Posted on 02/02/2021 6:03:51 AM PST by Red Badger
The New York Times has amplified claims by “experts” who are calling for Joe Biden to appoint a “reality czar,” prompting critics to compare the idea to the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984.
In an article entitled ‘How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis’, the NYT’s Kevin Roose cites “experts” who are calling on “the Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a “reality czar.”
The job of this “reality czar” would be to head up “a centralized task force could coordinate a single, strategic response” to things like COVID-related and election fraud “conspiracy theories.”
NYTimes suggests the Biden administration needs to appoint a “reality czar” to deal with misinformation and extremism. https://t.co/jVNWNJ3e1C
— Seth Fiegerman (@sfiegerman) February 2, 2021
“This task force could also meet regularly with tech platforms, and push for structural changes that could help those companies tackle their own extremism and misinformation problems. (For example, it could formulate “safe harbor” exemptions that would allow platforms to share data about QAnon and other conspiracy theory communities with researchers and government agencies without running afoul of privacy laws.) And it could become the tip of the spear for the federal government’s response to the reality crisis,” states the article.
“Ah, the Ministry of Truth. I’ve been waiting for this one,” responded Raheem Kassam.
Ah, the Ministry of Truth.
I’ve been waiting for this one. https://t.co/JZ7sN7BgGk
— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) February 2, 2021
While the Orwell comparison has become something of a cliché, in this instance its the best available.
In the book, the Ministry of Truth decides what is “truth” in Oceania no matter what the actual truth may be, and exercises this monopoly over reality by falsifying the nature of historical events.
The Ministry of Truth also uses this power monopoly to redefine the very word “truth” under the rubric of Newspeak, so “truth” becomes whatever the government-approved version of events is in that moment.
What the “experts” cited by the New York Times are calling far and what Orwell portrayed in his book are so similar, even Kevin Roose admits, “It sounds a little dystopian.”
But if “conspiracy theories” really do pose a deadly threat to society, who is responsible for pushing the most egregious disinformation?
As we have exhaustively documented – the most harmful “conspiracy theories,” – such as Saddam Hussein’s non-existent WMD’s and supporting “freedom fighters” who were actually jihadists in Libya and Syria – are always exclusively peddled by the mainstream media.
The corporate press pushing these two whoppers created the consensus for war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and an international migrant crisis.
The New York Times was one of the most prominent outlets that amplified both these damaging deceptions and yet they faced no consequences whatsoever.
Such lies are also far more harmful to society because mainstream media networks have the biggest platforms, they are amplified by rigged social media platforms, and they share a common consensus narrative with each other, meaning there is almost no room for questioning or debate.
If there really was a truly independent “reality czar,” the media would be big trouble because its entire raison d’être is predicated around distorting reality.
George Orwell 2021 would make a nice T shirt :)
That’s bad enough, but they wouldn’t do that unless they intended to enforce it - the thought police.
How I hate the word Czar. Like much of government terminology, it’s so trite. More to the point, it Started with “Energy Czar” in the 70s. But the whole notion that any part of the government should be run by an autocrat makes my skin crawl. Of course we’re under the reign of Czar Joseph I, so I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised
Czar is the Russian equivalent of ‘Caesar’ of ancient Rome, so it’s prophetic........................
Bump
Truth is lies. Good is bad. Slavery is freedom.
I keep telling everyone I know to read Solzhenitsyn.
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But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ...
You are both mixing up cause and effect.
The truth will be whatever the “reality Czar” says it is.
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Dr. Goebbels is smiling in hell.
Already have that with is BS press secretary.
We have always been at war with Eurasia.
#1984
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I was listening to an old Texe Marrs program and it hit me hard that when They say “OUR DEMOCRACY”, They are referring to something other than our constitutional republic. At least once a day here, and FR is the choir of conservatism, a Freeper posts their frustration about one of Them spouting “OUR DEMOCRACY”. The Freeper always reminds that our nation is a representative republic, and then questions the intelligence of Them.
So I was listening to Marrs on the topic of ISIS, Al Qaeda, the invasion of Iraq, Shiites... 2005 ? and he quotes then President George Bush Jr. claiming that these entities are “dangers to OUR DEMOCRACY”. Like I said, it just hit me that “OUR DEMOCRACY” is not what we peons think it is. The worst examples are when these politicians are clearly pimping only for themselves, that they feel threatened, their personal wealth, power and position, but they use “OUR DEMOCRACY” instead. Pelosi does this.
A short video 1:39 with local news from around the country Fox ABC CBS NBC affiliates ALL reading the exact same script to viewers “FALSE NEWS IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TO OUR DEMOCRACY”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PaLnrDq-bcw&feature=youtu.be
More:
Canada PM Justin Trudeau: Jan 08, 2021 · “What we witnessed was an ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY by violent rioters, incited by the current president and other politicians,” Trudeau said.
“Populism JEOPARDIZES DEMOCRACIES around the world” per Stanford Univ. (And the Pope agrees).
CA Gov Gavin Newsom: “outright assault on OUR DEMOCRACY”
Sen Lindsay Graham: “impeachment process is a DANGER TO OUR DEMOCRACY”
What is this Beast of THEIRS called “OUR DEMOCRACY”? It’s like an inside joke to THEM - the plebes think their votes count and that they live in a democracy, but Their insider joke is that “OUR DEMOCRACY” is ONLY THEM, by Them and for Them = NWO.
Minister of “Popa-ganda”.
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Russia Russia Russia
Here comes DC Bob. 😆
Biden going to shut down the news media hey couldn’t be any worse.
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