Ludivine
Bénard describes
almost perfectly a key part of the Matrix
of our times:
Journalistic
titles hire journalists whose social background – socially,
culturally, educationally and morally – fits perfectly with what
the current capitalist order asks for.
People
working in media are mostly middle-class types with the same
interests, favouring consumerism, hedonism, libertarian individualism
and unconditional Europeanism from Brussels. And they're all subject
to this form of political illiteracy – they reduce reporting on
politics to reporting on political personalities. The journalists and
pollsters in the press turn political life into a theatrical stage,
where personalities just endlessly talk and debate.
All that
talk drowns out any serious criticism of the system.
The
French people have been indoctrinated that way for decades – we've
had more than 30 years of a certain consensus between the centrist
powers of the conservative right of Les Républicains and a right
that's disguised as socialism by the Parti Socialiste.
It's
hard to wake up from that, but I think the country is starting to
take note. I think the mainstream media and the journalists working
in them are now seeing that, and want to save the system they're
working in. So it's a natural step for them to promote all candidates
who don't really threaten the capitalist order.
Which,
eventually, leads to what CJ Hopkins describes:
In an
atmosphere of mass hysteria and paranoia (like the one we’re living
in at the moment), the authorities’ narratives do not have to make
sense, or stand up to any type of real scrutiny. Their primary
purpose is not to deceive, but rather, to demarcate an ideological
territory of acceptable belief, expression, and emotion to which
“normal” people are expected to conform.
Beyond
the boundaries of that territory lies the outer darkness of
“abnormality” and “extremism,” which no “normal” person
wants anything to do with.
To avoid
being cast into this outer darkness, people will conform to the most
absurd and paranoid nonsense you can possibly imagine. The global
capitalist ruling classes know this, which is why they don’t care
if you disprove their narratives on Twitter or some “disreputable”
website they’ve rendered virtually invisible anyway.
They are
not debating the facts or the truth … they are marking the
boundaries of that “normal” territory, and herding frightened
people into it.
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