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00:00:51.000Hello there you Awakening Wanderers, thanks for joining us on our voyage to truth and freedom at a time where it seems possible to launch propaganda almost simultaneous to its counter-narrative.
00:01:00.000What I mean by that is during the Covid pandemic, however much pushback, however much discernment, however much questioning there was of official narratives and mainstream media narratives, There was sufficient centralised power to repress dissent to ensure that, broadly speaking, there was compliance.
00:01:16.000Now what you have is a greater ability to almost immediately challenge any emergent centralised or state narrative as soon as it emerges.
00:01:25.000Like, for example, we're being told that America is potentially on the brink of civil war, that this is a time of fissure and fracture.
00:01:33.000We've been told that a second Donald Trump term would be a kind of dictatorship, that America might descend into tyranny.
00:01:39.000And more and more we're seeing people talk about civil war.
00:01:42.000Alex Jones says that this is a way of legitimising authoritarianism and the exertion of control.
00:01:48.000And it seems that there is a good point being made there.
00:01:50.000Look at this post from Tim Pool, where he observes that just posting US civil war returns the result Donald Trump off Colorado ballot.
00:01:58.000What is happening with American democracy?
00:02:01.000Is it now impossible for the centralized legacy media establishment and the state establishment to launch a narrative and for it to stick?
00:02:09.000Precisely because now of independent media spaces where we're involved in an immediate direct discourse with you.
00:02:16.000So as soon as an idea like Trump's going to be the worst dictator since Hitler is out there, people are able to say, wait a minute, he doesn't have a paramilitary or what about the kind of abuse and overreach of power within the Biden administration?
00:02:28.000And aren't they using the threat of Trump as a dictator to avoid culpability for their own slide towards different types of authoritarianism?
00:02:37.000And this threat of civil war is almost immediately being met with counter
00:03:35.000And of course, the legacy media are amplifying the idea that war, the language of war, and the framing of war is appropriate.
00:03:42.000Have a look at this section from Morning Joe where confederalism is discussed.
00:03:47.000And immediately, as soon as you start thinking about war, particularly civil war, you have to consider a state of emergency and the kind of actions and measures that could be undertaken and legitimized in a state of emergency.
00:03:57.000To the Republican candidate's argument that this should be, the voters should have the say and not the courts.
00:04:05.000Why are you standing with Confederates who betrayed this country?
00:04:13.000And this is what they're standing with, is the spirit of those Confederates, rather than the Americans who came together after a long and brutal civil war that was fought to keep the Union together and saw, clearly saw, a threat.
00:04:34.000That's a fascinating piece of framing.
00:04:44.000Why shouldn't the voters be able to decide whether or not to elect Donald Trump?
00:04:49.000Why should we just go along with a piece of legislation?
00:04:51.000And the pundit dutifully says, why would you stand with Confederates, insurrectionists, and then claiming that it's in order to protect democracy?
00:05:00.000Indeed, when we're discussing dictatorship, which we frequently are on this channel, I think it's important to hold in mind that the type of dictatorship that seems more likely to me is a kind of technological, bureaucratic dictatorship that presents itself to us, the electorate or the consumers, however we're regarded now, as a kind of safety measure, a protective prophylactic from the ever-present threat of populist demagogues and dictators.
00:05:25.000We would have been having an election, but bloody hell, these insurrectionists, they get in there and ruin it.
00:05:30.000Well what's your excuse in Florida, where Joe Biden is the only candidate on the primary ballot?
00:05:35.000Or Massachusetts, where Marianne Williamson, is she also a terrible populist dictator?
00:05:41.000It's becoming increasingly clear that any dissenting voice, whether it's Bobby Kennedy, or Marianne Williamson, or Donald Trump, or Vivek Ramaswamy, or people in the culture, Elon Musk, myself, Joe Rogan, Any time that there are dissenting voices that get, you know, any traction at all, I'm certainly not putting myself in the same category as those heavy hitters on a global stage, there's a massive response and the legitimization of shutting down that voice.
00:06:05.000What would be required to shut that voice down?
00:06:08.000Well, if this person was guilty of this, and we just rushed straight to the conviction part of the process, if we can just say someone's an insurrectionist, if you actually see Donald Trump on that day, he literally says, I'm sure you will go over now to the Capitol and peacefully and patriotically protest.
00:06:24.000I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building.
00:06:31.000That word peacefully is always extracted from the analysis because what would you have to say?
00:07:04.000But what it wasn't was an attempt to take over America.
00:07:08.000And people that are saying that it was are doing that to extract the threat of Donald Trump.
00:07:12.000And indeed, the massive demographic that supports Donald Trump.
00:07:16.000And that is why I think the war narrative becomes important.
00:07:19.000Because once before in America's history, it was necessary to say, half of everyone's just crazy.
00:07:25.000And in retrospect, it's easy to say, well, because of slavery and racism.
00:07:29.000But the Democrat Party were famously the party of slavery.
00:07:32.000And that seems to have been extracted conveniently from the narrative in the same way that peacefully has been extracted from the January 6th narrative.
00:07:40.000So let's have a look at what we're dealing with here.
00:07:42.000Is it war, or is it a new tool for propaganda?
00:07:46.000That's the ominous tagline for Civil War, a Hollywood movie to be released in April.
00:07:50.000As the title suggests, it depicts a second American war of the states.
00:07:54.000A bombastic trailer clip hints at the chaotic violence and destruction unleashed in the wake of conflict between the federal government and some vague rebel faction, the unimaginatively named Western forces.
00:08:05.000It's an unrealistic and frankly absurd political fantasy of the near future, but that hasn't stopped much of the liberal commentariat taking to the proverbial fainting couch after watching it.
00:08:14.000Chilling and scary, said Entertainment Weekly.
00:08:18.000Dare you to watch Civil War trailer Already when it's been framed in that way, you start to see, oh this is a cultural artefact that's being used to mobilise fear.
00:08:29.000Even if you take away the agent of fear, it could be a foreign war campaign, it could be religious tension and conflict around the world, it could be ideological and cultural conflict between people with progressive or traditional perspectives on identity and culture and the family and a whole raft of issues.
00:08:47.000The more that we're afraid, I'm speaking from personal experience, the less able we are to be kind of discerning, stoic, calm, perspicacious, communicative, trusting.
00:08:58.000Fear is a sort of trauma state that part of civilization was meant to have helped us progress beyond.
00:09:05.000But it's interesting that while we're off at the spoils of civilisation, it's accompanied with an incessant jolting back into that fear zone.
00:09:49.000Does this seem like a desperate establishment, unable to cope with the new independent media space and the emerging grassroots political movements from the Tea Party in your country onwards, and even leftist movements like Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn here in this country, shutting it down, flattening it down, always able to grab some convenient reason why this person should be extracted from the conversation?
00:10:13.000It's another sign of the topsy turvy times we live in.
00:10:16.000Apocalyptic fears of the end of America used to be the calling card of the religious and militia loving far right, but now it's the liberals trying to keep up with the Alex Joneses by screeching loudly that the end is near.
00:10:27.000So it used to be the left that was peace loving and anti-war. You remember that,
00:10:32.000it's not actually that long ago. But now the left, the Democrat party in the United
00:10:35.000States, if you want to call them the left, are very pro-war. They're supporting a
00:10:39.000number of wars and suggesting ongoing support.
00:10:42.000Similarly, it used to be the right that were apocalyptic, like the end is nigh, armed militia
00:10:47.000as cited in this article. But now the left are doing that and it makes you wonder what,
00:10:53.000If they're pro-war, if they're using rhetoric that belong to the right, what is it that they actually do represent?
00:11:00.000In a sense you'll start to glimpse the nihilism that's just beneath the veneer of protectivism which ultimately stands for authoritarianism.
00:11:08.000There were no real principles there because Look, they don't care about war anymore.
00:11:17.000We certainly saw a good degree of authoritarianism that has been subsequently delegitimised during the pandemic era, whether that was surveillance, censorship, proposal for digital ID.
00:11:30.000This month, the line being espoused ad nauseum by the progressive media is that we're all collectively sleepwalking into a Trump-led fascist dictatorship.
00:11:39.000It's this sort of rhetoric that makes legal action against a former president seem proportional, even when it's bound to backfire, as yesterday's Colorado ruling seemed to demonstrate.
00:11:47.000It begs the question, how did we get to the point where a large segment of the population, the serious rational ones who follow the science, believe that a contemporary Civil War movie is a preview of our future, although a second Trump term could be worse than Nazi Germany?
00:12:03.000What kind of climate has been created and who created it?
00:12:06.000For one, it's the media who cried wolf.
00:12:08.000This is year seven of liberalism's Trump-fuelled panic attack, and the volume of discourse from corporate media, politicos and social mediates has been turned up to ear-piercing levels for so long.
00:12:20.000That only the most bombastic pronouncements have a chance at breaking through all the noise.
00:12:23.000God, it could actually just be a way of reaching an audience.
00:12:58.000The Handmaid's Tale is actually a prophecy coming true.
00:13:01.000Where else to go if not to the end of America?
00:13:04.000Was January 6th, as the Atlantic claimed, only a warm-up to some new stage of domestic evil?
00:13:10.000At the heart of all this fatalistic wailing and gnashing of teeth is a profound detachment between the danger, destruction and death experienced first-hand versus merely consumed.
00:13:21.000As our everyday lives become increasingly mediated through our digital misery machines, the lines get blurred between reality and a simulation of it.
00:13:28.000Doom scroll on your phone enough and eventually you'll feel doomed.
00:13:31.000It's an interesting point that we've become abstracted from the realities that we were evolved, designed to live within, to such an extreme point that we're now happy to live in a simulation, or perhaps even a simulacrum, a repeated image again and again that we are bombarded with, until we can no longer discern its validity.
00:13:53.000We're not engaged in the growing of our own food.
00:13:56.000The maintenance of our own homes, the protection of our own families, loved ones or groups.
00:14:03.000We've become, in a sense, entirely endomed by propaganda and external stimulation.
00:14:10.000This is why I think even the point about Tim Pool's tweet was interesting.
00:14:15.000If you put a US civil war into a search engine, the reality that you're given is Trump, Colorado.
00:14:21.000We've done stories and spoken to experts about how Google promotes certain news stories and therefore provide a version of reality that is often favourable to the interests of the powerful.
00:14:31.000We're not living in an absolute reality.
00:14:34.000No one could live in a reality of 300 million American citizens.
00:14:51.000Community sovereignty is a possibility.
00:14:53.000It's interesting that the escalation, or decline in fact, of people's optimism about the times, as it said here, 2016, worst year ever, 2017, even worse, 2018, It's getting worse and worse.
00:15:04.000Mirrors what Martin Gurry said about the publication of information from 2001 onwards.
00:15:09.000As more and more information becomes available, of course, there are enclaves of people getting more and more clever, more and more communication, but there is an amplification of hysteria and a kind of fissuring and fracturing To the point where war seems inevitable, but in fact it's a simulation of war.
00:15:25.000It's an awareness of a philosophical distinction, a partition of ways of life, and that could be mapped onto reality without the necessity of war.
00:15:34.000You could say, oh, it seems that some people really have strong beliefs that are of this type,
00:15:39.000and others have strong beliefs that are of this type.
00:15:41.000As long as we don't engage in some territorial mayhem about which bits of land each side owns,
00:15:46.000it would be entirely possible to use this technology to have decentralized community sovereignty, wouldn't it?
00:15:53.000Some journalists have remarked lately on what the New York Times deemed the great disconnect,
00:15:57.000the yawning gap between our perceptions of the economy under Bidenomics and the lived experience of it.
00:16:02.000Yet the disconnect that's unpopular to talk about is between the actual preconditions of a 2020 civil war
00:16:14.000Even with the recent heated rhetorical battles over the Israel-Palestine war since October, there hasn't been a marked increase in political violence in the United States, just a wave of interpersonal conflict since the Covid-19 pandemic.
00:16:25.000Elections are being safely held all over America and the Colorado Supreme Court decision is unlikely to change that.
00:16:31.000Our governing bodies and institutions are relatively stable and new laws are being created in red and blue states alike without a shot fired.
00:16:38.000If anything, 2023 has been marked by a turn towards apathy.
00:16:44.000For most of this year, American news consumption and political donations decreased dramatically, social media feeds began to go dark, and people increasingly tuned out of the world beyond their doorstep.
00:16:53.000Prepare then for a 2024 in which politicians and the media play Paul Revere for this phantom civil war even harder leading up to November's election.
00:17:02.000After all, coaxing Democrats to wake up and grab their proverbial bayonets is good for clicks, donations, and votes.
00:17:09.000It might sound contradictory, but we should be alarmed about this kind of alarmism from Democrats and Republicans alike.
00:17:15.000Fear of domestic war can fuel more government overreach, a kind of counterinsurgency strategy against Americans that relies on demonization, over-surveillance, and even incarceration in the name of public safety.
00:17:28.000These are definitely observable trends.
00:17:30.000Demonisation, that's taking place on both sides, a kind of hysteria and condemnation.
00:18:06.000You need to legitimise and normalise consumerism as a way of life, fear as a state of mind, division and condemnation as an ordinary stance.
00:18:15.000Even in our lifetimes, we've gone from, oh, my uncle was a bit right wing, to we can't speak to that.
00:18:21.000But it's become militant, militarised and catastrophised even in like a decade.
00:18:29.000In Atlanta, fear of left-wing activists protesting the construction of a new police academy led to draconian measures from the state, such as the arrest of concertgoers at a music festival for domestic terrorism.
00:18:40.000Those measures were taken by a Republican-controlled state and a Democrat-run city.
00:18:44.000My sense is, as this example shows, Republican state, Democrat city, that both political establishment parties benefit from this increased state of fear and tension.
00:18:56.000And in making a choice between the Republican and the Democrats, you're making a choice about as serious as you are when you choose between Pepsi and Coca-Cola or McDonald's and Burger King.
00:19:04.000In an increasingly commodified culture where the results are all sewn up, where you're a consumer consuming bad food and sugary drinks and essentially facile political ideas.
00:19:19.000When in fact, as that example shows, and as many bipartisan movements towards war and war funding demonstrate, ultimately you're voting for the same thing.
00:19:30.000Ultimately, however, it's fine to go to the theatres to watch a fantasy war play out on the big screen.
00:19:36.000Just keep in mind that this one will likely be about as relevant to current day politics as Marvel's Captain America Civil War.
00:19:42.000So it seems that the idea of civil war It seems to me that whenever a word starts to be proliferated throughout a culture, it's a demonstration of an idea or a trend.