We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is
cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with
thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to
the needs and lies of corporate state power.
This propaganda
comes in two forms: covert and overt. The latter, and most effective
form, comes with a large dose of truth offered rapid-fire by celebrated,
authoritative voices via prominent media. The truth is sprinkled with
subtle messages that render it sterile.
This has long been the
case, but it is even more so in the age of images on screens and digital
media where words and images flow away like water in a rapidly moving
stream. The late sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman, updating Marx’s famous
quote “all that is solid melts into thin air,” called this “liquid
modernity.”
Welcome to Operation Pandemonium
See, these
experts purport to say: What we tell you is true, but it is impossible
to draw definitive conclusions. You must drink the waters of uncertainty
forever lest you become a conspiracy nut. But if you don’t want to be
so labelled, accept the simplest explanation for matters that disturb
you – Occam’s razor, that the truest answer is the simplest – which is
always the official explanation. If this sounds contradictory, that is
because it is. It is meant to be. We induce schizophrenia....<<<Read More>>>..
