Religion isn’t disappearing, it has just changed its form.

Western imperialism is worse than every single issue the mass media are screaming in your face about on any given day. It is without exaggeration worse than 100 percent of those issues.

In a murderous, tyrannical theocratic empire, the only sane position to hold is that of heresy and apostasy. Hopefully one day mankind will open its eyes to reality and require no blind faith in any artificial belief constructs of any kind.