Propaganda Alert

It’s a bit of a conundrum, isn’t it? How can we tell the real news from the fake news? They’re all pointing the faker finger at each other, aren’t they? Also interesting about it, is that they’re all (kind of) making some sense of their own too. Quite confusing times to live in! For the unwise…

It’s quite obvious, that these people over here are being told and believe one thing, and those people over there are being told and believe some other thing that makes these folks over here the “enemy”. It’s quite obvious, that “sides” are being artificially manufactured, with the believers pitted against each other like fighting dogs in a ring. It’s quite obvious that the effects of propaganda on human beings are something the equivalent of poking a bear with a stick. Except there are millions of bears and they have guns, tanks, bombs, and a plethora of options of weapons of mass death to choose from, to inflict on those whom they have been convinced by the propagandists to hate.

The obvious first red flag for to look for in an honest analysis of “is this propaganda or the truth?”, is hatred. Truth can sometimes make us angry, frustrated, and afraid. The propagandist takes advantage of this fact, to replace truth with a manipulable false – misguiding us to be angry, frustrated, and afraid of false things and false enemies. Their purpose is to amplify and misguide these feelings to a predetermined outcome – their purpose is to use us by our unthinking responses as chess pieces in their games of war and divisive control.

If you still possess any hatred in your heart whatsoever, you have already given your mind over to the propagandists too. This hatred is used against you to set the hook in your brain for the propagandists to manipulate you, to your demise and their own benefit. The propagandists know that it’s not a matter of who you hate, it’s a matter of “do you hate?” – and if that answer is yes, then you’re already on board the propaganda train and merely seeking what sits well with you as a suitable destination.

A great majority of propaganda is accounted for and identified in it’s obvious end game to direct the outcomes of warring collective human hatreds. In fact, this has been the general recipe for some few thousand years of a warring humanity. Not much has changed over history, but the technologies and mechanics of (false) information delivery. The faces change and the tools change, but the craft of propaganda has stayed the same. This is particularly because there is an architectural blueprint for propaganda, the shell of which can be remodeled and artistically redesigned by those with the knowledge and malicious willingness to wield it.

One time back in the day, a guy called up a newspaper to place a classified ad, selling his lawnmower for $100. The newspaper charged him $4 for the ad. What is interesting about this is, he didn’t actually have a lawnmower for sale. The truth was he was a drug addict and used the ad to lure unsuspecting victims into showing up to a robbery scene with at least $100 on them. The truth is, the newspaper was complicit in the committing of a crime. Sadly, this is not just a “back in the day” occurrence that we have to recollect, but still quite a legitimate concern happening almost daily.

What I learned from this – is that media outlets have a much higher demand to make money than they do to tell the truth. That’s the long and short of it. It doesn’t just stop at the classified ads; what we read on their platforms is what makes them money, and “the truth” is irrelevant. In fact, it isn’t even asked for or fact checked. Got $4? Publish your beeyes here…..

The next significant step to determining whether or not something is true or propaganda is to examine the ambition and motives of the people to publish it. If the largest contributing shareholder in this weapons manufacturing corporation is the same exact mutual fund as this national news outlet, it should really come as no surprise that the news anchor favors a war with Iraq. That outcome obviously makes those shareholders the most profit (special interests). In all corporate media, the operation for profit itself is already a skew from the truth, and a motive of deception. If the truth would just so happen to be something that might put themselves out of business, it’s doubtful it would actually ever be published. After all, would you assist in the bankrupting of your own self?

The basic function of propaganda is to misguide us (the audience) to a false conclusion that benefits the deceiver(s) in some way. While it’s mostly money and profit that’s gained, it isn’t the only motivation or benefit. We’d like to believe there are not sinister motivations behind propaganda, but it is also our responsibility to our safety to consider its possibilities and perform an honest investigation into the nefarious why’s. If those things are actually true, they don’t magically become false because I don’t want to believe it. If corruption and foul play is actually true, it can only be helpful to their plan to not account for even it’s remote possibility.

A while back, a couple of fellas like Ronaldo McDonaldo and the King of Burger figured out that if they teamed up and pretended to compete, they could actually make a lot more money than actually competing. They figured out that they make the most money not on putting the other guy out of business, but on the existence and hype of the conflict itself. Why would either side want the other out of business, when so much of it is depending on what the other side is doing?

At the very end of all divisive propaganda sits a single (hidden) agenda; and typically, the continued existence of the conflict itself is the agenda. The propagandists need crowds of bigoted people on opposing sides, and in many cases willing to use violence and oppression in the accommodation of furthering their goals and the public relations of their side. It’s not always a seemingly “friendly rivalry” where no one gets hurt, these same strategies are actually fashioned into harmful, and sometimes even life and death, matters. Even the one’s that are seemingly harmless, are only seemingly harmless on the surface. Many of them are just harmful on your bank account – but of course, that’s exactly why those exist.

“Is it the actual truth, or just something someone wants me to believe?”

It is a critical question to ask ourselves in this age of deception, after practically every time we read or see something someone is trying to tell us. What is necessary in the analysis – is to assume as many possibilities as can possibly be assumed, ignoring no possibility or evidence for bias or favoritism to a contrary (bigotry). Propagandists prey on the tunnel vision of bigotry like a matador guiding a bull over here by a muleta.

“What exactly do the publishers of the information gain by my (and others’) belief?”

The truth is always present, granting that all possible data has been collected and respected, leaving absolutely nothing out – and usually pretty obvious when we observe and inspect all things honestly. It is necessary to read behind the words, and make the focused effort to understand the “why” someone wants us to believe their information.

Propaganda: what someone want “us to know” – false information that requires a group of people to believe it, forming a deceived herd. It’s no good of a deception if it’s not believable to many people, it only has any real power in the mobs it forms. This leaves the propagandist stuck with the task of making the false claim “believable” to many people, and it’s not exactly an easy thing to do. How can it be possible to convince not just one, but many people, that light is actually dark, cold is actually hot, and the sun doesn’t exist. Those may seem like stretches of the imagination but that is, in effect, what propaganda does – convince us of things that are not actually true in real life.

Let’s observe one of the infamous propagandists of our age well known for his nefarious cult of deception, Jim Jones. If you didn’t notice, his followers all thought they were on the right team, and followed the man to their own deaths. If you’d have asked them, even days before the tragedy, they’d have said they would love and trust Jim Jones until the day they died. So how did he do it? How did he gain the trust of so many that he, quite obviously, didn’t actually love or actually have good intentions for? It’s obvious, after the fact, that he deceived them all; and for a little while had his own little town of slavery – and the slaves had fell in love with the plantation and the masta. In Jones’ case, it was all in the recruitment.

Jones accomplished gaining the trust of his herd by pretending to accommodate their religious biases. There wasn’t a single atheist or honest skeptic among them. He told them exactly what they wanted to hear. He didn’t even actually believe it himself, he only cared that they believe that he believed it. If they believe that he believes it, then they’ll believe it. If they believe it, they’re going to love and worship him for saying it. Now he can sit behind a “Mayor” desk barking orders all day while his parrot-slaves keep the town going. This is the blueprint for all propaganda really, it’s believed by those who want to believe it and literally nobody else (not even the people saying it). Let Jones’ case be a lesson in propaganda that hey, at some point we have to start asking some honest and tough questions around here; and that yes, sometimes it is a life and death matter.

The propagandist exists to misguide us to false conclusions and distract us away from the truth. They can only attach their illusions to our biases or the things we want to hear. By doing this, they magically skip the “asking honest questions” part. Dishonest people told what they wanted to hear, dishonestly stop asking questions. It’s a cycle of enabling. The more you want the lies and deception, the more the liars and deceivers will give you. The more they give you, the more you want it. “They” are not going to break the cycle – they are benefiting from it. It’s up to us, you and I, on the receiving end, to break the cycle. We have to stop wanting it. We have to start demanding the truth only, and giving all projected information the honest microscope of skepticism and rigorous investigation. Without the real actual demand for propaganda, there could not possibly be such a great supply. A society of honest people would not tolerate it.