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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Westerners Think They Are Free Thinking Individualists And It's EffingAdorable
Published: 2022-08-06
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxcmu1gWmP8
Title: Westerners Think They Are Free Thinking Individualists And It's EffingAdorable
Published: 2022-08-06
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxcmu1gWmP8
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westerners think they are free-thinking individualists and it's effing adorable the times has published an article titled lady gaga embodies everything china fears subtitled the singer's uncompromising individuality makes her a serious threat to the mass imposition of cultural conformity through censorship and its contents are exactly as horrifyingly idiotic as you would imagine here are the first three paragraphs of the article by ben mcintyre because if i2/12
had to read them then so do you quote a woman looking like an extraterrestrial praying mantis upholstered in red leather strode onto the stage at tottenham hotspur stadium jets of flame shot a hundred feet into the air fifty thousand outrageously costumed fans screamed and i understood why china is so terrified of lady gaga for there is nothing so wildly individualistic so defiant of convention so unwilling3/12
to be regimented and controlled as lady gaga in full voice an erotic exotic uber celebrity who also contrives to be the girl next door stephanie joanne angelina germanotta from new york city lady gaga's chromatica ball last week was the first uk performance in seven years by this raw meat-wearing bisexual feminist who sings of liberty drugs addiction mental health and the absolute right of self-expression because she4/12
as everyone else is born this way simultaneously channeling freddie mercury and princess diana she is both an extreme fashion freak and defiantly ordinary which is why she is one of the most powerful pop stars in history and from the point of view of beijing's communist leadership a serious threat end quote mcintyre goes on to explain that lady gaga was banned from china in 2016 for meeting5/12
with the dalai lama who just between us is known to have collected a massive paycheck from the cia for decades which makes her a serious threat whose bold defiance and bisexual feminist individualism give xi jinping screaming night terrors lady gaga poses a threat less for her political views her visit to the dalai lama and her support for lgbtq rights than through her determination to be and6/12
encourage others to be entirely different mcintyre concludes do what you want she sings and beijing trembles i seriously cannot believe this article was published like anywhere i would have been surprised to see it picked up by even the most obscure click bait blog in the seediest backwaters of the internet much less by a prominent 237 year old british newspaper but from where i sit right now7/12
the funniest thing about it is the way the article portrays the western world as this bastion of free thought and individuality just that one fact alone eclipses the absurdity of the fact that the article's author thinks the perfect symbol of this freedom is lady gaga strutting around in a meat dress i mean just the fact that we are ingesting anti-china propaganda to facilitate the long-term strategic8/12
agendas of the u.s centralized empire while reading in the murdoch press about how free and unique we are compared to the chinese shows you how bizarre this claim is in an authoritarian regime you do what the powerful want you to do in a free democracy you do what you like and it's only by pure coincidence that what you like just so happens to always align perfectly9/12
with what the powerful want you to do the more you understand about the brainwashing effects of domestic propaganda in the west the more adorable it is when you see westerners talk about themselves as free-thinking individuals living in a free society in contrast with the citizens of nations like china a civilization whose inhabitants are continuously indoctrinated with power serving belief systems from childhood until their dying breath10/12
is not individualist is not free and is not thinking its inhabitants only think this is so and they think this is so because they've been programmed to freedom of thought and freedom of speech only exist on the fringes of western society in such small numbers that they make no difference the mainstream population whose numbers could be used to affect revolutionary change are herded into political factions11/12
which are designed to prop up status quo power at every turn and corresponding media media echo chambers which keep them from providing any meaningful existence to the machine as a whole we are marching in perfect accordance with the will of our masters voting how they like thinking how they like speaking how they like working how they like shopping how they like and living how they like