Boondoggle beats Perception
As I rove around the web, it seems I hear constant complaining that so-and-so is lying, talking through his hat, making shit up....
I don't really know when I started taking a more basic view of things seriously, i.e. unless insanity of a specific type was contagious - a plan was being followed.
I grew up watching television advertising - something that should guarantee cynical disbelief.
Rove was a revelation : a known advertising man packaging fiction as the front for not just the campaign trail, but ongoing smoke and mirrors to hide the real agenda of the administration.
Intelligent dissent was immediately branded variously as unAmerican, disloyal, Leftist, Conspiracy Theorist....Epithet of the Day branding of various and sundry people in lieu of rebuttal.
I'm lazy online - preferring to catalogue what I consider wonderful writing by others. Noam Chomsky, Tom Engelhardt... so many listed at places like Dandelion Salad,Op-Ed News, Think Progress and more. But I have tried lackadasically to do some organizing of incisive analysis into more concentrated form. The problem is, unless people actually peruse such a list, use it for exploration stimulation, or even a reading aid...the work ends up mostly wasted.
So I diversify, commenting here and there and joining new-hunters' groups and joining some of the better comments threads.
Problem is, by the time that happens, you're dealing with people who realize something is 'off'. What about those who don't ? And can you quip without being slotted into the category of 'fruitcake' so fast you might as save yourself the effort ?
Needlenose, Daliy Kos, Last Left Turn B4 Hooterville and more have tried. Here's another note dealing with the fact that stupid things are constantly said in the news.
The decrying of lack of accuracy stirred up totally misses the point.
An introduction to the Overton Window
I really owe a lot of my willingness to chase this train of thought to Noam Chomsky, who was down this road many years ago in his work on media control by a close-knit corporate in-group. Taking things further led me to see that a pattern of deception could be possible right from school, entertainment, media...everywhere. A real case for paranoia plus.
Could such a framework be reasonably posited and considered ? A little look at political theory yielded startling results
Plutocracy
Kleptocracy
The basics of our laws are inherited from those imposed by conquerors who defined the conditions under which society would operate : specifically in England the settlement of the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Modification came in 1215 when the hereditary ruling class took a chunk of Imperial power away because of ongoing abuse : the Great Charter ( Magna Carta ) which limited the authority of the state to imprison and hold people.
Under the current false war of existance threat of terrorism ( real challenges being in short supply ), replacing the old Cold War and Mutual Assured Destruction ( something current policies go a long way towards revitalizing ), the citizenry is stripped of this protection.
Orwell is so often quoted he's become flagged as a sort of UFO-style alarmist. Check his background : he worked in broadcasting before becoming an author. He knew media. His 'fictional' account ? People are fed a recurring theme instead of reporting : news is made to fit the story line by changing it , just not telling everything, or flat omission.
I found '1984' rather dull in some ways. The idea of a soporific community has other proponents. Perversely, Aldous Huxley - Brave New World seemed to have more zip.
I don't really know when I started taking a more basic view of things seriously, i.e. unless insanity of a specific type was contagious - a plan was being followed.
I grew up watching television advertising - something that should guarantee cynical disbelief.
Rove was a revelation : a known advertising man packaging fiction as the front for not just the campaign trail, but ongoing smoke and mirrors to hide the real agenda of the administration.
Intelligent dissent was immediately branded variously as unAmerican, disloyal, Leftist, Conspiracy Theorist....Epithet of the Day branding of various and sundry people in lieu of rebuttal.
I'm lazy online - preferring to catalogue what I consider wonderful writing by others. Noam Chomsky, Tom Engelhardt... so many listed at places like Dandelion Salad,Op-Ed News, Think Progress and more. But I have tried lackadasically to do some organizing of incisive analysis into more concentrated form. The problem is, unless people actually peruse such a list, use it for exploration stimulation, or even a reading aid...the work ends up mostly wasted.
So I diversify, commenting here and there and joining new-hunters' groups and joining some of the better comments threads.
Problem is, by the time that happens, you're dealing with people who realize something is 'off'. What about those who don't ? And can you quip without being slotted into the category of 'fruitcake' so fast you might as save yourself the effort ?
Needlenose, Daliy Kos, Last Left Turn B4 Hooterville and more have tried. Here's another note dealing with the fact that stupid things are constantly said in the news.
The decrying of lack of accuracy stirred up totally misses the point.
An introduction to the Overton Window
I really owe a lot of my willingness to chase this train of thought to Noam Chomsky, who was down this road many years ago in his work on media control by a close-knit corporate in-group. Taking things further led me to see that a pattern of deception could be possible right from school, entertainment, media...everywhere. A real case for paranoia plus.
Could such a framework be reasonably posited and considered ? A little look at political theory yielded startling results
Plutocracy
Kleptocracy
The basics of our laws are inherited from those imposed by conquerors who defined the conditions under which society would operate : specifically in England the settlement of the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Modification came in 1215 when the hereditary ruling class took a chunk of Imperial power away because of ongoing abuse : the Great Charter ( Magna Carta ) which limited the authority of the state to imprison and hold people.
Under the current false war of existance threat of terrorism ( real challenges being in short supply ), replacing the old Cold War and Mutual Assured Destruction ( something current policies go a long way towards revitalizing ), the citizenry is stripped of this protection.
Orwell is so often quoted he's become flagged as a sort of UFO-style alarmist. Check his background : he worked in broadcasting before becoming an author. He knew media. His 'fictional' account ? People are fed a recurring theme instead of reporting : news is made to fit the story line by changing it , just not telling everything, or flat omission.
I found '1984' rather dull in some ways. The idea of a soporific community has other proponents. Perversely, Aldous Huxley - Brave New World seemed to have more zip.
