Posted on 02/10/2025 11:48:55 AM PST by MtnClimber
The following discussion from Dutch television concerns the fabricated reality created by the collaboration of the state and the media and pushed into the minds of ordinary citizens by the deft manipulations of propagandists.
An excerpt from the introduction by RAIR Foundation:
In an extraordinary admission on national television, retired Dutch Major General Frank van Kappen exposed a disturbing truth: governments and media manufacture a “preferential reality” to manipulate public perception. This revelation, broadcast on WNL Op Zondag, is not a conspiracy theory — it is a cold, hard fact straight from a respected military and strategic expert.
The general’s remarks expose a grand-scale psychological operation in which governments and media work hand in hand to impose a narrative that serves their interests rather than reflect objective reality. “That is the manipulation of facts and events so that you impose a preferential reality on your own population, on your opponent, and on the international public,” van Kappen stated.
Many thanks to PeterOranje for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
00:00 One thing I really want to emphasize, is that we are in the middle of a period 00:05 where we are dealing with an ‘Information Operation’, an information war. 00:08 An Information operation? —Yes, that’s what it’s called nowadays. 00:11 It’s an activity of strategic importance. It is the manipulation of facts and events. 00:16 This, to create a ‘Preferential Reality’ for your own population, your opponents 00:20 and the international public. We’re in the middle of that. —A Preferential Reality? 00:24 Yes, you manipulate facts and events in such a way 00:27 that you create a Preferential Reality, a televised reality. 00:30 We’re in the middle of that. And all parties do that. 00:33 Who was this man? —Yes, this is General-Major van Kappen (Retd). 00:38 And he just said what I have observed recently. 00:43 And this was just on Dutch national television. Don’t forget, this is not a conspiracy theory. 00:47 This is just openly admitted here. Wierd Duk, a journalist from the newspaper De Telegraaf, 00:50 is sitting next to him. And I think they don’t yet quite understand 00:56 what this man is actually saying. But he says that facts and events are manipulated 01:02 to create a Preferential Reality. And, in the eyes of the government, a favorable reality....SNIP
Going on in many places.
“It’s for the chillrren.”
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It’s been like this for a long time.
TV was a great invention, brought a lot of entertainment and enjoyment to people and information too.
But it evolved in a way that it created a shared ersatz reality.
Preferential Reality = The Narrative.
Going back over time I think it happened naturally do to the nature of the medium. And the preferential reality, or narrative, wasn’t all that bad. There wasn’t an agenda.
The communists and anti-Christs, who always have an agenda, realized the power inherent and took to usurping it. They’d already done it to some degree in movies and theater.
But it evolved in a way that it created a shared ersatz reality.
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I haven’t read it, but I’m told the book ‘Our Biggest Fight’ by Frank McCourt addresses the terrible danger of the advances in AI, what preceded it, and how it will impact the future of mankind.
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