Comments on: UPDATED (1/7/022): NEW. WATCH: Deplorables, Cancel The January 6 PSYOP!

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 01:19:06 +0000

Well, there you go! You said it all much more succinctly than I could have. You rightly identify the feedback loop between conventional war propaganda and the media misinformation produced for domestic purposes; to a very real extent each form of propaganda necessarily incorporates the tactics of the other until they are nearly indistinguishable. And as you aver, this bodes ill for the future of both civil and international peace.

I’m hardly the first to point this out, but precisely this CIA playbook of regime change and color revolutions which was perfected abroad has now been reenacted at home. What we’ve observed in the past several years can only be described as a (preemptive) ruling-class coup against the constitutional government. Unfortunately, I think the time for productively intervening in this process has long since passed.

By: Ilana Mercer

Ilana Mercer — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 22:57:51 +0000

Do you mean "the frenzied behavior known as mass hysteria or hysterical contagion," as evinced in the atavistic dynamics undergirding two American wars? https://www.ilanamercer.com/2017/06/beware-atavistic-dynamics-undergirding-two-american-wars/

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 21:15:20 +0000

I have witnessed up close how people can become suddenly seized by phantoms with such compelling force that it is wholly appropriate to speak of ideological possession. No attempt at rational discourse will avail you of their native sense, nor dislodge any certainty from the well-worn ideological groove in their brain; and as soon as one fantastical construct releases its grip on a subject, another quickly descends to assume the vacancy. It is as though the subject has no personal memory of the episode—self-reflection or even mild embarrassment remains ever always in the penumbra of their consciousness, precisely where it is least useful.

The occasion of this minor eruption at the Capitol and the histrionics which it provoked from our ruling elite again recalls a topic of abiding relevance: the weaponization of therapeutic language against one’s enemies. A whole generation of the professional-managerial class has been expertly trained to convert emotional fragility (dressed up in the jargon of ‘trauma,’ ‘safety,’ and ‘self-care’) into social and political capital. I don’t attribute the necessary good faith that a single one of our media talking heads or political ‘leaders’ is genuine in recollecting their experiences of that afternoon; but there is a cynical genius in advertising vulnerability, given how therapeutic narcissism is basically the civic religion of contemporary America.