What is the lesson here? That each tyrant believes they can outwit all other tyrants. That tyrants are convinced they can outwit democratic alliances. That, in the end, all authoritarian regimes fail. Abysmally. For the simple reason that inability to accept their own faillings makes all authoritarian leaders incapable of coping with change. Unable to adapt. Unable to evolve. Hence all authoritarian regimes are inherently fragile.
And who suffers the consequences? We do. All of us. “World Wide Wars”, remember?
“An old Jewish Rabbi dies and goes to heaven. He stands in line for a while for his chance to meet God in person. His turn comes and he steps forward. God says “Welcome. Do you have any questions for me?” Rabbi: “No, I just want to tell you a joke about my time in that concentration camp.” God: “How can you joke about such a thing?” Rabbi: “I guess you had to be there.” “
One of the best examples of professional grade propaganda which had recently crept up on my FB wall
As always, the ‘gaslighters’ use ‘the obvious’ to get inside our heads. Once there, they actually twist our minds.
In fact, the professional propagandists act like viruses do. They use the internal mechanisms of the target to alter its ‘software’. To ‘convince’ the target to act in a manner favorable to the ‘virus’ rather than in its own interest.
And the fact that both sides – or trolls embedded there?!?, use the same ‘tools’ only makes it harder for the targets – for us, really, to defend ourselves. To maintain our sanity.
Let’s go back to the example at hand. Yes, it’s ridiculous to blame this child for Pearl Harbor. This is the evident part of the meme. Only it’s very legit to blame those who deny that Japan attacking Pearl Harbor was ‘murder’. Legit enough to become a must. Just like it’s a must to blame those who deny the Holocaust.
Same thing with slavery. And with other crimes of the past. Blaming people alive today for what their ancestors had done in the past is ridiculous. Just as ridiculous as denying that past crimes had consequences. Some of which continue to pull us down today.
Present day colored people in America – and Roma people in Europe, continue to suffer the consequences of having been enslaved for many generation. Denying that only burdens entire societies. It burdens the colored people themselves and, on a way larger scale, it burdens the rest of us. The colored people having less opportunities than the rest of us is a waste for the society at large. The disproportionate number of crimes and felonies perpetrated by the colored people are a cost shouldered by all of us. Meanwhile, the blame is not entirely ‘theirs’. Had they been ‘defective’ in any way would have prevented any of them from ‘prospering’. Hence we’re dealing with a rather ‘cultural’ thing. Which cultural thing has appeared at the intersection between us and them. We had enslaved them. We had kept them at arm’s length until not so long ago. So many of us continue to look down on them. We consider it’s their individual responsibility to pull themselves up! And how are they supposed to do that? Statistically speaking, and in the present conditions, not only the most talented and the very lucky among them….
How are we going to proceed? Continue with the blame game – and play into the hands of those who want us weak, or attempt to do something about it? To find a real solution?
nicichiarasa 