Indeed. It’s so bad I took to re-reading Orwell’s 1984 recently...if only to reframe recent wars as ‘the war in Eastasia/Eurasia’. But what the BBC did here is something I’ve never seen before. Like Jacinta said ‘we will be your only source of information’. I’m just hoping the endless blah blah will be overkill leading us to switch off a…
Indeed. It’s so bad I took to re-reading Orwell’s 1984 recently...if only to reframe recent wars as ‘the war in Eastasia/Eurasia’. But what the BBC did here is something I’ve never seen before. Like Jacinta said ‘we will be your only source of information’. I’m just hoping the endless blah blah will be overkill leading us to switch off and treat all news as soap opera. But for the media to go to such extremes surely must eventually wake people up to seeing this is propaganda pure and simple. Or am I being too optimistic?
Sadly I suspect the majority don’t even suppose that they are being propagandised ... one thing the media cabal is very good at is pigeon-holing people and playing to their innate sensibilities and preferences, hence the bulk of the “climate alarmism-covid-vaccines-LGBT-white fragility-open borders-CNN-BBC-ABC” brigade are absolutely convinced that what they are experiencing is not only the truth, that it’s necessary, but that THEY are intelligent and virtuous for going along with it, indeed so much smarter and more useful than also the tinfoil hat wearing “antivaxxers” and “climate deniers”.
I would argue those captions are part of the push for these misinformation bills across the five eyes countries. They offer a rationale & justification & necessity of the existence of such legislation. For our safety.
I'm afraid that in Australia at least, where the government has been implementing the bi-millennial-old "bread and circuses" swindle (in particular, or most visibly since the Howard government), the people will put up with absolutely any insult, even conspicuous sustained above-average excess death rates, as long as the standard of living continues to prevail at its unsustainably-high levels. "Exactly what "Gaza/Israel border exploding onto the world stage" are you talking about? We're too busy upgrading our lifestyles and amassing investment properties in our portfolios to care about such things that will/might not happen so far away from here, thank you very much."
Aussies used to be thoroughly likeable, if but complacent and indifferent people. What could easily have been considered as a quixotic idiosyncrasy in the past, with all that has been done to the people and all that will be done still, it is now an intolerable juxtaposition of mutually exclusive qualities.
Indeed. It’s so bad I took to re-reading Orwell’s 1984 recently...if only to reframe recent wars as ‘the war in Eastasia/Eurasia’. But what the BBC did here is something I’ve never seen before. Like Jacinta said ‘we will be your only source of information’. I’m just hoping the endless blah blah will be overkill leading us to switch off and treat all news as soap opera. But for the media to go to such extremes surely must eventually wake people up to seeing this is propaganda pure and simple. Or am I being too optimistic?
Sadly I suspect the majority don’t even suppose that they are being propagandised ... one thing the media cabal is very good at is pigeon-holing people and playing to their innate sensibilities and preferences, hence the bulk of the “climate alarmism-covid-vaccines-LGBT-white fragility-open borders-CNN-BBC-ABC” brigade are absolutely convinced that what they are experiencing is not only the truth, that it’s necessary, but that THEY are intelligent and virtuous for going along with it, indeed so much smarter and more useful than also the tinfoil hat wearing “antivaxxers” and “climate deniers”.
I would argue those captions are part of the push for these misinformation bills across the five eyes countries. They offer a rationale & justification & necessity of the existence of such legislation. For our safety.
The misinformation bill will not apply to the government and will not apply to overseas based corporate funded organisations like the WHO
Your safety is not their concern
I'm afraid that in Australia at least, where the government has been implementing the bi-millennial-old "bread and circuses" swindle (in particular, or most visibly since the Howard government), the people will put up with absolutely any insult, even conspicuous sustained above-average excess death rates, as long as the standard of living continues to prevail at its unsustainably-high levels. "Exactly what "Gaza/Israel border exploding onto the world stage" are you talking about? We're too busy upgrading our lifestyles and amassing investment properties in our portfolios to care about such things that will/might not happen so far away from here, thank you very much."
Aussies used to be thoroughly likeable, if but complacent and indifferent people. What could easily have been considered as a quixotic idiosyncrasy in the past, with all that has been done to the people and all that will be done still, it is now an intolerable juxtaposition of mutually exclusive qualities.