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The Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth
by John Pilger / September 30th, 2015
George Orwell said, In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. [This quotation is not verified. DV Ed]
Edward Bernays, who invented the term, public relations as a euphemism for propaganda, predicted this more than 80 years ago. He called it, the invisible government.
He wrote, Those who manipulate this unseen element of [modern democracy] constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country . We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of
The aim of this invisible government is the conquest of us: of our political consciousness, our sense of the world, our ability to think independently, to separate truth from lies.
This is a form of fascism, a word we are rightly cautious about using, preferring to leave it in the flickering past. But an insidious modern fascism is now an accelerating danger. As in the 1930s, big lies are delivered with the regularity of a metronome. Muslims are bad. Saudi bigots are good. ISIS bigots are bad. Russia is always bad. China is getting bad. Bombing Syria is good. Corrupt banks are good. Corrupt debt is good. Poverty is good. War is normal.
Those who question these official truths, this extremism, are deemed in need of a lobotomy until they are diagnosed on-message. The BBC provides this service free of charge. Failure to submit is to be tagged a radical whatever that means.
Full article: http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/09/the-revolutionary-act-of-telling-the-truth/
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The Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth (Original Post)
polly7
Oct 2015
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Judi Lynn
(160,472 posts)1. So good to read John Pilger discussing what we all know so well.
It's a real comfort thinking about what he has said regarding our common plight for the moment.
I hope we all live long enough to see it proven they didn't win, after all.
Thank you, Polly, for this great article.
sorechasm
(631 posts)2. Is truth an unwanted media?
Despite today's infinite # of sources for finding the truth, journalists only seem to get paid for distorting it.
Never has such truth-telling been so urgently needed. With honourable exceptions, those in the media paid ostensibly to keep the record straight are now absorbed into a system of propaganda that is no longer journalism, but anti-journalism. This is true of the liberal and respectable as it is of Murdoch. Unless you are prepared to monitor and deconstruct every specious assertion, so-called news has become unwatchable and unreadable.
Can the public handle the truth? Do they want to hear the truth?
It seems that the popularity of truth tellers such as BS and EW reveals that they do.
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