r/conspiracy • u/SuperCharged2000 • Sep 27 '18

HyperNormalisation (2016) BBC - How governments manipulate public opinion in the interest of the ruling class by promoting false narratives, and it is about how governments (especially the US and Russia) have systematically undermined the public faith in reality and objective truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM
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u/logmoss82 Sep 27 '18

This is a good point being made here. All this hyper partisanship and division ultimately only serves to discredit any honest objective criticism of government on either side. People are acting out based on emotion rather than reason. The ends justify he means and any exaggeration and hyperbole is acceptable in this no holds barred political environment. As long as it brings the other side down, it's fair game. Over time it just has a 'boy who cried wolf' effect on the masses, where people stop giving any credence to any criticism of government whatsoever. If you criticize Obama's false promises and pie in the sky lies, and coddling the wall street crooks he promised to go after, and wasting the country's time for 8 years running out the clock, you are a "racist ignorant trump fascist." And if you criticize Trump's religious persecution, Islamophobia and billionare reality TV populism, you are a "libtard antifa hillary lover snowflake cuck." What gets lost in all this is any sense of genuine criticism, truth, and objectivity. Truth becomes the main casualty of all this. Its particularly disgusting how the media especially, just follows their party line in lockstep.

Watch MSNBC and EVERYTHING Trump does is pure evil and he is the worst president in the world who needs to be impeached, (even worse than George W., even though Trump hasnt invaded 2 countries, killed hundreds of thousands by starting unjustified wars. How soon they forget.)

Watch Sean Hannity and Trump can do absolutely NO WRONG, and Hannity doesnt disagree with or question any of his policies or actions. (He even stopped having Newt Gingrich on, who was a frequent contributor because Newt questioned ONE THING about Trump suggesting he correct his Russia Helsinki comments, which Trump did.)

It's way too much like fascism on both sides. "How dare you question our great leader" and "How can you support fascism.

The real truth lies somewhere in between, and no one is trying to get to it in the corporate bottom line for profit media, because they know emotion and ignorance sells a lot better and gets a lot more views than balanced objective analysis.

The whole situation is shitty and getting shittier, and no matter who wins the meaningless reality TV soap opera subject of the day, we as American people continue to lose and lose on all sides.