RE: Dangerous Hypocrisy, Censorship, and, Oddly Enough, Alex Jones
This is very much Voltairean attitude, which I side with on principal... and I do agree, that banning AJ out of existence will just provide fuel for truthers and other conspiracy freaks (steemit is full of both) along the lines "we told you it's all rigged against him" by the Freemasons, Deep State, Bilderberg Group or whatever these circles see as the group in control.
One thing I need to see straight though is, that AJ is a pathological liar and as a pathological liar I mean making up stuff, that I wouldn't believe even after 1500 mikes of acid... and still there are people who gobble it right up!
Why? Because people are not rational animals, and they love a good story more than anything else... doesn't matter if it's true or not.
And this is also a reason why AJ keeps doing it, cause I don't believe he actually believes in his own theories... but that's my own theory obviously.
He makes a living by shilling bullshit basically. He started small and then his stuff caught up (in America), so he's just followed it with more bullshit, which took him right to the top.
Now, we need to state clearly, that we all lie, and this starts as early as the age of 4, which is one of the reasons why truth is so rare and hard to find. No reason to invoke a set of hidden actors, that pull the strings to hide it actually... but that's something you either understand or you don't IMO.
And this brings to the matter at hand. Why do they want to ban him? This world revolves around one thing, and it's called MONEY. Big companies are driven by one thing only: PROFITS. But at a certain point business inevitably starts rubbing shoulders with politics, which is how AJ is being perceived.
He's a Trump supporter, he's far right, although as you I see this division as highly irrelevant nowadays as well, and his existence on social media platforms, which technically are still private entities, creates a financial hazard.
Are they banning leftists too? Obviously, they do. They'll ban anybody across the board, who can drive their stock prices down as tech companies are very sensitive to information controversies.
AND THAT'S THE ONLY REASON!
I agree with the majority of this. But even a liar should have the ability to lie.
I do see that there seems to be more than just money at play here. Some of these compinies have a political agenda and they use the power their hold on the flow of information to control the narrative that they want to feed us. I touched on this in my last post but I think it is helpful to take a look at what both ends of the establishment agree on to see what they are really after. They protect their own power and try to prevent us from limiting that power. That being the case as I see it, it is to their advantage to keep us quiet and divided and this type of censorship accomplishes that goal.
For the sake of understanding, I use terms like "they" because they are simpler than typing " the corporations, the old media, the old money, and the political establishment" over and over. They aren't hidden actors. They do their acting out in the open but few seem to notice.
Yeah ok, I was imprecise. When business overlaps with politics, certainly the play is to keep politicians on your side... which is politics in a larger sense.
The only thing I cannot agree with is that they're hidden actors, cause they're not! They're out in the open... at least for any educated person. But I guess it spices up the agenda when they're called "secret", "hidden" or "occult" or "covert".
And these terms are tossed around mostly by people, who don't understand what's happening and why.
There's a lot of "working class rage" in this rhetoric, which I really sympathise with, but unfortunately it lacks analytical skills, and most of the time it produces bedlamite conclusions.
Haha I edited my comment to clarify a little but yeah I don't view them as hidden actors. They are the actual authorities in the government, in the media, and the extremely wealthy but I have always maintained that all the horrible stuff goes on in the open, like fighting wars for the benefit of corporate interests, cozying up to dictators because they are friendly to business, and what have you. That being said, it is fun to frame things with these types of terms though.
"There's a lot of "working class rage" in this rhetoric, which I really sympathise with, but unfortunately it lacks analytical skills" I think that is kind of by what the people stiring up the rage are going for and then they come around and offer solutions that hurt the working class even more. I think the same principal is at work with the people who are trying to create greater racial and cultural division too.
I do agree that money is a major factor in all of this but I think there is an attempt and on the part of the establishment to solidify its "class" and that is driving a lot of what we see. It that sense, the old media opposes the new media for the same reason that drug companies oppose legal weed.
Yep, conspiracy people are not making it better for poor, disenfranchised citizens by producing crazy theories... but a lot of them are doing it for a reason. There's no honour among the thieves, but there's certainly a pecking order among beggars if you know what I mean.
Divida et impera!
They're doing it... it's very easy if you have money and power. You don't have to plot or create conspiracies to rule over masses of uneducated people. And the machine definitely needs bodies to keep working.
But you don't overthrow the existing order by losing your fuckin' mind!