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| The United States has forgotten how to tell the truth |
| 2023-03-13 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Dmitry Kosyrev [RIA] Here's a good philosophical question: why do Americans keep telling political and other lies, not just about Russia or China, but for any reason within the country? And it's very, very rare to get a hand like it just happened in Florida. The story there was this: all Democrats, and especially their media, are simply obliged to collectively attack Republican opponents with more and more attacks. They tried to do this with the governor of the state Ron DeSantis , and they should not have tried - a real candidate for the presidency of the United States in the next election. They accused him of cleaning school libraries in his staff, almost burning books, videos and other teaching aids, thus clamping down on freedom, planting their own, undemocratic ideology and other conservative obscurantism. What he did in response: gathered a big press conference, asked to remove minors from the hall. And he launched on the big screen footage taken from textbooks from those same libraries. Here the cameras had to be stopped, the social networks could not publish these materials either. Because in the frame there was sexual education of minors, very detailed and clearly suitable for articles about pornography and others. "These are the materials we cleaned up, and some of them after they were imposed on schoolchildren," the governor said. The lies about the pogrom of libraries subsided instantly. But this is a rare case. More often it happens the other way around, and we have been seeing this for years (and not only from the United States) using the example of what they say about Russia. And then the philosopher Rod Dreyer, who has now moved to Budapest, asked himself the question: why? Why did the authorities and the media in the United States lie always and on a huge scale when it started? And what will happen next? The fact is that an acquaintance from the United States came to visit him and saw with amazement that Hungary and the politics there have nothing to do with what liberal Washington and their media say about this country with human rights activists and other foundations. And then the conversation from Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orban switched to generalizations. Dreyer, in his column, began to cite the already accumulated research on this topic (yes, about lies and about failures because of it). Of the good answers: they lie because they are sincere. "I'm talking about the fact that they are so enamored with their own ideas that they simply do not see facts, events and people that would not confirm what these liars choose to believe." And when it started... Here is a quote from a book about how, after the strikes on New York on September 11, 2001, the great diplomat Richard Holbrook, nicknamed Tank (or Bulldozer), thought about how bin Laden manages to spread his ideas around the world without even having at hand own TV channel, and what to do, how to resist it? And Holbrooke proposed the creation of an agency at the White House that would be equal in authority to the Pentagon , the State Department , the CIA and the Department of Justice combined, and which would impose on the whole world the reading of reality that the United States needs. That is, start a global propaganda war. You will say that she went before. But the technology and scale were different: before there was no Internet. The emergence of such an alliance gave rise to an alliance of Democrats with a "big figure" (and this made Holbrook's super-department unnecessary). And if at first it was only an ideological struggle with an external adversary, then later the informal alliance of the authorities and the rulers of the Internet began to control how Americans should think about politics, society, the outside world. And they fail, Dreyer says. Although they don't pay for failures. For example, Victoria Nuland, the developer of the strategy for the Ukrainian conflict. After all, before that she was a key adviser to Vice President Richard Cheney in 2003-2005, that is, she developed a strategy in Iraq . Failed - along with America . She was never punished. Why wasn't she? And all for the same reason: these people have lost the ability to perceive any reality that contradicts the picture of the world that they still stubbornly plant everywhere. That is, officially admitting a failure is impossible. We add that many people still perceive reality, but do not know what to do with it, and are waiting for someone to give the command: everything failed, from tomorrow we are working honestly. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 Truth is objective to the pov of the propogandist. Truth is what the propogandist will have you believe. US, and any govt for that matter, wont tell the truth unless it has to. And to do that: Smith Mundt needs to be enforced again. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2023-03-13 12:42 |