Slothrop
@gnocchiwizard
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In the wake of the advent of civilian intelligence, propaganda became a feature of daily life. no longer an aberration conjured up to generate support for war, intelligence became concerned with EVERYTHING and EVERYONE, and propaganda became more complex and entirely trippier.
intelligence continued knowingly disseminating falsehoods in order to manufacture support for its desired wars, the Gulf of Tonkin and Iraq's weapons of mass destruction being obvious examples.
now, did the journalists at NYTimes who wrote, edited and published those stories know they were lying? it's quite likely they did not. the generals who commanded the war also likely believed the casus belli. putting aside this sincerity, they were still LIES.
past manufacturing consent for wars, western intelligence got into weirder territory. sprawling human experiments into the possibility of mind control, active measures to infiltrate and destabilize domestic political threats, these conspiracies are just known. no theory about it.
...which brings me, at long last, to covid. it is inconceivable to me that western intelligence was uninvolved in the media driven panic based on carefully crafted falsehoods, that they had no say in the drastic, sudden, and comprehensive restructuring of human society.
that i cannot name the specific conspirators is insignificant. it also doesn't matter that journalists, politicians, bureaucrats and public health officials all sincerely believed they were telling the truth. they really thought they were trying to save lives. so fucking what?
respectable dissidents tend to deride the notion that this was all done on purpose for reasons not made public. they mock the idea of bond villains twisting their mustaches in private, cackling over their deceitful plots. These people do not understand the history of propaganda.
why was the laughably fraudulent imperial college model front paged by the New York Times in march of 2020, just like the Gulf of Tonkin, The Maine, Saddam's WMDs?
the brilliance of covid was taking tools usually reserved for war propaganda, and using them instead for a "public health" initiative. even most people who studied propaganda failed to perceive it in action, because instead of generals, it was doctors giving press conferences.
...in propaganda, lies are disseminated on purpose, in order to affect unstated policy goals that would otherwise be impossible in democracies.
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