¿Qué hace que un salame cualquiera, en cualquier ignoto rincón del mundo (acá, por ejemplo), de golpe salga entusiasta a festejar el Halloween, o se vaya a comprar medias a Miami, o adhiera a las mil y una modas y pavadas impuestas desde el Imperio? Respuesta: un brutal complejo de inferioridad, implantado día y noche desde usinas culturales, sociales, políticas y económicas específicas. El poder blando, que le dicen. La nota que sigue es de Jeff J. Brown y habla de todo esto. Fue publicada en el sitio Moscow-Beijing Express; es un tanto simplista, tal vez, pero de todos modos interesante. Acá va:
Título: Twilight
Zones on Planet Earth
Texto: Rod Serling was
the creator, producer and main screenwriter for his celebrated 1940s-1960s
radio and TV shows, including the Twilight Zone. A committed leftist, he
suffered regular censorship and was a fierce activist against racism,
McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons and censorship. He was an
eloquent and creative voice against American empire.
It has been
instructive to travel this summer and get out of China for a while. What is
apparent to me, as I read national newspapers and international magazines along
the way, is that humanity is living in two parallel worlds, and for the most
part, they are mutually exclusive. Rod Serling, the producer of the 1950-60s
science fiction television show, Twilight Zone, could not write a more
dimension bending script.
On the one hand,
the majority of the world’s people are living in Empire World. Their
perceptions are molded and manipulated by the West’s owners, those elites (and
their army of enablers), who make up the top one-tenth of one percent of the
economic and political pyramid. In Empire World, Planet Earth is portrayed as a
very scary place, full of monsters, demons and their evil leaders, who are all
hell bent on threatening the “established order”.
This Western
status quo is depicted as a shining beacon on the hill, towering over the rest
of the world’s people, nobly imposing its superior history, civilization,
culture, goodness, capitalism, justice, rule of law and civil society on the
human race. The subtle message is that non-Westerners who are not empire’s obedient
servants are thus ahistorical, uncivilized, uncultured, unjust and lawless
savages. This propaganda is so ruthlessly pervasive and effective, that most of
Planet Earth’s non-Westerners suffer from terrible inferiority complexes and
accept their status as second class citizens, in the face of Eurangloland’s
relentless juggernaut.
This 85% of
humanity, mostly dark skinned and surviving from day to day, are brainwashed
into fatalism. It’s their fault that they only own a tiny fraction of their
country’s wealth and have little to no control, nor the means to do something
about it. They keep telling themselves, “If only…”, “Once I…”, “Except for the
fact that…” The vast majority of them don’t even recognize that they and their
inherited natural resources are being exploited by Western imperialism and its
client state elites, with its noxious cocktail of racism, capitalism,
colonialism, false flags, war and fascism (see
http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2016/03/27/the-cycle-of-western-empire-a-china-rising-radio-sinoland-modern-day-math-lesson/).
Even though they are victims, talking about these components of imperialism is
often met with disbelief or denial. The notion that the West is an empire and
that colonialism and fascism are alive and thriving in their countries just
does not register. Fascism was vanquished in 1945 and colonialism was finished
in the 50s-60s, with all the people’s countries gaining their “independence”,
right?
Yet, it is
perfectly normal that Eurangloland has over 1,000 military installations around
the world, that it can freely invade or bomb any country it wants, secretly or
in the open, in the Americas, Africa, Asia and even Europe. It is okeydokey
that Israel and NATO commit horrific war crimes and genocide, nonstop with total
impunity, while Western NGOs, banks, corporations and institutions plunder this
85% and their rightful wealth. The mentality of most of the world’s non-Western
peoples is like that of a rape victim,
It’s my fault, I
deserve it. And I realize that I should, but it is not worth trying to seek
justice, since the system is rigged, even though by not fighting back, this
psychopath will continue to rape others.
Then there are
those countries living in the reality of another Twilight Zone. They see the world
differently, at least among their leaders and most of their citizens. I call
this group the “Anti-West”. It includes Russia and its Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO), China and its Shanghai Cooperation Organization
(SCO), North Korea, Iran, Syria, Eritrea and the Bolivarian Alliance (ALBA) in
the Americas. The fact that many of these countries are officially communist or
socialist is telling, as these political systems are the only two that have
historically opposed Western imperialism and its aforementioned cocktail of
destruction and mayhem.
However, as we
have seen recently in Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina, among their political
parties and elites, there is a significant percentage of their national
populations who drink from the poisoned chalice of Western empire and swallow
all that “beacon on the hill” propaganda, as irrefutable gospel. They call
themselves “freedom loving”, “capitalists” and “libertarian”. For maybe a few
extra crumbs of the colonial pie, they are more than willing to turn their
country into a socioeconomic hell hole and Western client state. Most are not
even thinking on that level, they just want to emulate super-consuming
Westerners and live a more materialistic existence. Ironically, the West is
rich only because of its massive theft of these people’s wealth, via its
colonial empire. These subversive victims create their own, perverted Twilight
Zone alongside the Eurangloland version. They are often called the “fifth
column”, being self-serving termites, who are happy to bring down their
nation’s tree of commonwealth, for a belly full of wood (see
http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2016/06/13/5th-column-attacks-on-china-or-a-sino-new-world-order-china-risings-jeff-j-brown-shadow-of-truth-160611/).
The Anti-West has
its own propaganda, media, political parties and systems, all flailing away at
the overwhelming dominance of colonialism. While the West sees in them as
threatening monsters, demons of evil, the Anti-West lives in its own, opposing
Twilight Zone reality, cooperating and aligning together, while building
metaphorical and real bridges of commerce, infrastructure, connectivity and
transportation.
The Anti-West is
succeeding in all these categories, except in the propaganda and media
departments. Yes, it has RT, Telesur, Press TV and China Daily, but the truth
is that they are like blood starved fleas on the rump of a raging bull
elephant. The West’s soft power and cultural suzerainty totally rule across the
planet. Millions of Chinese, Russians, Iranians and ALBA citizens (fanatically)
follow Western sports teams, musical artists, Hollywood, television, press,
media and fashion. In the background, they underestimate the linguistic
hegemony of English, which is the global language of empire. They often don’t
make the connection between their countries’ struggles for financial and
political independence, freedom from exploitation and aggression, with the
Western soft power that they crave. It is as deadly as stealth bombers. Why?
Because that’s how the human brain works and the resulting feelings of
victimhood, inferiority and powerlessness, which take root.
Western
governments, spy agencies, corporations and media work in well-coordinated
lockstep to blanket humanity in a fog of withering and highly effective
propaganda. It brainwashes the vast majority of world citizens into consumer
nihilism, self-satisfying numbness, apathy and helplessness. Neil Postman wrote
angrily about this, in his classic takedown of Western soft power, “Amusing
Ourselves to Death” (see http://neilpostman.org/).
China and Russia
have already officially joined hands to create a cooperative media effort. Last
month, they held their huge Far Eastern Media Summit in Vladivostok, inking
numerous agreements (see http://english.sina.com/news/2016-06-10/doc-ifxszmnz6986152.shtml
and http://tass.ru/en/society/880965). It was actually the third summit, the
first one taking place in 2014. But this is not enough. Remember those blood
starved fleas on the rump of Western empire’s raging bull elephant. Russia and
China may tower against the West in the spheres of economy, military, science
and technology. But in terms of propaganda and media, they are on the same,
humble level as Iran and Venezuela.
Thus, in order to
stand up to the West’s global propaganda behemoth, they need to expand their
media summit and deal-signing concept, to include all of their allies in the
Anti-West. I can die trying to find Press TV, Telesur and RT on cable or
satellite in China and I suspect the same problem exists in all these
countries. But, I can damn sure get my brain lobotomized by an endless stream
of Fox News, CNN, MSNBC and BBC, in even the remotest corners of Latin America,
Africa and Asia.
This has got to
change. China’s and Russia’s Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin can sign
all the commercial, military, educational and S&T deals they want, together
and with their Anti-West brethren, but around the world, these success stories
are heavily censored and distorted behind the Great Western Firewall (see
http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2016/03/02/the-xi-putin-honeymoon-is-over-now-its-time-to-make-the-china-russia-marriage-succeed-long-term/).
SCO, CSTO, ALBA and all other Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries with
state-owned media concerns need to meet regularly and sign tons of cooperative
media, cross-cultural and sports agreements. Then most importantly, they must
put them into effect and promote the hell out of them, day after day, year
after year. Otherwise, the NBA, Lady Gaga, Batman, Game of Thrones, Time
magazine, BBC and Versace will continue to win where it really matters, in the
minds of the world’s people: perception and the notions of superiority and
inferiority that it engenders.
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