SOURCE: caitlinjohnstone.com
Doing daily commentary on world power dynamics feels a lot like staring up at the sky watching clouds. Sometimes you see a three-legged pony up there, sometimes a gargoyle, sometimes a laughing baby, but really you’re only ever watching tiny water droplets being moved around by atmospheric winds. They can take on any number of different shapes, but no matter how long you lay there staring up at them you’re really only ever seeing one dynamic play out with different appearances from moment to moment.
The daily news is very much the same, except most consumers of news media aren’t aware that they’re watching clouds. They really do think they’re looking at a three-legged pony, a gargoyle, a laughing baby.
“Ooh, there’s a doggy!” they squeal and clap their hands. “Ooh! Ooh now it’s a kitty cat!”
They don’t see the real underlying dynamics, they just see the forms those dynamics are taking from moment to moment. They don’t see the water droplets being moved around by the breeze, they just see the shapes.
Just as clouds are always water droplets in the air no matter what shapes they take, news stories are only ever one dynamic playing out with different appearances.
There is only ever one news story on any given day, and it is always the same news story: wealthy and powerful people seek more wealth and power, and narratives are spun to advance these agendas.
That’s it. That’s all you’re ever seeing when you read the news.
There are sports scores and the occasional celebrity death mixed in for entertainment, but when it comes to major political and governmental events you’re only ever seeing the effects of wealthy and powerful people working to obtain more wealth and power and narratives being spun to promote these agendas.
Today it’s the Democratic Party killing the $15 minimum wage, protests in Haiti, US electoral shenanigans in Ecuador, bombings and sanctions on Syria, China bad, Russia bad. Appearances which taken individually at first glance look like breaking news stories, but when examined closely and integrated into the big picture are actually the exact same dynamics that were playing out yesterday with slightly different shapes. Tomorrow those same dynamics will play out again in different appearances. The shapes are different, but it’s always water droplets in the air.
It’s the exact same news story playing out over and over and over again, day after day after day. Alarm clock goes off at six AM, Sonny and Cher sing “I Got You Babe”, and Bill Murray wakes up to Groundhog Day once again.
“Well it looks like Jibby Jorpson is set to be the new leader, somehow staving off an early challenge from the popular socialist candidate,” reports the news man. “In other news, the ostensibly left-wing party will be unable to help the working class due to bliff blaff bloffa reasons, a dangerous dictator in a crucial geostrategic region urgently needs to be removed from power because widdle diddle doodad, and coming up: do we need more internet censorship to prevent wakka dakka dingdong?”
Next morning. Alarm clock. “I Got You Babe”, Bill Murray, Groundhog Day again.
“Well it looks like Miggy Morpson is set to be the the new leader, somehow staving off an early challenge from the popular socialist candidate,” reports the news man. “In other news, the ostensibly left-wing party will be unable to help the working class due to wing wang wappa reasons, a dangerous dictator in a crucial geostrategic region urgently needs to be removed from power because kooka kakka keeka, and coming up: do we need more internet censorship to prevent yope yap yimmy?”
Over and over and over again. And over and over and over. The excuses change, the narrative spin changes, the component parts of the agendas change, but it’s only ever the same one story: wealthy and powerful people seek more wealth and power, and narratives are spun to advance these agendas.
Once you see the clouds as clouds, you never again get confused about what those shapes in the sky really are. You see different iterations of the exact same dynamic where you used to see individual breaking news stories.
When you have this insight and realize it’s always the same story playing out over and over again, there’s a common temptation to give in to despair and bitterness. Maybe you keep fighting, but you do it with a bored, jaded and entirely uninspired mentality.
It doesn’t need to be this way though. Just because the fight isn’t happening the way you used to imagine doesn’t mean it’s hopeless or tedious, it just means you need to look at it differently. You don’t have a 50-fight career against 50 different opponents who you fought for 10 rounds each, you have a one-fight career against a single opponent who you’ve been fighting for 500 rounds.
Just because the fight is longer than you once thought and the opponent much more resilient than you once thought doesn’t mean that one long fight is without end, or that it is unwinnable. It just means it looks different than it used to. It was ponies and doggies, now it’s clouds. You still bite down on your mouthpiece and throw leather with all your strength.
But it’s important to do it with focus on the whole. When we oppose ruling power structures and the narratives that they are using to advance their agendas, it’s important to also zoom out and point to their place in the whole. It benefits no one to treat any of the manifestations of the recurring one news story as separate from all the other arrangements: you’ve got to tie it in to the greater dynamics of empire and oligarchy at every opportunity. Otherwise you’re just feeding into the illusion of doggies and kitties in the sky.
That’s all we’re ever doing here: trying to point to the recurring Groundhog Day story over and over again from as many different angles as possible to help people see the clouds. We can use individual news stories as illustrations to show people the bigger picture of what’s really going on, but really all we’re ever doing is helping them see it all as water droplets arranging in different shapes from day to day.
Help enough people see the big picture, and the fight is as good as won. Then, and only then, does Bill Murray awaken to a new day
THE END
Well written, it’s time to put out the childish things and work together rather than fight on those details that are only clouds Religion ethnicity origins. The light is Freedom.
Just watched this clip containing explosive info on the extent of the pedophilia taking place in the Capitol , the Vatican and London. A whole lot of other stuff concerning insurrection , the politics now in play in the USA and an apparent assassination attempt on Trump . Not sure what to make of any of these exposures and if there is any truth in them. However , nothing would surprise me with all the evil taking place and especially as it concerns high ranking government officials and the wealthy elite. I just pray that the truth will all come out soon and all the satanic individuals involved will be brought to justice –
https://truth11.com/2021/02/08/congress-biden-arrested-as-military-rescues-tortured-children-from-tunnels-beneath-capitol-hill/
Scratch Simon Parkes off your watch list. Although he is a calm, nice sounding Brit, he is also a bonified nut job. Do a search on him and you will find several articles about his ‘alien’ connection and where he believes he came from. I watched him early on for a short period of time before he, and his buddy, the chubby brit, Charlie Ward, were outed as being CIA shills and disinformation types. Everything the 2 of them have said with regard to timelines and all the Q bullshit did NOT COME TRUE. Not one thing. And yet, he and a few others still have a following.
Don’t know much about Simon Parkes , but I must say his take and favourable views on Bojo , was a flashing red flag. Like I said I’m not sure whether this piece is newsworthy or a bunch of sensationalism.
LMFAO!! All due respect, if you think that nonsense article is the “truth”, I feel sorry for you.
” Over and over and over again. And over and over and over. The excuses change, the narrative spin changes, the component parts of the agendas change, but it’s only ever the same one story: wealthy and powerful people seek more wealth and power, and narratives are spun to advance these agendas.”
– K.J.
It is called same shit, different day . A routine. All appears normal to those subjects in the experiment.
Call it conditioning if you like.
Yet is has been extraordinarily different this last year or so. The entire God damned world has been placed under a medical martial law with attendant destruction of liberty, economy, religious freedoms, ability to travel and a whole bunch more, all under the rubric of “Lockdown” just like in a prison for prisoners. Alex Jones (whether you believe him controlled opposition or not) has been preaching this very thing for ever: Prison Planet.
Bend over for your CoVid-19(84) anal swab and roll up your sleeve for The Jab(s), serf.
Isn’t it way past time to pull the plug on the B3rg* tyranny and its operators?
Perhaps the most incisive piece that Kaitlyn has ever written.
I like how you didn’t write … “Auntie says ..”. Way to go!!
Great comment, also. SAME SHIT DIFFERENT DAY …. the story of my (our) life! Some days I feel like I’m just about ready to pray for my own demise.
What? Praying for your own demise? I’m tiny compare to you 5’8′ 145 pounds (French food doesn’t work for me except for the cheese) and I’m ready to fight… without guns mind you because in socialist countries those things are illegal. I do plan to buy a crossbow this month though.
Auntie appreciates your complimentary comment, Mr. Stucky. ;p
And yet it works because everyone is asleep.
Funny you say that, in the second edition of a book written by 2 French guys Louis Pauwells and Jacques (who was in the resistance tortured in Lyon liberated and ran through Paris with some uranium he had stolen from the krauts) wrote a book called The morning of the Magicians which dealt with all strange events. The book is over 500 pages long and it still is a interesting read. The cover of the french version is very interesting and goes on to par with your comment:
LOVE IT.
My modus operandi is this: If I read a “news” article or watch one on TV, and notice they’re all about the same topic with only minor variations in the wording, I look for what they want you to feel or how they want you to react. Thus, I have identified the Daily Deep State Lie of the day.
The next thing I address is, WHY are they telling me this bullshit lie.
At this point in our decay before the Great Collapse, this is the only way we can figure out at least some truth.
Around here we play the ‘key word’ drinking game when the news is on.. ‘Insurrection’ and ‘vaccination’ are the hot ones lately. It’s impossible to make it through the first segment without getting messed up.
Drinking high proof whiskey while the latest installation of the Daily Lie is playing could make for some pretty deep depression inebriation. I say turn off the electronics and celebrate friendship and shared happiness with your fellow drinkers.
Add in “The Big Lie.”
“Help enough people see the big picture, and the fight is as good as won.”
True — but you need to look at whatever it is you’re doing from time to time, to see if what you’re doing, is working towards accomplishing whatever it is you want to do.
I don’t disagree with Caitlin — it’s just that whatever methods she’s using, don’t work. Or, rather, these methods work to reach a handful of people, which is not at all a bad thing, even reaching one other person can be awesome. But Caitlin doesn’t see that her methods aren’t having the effect she would like. But this doesn’t make her look at other ways to more people, though she continues to be frustrated that other people aren’t reachable using her methods.
Good luck with that.
We are spirits having a human experience. Believe it.
BTW, as one who’s experienced being “put under” more times than I can remember , I can honestly say, I fear the anesthesia more than the surgery. It makes you, the conscious in the meat suit, completely disappear for awhile. Does the gas make the body uninhabitable for a while and the conscious is forced to leave until the toxins dissipates ? Does one ever totally recover from the brain fog left from being ” put under.
I wonder.
“we often infuse a combination of anesthetic drugs that render the patient unconscious but allow all of the neural pathways between the brain and the body to continue to function normally so that they can be monitored for their integrity.” …except when they don’t succefully and render you worse off than when you came in, which is about every occasion I’ve had the unfortunate misery of needing one of the lying low life bastards. And yes, they always follow up their butchery masquerading as “practice” with a dozen excuses, all of them your fault, as to why the “procedure” went wrong.
How many MDs have came forward and declared Covid an Deep State hoax ? …very damn few.
I put MDs in the same shit sack as politicians. For every good one, there’s thousands of avarice driven, cowardly and corrupt dookie sticks.
A pox on them all.
My guess at this point, that is not far off from the truth.
Doctors are the new lawyers, or the new used car salesmen whichever you prefer. Money-grubbing narcissists.
You could call them the new framers and we are their commodities to be harvested.
I’m starting to think even that psychopath Stalin was right one time. He basically said that if you killed troublemakers then troubles you no longer had.
Agree with your questioning of the impact of anesthetics … More specifically, my theory is that anesthetics administered at older ages has a significant detrimental impact on folks because they can’t successfully recover from the effects.
Off the top of my head, thinking about my Aunt and a dear family friend that both had various surgeries in their early 70’s … Prior to surgery, both were VERY ‘young for their age’ and within a year or so after the surgeries, the decline into dementia began. Just a theory?
A close friend has just been diagnosed with bowel cancer, age 73. Will operate in next few weeks. Problem is during a previous operation some years ago she had a heart attack while under the general anaesthetic. She is facing not only the cancer but the potential life threatening ‘going under’ the chemical cosh too.
She has haemachromatosis, which is too much iron in her blood. I do wonder if she will even survive the operation. On top of all that they want to operate just as she and her husband are moving house! Stress and fear do not bode well for a successful outcome. Oh and she’s had the vaccine…..
C.mon, man (I mean, Caitlin). You mean it’s ALL fake news?
The only thing left to ask is, “Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?”
I like Jippy Jorpsen. Fuck all you Miggy Morpsom fans!