EN -- Saker Italia interviews Larry Romanoff: "PROPAGANDA, MEDIA AND CONSPIRACY IN ACTION"

  

"PROPAGANDA, MEDIA AND CONSPIRACY IN ACTION"

Interview with Larry Romanoff

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Edited by Elvia Politi for Saker Italia

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We present the interview we had the honor of doing with one of the world's leading experts on "propaganda." Larry Romanoff has been dealing for years with the topic of manipulation and consensus management as a tool of governments (and those who maneuver these governments) towards public opinion. That is, toward each of us. Through his lucid analysis and simple evidence of "facts," he not only reveals some of the most recent cases but also teaches us how to recognize propaganda campaigns. And how to fight them.

 

In the interview:

 

- What is propaganda and what is its purpose

- The Covid case and the two World Wars

- Reality and fiction, the conspiracy theory

- How propaganda has changed, how and where it applies now

- Geopolitical propaganda

- Avoiding brainwashing

 

 

• Elvia Politi (E.P.) -- A very timely and urgent topic, propaganda is a phenomenon that everyone understands but is difficult to codify. Larry, can you explain to us what propaganda is and what its purpose is?

 

LARRY ROMANOFF (L.R.) -- A simple definition of propaganda is that it is the dissemination of information used to influence public opinion to adopt a certain point of view or to promote a particular political cause. It is generally a method of population control by those who have political or financial power. Propaganda is almost always associated with information of a biased or misleading nature, consisting of a mixture of facts, half-truths, and outright lies. Propaganda is not only psychological manipulation but actually "psychiatric" manipulation, directed to affecting the emotions of people and through this to control their thinking and behavior. It employs behavioral theory extracted mostly from the teachings of Sigmund Freud and, in its worst form, it is always insidiously manipulative, using the deepest fears or longings of people to create acceptance of a particular point of view, to become emotionally charged about that point of view, and to lead to action of some kind.

 

The two primary uses of propaganda have been to inflame a nation's public to support a war, and to engineer and promote social changes.

 

IT — Intervista a Larry Romanoff: “PROPAGANDA, MEDIA E COSPIRAZIONE IN ATTO”

 

“PROPAGANDA, MEDIA E COSPIRAZIONE IN ATTO”

Intervista a Larry Romanoff

Intervista in PDF 

A cura di Elvia Politi per Saker Italia

 

Vi presentiamo l’intervista che abbiamo avuto l’onore di fare a uno dei maggiori esperti mondiali di “propaganda”. Larry Romanoff da anni tratta il tema della manipolazione e della gestione del consenso come strumento dei governi (e di chi questi governi li manovra) nei confronti dell’opinione pubblica. Cioè verso ciascuno di noi. Attraverso la sua lucida analisi e la semplice evidenza dei “fatti”, non solo ci svela alcuni dei casi più recenti ma ci insegna anche come riconoscere le campagne di propaganda. E come combatterle.

Nell’intervista:

- Cos’è la propaganda e qual è il suo scopo
- Il caso Covid e le due Guerre Mondiali
- Realtà e finzione, la teoria del complotto
- Come è cambiata la propaganda, come e dove si applica ora
- La propaganda geopolitica
- Evitare il lavaggio del cervello

 

 

• Elvia Politi (E.P.) -- Tema attualissimo e urgente, la propaganda è un fenomeno che tutti comprendono ma che difficilmente si riesce a codificare. Larry, ci puoi spiegare che cosa è la propaganda e quale è il suo scopo?

Larry Romanoff (L.R.) -- Per dare un semplice definizione della propaganda, possiamo dire che è la diffusione di informazioni utilizzate per influenzare l’opinione pubblica affinché adotti un determinato punto di vista o per promuovere una specifica causa politica. In genere, è un metodo di controllo della popolazione da parte di coloro che hanno potere politico o finanziario. La propaganda è quasi sempre associata a informazioni di natura faziosa o fuorviante, costituite da un mix di fatti, mezze verità e totali bugie. La propaganda non è solo una manipolazione psicologica ma una vera manipolazione “psichiatrica”, con lo scopo di influenzare le emozioni delle persone e, attraverso questo, controllare il loro pensiero e il loro comportamento. La propaganda utilizza la teoria comportamentale derivata principalmente dagli insegnamenti di Sigmund Freud e, nella sua forma peggiore, è sempre insidiosamente manipolativa: sfrutta le paure o i desideri più profondi delle persone al fine di creare l’accettazione di uno specifico punto di vista, per renderle emotivamente cariche rispetto a quel punto di vista e per portarle ad agire in un determinato modo.

POLSKI — Wywiad Saker Italia z Larrym Romanoffem:"PROPAGANDA, MEDIA I SPISEK W AKCJI”

  

 

"PROPAGANDA, MEDIA I SPISEK W AKCJI”

Wywiad z Larrym Romanoffem

Wywiad w PDF

 

Tłumaczył / Translated by: FMforLXM – (Bitomat)

 

Zredagowany przez Elvię Politi dla Saker Italy

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Przedstawiamy wywiad, który mieliśmy zaszczyt przeprowadzić z jednym z czołowych światowych ekspertów w dziedzinie "propagandy". Larry Romanoff od lat zajmuje się tematem manipulacji i zarządzania konsensusem jako narzędziem rządów (i tych, którzy nimi manewrują) wobec opinii publicznej. Czyli wobec każdego z nas. Poprzez swoją przejrzystą analizę i proste dowody "faktów" nie tylko ujawnia niektóre z najnowszych przypadków, ale także uczy nas, jak rozpoznawać kampanie propagandowe i jak z nimi walczyć.

W wywiadzie:

 

- Czym jest propaganda i jaki jest jej cel

- Sprawa Covid i dwie wojny światowe

- Rzeczywistość i fikcja, teoria spiskowa

- Jak zmieniła się propaganda, jak i gdzie ma teraz zastosowanie

- Propaganda geopolityczna

- Unikanie prania mózgu

 

Elvia Politi (E.P.) -Bardzo aktualny i pilny temat, propaganda jest zjawiskiem, które wszyscy rozumieją, ale trudno je skodyfikować. Larry, czy możesz nam wyjaśnić, czym jest propaganda i jaki jest jej cel?

 

LARRY ROMANOFF (L.R.) - Prosta definicja propagandy mówi, że jest to rozpowszechnianie informacji wykorzystywanych do wpływania na opinię publiczną w celu przyjęcia określonego punktu widzenia lub promowania określonej sprawy politycznej. Jest to generalnie metoda kontroli populacji przez tych, którzy mają władzę polityczną lub finansową. Propaganda jest prawie zawsze związana z informacjami o tendencyjnym lub wprowadzającym w błąd charakterze, składającymi się z mieszanki faktów, półprawd i jawnych kłamstw. Propaganda jest nie tylko manipulacją psychologiczną, ale w rzeczywistości manipulacją "psychiatryczną", ukierunkowaną na wpływanie na emocje ludzi i poprzez to kontrolowanie ich myślenia i zachowania. Wykorzystuje teorię behawioralną zaczerpniętą głównie z nauk Zygmunta Freuda i, w swojej najgorszej formie, jest zawsze podstępnie manipulacyjna, wykorzystując najgłębsze lęki lub tęsknoty ludzi, aby stworzyć akceptację określonego punktu widzenia, aby stać się emocjonalnie naładowanym tym punktem widzenia i doprowadzić do pewnego rodzaju działania. Jej dwa główne zastosowania to podburzanie opinii publicznej do poparcia wojny oraz projektowanie i promowanie zmian społecznych.

 

PT -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- A Campanha de Ódio contra a China -- July 21, 2021

 

A Campanha de Ódio contra a China

LARRY ROMANOFF • AUGUST 6, 2020

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Introdução

Não deveria ser segredo, embora ainda pareça ser, que nenhuma das duas guerras mundiais foi iniciada (ou desejada) pela Alemanha, mas foi a criação de um grupo de judeus sionistas europeus com a intenção declarada de destruir totalmente a Alemanha. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]No entanto, essa tese não é o propósito deste ensaio e não vou expandi-la, mas o conteúdo deve provar ao leitor comum que a Primeira Guerra Mundial certamente se encaixa nesta descrição. O objecivo principal deste ensaio é demonstrar não só que a 'História se repete', mas que a História que se repete hoje, é uma preparação em massa da população do mundo ocidental (mas principalmente dos americanos) para a Terceira Guerra Mundial - que acredito, que agora está prestes a acontecer.

Em 1940, estes sionistas europeus e proprietários dos meios de comunicação mediática (escondidos atrás do cenário do governo do Reino Unido) iniciaram o que designaram como a "campanha de hostilidade", com a causa declarada de "incutir ódio pessoal contra o povo alemão e contra a Alemanha", as partes relacionadas satisfeitas porque os 6% originais da população britânica que 'odiava a Alemanha' aumentaram para mais de 50% no final da campanha, e não parou por aí. As ondas da rádio estavam cheias de descrições da “crueldade e da escuridão da alma alemã”.[8] Havia artigos nos jornais britânicos a defender o “extermínio sistemático de toda a nação alemã” a ser realizado após o fim da guerra. Assim, após a vitória sobre a Alemanha, cada pessoa de ascendência alemã seria executada e a própria nação da Alemanha desapareceria para sempre. Essas execuções foram realmente iniciadas - os campos de extermínio de Eisenhower, seguidos pelo Plano Morgenthau, os quais finalmentemente falharam. Os métodos de “incutir ódio pessoal” à Alemanha talvez tenham sido muito bem sucedidos. A histeria anti-alemã tornou-se tão grave que o rei George V teve de mudar o seu nome alemão de ‘Saxe-Coburg’ para ‘Windsor’, e renunciar a todos os seus títulos alemães.

PT — LARRY ROMANOFF — A Campanha de Agressividade contra a China — July 13, 2021

 

A Campanha de Agressividade contra a China

LARRY ROMANOFF • AUGUST 6, 2020

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Introdução

Não deveria ser segredo, embora ainda pareça ser, que nenhuma das duas guerras mundiais foi iniciada (ou desejada) pela Alemanha, mas foi a criação de um grupo de judeus sionistas europeus com a intenção declarada de destruir totalmente a Alemanha. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]No entanto, essa tese não é o propósito deste ensaio e não vou expandi-la, mas o conteúdo deve provar ao leitor comum que a Primeira Guerra Mundial certamente se encaixa nesta descrição. O objecivo principal deste ensaio é demonstrar não só que a ‘História se repete’, mas que a História que se repete hoje, é uma preparação em massa da população do mundo ocidental (mas principalmente dos americanos) para a Terceira Guerra Mundial – que acredito, que agora está prestes a acontecer.

Em 1940, estes sionistas europeus e proprietários dos meios de comunicação mediática (escondidos atrás do cenário do governo do Reino Unido) iniciaram o que designaram como a “campanha de hostilidade”, com a causa declarada de “incutir ódio pessoal contra o povo alemão e contra a Alemanha”, as partes relacionadas satisfeitas porque os 6% originais da população britânica que ‘odiava a Alemanha’ aumentaram para mais de 50% no final da campanha, e não parou por aí. As ondas da rádio estavam cheias de descrições da “crueldade e da escuridão da alma alemã”.[8] Havia artigos nos jornais britânicos a defender o “extermínio sistemático de toda a nação alemã” a ser realizado após o fim da guerra. Assim, após a vitória sobre a Alemanha, cada pessoa de ascendência alemã seria executada e a própria nação da Alemanha desapareceria para sempre. Essas execuções foram realmente iniciadas – os campos de extermínio de Eisenhower, seguidos pelo Plano Morgenthau, os quais finalmentemente falharam. Os métodos de “incutir ódio pessoal” à Alemanha talvez tenham sido muito bem sucedidos. A histeria anti-alemã tornou-se tão grave que o rei George V teve de mudar o seu nome alemão de ‘Saxe-Coburg’ para ‘Windsor’, e renunciar a todos os seus títulos alemães.

Não era só nos EUA e no Reino Unido que esse ódio aos alemães estava a ser propagado. Nos países de todo o mundo, a comunicação mediática espalhou a mesma mensagem de ódio contra a Alemanha e contra os alemães. Equipas de “especialistas” seguiam o mesmo esquema na maioria das restantes nações, todas instilando um ódio maciço pelos alemães que, em todas as nações, eram veementemente retratados como a encarnação do mal, essa natureza decorrente apenas do facto de serem de origem alemã. No Brasil, as manifestações e os motins anti-alemães consumiram o país, com empresas alemãs a ser destruídas e alemães a ser agredidos e mortos. Em quase todas as nações, a imprensa de língua alemã e o uso da língua alemã desapareceram completamente durante a guerra por medo de represálias, assim como todas as escolas alemãs e a maioria das empresas. Nenhuma foi reaberta. O Brasil estava determinado, inicialmente, a permanecer neutro, mas um sindicato de estudantes universitários recém-criado foi agregado e usado com tanta eficácia, que dentro de um ano o Brasil declarou guerra à Alemanha. [9] No Brasil, Estados Unidos, Canadá e Austrália, muitos nomes de cidades, ruas e iguarias, foram alterados para eliminar sua origem alemã.

Bernays and Propaganda - Part 3 of 5 -- Democracy Control -- February 21, 2021

  

Bernays and Propaganda - Part 3 of 5

Democracy Control

 

By Larry Romanoff for The Saker Blog, February 21, 2021

 

Introduction – If America Dissolves…  

Bernays and Propaganda – Part 1 of 5 

Bernays and Propaganda - Part 2 of 5 -- The Marketing of War 

 

 

From their experiences in the formulation, manipulation and control of public perception and opinion with the CPI, both Lippman and Bernays later wrote of their open contempt for a "malleable and hopelessly ill-informed public" in America. (1) Lippmann had already written that the people in a democracy were simply "a bewildered herd" of "ignorant and meddlesome outsiders" (2) who should be maintained only as "interested spectators", to be controlled by the elite "secret government". They concluded that in a multi-party electoral system (a democracy), public opinion had to be "created by an organized intelligence" and "engineered by an invisible government", with the people relegated to the status of uninformed observers, a situation that has existed without interruption in the US for the past 95 years. Bernays believed that only a few possessed the necessary insight into the Big Picture to be entrusted with this sacred task, and considered himself as one member of this select few.

 

"Throughout his career, Bernays was utterly cynical in his manipulation of the masses. In complete disregard of the personal importance of their sincerely held values, aspirations, emotions, and beliefs, he saw them as having no significance beyond their use as tools in the furtherance of whatever were the commercial and political ends of his hirers."

EN -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- Bernays and Propaganda - Part 1 of 5 -- February 06, 2021

  

 

Bernays and Propaganda - Part 1 of 5

By Larry Romanoff for the Saker Blog, January 31, 2021

 

Many years ago, the Jewish-American political commentator Walter Lippmann realised that political ideology could be completely fabricated, using the media to control both presentation and conceptualisation, not only to create deeply-ingrained false beliefs in a population, but also to entirely erase undesirable political ideas from the public mind. This was the beginning of not only the American hysteria for freedom, democracy and patriotism, but of all manufactured political opinion, a process that has been operative ever since. Lippmann created these theories of mass persuasion of the public, using totally fabricated "facts" deeply insinuated into the minds of a gullible public, but there is much more to this story. An Austrian Jew named Edward Louis Bernays, who was the nephew of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, was one of Lippmann's most precocious students and it was he who put Lippmann's theories into practice. Bernays is widely known in America as the father of Public Relations, but he would be much more accurately described as the father of American war marketing as well as the father of mass manipulation of the public mind.

 

ERIC ZUESSE -- How the Washington Post Does Propaganda These Days

How the Washington Post Does Propaganda These Days

Eric Zuesse

May 31, 2020

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein headlined in Rolling Stone on 20 October 1977, “The CIA and the Media”, and he wrote that, “The history of the CIA’s involvement with the American press continues to be shrouded by an official policy of obfuscation and deception.” Subsequently, John Simkin established in September 1997 his phenomenal website on deep history, including its comprehensively linked 6,000-word article, “Operation Mockingbird”, which was about the CIA operation that Frank Wisner had set up in 1948 in order to get the American public to hate and fear Russia so that in post-World-War-II-America, the corporations that had been making all or most of their money from selling weapons to the U.S. Government weapons during WW II, could now continue making and selling weapons to the Government, even during ‘peacetime’, in a now ‘purely’ ‘ideological’ war against ‘communism’, the Cold War (which was, for America’s wealthiest, really a military and diplomatic mission to take over and control ultimately the entire world in the first-ever total-global empire). Its basic idea was that in order to be able to continue arms-production after the actual fighting war (WW II) was over, there now needed to be an excuse which was purely ideological, irrespective of whether there was any country that actually endangered us. The Soviet Union had been crucial to the Allied victory in WW II. In order to get the American public to hate and fear Russia so that in post-World-War-II-America the arms-makers would continue to thrive, ideology needed to be the PR focus; and, therefore, after WW II, the ‘enemy’ would be communism instead of fascism. But this had to be the case despite there being no threats (much less, invasions) against either the U.S., or any of its (non-Soviet) allies. There was nothing like the Pearl Harbor attack by the Soviet Union. Communism did not threaten the American people. The post-FDR CIA was rabidly against FDR’s vision of the future of U.S. international relations — a vision which focused against there being any imperialism, by any nation, but instead only the sovereign equality of all nations, under the jurisdiction of the United Nations.

Thierry Meyssan --PROPAGANDA A invenção do mito da «revolução síria» pelo Reino Unido

PROPAGANDA

A invenção do mito da «revolução síria» pelo Reino Unido

Thierry Meyssan

Numa fuga, novos documentos foram revelados sobre a organização da propaganda britânica contra a Síria. Eles permitem compreender como jornalistas de boa fé puderam ser permanentemente intoxicados pelo mito da «revolução síria», como também por que é que o Reino Unido se retirou da Síria apesar do sucesso desta operação.

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Ademocracia supõe que se possa realizar debates públicos honestos. Por conseguinte, a propaganda seria, pois, apanágio de regimes não-democráticos. Ora, a História ensina-nos que a propaganda moderna foi concebida no Reino Unido e nos Estados Unidos durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, e que a URSS e a Alemanha nazista não passaram de pálidos imitadores.

Durante a guerra contra a Síria, explicamos muitas vezes que a realidade no terreno não correspondia, de forma nenhuma, à imagem que os Ocidentais dela recebiam. Denunciamos a montagem de “provas” pelos Serviços Secretos norte-americanos, britânicos, franceses e turcos para esconder a agressão ocidental e fazer crer numa revolução contra uma ditadura.

Eric Zuesse -- Who Can NOW Say America Hasn’t Become a Mega-Corporate Dictatorship?

Who Can NOW Say America Hasn’t Become a Mega-Corporate Dictatorship?

Eric Zuesse

 

February 8, 2020

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Jon Hellevig posted on January 16th at The Saker, “Capitalism in America: How a Dismal Decimal is Robbing Americans Blind” the most extensive and up-to-date compendium anywhere, of data on economic inequality in America, and one fact especially stands out from it: “Today Top 1% are losers compared with Top 0.1% – the Dismal Decimal – who are where the music plays. Top 0.1% now holds as much wealth as Bottom 90% combined.” These top 0.1% people also donate the lions’ share of the money that finances political ads and organizations for their candidates and against the candidates who are financed instead by the other Party’s billionaires. Any candidate who isn’t backed by the billionaires of any Party is a rarity and (except for the independent Bernie Sanders, who is truly an exception) has no realistic chance of winning or keeping a seat in Congress.

That drastic inequality of wealth in America — “Top 0.1% now holds as much wealth as Bottom 90% combined” — is calculated by Deutsche Bank, in their January 2018 study “U.S. Income and Wealth Inequality”. Here’s more from that study:

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On page 3 is shown that U.S. is comparable to Chile, Israel, Mexico, Portugal, and Turkey, as being at the top of the nations studied, in “inequality in household disposable income.”

On page 6: “A record high 30% of households have no wealth” in the United States.

On page 7: All-time high median net worth in constant dollars was 2007, at $119,000, declined to $67,000 in 2010, and rose to $78,000 by 2016.

On page 8: “U.S.: Top 0.1% owns as many assets as the bottom 90%”

On page 10: U.S. has higher income-inequality than any other OECD nation.

On page 11: Income-inequality is rising faster in U.S. than any other OECD nation.

On page 15: Top 1% in pre-tax income in the U.S. in 2014 was $1.3 million+.

Top 0.1% was $6 million+.

So: if the top 0.1% in income in America are also the top 0.1% in wealth in America, then the individuals in America who draw $6 million+ annual income own as much as do all 90% who aren’t in the top 10%.

ERIC ZUESSE -- How Michael Bloomberg’s ‘Journalists’ Propagandize for More U.S. Aggressions

How Michael Bloomberg’s ‘Journalists’ Propagandize for More U.S. Aggressions

Eric Zuesse

 

January 21, 2020

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This will be exposing typical U.S.-regime propaganda. That’s propaganda favoring U.S. imperialism, which actually violates the intentions of America’s Founders, and the spirit of the U.S. Constitution.

The U.S. regime’s propaganda doesn’t come from the Government directly, but instead from the 607 billionaires who control the regime, via their corrupt control over the successful politicians (in both Parties), financing their careers, and by their owning (and otherwise controlling) the regime’s ‘news’-media, which are privately owned and which carry the same propaganda as the Government’s ‘publicly owned’ ‘news’-media do — all of America’s mainstream ‘news’-media being in favor of the U.S. Government’s sanctioning (economic-blockading) and trying to overthrow by means of coup or sometimes outright invasion, countries (such as Iraq, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Libya, etc.) that had never invaded, nor even threatened to invade, the United States. U.S. imperialism is commonly called “neoconservatism,” but it is basically the same as other imperialistic regimes throughout history — it is controlled by the given invading nation’s aristocracy, which deceives in its propaganda regarding the reasons why “regime change” is supposedly needed in the targeted countries. By means of these lies, the nation’s public are made willing to fund these invasions in their taxes and can even think that it is their patriotic duty, instead of being a massively criminal enterprise that they’ve been fooled into supporting with their dollars and sometimes with their very bodies.

Eric Zuesse -- Understanding the Deep State’s Propaganda

Understanding the Deep State’s Propaganda

November 14, 2019

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Propaganda is essential to the Deep State’s operation.

The Deep State is the small number of people who control the organizations that donate the majority of the funds which finance the political careers of national officials, such as Presidents, Prime Ministers, and members of the national legislature. Almost always, the members of the Deep State are the controlling stockholders in the international corporations that are headquartered in the given nation; and, therefore, the Deep State is more intensely interested in international than in purely national matters. Since most of its members derive a large portion of their wealth from abroad, they need to control their nation’s foreign policies even more than they need to control its domestic policies. Indeed, if they don’t like their nation’s domestic policies, they can simply relocate abroad. But relocating the operations of their corporations would be far more difficult and costly to them. Furthermore, a nation’s public know and care far less about the nation’s foreign than about its domestic policies; and, so, the Deep State reign virtually alone on the nation’s international issues, such as: which nations will be treated as “allies” and which nations will instead be treated as “enemies.” Such designations are virtually never determined by a nation’s public. The public just trust what the Government says about such matters, like, for example, the US regime’s standard allegation, for decades, that “Iran is the leading state sponsor of terrorism”, which is clearly a blatant lie.

Iran, of course, is the world’s leading Shia nation, whereas Saudi Arabia is the world’s leading Sunni nation; and the US aristocracy are bonded to the aristocracies of both Saudi Arabia and Israel, against Iran. This allegation against Iran has always been promoted by the royal family who own Saudi Arabia, the Saud family, and also by the billionaires who control Israel, as well as by the billionaires who control the US So: this allegation is by the Deep State, which controls at least these three countries: US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel.

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE -- How To Defeat The Empire

How To Defeat The Empire

One of the biggest and most consistent challenges of my young career so far has been finding ways to talk about solutions to our predicament in a way that people will truly hear. I talk about these solutions constantly, and some readers definitely get it, but others will see me going on and on about a grassroots revolution against the establishment narrative control machine and then say “Okay, but what do we do?” or “You talk about problems but never offer any solutions!”

Part of the difficulty is that I don’t talk much about the old attempts at solutions we’ve already tried that people have been conditioned to listen for. I don’t endorse politicians, I don’t advocate starting a new political party, I don’t support violent revolution, I don’t say that capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction and the proletariat will inevitably rise up against the bourgeoisie, and in general I don’t put much stock in the idea that our political systems are in and of themselves sufficient for addressing our biggest problems in any meaningful way.

What I do advocate, over and over and over again in as many different ways as I can come up with, is a decentralized guerrilla psywar against the institutions which enable the powerful to manipulate the way ordinary people think, act and vote.

I talk about narrative and propaganda all the time because they are the root of all our problems. As long as the plutocrat-controlled media are able to manufacture consent for the status quo upon which those plutocrats built their respective empires, there will never be the possibility of a successful revolution. People will never rebel against a system while they’re being successfully propagandized not to. It will never, ever happen.