…Increasingly over the years, a corporate-benefiting and more intensive indoctrination into outmoded and mechanical behavior, befitting a totalitarian state, had people more subdued, more contented in the “bread and circuses” still provided them, even as their rights were incrementally and surreptitiously taken from them.
Alongside that, folks were less able to make rational decisions based on the facts. Media outlets reinforced the sheeple control of the masses, making it so Americans were more likely to know convenient slogans rather than the knowledge come of actual facts and critical thinking. This is what I refer to as the “rise of ‘obvious truths.’” By this I mean that with education and media suppression, along with an ongoing propaganda and misinformation campaign, Americans increasingly were wont to react with familiar though untrue and/or outdated ideas and truisms in the face of increasingly complex and tumultuous events.
Higher education did their part, as I said. The Big Ideas were not taught as much after 1971, making way for the power of the Big Lie to be employed later and ongoingly into current times. For example, if corporations were seen or heard to be needing, say, people knowledgeable in inter-managerial, mid-corporate, communicative…
3. “1984” COMES TO AMERICA — SLICK, GRADUAL, AND PERFECT:
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White-Collar Slavery and Rat Racing
*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema
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![[Chapter 3 text begins:] Before the corporations and their ownership by an obscenely wealthy elite, there were the abominably well-off of other societies and economies — the filthy rich nobility that kept the peasants as virtual slaves.
Filthy Rich, Nobility, Peasants, Slaves
The point, I guess, is that we are all taught something quite different about America, from kindergarten on up. We see now it is all questionable: We see how the wealthy elite and the huge corporations use newspapers and the media more than anything else to ever advance their profit-seeking agenda. So I can only wonder how different this control of the media by the filthy rich is from the brainwashing and propaganda we heard that totalitarian societies engage in, especially the Communists in the Soviet Union that were used as examples for most of my life.
Still, is it corporations that do these things, the enslaving? Let us say it exactly so we can pinpoint who are really the actors. Is it not the people who own/run the corporations? So, that, in my opinion, makes it what one network (CNN, I think) who did a documentary years ago on the obscenely increased wealth and power of this class ... occurring during the Bush Administration ... termed “the Filthy Rich.” I think it is high time we started being specific about who is running America into the dirt.
PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH
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