The War on Reality

[Arcturian108]

I believe this article is so important that it deserves a new thread. I am copying the first half of it from the following link: https://anti-empire.com/the-war-on-r...ng-splendidly/

"So, the War on Reality is going splendidly. Societies all across the world have been split into opposing, irreconcilable realities. Neighbors, friends, and even family members are bitterly divided into two hostile camps, each regarding the other as paranoid psychotics, delusional fanatics, dangerous idiots, and, in any event, as mortal enemies.

In the UK, Germany, and many other countries, and in numerous states throughout the US, a “state of emergency” remains in effect. An apocalyptic virus is on the loose. Mutant variants are spreading like wildfire. Most of society is still shut down or subject to emergency health restrictions. People are still walking around in public with plastic face shields and medical-looking masks. The police are showing up at people’s homes to arrest them for “illegally gathering outdoors.” Any deviation from official reality is being censored by the Internet corporations. Constitutional rights are still suspended. Entire populations are being coerced into being injected with experimental “vaccines.” Pseudo-medical segregation systems are being brought online. And so on … you’re familiar with the details.

Meanwhile, in Sweden, and a few other countries, and in various other states throughout the US, there is no apocalyptic pandemic. People are just going about their lives as normal. OK, sure, there is a nasty virus going around, so people are taking common sense precautions, as people typically do for any nasty virus, but there is no “state of emergency” in effect, and no reason to radically transform society into a paranoid, pathologized-totalitarian dystopia.

This state of affairs, in which two contradictory, mutually-exclusive realities exist, is … well, it’s impossible, and so it cannot continue. Either there exists a devastating global pandemic that justifies a global “state of emergency,” the suspension of constitutional rights, and the other totalitarian “emergency measures” we have been subjected to since March of 2020 or there doesn’t. It really is as simple as that.

Except that it isn’t as simple as that. It is easy to forget, given the last 16 months, that people have been bitterly divided, and inhabiting mutually-exclusive realities, and regarding people who don’t conform to their realities as enemies for the last five years. I’m not talking about political disagreements, or even socio-cultural differences. I’m talking about contradictory realities. Things that actually happened, or didn’t happen. Things that exist, or do not exist.

I’m not going rehash the whole War on Populism — I covered it extensively at the time — but that’s when the current global-capitalist War on Reality was officially launched. It wasn’t just the usual lies and propaganda. It was a full-scale ideological assault. By the end of it, people actually believed that (a) Donald Trump was a Russian agent, (b) that he was literally Hitler, and so was going to stage some sort of “coup,” declare himself American Führer, and launch the “Trumpian-White-Supremacist Fourth Reich,” and (c) that he had actually attempted this by sending a few hundred unarmed protesters — violent domestic extremist grandmothers, father-and-son kill squads, and bison hat loonies — to “storm the Capitol” and overthrow the government during the so-called “January 6 Insurrection.”

So, when GloboCap rolled out the “New Normal” reality, they weren’t exactly starting from scratch. Millions of people — not just Americans, because the War on Populism was a global campaign — were already living in a new reality in which facts no longer mattered at all, where things that never happened officially happened, and other things that obviously happened never happened, not officially, or were “far-right extremist conspiracy theories,” “fake news,” or “disinformation,” or whatever, despite the fact that people knew that they weren’t.

But the goal of GloboCap’s War on Reality isn’t simply to deceive the masses and divide them into opposing camps. Rulers have been deceiving the masses and dividing them into opposing camps since the dawn of human civilization. This time, it’s a bit more complicated than that.

OK, bear with me now, because this gets kind of heady.

The War on Reality is not an attempt to replace reality with a fake reality. Or it is that, but that is only one part of it. Its real goal is to render reality arbitrary, to strip it of its epistemological authority, to turn it into a “floating signifier,” a word that has no objective referent, which, of course, technically, it already is. You cannot take a picture of reality. It is a concept. It is not a physical object that exists somewhere in time and space."

Continue reading at the link: https://anti-empire.com/the-war-on-r...ng-splendidly/

[thepainterdoug]

great writing here acturian. Im going to re read tomorrow. This is so spot on to our living present reality

many thanks
pd

[Patient]

Even though we have people from all points around the world, it is still hard to really know what things are like in different areas. You can read about it and watch a video, but unless you are spending time living through it, it is hard to fully grasp what people are going through.

There were so many different groups created just before the pandemic, so many new views and ideals. Then "get us back to normal" is what people are looking for.

I expect that there are a lot of people that could quickly grasp onto something that they might view as a way to get back their reality or at least a "new normal" that they could/would be comfortable with. If the wrong power or group gets a strong hold of a new idea, a lot of people could be manipulated into something. That something could be good or bad of course.

[Dorjezigzag]

This reminded me of a popular post I saw today on Linkedin.

It was an extreme example of an elephant in the room.

A poster had described how his 6.3 early 20s student son had fainted within 10 minutes after having the covid vaccination. At no point did his post consider that this was a possible side effect of the vaccine. The post was basically about isn't it funny these times that we sometimes faint.

Not one person replied, sounds like a side effect to the vaccine get that checked out everyone preceded to tell there (usually funny) stories about when they had fainted at strange times like at job interviews or in a supermarket queue.

It was like no one wanted to consider the reality that there are dangers to these vaccines that have been so encouraged by the media and governments.

[lizhekb]

To many people the reality is what the main stream media portray and they love it.

[I am B]

Posted by Dorjezigzag (here)
This reminded me of a popular post I saw today on Linkedin.

It was an extreme example of an elephant in the room.

A poster had described how his 6.3 early 20s student son had fainted within 10 minutes after having the covid vaccination. At no point did his post consider that this was a possible side effect of the vaccine. The post was basically about isn't it funny these times that we sometimes faint.

Not one person replied, sounds like a side effect to the vaccine get that checked out everyone preceded to tell there (usually funny) stories about when they had fainted at strange times like at job interviews or in a supermarket queue.

It was like no one wanted to consider the reality that there are dangers to these vaccines that have been so encouraged by the media and governments.

Thats the algorythm telling your (and everyone else's) mind to "normalise fainting". Like if it was a common harmless ocurerence.

In the end it just means there is actually more fainting cases than we imagine and they do need to make something about it before we start hearing about them too often.