In his 1998 book The Common Good, Noam Chomsky describes the key role that managed disagreements play in modern politics…
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate…”
This remains true despite the increasingly obvious fact that Chomsky himself is part of that function.
What he’s describing is the “fake binary”. The imposition of the idea that Viewpoint A is the official approved narrative and that Viewpoint B is therefore its antithesis.
Points C through Z can therefore be ignored.
The fact hidden in plain sight being that both Viewpoint A and Viewpoint B actually reinforce the overarching narrative being sold and both lead to the same place.
It’s an incredibly effective management tool.
A fake binary allows you to not just manipulate the conformist Normies who automatically obey, but also those who consider themselves to be ‘anti-establishment’, contrarians or ‘rebels’.
How are fake binaries created? They are often initially introduced by the following methods…
💢Using the legacy media to widely publicize Viewpoint B while appearing to deny, refute or ridicule it.
💢 “Leaking” allegedly confidential documents that “expose” Viewpoint B as the “hidden truth”. This is usually done through the legacy media, though it’s more effective if you can seed it through the indy media sector.
💢 Creating entities that are tagged as “anti-establishment” but given a mass following, and feeding them Viewpoint B material.
Once Viewpoint B becomes a dominant “anti-establishment” view you can afford to sit back and allow the oppositional instinct in human nature to do your work for you, and reinforce the fake binary you created without the slightest awareness this is what is happening.
It becomes widely understood that the only solution to the obvious and real evils of Viewpoint A is Viewpoint B.
The fact Viewpoint B actually concedes all the same falsehoods contained in Viewpoint A remains unnoticed and anyone pointing this out tends to be attacked by both sides.
Fake binaries are a godsend to the opinion-managers.
We’ll be talking more about this in the near future…
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UHM, binary means there are two, right? Male and female, right? Good and Bad, right? simple stuff.
Binary choices are the offspring of lies.
So who will allow viewpoints c thru z?
Chomsky should know. He is the definition of controlled opposition. Rewarded with a nobel prize for a theory of language which was rejected within a couple of years. Made the acceptable face of the anti-war movement in the 1960s which achieved exactly nothing.
The kosher sandwich, by another name.
Individualism is safe for the individual, the hell with any collective of any race, creed, or color.
Enjoy your retarded mulatto grandkids.
To hell with the narcissists who worship individualism as the expense of everything else. They are utter garbage, and the sooner we’re rid of them the better.
No man is an island.
We step off the “Company” Knowledge Reservation at our own peril. Only Company created and distributed knowledge is allowed in any debate but you can take to any extreme you want. Even murdering your opposition, but don’t you dare introduce non Company produced and distributed info.