the wreck of the former yugoslavia still wrecking our minds

[click image of "pudgy loner" "effusive salesman-like" "recluse", audio, 80 minutes]

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And this will be the clarifier, Michael Parenti's amazing lecture on the matter, wherein he shocked me with his vehement defense of Slobodan Milosevic... video, 80 minutes. More important to hear, if you haven't, than the discussion at the image link. And you want to bear in mind that he gave this talk while BILL CLINTON was president... so... it ISN'T that 43 and Fudd were so much worse than those who went before. They were definitely less adept at putting it over on the public. So that, combined with the explosion of internet use in this millennium, we could catch them out so much more quickly. That's all.

This is extremely good stuff to listen to because it helps strip off our certitude about information we have absorbed that was pure propaganda... that we didn't know yet was pure propaganda... and is still running around unchecked in our heads. We are conditioned our whole lives by forces not in our power to prevent: our parents, our teachers, our friends, the tv, the government, the people who can gain from misleading us, everything that is customary, ritual, categorized in libraries, everything around us. Sometimes it is for the best. Others, clearly, not so much. To go forward as a rational actor in this world, one needs to strip this stuff from one's mentality ruthlessly, get over the desire to oblige the world and start doing the work to act in its best interest, to deal with the real.

I'm bringing up helpful hints all the time. Lots of times you will find them objectionable as hell, but my aim is to help you free yourself from this mental conditioning to the extent where real insight and manifestation of positive intent are possible. Note my stress on the word "manifestation". I mean to help people replace the expression of their positive intent with the manifestation of it, to change from the thin air to the concrete. We need to stop doing and perform, stop doing the illustration of our wonderfulness and be wonderful, manifest wonderful.

There is a huge distinction, but you won't be able to tell until you stop being so sure of stuff that isn't actual.
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I mean, I guess I should have been clearer about this when I posted it, but Blogger was malfunctioning badly as I was trying to get it out. If you listen to the Parenti lecture first, or remember it from the other times I posted it, and then listen to George Kenney's discussion with his guest, you get a real flavor for both the progression of this perfidious stuff, and the kaleidoscopic confusion of those we call our intelligentsia that grows out of it.

It's akin to letting the official lie about 9/11 serve as the excuse for all the murderation and fascism that comes after it. If you are not dealing with the actual, you are not a rational actor. This is not only true on the geopolitical scale, but the personal as well. This underpins my insistence that people stop falling for the propaganda being generated out of things like the Tea Party Movement and the bogus terrorist arrests, start looking more deeply into these things, SEE them clearly, without bias. We can't stop psychopaths if we can't get clear ourselves.
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