Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the invention of mass media, i.e., radio, was the key to the propaganda machine that runs us today. Franklin Roosevelt was a master at propaganda using his Fireside Chats to manipulate the masses. The paradigm was enhanced and made mundane with the propaganda claiming the press was unbiased. Then Operation Mockingbird was exposed. In that crime against our Constitution, the CIA was shown to be paying US reporters to bend the news to their liking. Thus the term Mockingbird Media was coined. Though that revelation amounted to a pile of sand in a torrent, as the government held hearings, then went right back to business as usual. Now we have social media, where common folk can talk amongst ourselves without gatekeepers, and the entire paradigm is endangered.
The government’s monopoly on the narrative came about in the 1930s when FDR gave his fireside chats. Where the entire nation would sit by the radio and listen to his progressive lectures. This gave Roosevelt unprecedented political might among the people. So much so that despite failing to solve the Depression, he was reelected… even when he exceeded the traditional maximum terms set by George Washington himself. Because of the invention and smart usage of mass media, FDR was able to reset many paradigms. His progressive innovations undermining our Constitution were only possible because of mass media. Plus, Edward Bernays emerged with his ideas about how propaganda can be used to manufacture consensus.
Propaganda became endemic in the 1930s as a result. In the US, Bernays was busily convincing women to smoke and wear bras. Meanwhile, in Germany, Goebbels was convincing Germans to embrace National Socialism. Both using mass media to distribute their mind poison. Since then, ad agencies have embraced Bernays’ theories of manipulating the masses to great effect. Propaganda itself has been a godsend to despots across the planet. They establish an official narrative that no one is allowed to question. Then back the claim up by saying, the science is settled, there’s a consensus, as any alternative information is deemed “misinformation” and “disinformation.” Thus protecting the narrative. By using censorship, vilification, and ostracism (canceling), the elite control our minds.
Along came social media, where we can talk with people across the planet, let alone across the nation, and we can verify our own eyes in the aggregate. Initially the elite thought social media could enhance their control, because we would naturally stay in the brain rut. To their dismay, we didn’t, and indeed began to question the narrative, leading to many unacceptable revelations about power, democracy and constitutional rule. So the elite clamped down and subcontracted out the censorship, vilification and ostracism to social media giants, “Fact checkers” and their violent arm, ANTIFA. Between 2016 and 2022 when Elon Musk bought Twitter, the town square was controlled by the elite. Musk, however, opened the town square to the marketplace of ideas again.
In the years the elite controlled the narrative they could push anything they wanted on us. Everyone believed every word from the mouth of Walter Cronkite, though he was an anti-American globalist progressive through and through. Then social media opened the minds of the world to the truth, and the elite were flabbergasted. They reacted in their usual despotic manner and censored us. We resisted their censorship, and now the genie is out of the bottle. I wonder if it will be possible to force it back in? The days of governments and shadowy organizations controlling us might be at an end. The rise of Reform in the UK, populist parties across Europe, and Trump in the US are the fruits of mental freedom. A freedom we once had… until mass media took it away. Let’s not let it slip away again.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
