Fake News & Fake Values
By Denis Conroy
RINF.com
March 3, 2017
It appears that America has little awareness of the value of
awareness since fake news and fake values arrived to take
possession of the body politic.
Solipsism appears to lurk behind a modus operandi of tough talking
American empire-speak when it addresses its ire to other centres of
power daring to challenge its hegemonic brand of self-centred
conceits, now spreading across the globe.
President Trump visited the Boeing hangar in South Carolina on
February 16th hours after it was reported he was considering using
the National Guard to round up undocumented migrants and had
this to say: “We are going to build up a military might so great that
no one will dare to challenge it. None!”.
Needless to say, the media honed in on his words as if this was the
very first occasion where imbecility du jour had raised its ugly head
to defile an American presidential narrative.
Talking off-the-cuff, the President…as is his wont…expressed
himself candidly in a manner that had the gall to rile an
‘intelligentsia’ essentially mute on the question of America’s
inability to comprehend much beyond its own navel.
The mess America made in the Middle East falls on the shoulders
of the entire American community and the President allows no
sensitivities to interfere with his passion for tweeting twaddle
concerning the Foreign Policies follies of his predecessors.
Nobody can pretend to be unaware of the carnage
America has engaged in abroad.
It has gone on for decades, yet amazingly little was said
about the subject in the recent presidential elections.
The media along with academia may consider it expedient to adopt
discretion as the better part of valour, but these instrumentalities
at best, merely exist to hoodwink the masses into believing that
there is just-cause behind the aggression its government and war
profiteers engage in.
Think of it, Presidents and war criminals retire to ponder the
nature of love, mathematics, the value of their assets…some even
paint pictures… while consigning the history of their imbecility as
commanders of one kind or another to their diaries…and the rest
of us are expected to merely tag along…it’s the power of the brand
that keeps people unfree, coaxing them to get behind that most
unholy patriotic narrative that fronts for the armament industry.
Have we come to accept permanent war as the norm?
The images of cities destroyed and the ever mounting toll of human
collateral damage hardly penetrates public consciousness anymore,
because we are told that the ‘other’ had to be destroyed before
they became the clients of an alien hegemonic force that could
damage our free trade arrangements.
Hegemonic masculinity works in mysterious ways; it is resilient
and incorporates an autistic dimension so to avoid explaining itself
to Main Street.
Awareness and language are flip sides of the same coin.
There is no self-awareness without awareness of the ‘others’
existence; language is the medium which enables definition of the
particular to circumscribe identity for the purpose of constructing
social perspectives that may have the capacity to benefit one and
all.
The young mother discovers the power of emergent language as the
infant in her charge commences to demonstrate awareness of co-
equal reality by observing responses in the ‘other’; every word and
gesture conveying meaning of ‘otherness’ puts awareness in
context.
If all babies are born equal, then language itself must be a fulcrum
capable of achieving comity in the theatre of social interaction.
But what corrupts American ‘boys’ after they leave the bosom
of the nursery to become equals by serving in a military culture
of command?
Is it a desire to plough on, move forward, press on, push on,
advance upwards, believing expediency to be the only indisputable
means of achieving material success and a dominant role in society
for themselves…or is it the naïve assumption that it is the only
option available to them?
Or does the uniformity of military culture endow the individual
with a form of courage that only comes into being in the context
of the group?
The American penchant for growing hegemony vis-a-vis expediency
began with the covered wagon and quickly spread across that vast
continent under the protection of canon, musket and the protection
of the military.
The genocidal slaughter used against the native peoples to achieve
hegemony over their lands was of little concern to them.
They were a people who spoke different languages, dressed
strangely and had a skin colour that identified them as near
subhuman in the eyes of the occupiers.
So, did the cult of the boys-in-uniform find fertile ground in the
belief that slaughtering the indigenous population was necessary in
order to supplant them with virile American stakeholders attuned
to the wiles of colonial exploitation as it was a sure-fire means of
thieving from the native people?
After all, awareness was something that only occurred
in the minds of sissies.
From its inception, America managed to blindside interpretations
of its actions by demonising the people it wanted to eradicate.
It was through misinformation that it sought to portray its
intentions as morally sound, while vilifying all resistance to
its cause.
In reality, American history has more to do with false-flag
misinformation than truth.
The seeds of un-awareness were sown and cultivated in jargon
that presented the case for colonial trading practices as being
contingent upon civilised intercourse.
The public had come to believe they were exceptional because the
elites kept telling them it was so. Believing that they had finally
reached nirvana, the public gave themselves over to the expediency
of the capitalist juggernaut, not aware that the military-industrial-
complex was parasitically burrowing its way into the heart of the
American dream-enterprise.
The “Base Structure Report, Fiscal 2010 Baseline” shows how
covered-wagons have transmuted into ‘aerial-wagons’ equipped
with ballistic missiles over time.
According to this report, the U.S. has 662 overseas bases
in 35 foreign countries.
So when the President of America says, “We are going to build up
a military might so great that no one will dare to challenge it” it
appears that he is unaware of the fact that his ‘adversaries’ are
also in possession of a vast number of weapons of mass
destruction…the nuclear overkill sort come to mind and they are
a far cry from the humble bow and arrow.
The challenge facing America now is its lack of any real self-
awareness…or lack of awareness of values outside of its known
sphere of limited knowledge, for that matter.
The world has become suspicious of an American brand
of capitalistic-democracy that continues to impose…by military
means…its authority on the rest of the world…hence the blowback
against the loud mouth devoid of diplomatic skills.
At home, the media and the intelligence agencies continue to
expunge truth from the public narrative by virtue of their ability
to distort reality.
Technology is the tool that gives them this advantage.
By virtue of this advantage, security apparatuses in the service
of government manipulate public perceptions so as to inform
the public whom they should regard as friend or foe.
The elites who control the system instil fake news and fake values
in the media in order to control awareness.
The interests of the establishment are served by expedients that
come in the form of binary perspectives that feed off the fear of
blowback.
If the rule of the elites is threatened in any which way, the
patriotic card is the one that is automatically extracted from
the deck.
There is little concern for facts on the ground when corporate-
minded capitalist expediency vaunts its interests in, and plans
for, free trade agreements.
The global business trade-cycle ‘in-question’ is nothing more than
a scam to eliminate points of particularism that claim the right to
retain multiple centres of activity as the healthier way of
conducting trade.
Neo-conservative capitalism adheres to the myth that one size
fits all.
American hegemonic enforcement as implemented by the military
-industrial-complex will have to inevitably roll back as alternative
means of negotiating trade come into existence.
The world is now alert to America’s fork-tongued affair with Anglo
Zionism and awareness of the duplicity surrounding the fake peace
talks is breaking out all over.
Pulverising people and countries across the Middle East attest to
America and Israel’s cupidity. That they have been relegated to
the status of the most reviled countries on the planet comes as
no surprise.
Security walls, plus extrajudicial killings, plus the genocide of the
Palestinian people may have brought America and Israel together as
bedfellows…but having cavorted together in ways most treacherous,
the smell and sight of their dirty linen is now on show for the whole
world to behold…and the so called ‘honest broker’ stands
diminished and soiled as a consequence of the role he played in
that unholy union.
If Americans continue to see themselves as units in an economy
that seeks greatness and virility with the help of an overblown
military, then doomsday may not be far off.
Without questioning the facts presented to them by the government
(deep-state interests) and the media, the public at large will
remain captive to a culture of fake news and fake values that trap
them in a web of placebo realities.
There is now an abundance of evidence to show that the ‘deep-
state’ is more or less a collection of monstrous parasites gnawing
on the entrails of the host.
Reason suggests that bringing the affairs of The State out into
the light of day should be the top priority.
The deep state…or the chain of command as it was formerly known
as…has many points of particularity, but none of them directly
represent the interests of main-street-America.
The system we presently have, seeks to replicate the human
genome apparatus by hierarchically regulating and delegating
control over the economy…the central nervous system…for the
purpose of establishing command of an order it can oversee and
profit from. The result of this maneuvering within the body politic
is that democracy has been pushed off the page.
To date, the history of America has been one where hegemonic
masculinity appears to have triumphed militaristically over reason.
But with the establishment of an army of intelligence agents,
another layer of ‘macho power’ was added to the gun-ships of
state.
It should be noted that having chosen ‘agro’ as the gene of choice
for the State, the skills of diplomacy were stifled very early in the
piece.
Thus did brawn manage to smother America’s better self
and consign its ‘dream’ to the isolation of the autistic ward.
Americans are now struggling to comprehend the thought
processes of their Commander In Chief.
They sense that the Commanders at The Pentagon, Commanders at
Wall Street, Commanders at NATO, Commanders at Fleet Street,
Commanders at AIPAC, Commanders at the CIA and the FBI are
actively part of a genome chorus of imbedded interests seeking to
retain as much power in the chain of command as possible in ways
that corrupt the democratic process…which leaves it to the jury to
form an opinion.
The jury is the American People and they are slowly becoming
aware of the duplicity that has corrupted them from the very
start.
But wait, the centre is no longer holding and the people might
come out of their long coma yet to discover that it is high time
they freed themselves from the fake news and fake values that
represent the current American brand?
Clearly, the existing American brand of governance is the product
of straw-men.
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