Most things that most people believe about politics and world events are wrong. Many things that people think they know about history and gender relations are wrong too.
To be sure, there’s been a concerted effort to achieve this, such as the mockingbird media. Operation mockingbird is a CIA program to turn US news into propaganda. It started during the cold war but it’s ongoing, albeit now under different names. William Casey, former director of the CIA, said in 1981: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
The dark controllers wish to trap the people of Earth in a prison of illusions, to make it easier to control them. When people don’t know what is up and what is down, they’re easier to rule over. Sometimes they even put out or bolster false non-mainstream narratives, just to confuse those who are trying to wake up and to split the truther community. Flat Earth is one such example of a false narrative meant to confuse those people looking for alternate information, and to make the truther movement seem insane to average people.
Plus of course there’s been a massive censoring and deplatforming — the modern book burning — of accurate and truthful information.
For all the talk about “listen to the experts”, experts get instantly deplatformed or censored or fired or defunded or even murdered if they say something that doesn’t align with the desired narrative. But of course, those heretical experts then don’t get mentioned by the corporate mainstream media, and so the illusion is maintained that basically all experts agree with the mainstream narrative. When that’s usually not true.
The average person doesn’t understand that basically their entire belief system rests on the false and unjustified assumption that the corporate mainstream media is being truthful when it presents things as “basically all experts say X.” Often it’s just a flat-out lie that basically all experts say X. That illusion is created by cherry-picking a few experts who genuinely do think X, but that doesn’t prove in any way that all experts think X.
And even if most experts genuinely do say X, is it really science if experts know they’ll get censored or fired or deplatformed or defunded if they present heretical findings? I don’t recall that being part of the scientific method. Silencing heretics is what fundamentalist religions do. It’s not what science does.
The average person doing their own research is closer to employing the scientific method than a lot of officially-labeled scientists are, because in 2023 often scientists know before their experiment even begins what result they need to find to keep getting funding. And so there’s always a way to torture the data until it says what you want it to say. But that’s not science.
The establishment talks about science a lot, but they’re often being less scientific than the people whom they’re telling to listen to the science.
Now, what people might hope would happen is that because science and mainstream media are largely failing, then truthful information can still spread through people sharing knowledge and having debates and through an open exchange of ideas.
To an extent, this is happening, but it’s not happening as much as people might like. What people might hope would happen is that when two people with different opinions meet, they’d have a debate, they’d accept some points that the other person makes and incorporate those points into their worldview, and possibly they’d do some research about the other person’s viewpoint afterwards. And then both of the people would be better informed and have a more nuanced and accurate opinion afterwards.
To be sure, this does happen occasionally. Some of the people receiving this message have woken up politically in exactly this way. And you have my respect for being open-minded enough that you were able to wake up in this way. Most people don’t have that capacity. So: great job.
But as we know, what happens more often is that the sleeper (someone who still believes the narrative from the corporate mainstream media) avoids the awake person, or calls them a conspiracy theorist or spreader of disinformation. These are thought-terminating cliches. Thought terminating cliches serve to prevent thinking, because thinking might lead to thoughts that are uncomfortable and that cause cognitive dissonance.
This may sound condescending, but while part of me is annoyed with the sleepers, another part of me does empathize with them and has compassion for them. These people are usually in psychological survival mode, and thinking causes more emotional pain during a time when they’re already in more psychological distress than they can handle.
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https://eraoflight.com/2023/09/04/tunia-the-great-retreat-into-illusion-and-ukraine-war/