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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Always Opposing The Last War But Not The Current One
Published: 2022-10-23
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYrh_TMXbE
Title: Always Opposing The Last War But Not The Current One
Published: 2022-10-23
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYrh_TMXbE
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always opposing the last war but not the current one notes from the edge of the narrative Matrix those who hate Russia the most are the ones who embody everything they claim to hate about it they're all pro-war pro-censorship pro-propaganda pro-trolling operations and support Ukraine in Banning political parties in opposition media they are what they claim to hate meanwhile those of us who oppose those things are2/15
told to move to Russia even though we're the ones advocating for the supposed Western values they claim to support while they're doing everything they can to undermine them they should move to Russia Western propaganda means people always oppose the last war but not the current War the U.S provoking and sustaining its Ukraine proxy war is no more ethical than its invading of Iraq it just looks3/15
that way due to propaganda Ukraine isn't the good War it's just the current War it is only by the copious amounts of propaganda our civilization is being hammered with that this is not immediately obvious to everyone in the future assuming we don't annihilate ourselves first the propaganda will have cleared from the air enough for people to see clearly and realize that they were lied to again4/15
the U.S indisputably deliberately provoked this war the U.S is indisputably keeping this war going the U.S indisputably benefits from this war while ukrainians Russians and Europeans get nothing but suffering from it Empire apologists will admit to the latter on rare occasions of honesty as Matthew Iglesias did recently when he wrote The Following quote the United States is using up a lot of military equipment in the5/15
war but it's being used for the purpose of destroying Russian military equipment since we were already fully committed to an anti-russian military Alliance this is actually a really good deal for us basically NATO Equipment Plus Ukrainian lives are being traded for you for Russian Equipment Plus Russian lives which leaves NATO coming out ahead that's doubly true because NATO is much richer than Russia so we win6/15
a long-term game of everyone explode their weapons as fast as they can make them again though what makes that really true is that NATO material is killing Russian soldiers while Russian material material is killing Ukrainian soldiers that's a deal in our favor end quote it's easy to oppose the last war it's hard to oppose current Wars as the propaganda machine is shoving them down our throats7/15
everyone's anti-war until the war propaganda starts the fact that the White House is weighing a National Security review of Elon musk's Twitter purchase because he's perceived as having an increasingly russia-friendly stance is an admission that the U.S government views large social media platforms as its own propaganda services there is no one who can be trusted with the authority to determine what constitutes disinformation or misinformation on8/15
behalf of large numbers of people this is because we are not impartial omniscient deities but highly fallible biased humans with our own vested interests this fatal logical flaw in the burgeoning business of fact-checking and counter disinformation is self-evident at a glance and it becomes even more glaring once you notice that all the major players involved in instituting and normalizing these practices have ties to status quo9/15
power the idea that someone needs to be in charge of deciding what's true and false on behalf of the rank and file citizenry is becoming more and more widely accepted and it's plainly irrational in practice it's nothing other than a call to propagandize the public more aggressively you might agree with their propaganda the propagandists might believe they are being totally impartial and objective but as long10/15
as they have any oligarchic or state backing directly or indirectly they are necessarily administering propaganda on behalf of the powerful question the assumption that people saying wrong things to each other on the Internet is a problem that needs to be managed people have always said wrong things to each other untruth has always existed we've managed it's not a problem we should want the powerful to fix11/15
for us science should be the most collaborative Endeavor in the world every scientist on Earth should be collaborating and communicating instead because of our competition-based models it's the exact opposite scientific exploration is divided up into innovators competing against other innovators corporations competing against other corporations Nations competing against other nations if we could see how much we are losing to these competition-based models how much Innovation is12/15
going unrealized how much human thriving is being sacrificed how we're losing almost all of our brain power potential to these models we'd fall on our knees and scream with rage if science had been a fully collaborative worldwide hive mind Endeavor instead of divided and turned against itself for profit and military power our civilization would be unimaginably more advanced than it is this is doubtless we gave13/15
up Paradise to make a few bastards rich it's not too late to have this of course we could still abandon our competition-based models for collaboration-based ones and create a paradise on Earth together we've just got to want it badly enough as a species a collaboration-based society where everyone gets what they need wouldn't just eliminate the inefficiencies and obstacles created by competition it would free up the14/15
brain power of our entire species to devote itself to Innovation and Discovery as Stephen J Gould said I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal Talent have lived and died in Cotton Fields and sweatshops poverty inequality the patent system the need to earn money to survive corporate competition corporate secrecy competition between states15/15
secrecy War militarism all these drainages leave us with a tiny fraction of our available scientific potential overcoming the existential roadblocks we've set up for ourselves in our near future is going to require a tremendous amount of brilliance and we won't have access to that Brilliance until we become a conscious species and move from competition-based Models to collaborative ones
