By Andre Vltchek: Imperialist demagogues, as well as religious fanatics, are known to live in
their grotesque realities. They erect huge sand castles, invent mascots, and
bombard the public relentlessly with self-promoting messages.
Those who refuse to listen and believe, those who dare to doubt and resist, are sidelined, starved to death, humiliated or simply liquidated.
Western religions and European/North American brutal colonialist practices are intertwined culturally. Hand in hand, for centuries, they have been destroying our Planet, from corner to corner, on all continents and even on the high seas.
All conquests, all genocides, all plunders have been eternally rationalized, painstakingly justified. Grand bogus concepts of charity, of ‘altruism’ have been erected. Subjugated nations have always been ruined in the name of some higher principles, in order to save them from themselves. For centuries, the West has portrayed itself as a sacrificial lamb, as a hand chosen by some divine power, as the greatest civilization that is continuously and altruistically liberating the world.
In the West, scribblers and ‘scholars’ have been paid to soften every barbarity committed by the rulers, soldiers and even common citizens.
Those who refuse to listen and believe, those who dare to doubt and resist, are sidelined, starved to death, humiliated or simply liquidated.
Western religions and European/North American brutal colonialist practices are intertwined culturally. Hand in hand, for centuries, they have been destroying our Planet, from corner to corner, on all continents and even on the high seas.
All conquests, all genocides, all plunders have been eternally rationalized, painstakingly justified. Grand bogus concepts of charity, of ‘altruism’ have been erected. Subjugated nations have always been ruined in the name of some higher principles, in order to save them from themselves. For centuries, the West has portrayed itself as a sacrificial lamb, as a hand chosen by some divine power, as the greatest civilization that is continuously and altruistically liberating the world.
In the West, scribblers and ‘scholars’ have been paid to soften every barbarity committed by the rulers, soldiers and even common citizens.
The cults of formal learning, of facts and
information have been erected. Holed in innumerable officially recognized
institutions, the scholars, certified demagogues, researchers and media people
have been ‘studying’ each other, recycling and quoting each other, filling
millions of books with essentially the same narrative.
‘New’ and ‘revolutionary’ academic
discoveries mostly lead to the same old conclusions, to stale intellectual and
moral passivity, cowardice and spinelessness.
Endless libraries have been filled with
useless volumes, first arriving in print, then later in electronic form. Tens
of millions of young and not too young men and women are busy wasting their
lives, chasing diplomas, those colorful pieces of paper with the seal of
approval, certifying people as fit to serve the Empire and the victorious
civilization.
At some point, all major philosophical and
existential topics ceased to be discussed, in official academia, in mainstream
media, in the film houses, libraries and best-selling books.
No one paid any attention. The world simply
‘moved forward’.
The ‘issues’ did not disappear. Genocides
are still administered by the West in order to plunder the world, the world of
the ‘un-people’.
Western colonialism was never really
stopped or defeated.
Great ideologies based on humanism were
successfully smeared, even erased from the sub-consciousness of the people. Gutless
masses, but especially cowardly intellectuals, got convinced that it would be
the best ‘not to take stances’, and not to wear ‘old labels’ and gather under
‘old flags’. Passivity combined with the extreme selfishness eventually mutated
into collaboration with the regime.
The environment has been getting ruined,
progressively and irreversibly.
The press, mass media, gained mastery in
saying nothing, addressing nothing, criticizing nothing related to the plunder
of the world, and to the suppression of new and truly revolutionary ideas.
Enormous hordes of teachers, lawyers,
scientists, and bureaucrats got converted into fundamental idiots, but armed
with their licenses, bar exams, patents, contracts and other ‘feel-good’ sheets
of colorful papers.
Tens of millions of lawyers failed to form
even one single powerful international organization fighting for justice,
against the terror of the Empire.
This make-believe world has by now managed
to expel Reality and become ‘real’ itself in the minds and brains of billions
of men, women and children.
True Reality went underground. She had to
become a fugitive, a refugee, paperless and disrespected, belonging nowhere.
She is roaming our Planet, searching for
scattered allies, for those few human beings who are still not fully
indoctrinated, or fully sold.
Whenever she is caught, she is beaten,
stripped naked, and humiliated. A piece of paper saying ‘A Lie’ is hanged
around her neck.
Those who are still standing tall,
defending great ideals, fateful to the ‘old labels’, are being ridiculed. Old
flags, under which millions used to march forward, often victoriously, are now
being dirtied, defecated on.
Whatever contradicts the Empire is
gradually labeled as Fake News.
In the West, no one seems to be noticing.
There are no mass demonstrations, no clashes with police, as laws and
regulations are being changed and entire Constitutions violated.
It is because an overwhelming majority is
actually collaborating with the regime.
It is because it is suddenly so
frightening, or at least impractical, to think outside the box.
It is because there are very few examples
of intellectual courage left in this world.
Fake News, fake history, fake emotions, and
fake ideals… Everything that is not supporting the official narrative is slowly
but seemingly irreversibly becoming ‘fake’.
The only way forward, and the only way for
our humanity to survive, would be for at least one group of extremely bright
people to fully break from that straightjacket put on the world by the Empire,
to reject official perceptions and ‘knowledge’, and to completely cast off all
major tools of analyses of Christian and Western supremacy ideologies which are
still functioning as the main ‘intellectual’ pillars of the Empire and its
collaborators in the colonies.
One’s thought, in order to be original and
revolutionary, would have to be almost completely cleansed, even isolated, from
the official propaganda of the Empire, from its movies and music, from its
schools on all levels, from its professionally manipulative narratives.
Diplomas and licenses supplied by the
indoctrination institutions should be used as a toilet paper for extremely
severe cases of intellectual food poisoning, and flushed immediately, together
with all that toxic shit that consists of so-called ‘facts’ and ‘news’.
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While the ‘Real News’ package is being
disseminated all over the world by the Imperial propaganda machine, hundreds of
millions of ‘un-people’ are continuing to die annually, aimlessly.
Many are actually vanishing while still
fully believing in every word of what they had been fed by the news channels
and newspapers. Would they be told the truth (now also known in the West as
‘Fake News’), they’d most likely refuse to die, even opting to fight for their
survival.
Fight against whom, against the Empire?
That would be unacceptable. Therefore, alternative sources of information must
be immediately suppressed – exactly what the Nobel Peace Prize laureate
President Obama has been aiming at during the last months of this year, before
stepping down from his throne.
The Empire is in panic, because resistance
in the form of alternative thoughts and concepts is now coming from various
parts of the world, especially from those places not yet infested with the
English-language (as well as French or German) standardized storyline. It comes
from such places as China’s Academy of Social Sciences, from several Russian
institutions and many fiction and non-fiction writers, as well as from numerous
new and not so new media outlets in Latin America.
It is now easy to imagine that the Empire
might soon introduce some fascist institution like a “Department of Truth”. Its
employees could start demanding that each essay and book is ‘well researched’,
insisting on ‘facts’.
Writing and philosophy could be reduced to
the level of present-day academia: only recycled thoughts would be acceptable.
It would not be enough to say that last week it was raining four days a week. A
suitable alternative would be: “Last week it was raining four times a week,
according to Professor Sigmund Brown.” Or even better: “Both Professors Brown
and Green agreed that last week it was raining four times a week”. Then,
footnotes would have to be supplied, as well as other information.
Otherwise – it could be defined as Fake
News.
The Fake News clause could be invoked if
someone wrote, for instance “the true and the most brutal terrorist in modern
history is the West.” Or “Several hundreds of millions of people were
slaughtered by European empires, and then by the US Empire, in the last several
centuries. This holocaust took place in Africa, Asia, what is now known as
Latin America, in the Middle East and Oceania, basically everywhere. No
alternative system including those of the Soviet Union or China ever came close
to the barbarity committed by the West.”
Anyone spreading such blasphemy, such
sacrilege, could be caught, charged, tried, punished, and ‘neutralized’.
Just imagine, someone writing this: “All
basic narratives on which Western propaganda is based, are either false, or at
least have been heavily twisted and manipulated. This includes all storylines
related to the Soviet Union, China, colonialism and the anti-colonialist
struggle, Cambodia, Cuba, and even Rwanda. The list is long. Ignorance of the
Western public is almost complete.”
How could this not be identified as ‘Fake
News’? No Professor Blue would utter such judgment, and no Professor Pink would
confirm it. You can spend your time digging your snout into millions of books
in official libraries, but only handful of them would mention it.
Therefore, it is all fake, all fabricated.
It does not exist, and should be forbidden, censored.
You can of course hear all this in Havana,
Caracas, Beijing, Moscow or Johannesburg. In Beijing, in a normal big state-run
bookstore there is much greater variety of political opinion than on the entire
island of Manhattan. Even many common folks in non-Western places know things
and pronounce them freely. However, ‘unapproved’ people cannot be trusted, can
they? Especially when it concerns such explosive pieces of material! Also,
foreigners speaking their strange twisted tongues cannot be trusted.
Actually, nothing and nobody can be
trusted!
Fake News is everywhere, creeping,
ambushing us behind each corner. If the Empire is not vigilant, Western
supremacy may one day collapse. Which would be against God’s will… Oh, sorry,
that was a slip! The correct way to put it: It would be against all reason,
against all logic and all facts.
President Obama cares, he understands.
And now we will be defended with even
greater fervor: now comes Donald Trump!
Andre Vltchek is a philosopher,
novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He has covered wars and
conflicts in dozens of countries. Three of his latest books are revolutionary
novel “Aurora”
and two bestselling works of political non-fiction: “Exposing Lies
Of The Empire” and “Fighting
Against Western Imperialism”. View his other books here. Andre is
making films for teleSUR and Al-Mayadeen. After having lived in Latin America,
Africa and Oceania, Vltchek presently resides in East Asia and the Middle East,
and continues to work around the world. He can be reached through his website and his Twitter.
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