Billy Bob's Dispatches
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| The ruling elites are conscious that feeding the people huge lies, prejudices, and endless distractions—from sports obsessions to celebrity worship—can only strengthen their power. Here's our colleague Billy Bob's analysis on this manufactured confusion. |
"Let's work really really hard and heavily invest in the effort to unnecessarily complicate reality through layers and layers of illusion, distraction, dishonest obfuscation, and confusing messaging, while we simultaneously work to promote anti-intellectualism and ignorance among the people. This way, our rule will last forever and the people will never threaten us".
"It takes work and perseverance to see things how they are instead of seeing things how we are constantly and repeatedly told they are. Many of us pick one of the two political colors (red or blue) and then willingly plug ourselves into the media echo chamber that represents our chosen color.
So if we identify with team red, we watch FOX News (over 90% republican viewership) and embrace some or most of the media associated with republicanism, conservatism, or libertarianism. If we identify with team blue, we embrace liberalism and wokism, and we consume CNN, WaPo, MSNBC, the NYT's, (these last two have over 90% democratic viewership) and most of the rest of the establishment press.
Due to this deliberately constructed "reality", many people live their entire lives immersed in one of the two partisan echo chambers and they never ponder why such a system exists in the first place. They never grapple with why both sides are funded, supported, and endorsed by the same billionaires or why there is overwhelming bipartisan agreement on all the biggest issues which have the greatest impact on our lives and in our society.
Many folks are able to escape being herded into this partisan death trap because they recognize the futility and obvious lack of concern for themselves exhibited by the system. They recognize their own political impotence, are turned off by "politics," and pursue other interests instead.
It never dawns on most people though that both team red and team blue as well as all the societal institutions that comprise our political/economic system, rests on *one side* of a very real fault line which has nothing to do with elephants or donkeys, red or blue, or conservative vs. liberalism. They fail to recognize that these paradigms exist not because they are real and relevant, but because their existence benefits one side of the actual, real, and existing line of division within society.
The real fault line that exists in capitalist society is the fact that the vast majority of us must sell our labor in order to survive and as a result, we have political and economic interests that are often the opposite of the billionaires, industrialists, plutocrats, and banksters that own, control, and indeed have created this system.
Their two-party system ensures that the rules of the game never threaten their interests as their electoral system inevitably results in a "heads we win, tails you lose" result that benefits the elite, bipartisan, uni-party, establishment. They have consciously created this system in order to perpetuate and maintain their own wealth, power, and privilege. This is the system's purpose, full stop. The system is not designed to further the interests of democracy or freedom, these are simply buzzwords that are cynically exploited and manipulated to further opposite ends.
"WOKE" Capitalism and its identity politics is just a cynical fog to hide the need for a broad and universal class struggle.
So, red vs. blue is a deliberate, self-serving, binary offered by the wealthy elite, in place of the actual and existing political reality of oppositional *class* interests. Instead of allowing the working class majority political representation, the wealthy elite (the 0.1% that collectively accounts for more wealth than the poorest 90%) uses it's obscenely disproportionate share of wealth to rig the political system, own all the politicians, own both political parties, and to dominate the political landscape with their self serving, hyper-partisan, propaganda apparatus. Meanwhile the working class is subjected to the most thorough and effective brainwashing techniques, designed to confuse, mislead, divide, and disenfranchise, that the world has ever seen.
If the overwhelming and obvious truths I have attempted to explain above, resonate with you, that's good. But guess what, it also means you are a Marxist, a socialist, and a communist. I know this last part will be particularly difficult for many to accept but hear me out. Throughout your entire lives, you have been conditioned to perceive these terms as synonymous with murder, hunger, starvation, and poverty. But you have learned these associations from the same class of people I describe above. People that want to lie to you and mislead you and to get you to advocate for things that are not in your own best interest.
The wealthy elite has sold you a false history and a false conceptual framework with which to understand and process current events. They have mind-fucked the entire population in order to maintain their own wealth, power, and privilege. We should not let them decide for us who our enemies are and the framework with which we perceive reality. We ought to think for ourselves and reject the brainwashing, conditioning, and indoctrination that we are all subjected to on a daily basis.
Marxism, communism, and socialism, is nothing more than recognizing that the fundamental societal division is based on oppositional political and economic intetests of *class*. Only through this conceptual framework do the realities which I observed above make any sense.
To ignore the centrality of oppositional class interests and how these oppositional interests motivate the ownership class to attack the working class with propaganda in a colossal effort to divide, confuse, and ultimately disenfranchise, is to irrevocably divorce oneself from reality and ensure change to the status quo will never be possible. But to embrace the reality of class struggle and how this struggle has shaped history, is shaping the present, and will shape the future, is to embrace Marxism, and the progression of the human race from the confines and contradictions of capitalist dictatorship towards socialism and a society guided by the interests of the majority instead of the interests of a morally unrestrained elite wealthy minority."
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Cyrano Avenger
David Green Are you for real? You sound like a very cleverly programmed anticommunist AI bot, or someone who has never read a respectable history of the socialist revolutions. Did you ever hear of Michael Parenti?
Just about EVERYTHING you say is a regurgitation of the massive reactionary propaganda generated by the West's capitalist apologists over generations; a pile of excrement that abounds in wilful ignorance and bad faith, insulting tropes (i.e., all revolutionary leaders are really power-hungry thugs) and a great deal of malicious fabrication, but lacks—intentionally—any historical context that would explain revolutionary actions.
Frankly, I think you are troll. If not, you are too dumb and temperamentally too sympathetic to the cause of the oppressor and plutocratic leeches to ever comprehend what a revolution means to the people who really need it, and the sacrifices that need to be made to make it work and survive against the continuous attacks by the criminal displaced classes, aided, as usual, by the busybody Hegemon. Real liberation takes a lot of work, but first you must understand history, who you are, and where you want to militate. If you want to plant your flag with the status quo and its legion of defenders, be my guest. But at least clearly understand the forces you are aiding.
Parenti "The revolution that feeds the children gets my support"
ABOUT THE AUTHOR / SOURCEBilly Bob is a dedicated anti-imperialist activist and blogger. You can reach him at his Facebook page HERE.
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