TarheelDem posted a fine, small article yesterday (Sat., 3/25) titled Don’t Fight Their Lies with Lies of Your Own.
I replied. My “PostFactual America” idea pretty much destroys the idea of truth or lies being provable anymore. Too many liars on both sides. The ensuing comments pretty well illustrated this concept.
“He said.” “No, she said!!!” “Well..she said that what he is saying is a lie.” “No. She is either wrong or lying herself!!!”
And on and on and on.
People are so confused now. On all sides of every question.
Too many lying liars.
We have all heard the term “cultural dissonance”, right?
Cultural dissonance…is an uncomfortable sense of discord, disharmony, confusion, or conflict experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment. The changes are often unexpected, unexplained or not understandable due to various types of cultural dynamics.
I repeat: “…discord, disharmony, confusion…conflict…”
Sound familiar?
Yup.
The describes the U.S. in a nutshell right now.
But…you cannot have the kind of mass “cultural dissonance” that we are experiencing without mass informational dissonance.
And there we jolly well are, aren’t we.
Caught up in a hurricane of lies.
Read on for more…my reply to Tarheel’s post.
Yes, but…Tarheel!!!
There is nothing “new” here. Nothing new except perhaps in terms of volume.
We have been living in a false news bubble since the assassination years.
The Vietnam war reportage was false.
The Watergate scam was “false.” It contained kernels of truth, but “Deep Throat” probably never even existed.
Many people believe that Clinton I’s Lewinsky-caused downfall was an intelligence-run honeytrap, myself among them. Too many coincidences around Lewinsky. They ran her right at him.
The runup to Bush II’s Iraq War?
Proven to be false.
The entire coverup-style buildup and continuation of Obama as our new “Peace President” saviour? Rotten from the get-go.
The very idea that there are really “two sides” to the Permanent Government is itself false at it base. Competing gangs? Yes. Constant war between them? Hell no!!! Just like someone says in every good mob movie ever made:
It’s bad fer business, Joey. Gotta stop it. Now!!!
The difference? Now? The information explosion has made it too easy for amateurs to disseminate their bullshit. More and more people are getting wise and just…looking away.
MSNBC, CNN, Fox News? No longer any more sophisticated than was Pravda or is RT now.
We can see through the curtains that used to hide the little, naked wizards.
Hell, man…that awkward little fool Turdblossom Rove gave it all away 15 years ago. To a reporter!!!
Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush-Ron Suskind, Oct. 17, 2004
In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House’s displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn’t fully comprehend — but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
What has changed is that now, many more people are refusing to “study” what any of them do.
Listen up. The percentage of eligible non-voters in national elections has remained fairly constant over the past several decades…a few percentage points here and there, up or down. But…and I think that this is where the mmainstream DemRat and the RatPub hustlers all got screwed up…although the percentages changed, the demographic makeup of those percentages have also changed…drastically…over the past 4 years or so, during the rise of Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites. The old “non-voters”…mostly people who were too stupid and/or too lazy to go out and vote…were motivated to vote by easy access to the (
false) news that agreed with them while it began to dawn on the “smarter” voters (You know…the ones that voted DemRat?) that there was something really fishy going on.And they stayed home.
The result?
Bet on it.
How will this all work out?
Damned if I know.
Trump goes down?
Maybe.
But…who brought him down?
The lying liars of yesteryear?
Or worse?
The pros take over?
Then here we still are, aren’t we?
Up Shit’s Creek without a paddle.
What if all of the “smart people” just say “Fuck it!!! Take yer prizes and shove ’em!!!”
What then?
Could happen…
“Back in the U.S.S.R.!!!”
The Beatles as prophets.
Could happen…
AG
