For the first month in my 57 years I have heard Americans use the term “misinformation” casually, as if it is a commonly held term native to an exchange of ideas in the language of our ancestral master class. For the span of my life, this term has been, until now, limited to a discussion of Soviet system oppression and Cold War geopolitics. I recall that in my late 20s, while reading the book Utopia in Power, by two Soviet expats, along with a Reader’s Digest book on the KGB, that the term grated in the gears of my mind. The former book was a liberal examination of the mechanics of internal Soviet oppression. The latter was a jingoistic, American-could-do-no-wrong litany of Soviet atrocities.
In both readings, the word that seemed to set the communist system of anti-thought starkly against the backdrop of my liberal and conservative reading list, was “misinformation,” the concept of the weaponized lie fabricated from a kernel of truth to mislead and misinform. Ironically, this word was put into play and has been used, predominantly, by political, media and academic voices, who are themselves dedicated to misleading us.
Separated by three decades from these readings, and having watched our own agencies of oppression slaughter American civilians and blame it on mentally ill American civilians numerous times, with great success, I should not be surprised to hear people in their early 20s using the Soviet term “misinformation” in every day conversation about social media.
The canary in the coal mine just died.
Thucydides wrote in his chronicle of the suicide of Hellas that the first casualty of that culturally internal war of political dominance was “the word,” that the very meanings of words had become malleable and were reduced to the tools of factional strife, diminishing Man and his every action into something base. The beauty of this phenomenon from the System perspective is that once internal powers of a cultural field begin weaponizing words they will both be rendered blind and cursed to cyclic debasement, a process that fuels the false polarity necessary for a lie-based system to thrive, rendering us into its fuel.
What information about reality that does sift through the baffles of the Media Lie machine is now nothing but a resource to be weaponized, cloaked in the lie of the Left or the Lie of the Right and launched across the Truth vacuum that is surveillance space, which we have somehow justified as “social media,” in our quest to complete our domestic devolution from pack to herd.
The Vile Shepherds above grin.
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Barbara Honegger quoted former CIA Director William Casey as saying:
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
On the internet answer site Quora Honegger personally corroborated that Casey said this verbatim while she was in the room. Her answer has since been deleted from the site, yet people remember.
https://www.quora.com/Did-CIA-Director-William-Casey-really-say-Well-know-our-disinformation-program-is-complete-when-everything-the-American-public-believes-is-false
https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKhonegger.htm
Perhaps there was never any difference between the KGB and CIA. Maybe it was always part of the grand design to make it appear as if there was a distinction between the two.