{"id":86519,"date":"2022-06-25T18:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=86519"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:33:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:33:03","slug":"theyre-enslaving-our-consciousness-and-driving-us-toward-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/theyre-enslaving-our-consciousness-and-driving-us-toward-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re enslaving our consciousness and driving us toward destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know you are being aggressively propagandized about Ukraine by the mass media and by Silicon Valley. You can feel it in your guts. Everyone can feel it, on some level. It feels gross.<\/p>\n

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The split on this issue is between those who trust this gut feeling and those who choose to psychologically compartmentalize away from it. Because if you don\u2019t compartmentalize away from it, the implications of this are very frightening. It means pretty much everything you\u2019ve been told your whole life about the government, about your nation, about the news media, and about the way the world works, has been a lie.<\/p>\n

But that is the basic reality. If you\u2019ve already seen this, you won\u2019t experience cognitive dissonance when you observe it in the unprecedented imperial narrative management campaign we\u2019re seeing with Ukraine. If you haven\u2019t seen it, you\u2019ll likely experience a lot of cognitive dissonance if you try to square your gut feeling that you\u2019re being propagandized about Ukraine with your belief that your favorite politicians and news sources always tell you the objective truth. And you will compartmentalize accordingly.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just how we\u2019re wired. Our consciousness is wired to select for cognitive ease and forcefully reject information which challenges our present worldview. Pushing past the cognitive discomfort and facing reality is the only way to come to real understanding.<\/p>\n

Look at this picture:<\/p>\n

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If this picture was printed out and framed, and then used as a bludgeon to bash you in the face whenever you looked at an electronic screen, it would feel how all this Ukraine war propaganda feels when you haven\u2019t swallowed the official narrative.<\/p>\n

People get outraged when somebody say we are being aggressively propagandized about Ukraine, but this fact is not seriously in dispute. The mass media have been relatively straightforward about it, though of course they fail to mention their own role in the propaganda campaign.<\/p>\n

It seems like those who are new to the concept think that \u201cpropaganda\u201d means making up fictional stories whole cloth, so they mistakenly assume that this is a claim that Russia never invaded and Ukrainians aren\u2019t dying and suffering. But all it really means is that the narrative framing is manipulated. They\u2019re not lying that there\u2019s a war, they\u2019re just manipulating the way people think about the war. How it\u2019s happening, who\u2019s to blame for it, whose agendas are served by getting it started and keeping it going, etc.<\/p>\n

No good liar lies all the time. The best liars very seldom tell full-blown lies, always preferring to lie by omission, by distortion, by half-truth, by disproportionate focus, and by uncritically reporting other people\u2019s lies in a way that suggests they\u2019re true.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all moving so fast now. Censorship and propaganda, the two arms of imperial narrative control, are escalating like nothing we\u2019ve ever seen before. The doors on information control are being slammed and bolted shut all around the world as fast as the empire managers can get away with it.<\/p>\n

And of course Australia is on the front line of this war against consciousness sovereignty:<\/p>\n

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And it\u2019s because of all this intrusive perception management that we\u2019re somehow simultaneously the closest we\u2019ve been to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis, yet still collectively focused more on talking about sports and celebrity gossip as though everything is fine and normal.<\/p>\n

This is something we could actually oppose, if enough of us had enough unpolluted information about what\u2019s happening. This threat is not some inevitable force of nature that is happening to us, it\u2019s something that is being done to us. By people. People with names and government offices.<\/p>\n

If the nukes do start flying and we find ourselves in our final moments, will we really feel okay about having done nothing about it? About failing to mobilize in favor of de-escalation and detente? About being the first species in history to go extinct due to psychological compartmentalization and a reluctance to annoy government officials?<\/p>\n

The only thing sadder than watching the world die would be watching it die without having done anything to try to save it.<\/p>\n

The saying that it\u2019s easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism is directly related to people\u2019s inability to imagine anything other than increasingly aggressive escalations between nuclear powers in the competition-based systems we live under. People literally cannot imagine any deviation from this power struggle between nations, even if continuing along this trajectory means our complete annihilation.<\/p>\n

And it really doesn\u2019t need to be this way. There\u2019s no good reason nations can\u2019t cooperate with each other for the good of everyone without trying to dominate each other. There\u2019s no good reason we can\u2019t move from competition-based models of domination to collaboration-based models of human thriving.<\/p>\n

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Michael Parenti said years ago that the ultimate neocon plan (which today has become simply the mainstream orthodoxy on US foreign policy) is a confrontation with disobedient governments, the ultimate target being China, to ensure the supremacy of American global capitalism. There\u2019s no good reason this needs to happen. There\u2019s no good reason the defensive Russia-China tandem described years ago by Gilbert Doctorow needs to be targeted in the way it\u2019s currently being targeted by this war that was deliberately provoked by western powers.<\/p>\n

They are lying to you. They are lying when they say they tried to prevent this war. They are lying when they say de-escalation is impossible. They are lying when they say World War 3 is inevitable, or is upon us already. Peace and detente are very possible. All that would need to happen is the dropping away of this notion that this planet of ours needs to be dominated by a single power structure. That\u2019s all we\u2019d need for the threat of nuclear armageddon to go away. That\u2019s all we\u2019d need to ensure humanity\u2019s progress into the future.<\/p>\n

We can simply move from endless escalation to diplomacy, from diplomacy to de-escalation, from de-escalation to detente, from detente to true peace, and from true peace to collaboration and human thriving. The only thing stopping that from happening is this insane drive to dominate.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t believe the liars.<\/p>\n

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yogaesoteric
\nJune 25, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

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