Post by Park Sung Jetson on May 18, 2023 13:44:41 GMT
From the comments over on The Z Blog, Jack Dobson says (minor edits for clarity) :
" The one narrative collapse that has not been forgotten, at least in comparison to the others, has been Covid. That some of the viral fraud still is, on rare occasion, mentioned and remarked upon from time to time seems to cause a great deal of discomfit. I’ll grant it isn’t much, but it is there. Contrast the total memoryholing* of Afghanistan (and the withdrawal debacle at the end) with Covid. It (the Afghanistan debacle) might as well have been a dream. (Because everybody has forgotten it even happened, forgotten that no one was held to account in any way, forgotten that the same evil actors are free to perpetrate more of the same, cannot see that the same people are fighting a proxy war with Russia in the Ukraine, forgotten--HEY! OVER THERE! A SQUIRREL! TURN ON CNN!! <editorial comments from Park Sung Jetson>)
You are otherwise 100 percent accurate. Along with propaganda, the Regime pumps out volumes of unrelated, useless information (mental static-PSJ) and it overloads the mind and more or less everything gets memoryholed.* Pat Buchanan, I think, once mentioned that the Global American Empire (he referred explicitly to Americans and Brits, but it applies to others in the realm) excelled at propaganda and were its greatest purveyors. Others have remarked on how easily propagandized Americans and other Westerners are, and how there never has been anything quite the equivalent, and that includes North Korea. It is hard to disagree. This has made it quite easy to transition to blatant totalitarianism.
It is why so many of us think that, unfortunately, only empty stomachs and frigid shelter ever will penetrate into the minds of the dutifully ignorant and easily misled. Even then most will not connect the dots to what made them cold and hungry."
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* Memoryhole is a reference to 1984, wherein Ingsoc destroyed all evidence that people incovenient to the Party had ever existed, or that historical events had taken place. (We have always been at war with Eurasia.) The primary means by which things are memoryholed in the modern West is by telling people some outrageous, patently false lie ("We had to save the children from David Koresh, so we burned them all alive.")-- and then simply starting to talk about something else as though it's not that big of a deal. It is remarkably effective. People drink from the jet-powered firehose of TV news (i.e. propaganda) channels with glassy-eyed regularity. It is an easy matter to direct their thoughts and control their minds. Their brief outrages are easily soothed as they are lulled back to sleep with The Latest Breaking News.
9/11
Yellow cake
Weapons of mass destruction
Invasion of the ME
Benghazi
"What, you mean wipe it with a cloth?"
Russian Collusion!
Pee tape!
Covid 19
Election 2020
J6
Flight from Afghanistan
Billions of dollars worth of weapons abandoned to the deadly enemies we were told we had to defeat
Proxy war in Ukraine
Billions and billions of dollars given to foreign nationals to prosecute the proxy war with no real oversight
Nobody notices that nothing is ever resolved or dealt with. Because hey, did ya hear on the news!? Tom Cruise invaded Lichtenstein with 6 million Scientology DVDs and a hooker that once saw Jeffrey Epstein at a Starbucks!!
And the beat goes on. North Korea is amateur hour compared to this Regime. At least the Norks are forced to hear propraganda. In this dump, you can't pry it away from their pudgy, remote-fuelled digits.
" The one narrative collapse that has not been forgotten, at least in comparison to the others, has been Covid. That some of the viral fraud still is, on rare occasion, mentioned and remarked upon from time to time seems to cause a great deal of discomfit. I’ll grant it isn’t much, but it is there. Contrast the total memoryholing* of Afghanistan (and the withdrawal debacle at the end) with Covid. It (the Afghanistan debacle) might as well have been a dream. (Because everybody has forgotten it even happened, forgotten that no one was held to account in any way, forgotten that the same evil actors are free to perpetrate more of the same, cannot see that the same people are fighting a proxy war with Russia in the Ukraine, forgotten--HEY! OVER THERE! A SQUIRREL! TURN ON CNN!! <editorial comments from Park Sung Jetson>)
You are otherwise 100 percent accurate. Along with propaganda, the Regime pumps out volumes of unrelated, useless information (mental static-PSJ) and it overloads the mind and more or less everything gets memoryholed.* Pat Buchanan, I think, once mentioned that the Global American Empire (he referred explicitly to Americans and Brits, but it applies to others in the realm) excelled at propaganda and were its greatest purveyors. Others have remarked on how easily propagandized Americans and other Westerners are, and how there never has been anything quite the equivalent, and that includes North Korea. It is hard to disagree. This has made it quite easy to transition to blatant totalitarianism.
It is why so many of us think that, unfortunately, only empty stomachs and frigid shelter ever will penetrate into the minds of the dutifully ignorant and easily misled. Even then most will not connect the dots to what made them cold and hungry."
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* Memoryhole is a reference to 1984, wherein Ingsoc destroyed all evidence that people incovenient to the Party had ever existed, or that historical events had taken place. (We have always been at war with Eurasia.) The primary means by which things are memoryholed in the modern West is by telling people some outrageous, patently false lie ("We had to save the children from David Koresh, so we burned them all alive.")-- and then simply starting to talk about something else as though it's not that big of a deal. It is remarkably effective. People drink from the jet-powered firehose of TV news (i.e. propaganda) channels with glassy-eyed regularity. It is an easy matter to direct their thoughts and control their minds. Their brief outrages are easily soothed as they are lulled back to sleep with The Latest Breaking News.
9/11
Yellow cake
Weapons of mass destruction
Invasion of the ME
Benghazi
"What, you mean wipe it with a cloth?"
Russian Collusion!
Pee tape!
Covid 19
Election 2020
J6
Flight from Afghanistan
Billions of dollars worth of weapons abandoned to the deadly enemies we were told we had to defeat
Proxy war in Ukraine
Billions and billions of dollars given to foreign nationals to prosecute the proxy war with no real oversight
Nobody notices that nothing is ever resolved or dealt with. Because hey, did ya hear on the news!? Tom Cruise invaded Lichtenstein with 6 million Scientology DVDs and a hooker that once saw Jeffrey Epstein at a Starbucks!!
And the beat goes on. North Korea is amateur hour compared to this Regime. At least the Norks are forced to hear propraganda. In this dump, you can't pry it away from their pudgy, remote-fuelled digits.
