Propaganda, that insidious material that is a constant flow form the various state organisations and reproduced as truth by the mainstream media outlets is like a cancer. It takes over your consciousness, distorts the way you see the world and it destroys your ability to asses what is really happening in the world around us. It is one of the twin tools of the state, the other is a subservient population, one reinforces the other. Our lords and masters preach that everything our state does is honourable, other states not in the same club are deemed to be evil and can do no good, while we can do no wrong. Common sense tells us the world is not like that, all the power blocks make that same claim. We have to dispel the avalanche of propaganda that surrounds us, seek the facts and act on those human instincts of truth, fairness, equality and justice for all. The alternative is to exist as pawns in the mist of illusions.
The following extract from an article by Cara MariAnna makes the point more clearly.
All of us alive at the time, and old enough to understand its import, must certainly recall the 1983 speech in which Ronald Reagan, “The Great Communicator,” famously called the Soviet Union the “evil empire”—at the very same time, it must be noted, that he and his administration were turning Central America into a killing field and supporting a jihadist insurgency in Afghanistan to trap the Soviets in a Vietnam-like quagmire. Reagan’s crude formulation resonated with many Americans. The implications were as obvious as they were primitive: Anything the Soviet Union did was evil, while anything America did was good.Reagan’s simplistic conceit, a product of the overwrought mind of his chief speechwriter, Anthony Dolan, survives to this day. Indeed, it makes most Americans impervious to, if not completely unable to see, the wrongs committed by their own country, the lies told by their own government. Of course, it perfectly served Reagan’s foreign policy agendas, just as it now perfectly serves Joe Biden’s, especially in his proxy war against Russia.
Glenn Greenwald considered this question in a recent segment of System Update. “Russia continues to be the all-purpose villain that Western elites now use whenever they get caught in any sort of scandal, any kind of failure,” he noted. “They immediately point to Russia. They say, ‘It’s not our fault, look over there at the Kremlin.’”
The persistent dogma that Russia is the embodiment of evil—and this is more recently personalized to mean Vladimir Putin—enables Americans to live in a pretend world as they continue to believe, contrary to all evidence, that the war in Ukraine was unprovoked. It is a complete disconnect from reality. The dangerous consequence of this is that anti–Russian propaganda has now pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war.
