“Facts must be distorted, relevant circumstances concealed and a picture presented which by its crude colouring ill persuade the ignorant people that their Government is blameless, their cause is righteous, and that the indisputable wickedness of the enemy has been proved beyond question.“
“Departments have to be created to see to the psychological side. People must never be allowed to become despondent; so victories must be exaggerated and defeats, if not concealed, at any rate minimized, and the stimulus of indignation, horror, and hatred must be assiduously and continuously pumped into the public mind by means of propaganda."
“… the injection of the poison of hatred into men's minds by means of falsehood is a greater evil in wartime than the actual loss of life. The defilement of the human soul is worse than the destruction of the human body.”
Wonderful discussion, Jeff & Guerilla, deep in the insight of your experience & research, for awareness of our world neuro-consciousness , we all need on our small planet. Thanks for getting this out-there!
Consider the hidden western real structure of MASS-BUREAUCRACY of Oligarch issued & controlled fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') & fake 'capital' (Latin 'cap' = 'head' = 'collective-intelligence') trickledown 1% jet-set aristocrats. With hidden ownership of Finance, Media, Religion, Education, Military-Industrial, Legislation, Judicial & Med-Pharma 'exogenous' (L 'other-generated') COMPLEX there is very little, the institution-indoctrinated person, imagines we can do. The west has Frozen-Funding-Syndrome with the mass of population idle & unable, in our colonial system of hidden hierarchy & peoples dis-ownership, to employ our massive individual & collective, innate resources to meet our needs. Yet the human spirit within us calls out for much more as though we have an innate Economic Memory of what human society could be. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/3-economic-memory
For 60 of my 70 years, I found myself convinced & involved in developing false 'co-operatives' (originally 'co' = 'together' + 'operatives' = 'stakeholders'). 1969-80, I lived among Russian-Doukhobor, German-Mennonite & English-Quaker, it took me years but realized how ineffective & stifling to participant initiative, which the co-op bureaucracies, we had built, are. China also went through this Trotsky-Lenin false co-op learning curve to restore some degree of false 'company' (L 'com' = 'together' + 'pan' = 'bread') entrepreneurialism, with such a Huawei as a world leading multistakeholder 'Participatory' (L. 'part' = 'share') company.
HOODWINKED
Fake One-Member/One-vote Co-ops don't recognize, valorize or empower the time, expertise, goods, services, resources, fidelity & other distinct complementary Stakeholders. The distinct contributions, experience, expertise & decision-making acumen, of Founders, Workers, Managers, Suppliers, Consumers & Townspeople are ignored. Lack of accounting recognition discourages 'participation' (L 'part' = 'share'). Fake co-ops, being Board-of-Directors, out of touch with innate knowledge repeatedly fail. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/participatory-accounting
WAKING UP FROM VIOLENT OLIGARCH IMPOSED COLONIAL NIGHTMARE
So our collective human challenge still remains to master real 'community' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service' as the original mission of 'communism'), real 'socialism' (L. 'socius' = 'friend') & real 'economy' (Gk. 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') from the bottom-up, not the top-down false centralized systems imposed over the past 1000s of years have been. All humanity's 'indigenous' (L. 'self-generating') ancestors understood the importance of 'fractal' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') organization, rooted in the ~100 (50-150) person collective multihome. 70% of people today live in Multihomes (eg. apartment, townhouse & village), but immersed in oligarchy's colonial institutional indoctrination can even remember how to tie our shoelaces, let alone work & live collaboratively & intimately. All humanity's indigenous ancestors organized the ~100 person Multihome as an economic 'fractal' of people at all levels of human engagement. Imagine having the backing of one's friends, family, extended-family & neighbourhood, organized in powerful loving, intimate, specialized intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale multi-million dollar domestic Relational economy as our indigenous ancestors before us?. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy
From an economic Taoist point of view, the last 7000 years of oligarch colonial fake money ownership have been a disaster with many 100s of millions dead in colonial aggression, as have the fragmented false 'corporate' (L 'corp' = 'body') & false 'co-op' responses. Thanks to those leading Chinese people (many of my friends) who through Taoism, Buddhism, Confucius heritage, who as practitioners are part of bringing humanity back into balance with ourselves, the biosphere & real world. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are
The latest article by Caitlin Johnstone is worth sharing ... Audio reading by her partner Tim Foley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrDDcBtqnx0
The article:
• Murdoch Propaganda Pushes Australia To Double Its Military Budget For War With China – Caitlin Johnstone
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/02/16/murdoch-propaganda-pushes-australia-to-double-its-military-budget-for-war-with-china/
The war mongering 'documentary' in question:
• SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: China's aggression could start new world war – Murdoch SkyNews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUD-sCvtDE0
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My only comment:
“Facts must be distorted, relevant circumstances concealed and a picture presented which by its crude colouring ill persuade the ignorant people that their Government is blameless, their cause is righteous, and that the indisputable wickedness of the enemy has been proved beyond question.“
“Departments have to be created to see to the psychological side. People must never be allowed to become despondent; so victories must be exaggerated and defeats, if not concealed, at any rate minimized, and the stimulus of indignation, horror, and hatred must be assiduously and continuously pumped into the public mind by means of propaganda."
“… the injection of the poison of hatred into men's minds by means of falsehood is a greater evil in wartime than the actual loss of life. The defilement of the human soul is worse than the destruction of the human body.”
Read on … (and please share this resource)
• Falsehood of War-Time - Arthur Ponsonby
http://www.vlib.us/wwi/resources/archives/texts/t050824i/ponsonby.pdf
WWI ... WWII ... All the wars in between... and now pitching for WWIII ++
JS, lots of people are saying Australia is being set up to go to war against China for the USA to watch.
Wonderful discussion, Jeff & Guerilla, deep in the insight of your experience & research, for awareness of our world neuro-consciousness , we all need on our small planet. Thanks for getting this out-there!
Consider the hidden western real structure of MASS-BUREAUCRACY of Oligarch issued & controlled fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') & fake 'capital' (Latin 'cap' = 'head' = 'collective-intelligence') trickledown 1% jet-set aristocrats. With hidden ownership of Finance, Media, Religion, Education, Military-Industrial, Legislation, Judicial & Med-Pharma 'exogenous' (L 'other-generated') COMPLEX there is very little, the institution-indoctrinated person, imagines we can do. The west has Frozen-Funding-Syndrome with the mass of population idle & unable, in our colonial system of hidden hierarchy & peoples dis-ownership, to employ our massive individual & collective, innate resources to meet our needs. Yet the human spirit within us calls out for much more as though we have an innate Economic Memory of what human society could be. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/3-economic-memory
For 60 of my 70 years, I found myself convinced & involved in developing false 'co-operatives' (originally 'co' = 'together' + 'operatives' = 'stakeholders'). 1969-80, I lived among Russian-Doukhobor, German-Mennonite & English-Quaker, it took me years but realized how ineffective & stifling to participant initiative, which the co-op bureaucracies, we had built, are. China also went through this Trotsky-Lenin false co-op learning curve to restore some degree of false 'company' (L 'com' = 'together' + 'pan' = 'bread') entrepreneurialism, with such a Huawei as a world leading multistakeholder 'Participatory' (L. 'part' = 'share') company.
HOODWINKED
Fake One-Member/One-vote Co-ops don't recognize, valorize or empower the time, expertise, goods, services, resources, fidelity & other distinct complementary Stakeholders. The distinct contributions, experience, expertise & decision-making acumen, of Founders, Workers, Managers, Suppliers, Consumers & Townspeople are ignored. Lack of accounting recognition discourages 'participation' (L 'part' = 'share'). Fake co-ops, being Board-of-Directors, out of touch with innate knowledge repeatedly fail. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy/participatory-accounting
WAKING UP FROM VIOLENT OLIGARCH IMPOSED COLONIAL NIGHTMARE
So our collective human challenge still remains to master real 'community' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service' as the original mission of 'communism'), real 'socialism' (L. 'socius' = 'friend') & real 'economy' (Gk. 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture') from the bottom-up, not the top-down false centralized systems imposed over the past 1000s of years have been. All humanity's 'indigenous' (L. 'self-generating') ancestors understood the importance of 'fractal' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole') organization, rooted in the ~100 (50-150) person collective multihome. 70% of people today live in Multihomes (eg. apartment, townhouse & village), but immersed in oligarchy's colonial institutional indoctrination can even remember how to tie our shoelaces, let alone work & live collaboratively & intimately. All humanity's indigenous ancestors organized the ~100 person Multihome as an economic 'fractal' of people at all levels of human engagement. Imagine having the backing of one's friends, family, extended-family & neighbourhood, organized in powerful loving, intimate, specialized intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale multi-million dollar domestic Relational economy as our indigenous ancestors before us?. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/relational-economy
From an economic Taoist point of view, the last 7000 years of oligarch colonial fake money ownership have been a disaster with many 100s of millions dead in colonial aggression, as have the fragmented false 'corporate' (L 'corp' = 'body') & false 'co-op' responses. Thanks to those leading Chinese people (many of my friends) who through Taoism, Buddhism, Confucius heritage, who as practitioners are part of bringing humanity back into balance with ourselves, the biosphere & real world. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are