Saturday, May 7, 2011

Journalism vs. Ghost Busting

A poor liar, whose imagination goes only to one lie at a time, tends to get tripped up and caught.  But what if one has confederates to help misdirect the general population with a multitude of contradictory lies?  Suppose this, suppose that.  How would anyone ever feel confident to trace back the truth about "What did the President know, and when did he know it?"  Obama is master at not letting anyone know who he really it.  No matter what comes down, he protects his plausible deniability.  Given the oligopolization of media, managing deception and disinformation has become something of a high tech science.  When it comes to international intrigue, the Fed, and relations between candidates and campaign donors, plausible reasons can now be found to believe just about anything.  In this environment, the advantage often goes to those who compete to manage ridicule and disinformation over those who compete to uncover the truth.  Depending on your financial interests, you may want to argue either that Bush knew all along where OBL was and just wanted to keep the war going for reasons known only to high level players in the NWO, or that Obama also knew and his handlers made the calculation that his reelection in order to continue serving as the front for his wolfpack depends on bringing the troops home soon, under cover of having killed OBL.  So long as our main founts of information remain beyond discernment for bringing forth the truth, the competition will be all about managing the message, not revealing the truth behind the message.  Instead of answering what is 2 plus 2, the question will be:  what would you like it to be?  Does this bode that our future will be mainly about how to psyche our own ghosts?  If journalism has died, has ghost busting taken its place?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Holder expressed in terms of certainty that OBL would be killed rather than taken alive, yet also advocated that we are in an overseas contingency operation under which persons captured must either be Mirandized and charged, or else released within x hours. To me, this meant one of two things: Either those manning our government have been duplicitous by classifying our efforts against al Queada as a mere overseas contingency operation, or else those manning our government have been willing to engage in murder in event OBL were captured alive. Either way, the mask slipped. Those who man the Regime have tried to appeal to those at home deluded enough to believe that popularity abroad would translate into popularity at home. However, given recent events, does it compute that those who man our government can realistically expect to be popular both at home and abroad? The Regime, having pre-expressed willingness to kill someone arrested during a mere crime bust, may become unpopular abroad. If so, its basic reason for being would dissolve, rendering it also unpopular at home. Unless the Regime can regain control over the OBL story, it seems its popularity may dissolve both abroad and at home. By so often failing to take the side of the American people, perhaps Obama will be left with a withered base of support, everywhere. One can hope.