Why You Should Oppose The Censorship Of David Icke (Hint: It’s Got Nothing To Do With Icke)

[caitlinjohnstone.com]

I read and watch Icke's work from time to time being I have him liked on my facehack page. He's between so right and so wrong to me He's like that acquaintance you have where you like being around them sometimes and other times you hate em. You just never know what type of day it's going to be.

{Whenever anyone objects to censorship on these massive platforms they're always told that those platforms are private companies who are free to do what they like on their private property, but how "private" is a corporation that is interlaced with government power with increasing inseparability? The reality is that in a corporatist system of government with vanishingly few meaningful distinctions between corporate power and state power, corporate censorship is state censorship.}

{"The only difference between @TheAtlantic article and something you might read on a libertarian site is that this article argues that all of these regulations on speech are a good thing."}

The Matt Taibbi article Johnstone mentions is a good read also. See below.

The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here

[taibbi.substack.com]

{We have a lot of dumb people in this country. But the difference between the stupidities cherished by the Idiocracy set ingesting fish cleaner, and the ones pushed in places like the Atlantic, is that the jackasses among the “expert” class compound their wrongness by being so sure of themselves that they force others to go along. In other words, to combat “ignorance,” the scolders create a new and more virulent species of it: exclusive ignorance, forced ignorance, ignorance with staying power.

The people who want to add a censorship regime to a health crisis are more dangerous and more stupid by leaps and bounds than a president who tells people to inject disinfectant. It’s astonishing that they don’t see this.}

{There’s a reason why journalists should always keep their distance from priesthoods in any field. It’s particularly in the nature of insular communities of subject matter experts to coalesce around orthodoxies that blind the very people in the loop who should be the most knowledgeable.

“Experts” get things wrong for reasons that are innocent (they’ve all been taught the same incorrect thing in school) and less so (they have a financial or professional interest in denying the truth).}

{“Authorities” by their nature are untrustworthy. Sometimes they have an interest in denying truths, and sometimes they actually try to define truth as being whatever they say it is.}

{We’ve become incapable of talking calmly about possible solutions because we’ve lost the ability to decouple scientific or policy discussions, or simple issues of fact, from a political argument. Reporting on the Covid-19 crisis has become the latest in a line of moral manias with Donald Trump in the middle.}

Those pretty much wrap up everything I preach here {narrative control, perception management, conditioning} depending on which side of the establishment one has chosen to support. The agenda of the MSCM is to keep us divided for the shit show of our politicians. And no matter how many times they've been caught getting it wrong, often even outing themselves later down the road, those who faithfully follow them fall for the next controlled narrative issue time after time.

{“Conservative Americans see coronavirus hope in Progressive Sweden,” reads a Politico headline, as if only conservatives should feel optimism in the possibility that a non-lockdown approach might have merit! Are we rooting for such an approach to not work?}

Take note from that article though also. {The Swedish government has also been criticized for not properly protecting nursing homes and the elderly from coronavirus outbreaks. The vast majority of Sweden’s coronavirus deaths, 86 percent, have come from its elderly population, a fact that Linde acknowledged as a government failure.}

Another factor? {Setting aside attacks about Sweden’s universal health care system, conservatives have a long-standing interest in Sweden’s inability to fall neatly on a left-right dichotomy:} I'd go out on the limb that their healthcare system is measurably better than ours, and being tucked away up in the north eastern part of Europe away from densely populated areas with a population of only a little more than 33 million, that has to be a benefit. Seemingly, as long as you haven't reach you usefulness to society?