As more and more Americans are finding out our nation is an oligarchy where a cartel of powerful businesses and families control the government from the top down, therefore it is not that difficult for them to control the media as well. In the old Soviet Union people knew that they were being fed government propaganda everyday but because our propaganda is just one step removed but still controlled by the government people are not aware that it is controlled. American propaganda is much more sophisticated than the heavy handed Soviet propaganda.
Notice today’s NYT magazine “confession” story about Ben Rhodes, a tiny admission of guilt to cover up the massive lie on the Iran deal, and the even bigger lie that what we are reading is news.
Is this like homeopathic medicine? Or a hair of the dog that bit ya? Too clever. Like the Atlantic story on whether we should fight ISIS? (No, because they want us to. Another version of “If we fight them, they win.” Oh, OK.)
For those of us who do remember where we were on that afternoon of Nov 22, 1963 when we heard the news, nothing since can be taken at face value. Up until then, hardly any “conspiracies” were theoretical. They were usually perpetrated by known conspirators, who did in fact collude in nefarious actions. Et tu Brute? “Sic Semper Tyrannis”. Since 11/22/63, anything slightly off kilter has the potential to bloom into a “conspiracy theory”. Why? Because we watched JFK get assassinated and to this day we question the facts of what really happened in front of our own eyes. Even the word “conspiracy” can’t any longer stand alone, but must be followed by “theory”. Although now and then it will be preceded by it, as in “the theory of a great right wing conspiracy”.