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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
If I remember right, this discuss started with someone here on the board defending Rogan.
But given the exchange you're having with RT here, I think we're all agreed that people who spread false shit for internet fame are shits cashing in on a bad system.
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But the problem is, a lot of us still turn a blind eye to institutions lying. We’ll tsk tsk Rogan, who’s simply platforming dishonest or delusional skeptics, while saying nothing about narrative peddling and outright propagandizing by big tech and our media which serves the corporate masters which consolidated it.
Anyone who rips Fox but asserts that CNN isn’t biased, or that MSNBC, WaPo, or the Times, aren’t biased, is complicit in peddling narrative.
What none will say out loud is what we all know these complicit sorts think:
“We need to create some consensus, some control, and it should be grounded in support of policies that I think are best for the running of society.”
Plato called it the Noble Lie. And it’s dogged us for decades. Reagan (deficits don’t matter). Greenspan (housing market is fine!). Hillary (neoliberalism works for the poor). Cheney (we need to neutralize Saddam). Paulson (we need a bailout so banks can resume lending to Main Street).
These lies tend to come from one source. People who fancy themselves a managerial elite. Educated people like us (hence I accord blame to myself, because I will happily go along with any state-and-corporate media narrative that aids my class, and I have done so [I decried any bailout, until I calculated the economic impact one’s absence would have on me, at which point I supported it]).
The villains are not just the Rogan guests. The villains are also rampant in the institutions, like termites.
