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    Re: Media Lens: The Shaving Kit - Manufacturing the Julian Assange Witch Hunt Archived Message

    Posted by dovetailjoint on June 20, 2019, 3:11 pm, in reply to "Media Lens: The Shaving Kit - Manufacturing the Julian Assange Witch Hunt"

    Journalism, basically, is there, configured structurally, as a culture; to protect power and privilege in society and attack and destroy anything that questions or challenges them. This can be done directly or indirectly by 'exiling' dissent to a cold and silent 'Siberia.'

    I think the central 'paradox' of democracy is that whilst the 'Demos', the people are rational as individuals, as members of groups, they are not. In groups they are ruled by their emotions and easily manipulated by false narratives. The bigger the group or Demos, the easier it is to manipulate them through propaganda. Propaganda so skilful, so powerful, so well-targetted, that lies are turned into truth and we believe the lies even though, objectively are own eyes tell us the opposite is true. This is a remarkable and incredibly dangerous human 'quality.' Our ability to suspend our disbelief and believe in false narratives.

    Our laws, of course, were designed to put a break on these impulses, our impulse for mass-hysteria, witch hunting, violence, mayhem and murder. Otherwise guilty witches would be hanging from every tree and lamppost around.

    But when the institutions and the individuals maintaining our laws become caught up in the hysteria and the witch-hunt, as in the Assange Affair, we are in real trouble, because the final, rational, objective barrier and safeguard is undermined and anything can happen, and probably will. Our baser instincts have to be controlled, but doing this seems increasingly difficult.

    Modern jounralism, is, propaganda and designed, structurally, to manipulate the Demos and turn it into a mob baying for blood. This is especially true during wartime, when the mass population must be prepared and groomed for mass violence and rivers of blood.

    Most of the journalists commenting on Assange sound like Nazi Brownshirts joking about the awful smell and the pathetic moans, coming from the railway wagons slowly passing on their way to the local deathcamp. It really is that bad in my opinion. Think that it's come to this! The language of the Nazis aimed at political dissident, Julian Assange, on his way to spend the rest of his life in an American dungeon. A dungeon designed to function as a fate worse than death.

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