Guest Post by The Zman
Way back in the before times, whenever the topic of Soviet propaganda came up, inevitably someone would mention that it was necessary in order to keep the people from revolting against the system. There was an assumption that the propaganda worked to some degree in convincing the public. The truth is, it was never particularly effective on the masses. Instead, the real value of propaganda is in keeping the believers from questioning their beliefs.
We see this today with the massive propaganda barrage from the ruling class media organs regarding the race war. They endlessly wave around claims about how much public support there is for toppling statues, assaulting old white people on the streets and perpetrating race hoaxes. It is the oldest and dullest form of persuasion. “All the other kids are doing it. You don’t want to be left out, do you?” It’s so crude and clumsy it often feels like it is an inside joke at times.
For example, this piece rocketed around the sports media sites. The claim is car racing, especially newly woke NASCAR, is getting record audience numbers. They don’t make the claim explicitly, but clearly the intent of the post is to suggest wokeness has been good for car racing. Of course, TV ratings are entirely fake and have been for a very long time, but even taken at face value, NASCAR is as popular right now as a moderate YouTube star or OnlyFans bimbo.
If you are running a billion-dollar sport and you can only draw a million fans when no other sports are permitted to operate, you have serious problems. That’s the world of facts and reason. In the world of wokeness, a slight bump after a series of embarrassing public relations blunders is a triumph of the will. It is all the proof the great and good need to convince them that turning NASCAR into an endless lecture on the horrors of white people was a great idea.
What we will not see, of course, is a similar story a year from now when the sport is struggling with half-empty stands and dismal TV ratings. That’s not the sort of thing that keeps the true believers energized. In ideological societies, truth is a very dangerous thing, not because it gives the doubters ammunition. Truth is dangerous because it undermines the zeal of the believers. That’s the real motivation behind this race war unleashed by the ruling class. They needed to inspire the faithful.
This need to constantly tend their own garden is why the rulers are now banning harmless people like Stefan Molyneux from the internet. Whatever you may think of his performances, Molyneux is pretty much just a garden variety AnCap. He sprinkles in some crime data and facts about race on occasion, but he has not done much of that in a long time now. Instead, he has retooled himself into a street corner Socrates, but he was banned from social media anyway.
People on this side are tempted to think his banning is due to his occasional flirtations with race realism, but if that were so he would have been zapped years ago. In reality, the people in charge are running low on people willing to go onto their stages and play the villain for them. Twitter is all house broken conservatives and Progressive cranks, with the latter outnumbering the former 100-to-1. After years of human sacrifice, the stock of sinners is running low, so they are creating them.
Therein lies a significant difference between what we are witnessing today and what went on in communist countries. At some point after the war, communist propaganda shifted from promoting the glorious future that was at hand to promoting the glories of the here and now. That is, the point of communist propaganda was to endlessly remind the people in the party that there was no need for change, just constant vigilance against the remaining reactionaries.
That does not appear to be in the cards for liberal democracy. It is a constant revolt against the present, even when the present is the creation of the people doing the revolting, as we see today. That’s why the propaganda gets more intense and more absurd with each click of the ratchet. It’s as if the faster they chase after the glorious future, the further it recedes into the distance, so the only solution is to run faster and that means more sacrifices and more witch hunting.
It is tempting to conclude that they cannot keep up this pace for long and will at some point exhaust themselves. That is probably true, but that point may be well beyond where we stand now. Look at the way they have reacted to the rioter in Seattle being run over and killed. Instead of sobering them up, it is becoming something of a blood sacrifice. The new religion has no limiting principle, so the limit of their fanatical zeal may turn out to be physical reality.
The point of all this is that this may be the early stages of the revolution. It is popular with the older crowd to compare now with the 1970’s, when the cultural revolution of the 1960’s collapsed into anarchy. In other words, it is 1974, Trump is Nixon and Joe Biden is Jimmy Carter. In reality, it could be 1968 and Trump is Johnson. He certainly spends like Johnson and dithers like Johnson. We may be living through the good part of the revolution and things will get much worse from here.
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Crap and Lip service.
The BLM/Antifa crowd is more than pleased to see the sort of pink/blue/green haired, tatted up, weirdo, maybe-lesbians sacrifice themselves on the hood of a car at a rally. The crowd running BLM/Antifa does not like that sort of woman at all. The longer that knuckleheads volunteer to serve as (essentially) cannon fodder and useful idiots for the Globalist movement, the dying will continue or increase. You wallow with pigs, etc., etc.
I’m proud to say that the two binary people (that’s really what the media called them) are from my home town. We have so many Progressive wing nuts that we can send them to Seattle to cause trouble without significantly depleting the ranks of our own rioters.
Portland is to the Antifa/purple-hair crowd what the Dominican Republic is to Major League Baseball.
I’m leaning toward this as the case:
“We may be living through the good part of the revolution and things will get much worse from here.”
“… It is a constant revolt against the present, even when the present is the creation of the people doing the revolting.”
That’s the “movement” in a nutshell.
These morons are fighting to slay their OWN monster.
Even more reason to sit back and just watch the show.
Busily devouring themselves – what a spectacle for our enjoyment. Just another advantage of our white privilege – to watch the shithole democratic-run cities “burn, baby, burn”.
It takes all the “running” the left can do to stay in one place.
Zman, if Dana Coverstones Prophetic Dreams come true this Fall, things will get much, much worse and America as we know it will cease to exist. GET PREPARED NOW!!!!!!!!
When you have to sum up an article by writing: “It’s tempting to conclude that…” and “The point of all of this is…” 99% of the time it means you know you lost a reader’s interest around the beginning of an article
Folks, I know the prospects of American Imperial decline and collapse are hard to swallow, but perhaps you should look at it the way I do, living in the Mid Ohio Valley.
My home has been in decline for about 50 years now, and we’re still getting by. All of our industry- Steel, Glass, Bricks, Shoes, Sporting Goods, and Coal is pretty much dead now. Poverty is rampant, and the living conditions of the current crop of the Under-18 people is third world like. Many of the 18 to 35 age old group are on dope, and most of them will never see 50. So many homes are in disrepair, and that doesn’t include the many have been torn down over the last 20 years. Driving down a formerly prosperous 2nd Street in Portsmouth, Ohio, is enough for anybody to see what they’re going to get if they haven’t already.
I suppose whatever economic benefits this place had to offer has already been harvested, and the reapers have moved on. The last time the reapers came here was when they promised to build that aluminum mill, a proposition which some including myself said it was crooked. I could never see how they could profit on milling imported aluminum ingots from Russia when one of the biggest smelters in America is 5 hours away in Hawesville, Kentucky. It was all a fraud, and any money they got from the government was spent on buying and selling real estate here, and undoubtedly padding their pockets and those of the politicians who got them the money. The party came to an end when they got caught trying to sell property that wasn’t theirs.
We have very little diversity, so our social peace is relatively intact. No rioting, burning, or senseless murders here. Since we have little left to offer, time will pretty much pass us by, just like the reapers have. At this point I don’t really care if the big cities all burn to the ground, and everybody there kill each other, for it doesn’t concern me. When I wake up in the morning, I know I’m still alive, and am thankful for another day of life, though I’m not so certain of tomorrow. I think that a couple of cups of good strong coffee, good food, a comfortable place to live, and a few good friends are things people should be more appreciative of. The more purposeful people have their own homespun hobbies conjured up from little to distract the mind, and we laugh each time whenever we read another article in a North East or West Coast publication maligning us.