If Angelo Agathangelou over there is allowed to stand on a soapbox and criticize the UK war machine, then the UK must be a free country. So they don’t work to silence all dissent. What they do is work to make sure that dissent never hits a critical mass and goes mainstream.
...We know they can’t shut us down completely or else they’ll break the illusion of freedom and lose the ability to propagandize effectively
By Caitlin Johnstone: One of the most consequential collective delusions circulating in our society is the belief that our society is free. Our society is exactly free enough to create the illusion that we have freedom; from that line onwards it’s just totalitarianism veiled in propaganda.I get comments from people every day wagging their fingers at my criticisms of western imperialist agendas against nations like China or Iran saying “If you lived over there you wouldn’t be allowed to criticize the government the way you criticize western governments!”