"China is a freakish, backwards nation," say the media in a nation whose government has spent the 21st century slaughtering people by the millions in military operations overseas so that it can literally rule the world like a comic book supervillain.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," say the westerners as they consume propaganda cooked up by their government and corporations on devices manufactured by stolen resources and slave labor made possible by mass military slaughter, starvation and unipolar global domination.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," say the politicians who put on a daily performance of pro-wrestling style fake opposition against a political party they agree with on every major issue who is owned by the same corporate masters they serve.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," says the civilization that lets people starve and die of exposure and lack of medications because they didn't win at a game of accruing made-up numbers in their imaginary bank accounts by participating in a pretend economy.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," says the nation with the world's largest prison population which they still to this day use as literal slave labor.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," parrots a brainwashed population in unison, just as it was programmed to by the largest and most sophisticated propaganda system that has ever existed.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," blare the screens that have been indoctrinating us since birth to accept a murderous, oppressive, exploitative, omnicidal, ecocidal status quo that is driving our species toward extinction on myriad fronts.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," says the mind that has been warped and twisted its entire life to only function in ways which serve the powerful people who rule its own nation.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," say the inhabitants of a globe-spanning empire they don't even know exists even as they blindly toil in its service their entire lives.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," say the masses as they ignore the freakish, backwards power structure that has been grinding them into the dirt.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," bleats a nation of unthinking automatons as they mindlessly crank the gears of an insatiable armageddon machine that is fueled by human blood.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," says a society that has turned away from sanity, turned away from truth, turned away from our authentic selves, all in service of a few clever people who discovered that human minds are hackable if you can just block out their inner light.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation" we say, because we're too brainwashed and befuddled to conceive of a world where governments don't compete with and strive to dominate each other and we instead collaborate together toward the good of our entire species.
"China is a freakish, backwards nation," we say, instead of looking at ourselves, and looking inward, and letting life get a word in edgewise, and letting truth take seed, and sprout, and blossom, and turning away from this self-destructive nonsense, and building a healthy world.
Western media narratives about Peng Shuai or Julian Assange are not equal to someone in your life telling you they've been raped, and anyone acting like they're the same is acting in bad faith. Allegations against a known target of the Pentagon and CIA are not normal allegations.
Plot hole-riddled rape allegations of immense political consequence which advance the agendas of the world's most powerful people do not carry the same weight as rape allegations against random celebrities and people in your personal life. Amazing this even needs to be said.
All rape allegations need to be examined with an acute awareness of the power dynamics involved. Where applicable, this necessarily includes the large-scale power dynamics of a globe-spanning empire which manipulates narratives in order to exert control and influence.
Propaganda isn't just about manufacturing consent for wars and ridiculous governmental measures we'd never normally accept. That's what most people think of when they hear that word, but there's so very, very much more to it than that.
Most propaganda goes not toward convincing us to accept new agendas of the powerful, but toward keeping us entranced in the status quo dream world. Toward normalizing status quo systems and training us to shape ourselves to fit into them like little cogs in a well-oiled machine.
It's not even a grand conspiracy in most cases. The corporations who create advertisements, movies, shows, apps and websites are all naturally incentivized to point us further and further into delusion by the way they benefit from the status quo systems which have elevated them.
Wanting Peace With Russia To Focus Aggressions On China Is Just Being An Imperialist Warmonger
Propagandists work to keep us debating the details of HOW empire agendas should be advanced rather than IF they should and IF there should be an empire at all. caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/wanting-peac…
Gaetz criticizes Biden's hawkishness toward Russia not because peace is good but because he wants those aggressions focused on China instead, spouting imperialist "Monroe Doctrine" bullshit in the process.
The Monroe Doctrine essentially told Europe, "Everything south of the Mexican border is our Africa. It's ours to dominate in the same way you dominate the Global South in the Eastern Hemisphere. Those are your brown people, these are our brown people."
Sleazy Edit By Canadian State Media Frames Video Blogger As An Agent Of Beijing
"The state-funded @CBCNews has committed an absolutely jaw-dropping act of journalistic malpractice amid the west's mad scramble to whip up public hysteria about China." caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/sleazy-edit-…
@CBCNews You need to watch two clips to grasp how bad this is. First, watch how the CBC frames @DanielDumbrill's remark about a "marketing campaign" as a comment about himself, like he's admitting to being part of an influence operation:
@CBCNews@DanielDumbrill Now watch this footage posted by Dumbrill. Notice his explicit denial of D'Souza's accusation that he is part of any campaign and pay attention to the context in which he makes the "marketing campaign" comment:
The trouble with Twitter hate mobs is they don't work on the people you want them to work on. Being subjected to them can ruin your day if you have empathy and care how people feel about you, but if you're a sociopathic politician, pundit or celebrity it'll just be funny to you.
So if you're a healthy empathic person you can be easily silenced and shut down by a few aggressive social media accounts, while if your brain has a missing or malfunctioning empathy center you're guaranteed to keep your voice. One of the many ways our setup uplifts sociopaths.
So many aspects of our society are tilted to the advantage of people with no empathy, like the way capitalism rewards anyone who's willing to do whatever it takes to out-compete everyone else and climb to the top. In a sense it's the source of all our major problems.
Sources say the system's working great,
and the government is your friend.
Commerce is the same as freedom
and wealth is the same as happiness,
according to sources familiar with the matter. caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/sources-say
Sources say you should hate the Russians,
and also you should hate the Chinese,
and also you should hate Iran,
and also you should hate anti-vaxxers,
and also you should hate disobedient podcasters,
and really just hate anyone but your owners.
Sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, say we would never lie to you.
We've been speaking to you since you were young.
You can trust us with your mind.