09-04-2009, 10:18 AM
Thanks to all for bringing me up to speed.
I agree that there are only so many hours in the day such that, to have any hope of discovering something of the reality behind the facade that is 'the official narrative' of pretty much anything, focus on hidden and obfuscated facts is required. It is too easy to be distracted by 'flame wars' and the personality issues that stoke them up. That said, it is always interesting and very revealing to note the lengths that well-rewarded shills for 'the official narrative' will go to in the perennial quest to maintain the façade. The antics of the 'financial entertainers' of CNBC et al are another case in point - superbly documented by Patrick Byrne at 'Deep Capture' and taken apart by Jon Stewart in that clip I posted a while back. Another superb case study in the syndrome is the behaviour of the IPCC and Met Polce over the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 Summit protests in London last week - still developing and probably worthy of a separate thread here too.
I have reached a stage in life where I quite literally do not give a toss who I offend when questioning 'the official narrative' of anything. I certainly do NOT set out to offend but, if anyone IS offended by honest questioning of Power and it's real motives, then they are either:
1. Naive (the vast majority)
2. Feel genuinely threatened by such questioning (ie career, religion, life-time loyalties that define them as individuals etc)
3. Paid - or at least well rewarded shills
4. The uber-ambitious who understand the structures of Power (though birth, elite education etc) and whose single-minded goal is to climb those structures and to hell with any other consideration - the true psychopaths in other words - I count Tony Bliar as a pre-eminent example.
There are clearly a couple of examples of 3 in that other place/thread - but of course they are all over the place because the money/status, whatever is good.
Having lived most of my life in categories 1 and 2, my 'single-minded goal' these days is to try to understand 'the reality behind the facade'. If some people get upset by that then so be it. Life is short and most of mine is vanishing in the rear-view mirror
I agree that there are only so many hours in the day such that, to have any hope of discovering something of the reality behind the facade that is 'the official narrative' of pretty much anything, focus on hidden and obfuscated facts is required. It is too easy to be distracted by 'flame wars' and the personality issues that stoke them up. That said, it is always interesting and very revealing to note the lengths that well-rewarded shills for 'the official narrative' will go to in the perennial quest to maintain the façade. The antics of the 'financial entertainers' of CNBC et al are another case in point - superbly documented by Patrick Byrne at 'Deep Capture' and taken apart by Jon Stewart in that clip I posted a while back. Another superb case study in the syndrome is the behaviour of the IPCC and Met Polce over the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 Summit protests in London last week - still developing and probably worthy of a separate thread here too.
I have reached a stage in life where I quite literally do not give a toss who I offend when questioning 'the official narrative' of anything. I certainly do NOT set out to offend but, if anyone IS offended by honest questioning of Power and it's real motives, then they are either:
1. Naive (the vast majority)
2. Feel genuinely threatened by such questioning (ie career, religion, life-time loyalties that define them as individuals etc)
3. Paid - or at least well rewarded shills
4. The uber-ambitious who understand the structures of Power (though birth, elite education etc) and whose single-minded goal is to climb those structures and to hell with any other consideration - the true psychopaths in other words - I count Tony Bliar as a pre-eminent example.
There are clearly a couple of examples of 3 in that other place/thread - but of course they are all over the place because the money/status, whatever is good.
Having lived most of my life in categories 1 and 2, my 'single-minded goal' these days is to try to understand 'the reality behind the facade'. If some people get upset by that then so be it. Life is short and most of mine is vanishing in the rear-view mirror
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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