Title: The Corporate Oligarchy Sustains Itself By Making Ignorance An Equal Strength ~
Headings: The Corporate Oligarchy Sustains Itself By Making Ignorance An Equal Strength
The Corporate Oligarchy Sustains Itself By Making Ignorance An Equal Strength
Rainer Shea
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Content: But the reports have served their purpose of inflaming hatred towards Russia among the Western public, which is being used to delegitimize the anti-war, anti-capitalist, and racial justice movements that Russia’s purported messaging efforts are linked to. All of this creates a reality where the West’s adversaries are always responsible for the world’s wars, where the intelligence officials and major media outlets should always be trusted, and where inequality, Western conquest, and corruption within one’s own government are ignored. Stories like Russiagate serve to distract people from these evils in the system, and to stigmatize those who bring up these evils as foreign spies who want to destroy Western society from within. “ Undermine confidence in our democratic institutions” is how the media has tended to describe these supposed subversion efforts. The underlying message is that ignorance equals strength. People are told that to keep society strong, they need to believe what people in power say. Under this logic, any action from the state should be supported. Click To Tweet Whether the government has created an enormous network of unaccountable intelligence agencies, or reignited tensions with Russia, or partnered with online companies to censor political speech that they decide is “Russian propaganda,” the population must accept it as necessary to keep civilization intact. But to convince people of this, people need to not be experiencing the violence and cruelty of neoliberalism. This is why the messages that the oligarchy produces are mainly received by those in the upper class and the professional class, who can both easily consume media and can afford to support the system.