Good piece MC. "I have written at least 10 articles and then opted not to publish them. I feel like the busker that people pay to shut up." The audience is satiated on mutton and they want the dessert they were promised.
I agree with your Lithuanian neighbor, for all their bluster the PTB has a terrible operations department and they just keep throwing stuff against the wall. The end goal is known but the plan to get there is everchanging, they're herding cats and they're not very good at it. The programming has been so good and so repetitive that most are numb, scrolling to find something they haven't seen before - if you hooked them up to heart monitors you would see the initial electrical impulse hoping for something, anything, soon to be followed by a slow decline until they refresh their screen.
I've come to understand that the programming we're experiencing today is only solidifying the programming we received in our youth, very few people really change no matter how much mutton you feed them. My go to response to those that refuse to see the light is "the truth isn't hard to find, it's only changing your mind when the truth is found that's just about impossible."
Wonderful comment. The closing thought in particular.
You link our schooling, like fish, to the adult's reluctance to challenge that early learning. We would do well to remember why the name for baby fish is fry.
So Jonathan Cook goes through that little forward and backward “Leftist” dance again. Here’s the crucial passage (and it’s nice that JC puts it at the beginning to save you the trouble of reading the whole thing):
“There's only one plausible explanation for continuing silence on excess deaths: governments, media and regulators are frightened of what research may uncover”
Well you can feel the wagon going off the rails here. There's “only one plausible explanation”, which is that that triumvirate of governments, media and regulators are “frightened of what research may uncover”? That trio may well be frightened, but not of WHAT research may uncover but THAT research may uncover i.e. research may reveal to the public what this threesome already knew.
But then the word “plausible” gives the game away. The much mocked “conspiratorial” thinking is, of course, possible. But simply not plausible.
And we are well ensconced within the boundaries of that “Left” discourse.
Plus Cook quotes extensively the Dr nurse who at the start of the Covid response pushed the shot relentlessly, before changing course. Give him the benefit of the doubt though I am not sure the nurse merits the attention he gets.
Cook is an independent voice on the Middle East. On the Covid response I quote him as a measure of what politicaly was called the centre. I largely agree with your assessment.
It's a bugbear of mine but The Left (and I’m tired of using scare quotes) are not going to change. For one thing, they have been indoctrinated into a post-JFK model ruled by conspiracy phobia. Also neutered through a dense polysyllabic prose which, even if it is saying something valuable, hobbles itself by blocking communication with the very people it should be reaching.
And the ones who cottoned onto the covid ploy – already hampered by a guilty conscience that they “were using the wrong analysis” – gave the impression of sticking their toes into that chilly but bracing ocean of revelation... but then withdrew in fright.
I’ve said often that the appendix to Orwell’s 1984 is as good as the novel itself. This is where Orwell puts forward the notion that if you control language you control thought.
And I recall a Fox News broadcast from the Gaza strip where the reporter was talking about the latest Israeli incursion. He had a great deal of trouble finding the “right words” and spoke about this “um...um... invasion” and he instantly qualified that with an “I’m sorry but I can’t think of a better expression”.
It was an excruciating display of journalistic obsequiousness. But I reckon The Left have the same problem with words like “con”, “trick” and of course “conspiracy”.
Good piece MC. "I have written at least 10 articles and then opted not to publish them. I feel like the busker that people pay to shut up." The audience is satiated on mutton and they want the dessert they were promised.
I agree with your Lithuanian neighbor, for all their bluster the PTB has a terrible operations department and they just keep throwing stuff against the wall. The end goal is known but the plan to get there is everchanging, they're herding cats and they're not very good at it. The programming has been so good and so repetitive that most are numb, scrolling to find something they haven't seen before - if you hooked them up to heart monitors you would see the initial electrical impulse hoping for something, anything, soon to be followed by a slow decline until they refresh their screen.
I've come to understand that the programming we're experiencing today is only solidifying the programming we received in our youth, very few people really change no matter how much mutton you feed them. My go to response to those that refuse to see the light is "the truth isn't hard to find, it's only changing your mind when the truth is found that's just about impossible."
Wonderful comment. The closing thought in particular.
You link our schooling, like fish, to the adult's reluctance to challenge that early learning. We would do well to remember why the name for baby fish is fry.
hence why the rock(e feller) created the us school sis-tem, in addition to the me-die-cull cyst-hem.
So Jonathan Cook goes through that little forward and backward “Leftist” dance again. Here’s the crucial passage (and it’s nice that JC puts it at the beginning to save you the trouble of reading the whole thing):
“There's only one plausible explanation for continuing silence on excess deaths: governments, media and regulators are frightened of what research may uncover”
Well you can feel the wagon going off the rails here. There's “only one plausible explanation”, which is that that triumvirate of governments, media and regulators are “frightened of what research may uncover”? That trio may well be frightened, but not of WHAT research may uncover but THAT research may uncover i.e. research may reveal to the public what this threesome already knew.
But then the word “plausible” gives the game away. The much mocked “conspiratorial” thinking is, of course, possible. But simply not plausible.
And we are well ensconced within the boundaries of that “Left” discourse.
Plus Cook quotes extensively the Dr nurse who at the start of the Covid response pushed the shot relentlessly, before changing course. Give him the benefit of the doubt though I am not sure the nurse merits the attention he gets.
Cook is an independent voice on the Middle East. On the Covid response I quote him as a measure of what politicaly was called the centre. I largely agree with your assessment.
It's a bugbear of mine but The Left (and I’m tired of using scare quotes) are not going to change. For one thing, they have been indoctrinated into a post-JFK model ruled by conspiracy phobia. Also neutered through a dense polysyllabic prose which, even if it is saying something valuable, hobbles itself by blocking communication with the very people it should be reaching.
And the ones who cottoned onto the covid ploy – already hampered by a guilty conscience that they “were using the wrong analysis” – gave the impression of sticking their toes into that chilly but bracing ocean of revelation... but then withdrew in fright.
I’ve said often that the appendix to Orwell’s 1984 is as good as the novel itself. This is where Orwell puts forward the notion that if you control language you control thought.
And I recall a Fox News broadcast from the Gaza strip where the reporter was talking about the latest Israeli incursion. He had a great deal of trouble finding the “right words” and spoke about this “um...um... invasion” and he instantly qualified that with an “I’m sorry but I can’t think of a better expression”.
It was an excruciating display of journalistic obsequiousness. But I reckon The Left have the same problem with words like “con”, “trick” and of course “conspiracy”.