Disinformation Sensitivity Workshop #4: The Blogger's Dilemma

DISCLAIMER:

So there I was gang, two thirds of the way through my regular Thursday night ritual of drinking whisky, eating expired tuna from the dumpster, reading my copy of Mein Kampf and yelling at the TV [#notreallybutfordramaticeffect ##idonthaveaTV] when I suddenly remembered: omFUCKINGg, you guys! I almost forgot to do my weekly Disinformation Sensitivity Workshop!

But nobody fucking panic, alright? I remembered.

I AM A PROFESSIONAL DISINFORMATION SENSITIVITY WORKSHOP "FACILITATOR" AND I'M HERE NOW TO TALK YOU THROUGH SHIT AND EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE FUCKING WONDERFUL.

So, just sit back and relax and let's all see what I can pull together with nothing but whisky, expired tuna from the dumpster, my copy of Mein Kampf, you and me. 

PART ONE: TESTED ON CHILDREN AND ANIMALS

Have you ever picked up a copy of Mein Kampf  and started to read it and not quite managed to make it through the first few pages of horrible, fucked up, racist and insane ranting and wondered to yourself how such an obviously evil and barely literate lunatic managed to manipulate millions of sane, healthy and otherwise well adjusted people into participating in years of brutal genocide and war? 

I often have.

Which is why it was useful for me - merely useful, mind, not pleasant or comfortable - to just fucking wade right into that shit and find out for myself just how such an obviously evil and barely literate lunatic managed to manipulate millions of sane, healthy and otherwise well adjusted people into participating in years of brutal genocide and war.

And look what I found, way down there in chapter X:

"All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility.

Because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily. 

And thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie; since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. 

It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.  

Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. 

For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying."

- Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf, [volume I, chapter X, 1925, arrogantly abridged and italicised by me.]

I know, right? Still, it never hurts to put this shit in it's proper historical context. OK, usually it does hurt, but that's prolly no excuse not to go there, you dig what I'm saying here?

PART TWO: SICK FROM BAD INFORMATION [#alsowhiskyandexpiredtunafromthedumpster]

OK, nobody fucking panic. Just because I'm writing about Mein Kampf doesn't mean I endorse any of Hitler's ideology, I'm totally not a fascist or anti-Semitic, at least 50% of my ancestry would ensure I was killed on site by the fascists, and the fact that I'm an anarchist prolly wouldn't help, what with fascists being notoriously unmoved by the "you're just picking on me coz I hate you" defence and all. 

I'm just trying to explore these ideas and see if there's anything we can learn from the past that might be helpful in combating the horrible, fucked up, racist and insane ranting of our very own obviously evil, if perhaps more literate, lunatic leaders in their efforts to manipulate millions of sane, healthy and otherwise well adjusted people into participating in years of brutal genocide and war. You dig what I'm saying here?

So, extrapolating from the above quotation, what can we learn about our contemporary geopolitical context and it's brutal genocide and war? I would like to humbly submit that we can learn the following: 

People governments who are willing to commit genocide will also be capable of telling lies.

Or, to put it another way:

People governments who are willing to tell lies will also be capable of committing genocide.

Which is why I have trouble "trusting" the people of Australia government of Australia [to chose a totally random example] when they say they only want to stage a military occupation of the Northern Territory because they want to "help" and "free" Indigenous people.

Because we here at Total Disinformation Awareness [.blogspot.com] are in possession of the facts relating to the genocide of the Indigenous people of Australia by the people of Australia government of Australia. 

And we are aware that people governments who are willing to commit genocide will also be capable of telling lies.

And this is why I had trouble "trusting" the people of Australia and the United States governments of Australia and the United States [to chose a totally random example] when they said they only wanted to stage a military occupation of Iraq because they wanted to "help" and "free" the Iraqi people. 

 

Because we here at Total Disinformation Awareness [.blogspot.com] are in possession of the facts relating to the genocide of the Iraqi people by the people of Australia and the United States governments of Australia and the United States.

And people governments who are willing to tell lies will also be capable of committing genocide.

And this, finally, is why I have trouble "trusting" the people of the United States government of the United States [to chose a totally random example] when they say "no option is off the table" in relation to bombing Iran because they only want to "help" and "free" the Iranian people and/or because the Iranian people are "aiding the enemies of America." 

Because, if we remember, people governments who are willing to commit genocide will also be capable of telling lies.

That's all I'm trying to say here, you dig me? 

PART THREE: THE BLOGGER'S DILEMMA

See, this is how it's gonna play out: first it's gonna happen to poor brown people you don't care about itn countries you've never heard of, then it's gonna happen to poor brown people you don't care about in "your own" country, then it's gonna happen to more poor brown people you don't care about in more countries you've never heard of, then it's gonna happen to whiney apathetic cunts who failed to do anything while they still had the freedom to act. 

And this, I contend [and still maintain] is how "the big lie" operates.

But maybe it doesn't have to happen like that, you know? After all, we here at Total Disinformation Awareness [.blogspot.com] are in possession of facts, and if you are reading these words right now you are also in possession of facts and that means none of us ever have to fall for "the big lie" again, because we're gonna remember these words:

People governments who are willing to commit genocide will also be capable of telling lies.

Or, to put it another way:

People governments who are willing to tell lies will also be capable of committing genocide.

Now, don't just go to rallies and write letters and wring your hands and say "but what is to be done?" Everyone reading this now do everything* you can to stop these holocausts.**

Resist in every way possible while you still have the freedom to act.***

Wow, I got all dramatic there at the end and forgot I AM A PROFESSIONAL DISINFORMATION SENSITIVITY WORKSHOP "FACILITATOR" for a second, huh? Well, anyway, hopefully some classical music can bring it all on home for you:

 

Ozzy Osborne, ladies and gentlemen. That's Sir Ozzy Osborne to you.

REFERENCES:

Hitler, A: Mein Kampf, [volume I, chapter X, 1925] 

[Note: the three drunken monkeys that constitute Total Disinformation Awareness's hotshot legal team sent me a strongly worded memo advising me not to post a link to Mein Kampf here, just in case someone might be reading.] 

*Anticipating your confusion, shock &/or awe, do it by informing yourself about the reality of the world you live in, spreading awareness about the manipulation and lies we are all being fed, and taking radical direct action and/or [preferably and] supporting those who are, you lazy, cowardly stooges, you.
** There, I said it.
*** Yeah, I'm telling you.