Tag: manufactured consent

How a Monster Is Born: Manufacturing of Obedience

Guest Post by Tessa Luna

manufacturing of obedience

Story at-a-glance

  • A “remarkable” video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talking with MSNBC in 2005 shows Joe Scarborough agreeing with him on vaccines
  • In 2003, The Sydney Morning Herald issued a condemnation of business using fear of contagion to sell “farce masks”
  • In 2003, Fauci said that that Americans would not accept country-wise vaccinations; in March 2020, he compared COVID to bad flu
  • Cultural change, dramatic when straight in our faces, takes a long time to build up, and refusing to accept abuse here and now goes a long way

The slippery slope toward the elimination of free expression and critical thinking rights has long turned into a roller coaster ride. In that light, it’s interesting to look back and see how the “update in the cultural norms” has been ushered in.

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They Work To Manufacture Consent Because They Need It. So Don’t Give It To Them.

Guest Post by Caitlin Johnstone

Plutocrat-owned news media outlets lie constantly. When I say this I don’t mean that everything they say is false; many of the events reported by mass media are for the most part factual. Whenever it’s convenient for the loose alliance of western plutocrats, the political establishment those plutocrats own and operate, and the secretive government agencies with which they are allied, the plutocratic media tell the truth to the extent that it advances plutocratic agendas. But only telling the truth when it suits one’s agendas is the same as lying constantly.

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