Posted on 12/11/2005 2:43:28 AM PST by starbase
Who is controlling the propaganda in the media?
Not who, what. It all goes back to a dirty period in world history. What we're dealing with today is a kind of Frankenstein's monster, lumbering around the countryside of its own accord. Where did it come from? To know that, we need to look back in time.
The darkest turn in human history can be called the two headed snake of Nazism and Communism, both left-wing socialist enterprises. Both are horrendous, both are responsible for mass death, and both are scientific methods for the acquisition and retainment of power.
One of the key pillars for the establishment of both cultures was a mastery of propaganda, one of the most powerful forces in human affairs. Joseph Goebbels is supposed to have told Adolf Hitler that if they controlled the media, they wouldn't need an army. Nazism was, of course, defeated militarily. Communism, and the Soviet Union, went on to fight the Cold War with the United States for nearly seventy two years.
The heart of today's problems with a propaganda drenched media took form during the 1960's generation. This generation, as is well known, was heavily influenced by drugs, rebellion, anti-Americanism, and anti-establishmentism, in other words, they were a generation drawn in and soiled by Soviet attempts at the destruction of the United States and the achievement of world dominion.
During the 1980s this rebellious generation largely fell into obscurity, and conservatism had its finest, in fact, its defining hour, in the persons of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, culminating in the collapse and defeat of the Soviet Union.
However, many poisonous seeds had already been sown and as the 1990's progressed the 1960's generation came into their own, and began taking over positions of responsibility. They are now dispersed throughout society. Many of them retain their anti-American hatreds and are in positions to act on them.
But they are not alone. One of the most important activities for both Nazism and Communism was to convert young people to their cause. These groups also look for all around perverts, who help diminish everything, and "useful idiots", people who can be used in certain situations.
But, where is the proof of this subversive, propaganda-driven behavior? Well, it's everywhere.
Without much effort we can identify numerous examples of subversion and propaganda:
1. One list of currently used propaganda techniques can be found HERE. The reader of mass media will immediately recognize many of these techniques.
2. During the Clinton administration our highest nuclear secrets were stolen by the Chinese. Given the sorry state of security at our labs, it is difficult to believe this was not intentional.
3. U.S. corporations were allowed to improve Chinese missile technology during the 1990's to the extent that Chinese missiles made improvements in a few years which should have taken decades.
4. Dan Rather's open attempt to derail a CURRENT presidential election with flagrantly falsified documents broadcast nationwide on the EVE of voting.
5. Jane Fonda, John Kerry, and so many others like them undermined the United States with lies and distortions in the 60's and 70's.
6. JUST LAST WEEK John Kerry made a bizarre claim that "our soldiers are terrorizing Iraqi children and women", a complete lie.
7. Senator Dick Durbin broadcast worldwide comments comparing our own soldiers and their mission to restrain and destroy global terrorism to the Nazis and their death camps, as well as to Soviet gulags and Pol Pot's Cambodian genocide.
Soviet and Nazi subversion techniques are an attempt to artificially speed up the natural aging of societies to the point that the society dies. Degrading the schools, art, religion, military, and government causes people to care a bit less about each one of these, to defend them less, to remember them less, and to question whether they really have any relationship with others in their "society".
Regular insults to all these institutions appear on TV, in movies, music, and in newspapers. But these insults are not designed to actually insult the institutions, rather they are designed to make a few more people turn away from something that now seems "worthless". Each put-down, and each act of turning away, is one more broken bond. As more people participate in this kind of assault, and as more bonds snap, the society moves faster and faster towards dissolution.
This occurs naturally as a result of time. The greatest societies ever made cannot last forever. But a process that should take centuries can be speeded up until it takes only decades. Through constant irritation, the natural death of a society can be artificially accelerated and provoked.
The society will one day be more dead than alive. At that time any subversive groups can make an attempt to take over a socially incohesive region with a dictatorship, keeping themselves in power as long as they can, doing whatever they want to anyone or anything. This has happened historically (Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Khmer Rouge Cambodia, Vietnam, North Korea, China, etc.). Dictatorship is the ultimate goal of all this subversion.
But how could people who try to undermine all these organizations on a regular basis possibly agree on how to divide up the spoils if they ultimately succeed? Well, they don't need to agree. How much each individual contributer will get depends on how close they are to the front of the line when the society finally falls.
And all along the way, each one of these participants can have a constant feeling of power over everyone who doesn't understand what the goal is. Having that feeling of power is part of the widespread attraction of this effort.
Bottom feeding perverts and people who are just being used by this "system" (like Cindy Sheehan) will also get (or be) a piece of meat, even if they just use up a neighbor or a friend.
No one is directing it, rather, for a variety of reasons, all participants have their eyes on one goal. So you can see that this effort is a monster without a head.
And the road to achieve this goal of a society's early destruction is propaganda. Propaganda techniques work, and have worked many times in the past.
So to answer the question from the title of this piece, a system. A system is controlling the propaganda in the media, and its purpose is to accelerate the death of a society.
The way to defeat this effort is first to be aware of it, second to understand it, and third to work everyday to drive these types of forces out of all organizations responsible for the continuation of culture; schools, religion, art, military, and government.
One should understand the everyday attacks on these organizations as being the lubricant which makes this dark system work. The attacks always focus only on things which successfully continue culture.
Purposefully continuing one's culture makes it immune to this dark system. All one needs to know is that their cultural icons are well cared for and functioning at peak performance. Making sure this is true is what protects the culture from any hidden assaults.
Propaganda pays huge dividends for a tiny investment. Neutralizing this will neutralize any effort against our society from these old techniques.
By stopping their use of propaganda with education, and by working actively to propagate the cultural aspects which we value, people of the subversive mindset will ultimately be suffocated. Then this second shock wave from the dark days of inhuman societies will burn itself out once and for all, to live on only in the history books.
The local liberal fish-wrap a few years ago had an article on a statewide crime bill that was recently passed. A key line that I caught, and always remembered is "Some say that it won't be as effective without an assault weapons ban". Of course, that's some others, not the author's or the paper's point of view. Right.
"They must do so because every invention, every achievement, every great building, new great city, and new wealth is a personal insult to them and their failure to achieve in a world that won't acknowledge their brilliance but instead rewards "ignorant buffoons" called businessmen."
Exactly! Anti-capitalists are essentially resentful, and they covet power and reknown because they are "superior."
Anti-capitalists, envious and greedy, want to subvert and overthrow established (and earned) capital power to OWN and/or control it for themselves.
One of my honest-intellectual heroes - Robert Nozick:
Source: Cato Institute
The media assault got a lot more coherent once Howard Dean was installed as the DNC Chair. I believe this is significant. Dean may seem like a putz, but I think he has had an effect (or his machinery has).
"The media assault got a lot more coherent once Howard Dean was installed as the DNC Chair."
Which representatives from the MEDIA establishment have become "more coherent"??? More objectively critical?
Katie Couric is going to CBS as a "news anchor" for $20 million/year!!! What in the hell is coherent about that?
Redistribution of wealth...I hope she bankrupts CBS.
“However, many poisonous seeds had already been sown and as the 1990's progressed the 1960's generation came into their own, and began taking over positions of responsibility. They are now dispersed throughout society. Many of them retain their anti-American hatreds and are in positions to act on them.”
The young radicals of the 60’s were financed supported and directed by foreign communists/socialists. They have become college professors, teachers, lawyers, politicians, clergy, news and entertainment media and the business world elite. They are “educating” and recruiting our young for their replacements.
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1) Beginning in the 1820s, Martin Van Buren and other pols who were afraid that the declining political power of the slave states was going to result in either a) the north abolishing slavery, or b) the south secedeing because of slavery, set out to create a national political party that would elevate personal greed/job security over ideology (views on slavery). That party was called the Democrats. To "get out the vote," the Dems relied on a number of tactics, but for our purposes the most important was the creation of a "partisan press," whose sole job it was to get Dems elected. They ONLY covered Dem politicians (favorably). After a while, a rival press, run by the Whigs, started to do the same for the Whigs. Either way, neither press reported "news" but rather PARTISAN viewpoints. That was their reason for existing.
2) In the Civil War, the demand for real information and facts, coupled with the widespread use of the telegraph---which required an economy of words ("just the facts, ma'am")---led to a new journalism based mostly on facts, with "editorial" now pushed to the last page. Over a 20 year period, most papers in the country (which had previously been subsidized by the parties) started to increase circulation and drop their subsidies. To get bigger circulations, you had to be "fair and balanced" and not offend a large sement of your readers who might be either Republicans or Democrats. By 1910, journalists had adopted codes of ethics, reporting guidelines that insisted on MULTIPLE known sources, "getting both sides of the story," and basic fairness. Papers REPORTED, they didn't PREACH. (Again, you have a couple of exceptions, such as the Hearst papers). 3) This lasted until the 1960s, when for reasons not entirely known (or which I haven't yet proven) the journalists began a rapid shift to the left. I think this happened early, under JFK, NOT later, during Vietnam and Watergate. But either way, by 1975, the major media was decidedly leftist.
In the 1980s we started to enter a fourth era, not completed yet, in which the "new (conservative) media" has fought back and is now offering alternative interpretations of news. We are, in many ways, back to the 1830s, except that people today THINK that "news" is, well, news and not propaganda.
Bump to post #9...brilliant! The public "education" system in this country is the ROOT of most of the problems of this nature that we are currently experiencing in America. We need to regain control of our children from the socialists/communists that have infected our public schools, and we need to do it now!
I think the Democrats seemed to have totally missed what Alvin Toffler prophesized way back in 1979 in The Third Wave: as communications technologies improve, the hammerlock of control of communications by the mass media will come to an end. The rise of the public Internet since 1992 has totally borne that out, especially given how the New Media brought down powerful icons of the MSM like Howell Raines and Gerald Boyd at the New York Times, Dan Rather and Mary Mapes at CBS News, and Eason Jordan at CNN.
I hope commie katie falls flat on her face!
A good post. Pretty much the same way I feel about it.
Done and bookmarked.
It's not even about ratings. The MSM adheres to a recipe shown to produce declining ratings. Hollywood eschews more lucrative productions for those that embrace today's anti-American liberal culture. In short, ideology uber alles.
Divide and conquer..........
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