Topic: Everything is Fake Now

[Glock32]

Great article by Sultan Knish. Perhaps the best description of the Democrat-Media-Complex and its manufactured consensus that I have yet read. Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing.

A few pull quotes:


As we watch the news covering a story, what we are actually watching is the media making up a story and then telling that story incessantly and embedding it in every nook and cranny of their coverage. This blurring of the lines between the real and the fake is not happening thanks to the magic of technology, but the prosaic methods of complete insincerity.
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Obama is fake, his popularity is fake, but it's also real, because fake is now the ultimate reality. The purveyors of fakeness have demonstrated their ability to transform the unreal into the real through  manufactured consensus. By insisting that something unpopular was popular often enough, they made it popular. And by insisting that something popular is really unpopular, they did the opposite.
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When all the bubbles of rhetoric pop, there are still the hard unpleasant realities to deal with. Bailouts and money pits can only bury them for so long. Governments sending money to banks and swapping worthless commodities that only exist in the theory of a theory only work for as long as people believe in them.

Even an unreal economy reported on by an unreal media cheering on an unreal leader can only run for so long until reality punches through the illusion, the curtain falls, the magicians scramble off the stage with rabbits and doves tucked into their pants, and everyone wakes up to realize that the dream is over and we realize that we are entering a world where the stories no longer matter and history is about to begin.

[charlesoakwood]

Excellent.

One small problem; Obama is not the originator of this he
the culmination.  Since, at least, the war the package and
not the content has been promoted.  The package, the
technical quality of the presentation not the product is what
we have been taught to admire or respect and now we've
bought it hook, line and sinker.  Sold American!

God save us.

[Pandora]

Comment at the Sultan's place:

"... today's "artificial reality" or "fake reality" is that we are not at war with Islam, diversity is our greatest strength, the Afghans are our allies, the dollar is worth something, our cars are causing global warming (but Barack's 747 is not), the Europeans are our allies, we can push a "reset" button with Russia, abortion is not murder, and that it's all Bush's fault.

When the bubble bursts.... it's gonna be ugly."

[charlesoakwood]

Link: Isaac Newton, when he was Master of the Mint in his later years, had people drawn and quartered for counterfeiting.

Link: Now they are drawn and quoted (see cover of Time )

[Glock32]

Another commenter posted this quote:

"Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. "

Theodore Dalrymple

[Libertas]

Reality is not an option and it will win in the end, guaranteed!

I'd say fakery is a worthy addition to Weisshaupt's "Proof we are doomed" thread.

[John Florida]

Comment at the Sultan's place:

"... today's "artificial reality" or "fake reality" is that we are not at war with Islam, diversity is our greatest strength, the Afghans are our allies, the dollar is worth something, our cars are causing global warming (but Barack's 747 is not), the Europeans are our allies, we can push a "reset" button with Russia, abortion is not murder, and that it's all Bush's fault.

When the bubble bursts.... it's gonna be ugly."

  When the WH changes hands we'll all see what the total debt is and according to my money manager there will be between a 30/40% drop in the market. When the fed is opened up and the trillions in debt are discolsed the panic will be epic,I pray we survive that as a nation.

[Libertas]

Comment at the Sultan's place:

"... today's "artificial reality" or "fake reality" is that we are not at war with Islam, diversity is our greatest strength, the Afghans are our allies, the dollar is worth something, our cars are causing global warming (but Barack's 747 is not), the Europeans are our allies, we can push a "reset" button with Russia, abortion is not murder, and that it's all Bush's fault.

When the bubble bursts.... it's gonna be ugly."

  When the WH changes hands we'll all see what the total debt is and according to my money manager there will be between a 30/40% drop in the market. When the fed is opened up and the trillions in debt are discolsed the panic will be epic,I pray we survive that as a nation.

Oh, and where's the gold?!  That'd be a nice audit finding too, we all suspect Ft.Knox was cleaned out eons ago, but the Treasury/FRB won't even allow foreign governments to physically inspect their holdings at 33 Liberty Street!

[LadyVirginia]

  When the WH changes hands we'll all see what the total debt is and according to my money manager there will be between a 30/40% drop in the market. When the fed is opened up and the trillions in debt are discolsed the panic will be epic,I pray we survive that as a nation.

not sure "they" will let it happen...