The empire's greatest weapon is not its military but its propaganda machine. There's simply never been anything like the global narrative control provided by the western news media and Hollywood. The military fights wars, the propaganda machine wins them long before they start.
When you use the military to eliminate opposition, everyone knows it happens. When you use propaganda to eliminate opposition, people aren't even aware you did that. They think it was their own idea to suddenly become super concerned about Saddam or Assad or Maduro or whomever.
Beyond the hard, concrete realities of war and militarism there's a whole other war being fought on a far greater scale and of far greater consequence, and most people don't even know it's happening: the mass-scale psychological manipulation of the entire human species.
This is why human behavior looks so irrational. Why are we fighting all these wars, engaging in nuclear brinkmanship and destroying the biosphere when we know intellectually these are bad things? It's not because humans are bad, it's because a few bad humans manipulate the rest.
True. Our education systems build the foundation of and serve as a primer for the propaganda we'll be inundated with throughout our adult lives.
https://twitter.com/Pat022513/status/1445873822310219777?s=20
A lucid and well-informed examination of the world's problems will keep bringing you back to this one fundamental issue: that Earth's inhabitants are being psychologically manipulated at mass scale into organizing themselves in ways that serve the powerful instead of the people.
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