We live in an age of lies fed to us by a political elite and corporate media that rivals Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.

Just in this century we’ve had the lies fed to us justifying the invasion of Iraq, the lies fed to us about the banks being solvent and paying back all of the bail-out billions in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash, the lies fed to us about Russia-gate, and now the ongoing lies fed to us about the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

I grew up absorbing a pack of lies about the first Cold War, where Communism was the focus of the propaganda. It was a Manichean worldview dominated by the Sacred (free-enterprise) vs the Satanic (Communism). A society, like the US, that is predisposed to see the world in Manichean terms will be extremely vulnerable to propaganda. Speaking of the Sacred and the Satanic, presently the all-American propaganda machine is tailored to a red audience and a blue one, where conservatives are utterly convinced that Biden and the Democrats are secret communists while all the little liberals believe that Trump and his MAGA supporters are Nazis even as they are fine with our real Ukrainian Nazi-proxies.

In other words the corporate media has devised a highly-profitable marketing processes that manufactures fake dissent, by appealing to Americans Manichean worldview, in order to preclude real dissent.

However, while the US corporate media possesses an awesome power of illusion, reality usually has the final say. Our country is so utterly dominant in the distribution of information and propaganda, including the electronic and social media, that we can easily persuade almost all Americans and most of the world to accept as truth our manufactured illusions.

But we cannot alter the underlying reality, perhaps leading to disastrous ultimate consequences.

Indeed, over the decades our country’s very well-oiled media-propaganda organs had proven themselves extremely skilled in flushing away memories of our past failures and defeats, but the the defeat of our Ukrainian proxy might be much more difficult to conceal.

There’s the political aspect to the present Ukraine illusions. With Biden running for re-election, the last thing he wants in the world is for him to have to declare that he was defeated in Ukraine.
So that is why they will keep funding the war in Ukraine. They’ll keep saying, you know, we stand by Ukraine, et cetera, for domestic political reasons, even though essentially, as far as I can tell, the US and NATO has lost in Ukraine, but they’ll keep up the pretense that they might yet win until after the election, which means that for the next year we are going to see the Mighty Wurlitzer turned up to 11.

And that’s why you are starting to see all of the pressure applied to US politicians who are feeling a bit of Ukraine fatigue.

And it’s not like it doesn’t work. Remember when US liberals were conditioned to hate Russia by a completely false narrative which was fed to the media by the western intelligence cartel, while the west was engaging in actions that same intelligence cartel knew would provoke a war with Russia?

These are just some examples to illustrate that the United States has the worlds best propaganda machine hands-down, with over a century of refinements and upgrades as new communication technology becomes available. The narrative managers work so hard on internet control for the same reason they’ve worked so hard on radio and television control: to control the American public. The easiest way to control people is to control how they think, and the easiest way to control how they think is to control what information they consume.

In Taking The Risk Out Of Democracy, Alex Carey postulates that: “The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

Taking Carey’s analysis further we find: capitalism requires propaganda; a corporate plutocracy like the US requires a more sophisticated propaganda to maintain the illusion of representative democracy; this sophisticated propaganda’s greatest triumph has been to convince Americans that they are free from propaganda.