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The Two Faces Of The US Empire
The Biden/Harris inauguration event is going to be a star-studded celebration spanning an unprecedented five days, a giddy orgy of excitement at a murderous oligarchic empire having a new face behind the front desk after promising wealthy donors that nothing will fundamentally change.
This comes at a time when Americans are now reporting that they trust corporations more than they trust their own government or media, when pundits are gleefully proclaiming in The New York Times that “CEOs have become the fourth branch of government” as they pressure the entire political system to smoothly install Biden, when the leading contender for the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division is an Obama holdover who went from the administration to working for both Amazon and Google, and when Americans are being paced into accepting an increasing amount of authoritarian changes for their own good.
And this manic celebration and increasing brazenness of corporate power are of course overlaid atop an unceasing river of human blood as the globe-spanning empire continues to smash any nation which disobeys it into compliance so as to ensure lasting uncontested planetary hegemony.
But hey, at least they voted out fascism.
Star-Studded Biden/Harris Inaugural Events To Stretch Over 5 Days, Celebrate “America United” https://t.co/Q7176rbC8I
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) January 15, 2021
The US empire is ugly and creepy. The more you look at it, the uglier and creepier it gets. That’s why so much effort goes into keeping the public from looking at it directly.
The US empire has two faces, one rooted in the west coast and the other in the east. The first face, which sprouts up from Hollywood, presents a grinning plastic smile to the world depicting how fun and wonderful and righteous America is and how all its systems are working completely fine. The second face, which sprouts up from DC, Arlington and Langley, is wild-eyed and covered in blood.
Just like any other two-faced monstrosity, the face you will see depends on where you are standing.
If you live in wealthy western nations, or in the US itself, you are mostly presented with the first face. The artificial culture pipeline runs from Hollywood to the rest of the world and keeps everyone seeing American life as fun, enjoyable and packed full of hilarious repartee, interspersed with the sexual attention of beautiful women and kicking bad guys into molten lava. Freedom and Democracy™️. Capitalism is totally working. You can trust these guys to run the world. News at eleven.
If you live in the Middle East, Asia, or in the Global South, you are far more likely to encounter the second face. The blood-spattered face. The face of murder. The face of tyranny. The face whose actions amount to nothing other than an endless war on disobedience, where any government which tries to insist on its own national, military, resource, commercial or financial sovereignty is smashed into the dirt by any means necessary until it either collapses or complies.
This week in 1968, the US launched Operation Niagara in Vietnam, 66 straight days of carpet bombing, unleashing “the most concentrated application of aerial firepower in the history of warfare”, killing 15,000 Vietnamese. pic.twitter.com/hzZ62B8BT5
— American Values (@Americas_Crimes) January 16, 2021
The empire needs both faces. Without the murder face, it could not exist as an empire. Without the grinning face, the public would never consent to the murder face.
People who inhabit the hub of a murderous empire are historically unaware of its horrific nature. In the old days that was because information was easy to restrict access to. Today it’s because information is easy to manipulate and distort. That’s the only difference between this murderous empire and those of old. That and the fact that this one is brandishing about weapons that can end the world with increasing recklessness.
Humanity will not know health and harmony until it knows truth. Until we collectively come to a lucid reckoning with what’s going on in our world, in our nations, in our society, and in ourselves. The movement toward a healthy world is a movement toward becoming aware of things we previously were not aware of. In this case, as a first step, this means collectively seeing behind that grinning plastic mask to the churning death machine underneath.
8 Comments on "The Two Faces Of The US Empire"
FamousDrScanlon on Sat, 16th Jan 2021 4:49 pm
How Hollywood became the unofficial propaganda arm of the U.S. military
Second World War launched Hollywood into a propaganda war that continues to this day
When the United States entered the Second World War, it wasn’t just young men and women who enlisted.
Hollywood also signed up, says Tanner Mirrlees, an associate professor of communication and digital media studies at Ontario Tech University.
Where previously the burgeoning movie town had been producing frothy films made to distract and entertain, the onset of war meant that it would now get into the business of persuading Americans to support the war effort, said Mirrlees, who’s also written several books about Hollywood’s cultural empire, including: Hearts and Mines: The U.S. Empire’s Culture Industry.
The U.S. Office of War Information had a unit dedicated exclusively to Hollywood, the Bureau of Motion Pictures, Mirlees says.
Between 1942 and 1945, the Bureau reviewed 1,652 scripts, revising or discarding anything that portrayed the U.S. unfavourably, including any material that made Americans seem “oblivious to the war or anti-war.”
“The head of the Office of War Information was Elmer Davis who said, ‘The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize they’re being propagandized,'” Mirrlees said.
Hollywood had received its marching orders from the military, and during the war, he says, “people who’d been trained to sell soap, cereal and home appliances were now being enlisted by the state to sell war to the American public.
Historians and other academics point out that arrangement was the beginning of a uniquely American mission that continues even now. Relationships forged between U.S. government agencies and Hollywood during the Second World War and Cold War shaped how stories about the military are still being told.
“Many of [Hollywood’s] films are embedded in the American military. And made to glorify the American military,” Mirrlees said. “No country in the world churns out as many images of itself as the military hero… like the United States does. That is a unique cultural phenomenon.”
Shaping popular opinion…….
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-hollywood-became-the-unofficial-propaganda-arm-of-the-u-s-military-1.5560575
Americans are the most indoctrinated & propagandized people in history. Most of them don’t know it which is the point.
Most of them will outright reject the evidence, because, c’mon, who wants to admit that all their passionate cherished beliefs came from a fucking script?
The US is history’s phoniest culture.
Yabut my feelings! It just feels right.
Fuck your feelings. Feelings are the very worst for finding the truth. Your feelings = your biases. They are not evidence.
Why do you think American culture relentlessly promotes the importance of hyper individualism & your feelings?
Because propaganda is an emotional manipulation tool.
It’s the antithesis of reason.
makati1 on Sat, 16th Jan 2021 5:08 pm
Both faces are now exposed to the world and the US days are numbered as a world “power”. Bangladesh will look good to Amerikans when this is over. But, deny it if you want. It makes no difference.
FamousDrScanlon on Sat, 16th Jan 2021 5:21 pm
Documentary on US propaganda.
This is too funny.
Because it’s produced by RT, youtube has accommodated their deep-state partners by essentially labelling it as Russian (Putin) propaganda.
“RT is funded in whole or in part by the Russian government. Wikipedia”
OMG! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Propaganda factory: Hollywood at the service of American politics
“Through the years, Hollywood has been the US government’s closest partner in furthering its political agenda. If national interests so required, American film studios were eager to rewrite history, portray former allies as enemies, promote unsavory political decisions and even blacklist its own actors and screenwriters for their views. A new facet of the dream factory comes to light.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbButG6zS3A
Biden's hairplug on Sun, 17th Jan 2021 3:02 am
Empire, what US empire?
Former German Chancellor Schroeder has just written a new book, where he pleads to cancel NATO.
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/gerhard-schroeder-rechnet-im-streitgespraech-mit-den-usa-ab-ihr-koennt-mich-mal-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000174874869
Picture Schroeder from the days, where he, Chirac and Putin refused to participate in the Iraq safari. Wise move.
https://gerhard-schroeder.de/wp-content/uploads/368163061.jpg
The likely new chancellor Armin Laschet is a friend of Schroeder, a US-critic and open for better cooperation with Russia. And China.
Bye-bye, it was nice knowing you.
We’ll be back to set up a new empire, if you are lucky, this time on European terms. George Soros doesn’t need to apply.
Theedrich on Sun, 17th Jan 2021 5:01 am
Cognitive dissonance controls Americans. They simply can’t admit that their missionary nation is a civilization-nuking criminal entity that rules by horror. Regardless of their willful blindness, the hatred it has caused with its vast, wanton murderousness and sickening self-justifications is laying the foundations for its own destruction. Not even its annual $600-$900 billion spent on the military-industrial complex will save it from being defeated by the enemies it has created.
And they will be assisted by pandemics.
makati1 on Sun, 17th Jan 2021 2:48 pm
Amen, Theedrich. Amen!
Biden’s hairplug on Sun, 17th Jan 2021 3:31 pm
The hordes smell their chance:
https://www.infowars.com/posts/over-7000-strong-migrant-caravan-inches-closer-to-us-border-as-biden-vows-to-end-trumps-asylum-policies/
“Over 7,000-Strong Migrant Caravan Inches Closer to US Border as Biden Vows to End Trump’s Asylum Policies“
The dying corps of white America attracts parasites from all over the world to finish the job, enabled by US politics. The regular, electoral resistance against the final solution of the white problem, lasted 4 years. Now it is: revolt now or roll over and die.
Biden's hairplug on Tue, 19th Jan 2021 12:56 am
Crisis, what crisis? Eindhoven in the Netherlands racing ahead as the world’s new Silicon Valley:
https://www.ed.nl/veldhoven/vraag-naar-chipmachines-asml-enorm-maar-de-productie-kan-minder-hard-worden-versneld-dan-gewenst~a6ee650c/
“Demand for ASML chips machines increases enormously, outstrips supply”
We are not talking potato chips here.
https://innovationorigins.com/dutch-city-of-eindhoven-is-europes-most-important-innovation-cluster-for-data-technology/
A study published today by the European Patent Office (EPO) reveals that innovation in the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies has accelerated significantly around the world over the past decade. According to the report, the Dutch city of Eindhoven is Europe’s leading innovation cluster for 4IR technologies, ahead of London, Munich, Stockholm, and Paris.
Can’t remain modest for ever. The value of my (paid-off) home increased yet another 20% during the past “crisis year” (lol).