Joe Cooper
2017-07-17 21:28:52 UTC
A reader strolling down the street in Chicago spotted a recruiting poster
for Activist Jobs, a bit of an oxymoron. Activism by implication is
volunteer work undertaken because the goal sought by the acts in question
is so important to the activist. Goal-oriented acts that are
compensated are called work, not activism. But in the photograph
below, the two different categories of endeavor are conflated:
[IMAGE: Poster offering "Activist jobs"]
The confusion is deliberate and speaks to a larger strategy of the Left,
also based on deception.
The American Left has relied on its mastery of the media
enthusiastically aided and abetted by the 90% of national political
journalists today that are progressives of one stripe or another for
its political power for decades. Ever since the 1950s, the left has been
deliberately creating events in order to attract media attention that
pushes a narrative confirming the justice of their demands. It learned
that the new medium of television was perfect for creating artificial
dramas that would sway support its way.
The Civil Rights Movement was the first to discover this video
dramaturgical approach to politics, when racist politicians in the South
(every one of them a Democrat, a fact that has been consigned to Orwells
Memory Hole) brutalized black demonstrators asking for the right to eat
at a lunch counter next to whites, or other perfectly just demands.
Television audiences worldwide grasped who the villains and heroes were,
and the struggle was won once the narrative took hold among Americans.
Inevitably, defenders of the old order were marginalized, looking
horrible.
In the case of the civil rights struggle, justice triumphed from the
activism, as this powerful new weapon was exploited. But the media
lesson was learned principally on the Left, as conservatives, and
Republicans especially, generally are inept (at best) in managing
appearances, which is why the title Stupid Party has more than a little
justification.
In the later 1960s, the leftist sympathizers with the Communist regime of
North Vietnam quickly adapted the tactics of the civil rights
demonstrators to their own cause and launched what became disguised as
the anti-war movement a movement that was fine with a war won by the
communists, but that did not want America fighting for its own ally,
South Vietnam. It pretended to be about "peace" but really was about
"suurrender."
The Leftists created street theatre, and other telegenic events that
attracted coverage, while in Vietnam itself, a few Buddhist monks
immolated themselves before television cameras, providing invaluable
evidence of the sincerity and dedication of the cause. No American
Leftists deliberately offered their lives, of course. But they did stage
all sorts of events, building up to huge mass demonstrations in cities
hosting large numbers of college students. Without the fear of being
drafted and sent to Vietnam, there would have been far fewer men turning
out for those demonstrations.
The era saw occasionally brilliant propaganda, such as this poster aimed
at creating a sexy façade for the men that evaded their duty, in effect
offering the prospect of sexual favors for evading the draft.
[IMAGE: Poster "Girls say yes to guys who say no"]
Once again, the use of activism, video drama, and demonstrations by a
political movement led to victory, though in this case it was tyranny in
the form of a brutal Communist dictatorship, not justice, that triumphed.
From the standpoint of the hard left, this was a feature, not a defect.
It proved to the thinkers on the left that the tool they had generated
(activists, street theatre, and a narrative pushed out to a mass audience
via television) could be used for any cause, no matter if the narrative
being peddled was absolute fiction. Generate an event that grabs
attention, and let the progressives who write and comment on the news
tell the public what the story is: the left's cause is good
(compassionate, scientific, etc.) and the Republicans or conservatives
opposed to them are mean, stupid fanatics.
It has worked on issue after issue. And here we are today with
transgender bathrooms and other ornaments of the progressive worldview
imposed on the public.
However, with the emergence of Fox News and the internet, alternative
narratives gained enough prominence that the propaganda machine started
failing, losing its hegemony at first, and at an increasing pace, its
credibility.
Donald Trumps election was in no small part an active rejection of a
manufactured narrative that was relentlessly pursued by the media
(especially television), aided and abetted by demonstrators creating
manufactured drama. The media-political deepthinkers decided that Trumps
crowd should be portrayed as dangerous, violent thugs reminiscent of
Hitlers rise to power. So Robert Creamer, husband of Rep. Jan Schakowski
(D-IL) and a longtime shadowy Democrat operative, deployed
troublemakers to stir up a hoped-for violent response, which could then
be televised in an appropriately edited form. The resulting drama was
eagerly lapped up by the media lapdogs, and is still believed to be an
accurate vision of Trumps supporters by many people whose media diet
follows the priorities of the editors of New York Times.
But this time around, James OKeefe secretly videotaped Creamer and his
colleague Scott Forval chortling about their coup, and released the tapes
before the election. Hillarys campaign was shocked, shocked by the
revelation and condemned the tactics, of course. So did all Democrats
who try to look respectable. Creamer lost his gig for a while, but has
not slunk away in disgrace. He is far too valuable to be shunned. And he
is suing OKeefe for a million dollars.
When candidate Trump popularized the iconic expression fake news, he
coined a meme that served to throw off balance not just the ostensible
current target CNN, but the entire progressive media establishment. Their
ability to manufacture outrage has drastically declined along with their
credibility. As a result, Democrats have more trouble selling fantasy
narratives, such as the outlandish claims made that a GOP revision would
cause mass suffering on a horrific scale, The high bidder on the deal was
Maxine Waters, who buffoonishly claimed that 700 billion people will lose
their insurance.
The progressive worldview is entirely based on fantasies about human
nature. From there they go on to create entered systems (communism,
socialism, and progressivism) based on the idea of perfecting mankind
through the wisdom of the state. Gramsci taught the communists to grab
control of education and the media, where they create imaginary worlds
for the masses to consume. This technique has been in place for decades,
winning its battles no matter which party controls the White House or
Congress. Politics is downstream from culture, as Andrew Breitbart taught
us.
But that dream machine finally is breaking down, rotting from within as
the old media establishment continues to decline, and as the internet
lowers entry barriers for newcomers to mass communications like Matt
Drudge and this website, among countless other examples.
The workers disguised as activists in the posters pictured above may
well earn their wages, but I dont think the donors of the funds paying
them will get much for their money, as science in the form of fetal
imaging is changing more minds than any abortion fake-activists can.
By breaking up the Gramsciites control of mass media, technology has
fundamentally damaged the Lefts ability to impose its narratives. And
now they face a president who uses the tools of that technology to
communicate around them directly to the public in the millions.
Yet because they have no idea what else to do, they compulsively return
to the fantasy narrative of Russian collusion, and will persist until
it backfires, exposing the web of connections of Hillary Clinton, the
green movement, and many others, to the Kremlin.
Source: http://bit.ly/2vbdxtj
for Activist Jobs, a bit of an oxymoron. Activism by implication is
volunteer work undertaken because the goal sought by the acts in question
is so important to the activist. Goal-oriented acts that are
compensated are called work, not activism. But in the photograph
below, the two different categories of endeavor are conflated:
[IMAGE: Poster offering "Activist jobs"]
The confusion is deliberate and speaks to a larger strategy of the Left,
also based on deception.
The American Left has relied on its mastery of the media
enthusiastically aided and abetted by the 90% of national political
journalists today that are progressives of one stripe or another for
its political power for decades. Ever since the 1950s, the left has been
deliberately creating events in order to attract media attention that
pushes a narrative confirming the justice of their demands. It learned
that the new medium of television was perfect for creating artificial
dramas that would sway support its way.
The Civil Rights Movement was the first to discover this video
dramaturgical approach to politics, when racist politicians in the South
(every one of them a Democrat, a fact that has been consigned to Orwells
Memory Hole) brutalized black demonstrators asking for the right to eat
at a lunch counter next to whites, or other perfectly just demands.
Television audiences worldwide grasped who the villains and heroes were,
and the struggle was won once the narrative took hold among Americans.
Inevitably, defenders of the old order were marginalized, looking
horrible.
In the case of the civil rights struggle, justice triumphed from the
activism, as this powerful new weapon was exploited. But the media
lesson was learned principally on the Left, as conservatives, and
Republicans especially, generally are inept (at best) in managing
appearances, which is why the title Stupid Party has more than a little
justification.
In the later 1960s, the leftist sympathizers with the Communist regime of
North Vietnam quickly adapted the tactics of the civil rights
demonstrators to their own cause and launched what became disguised as
the anti-war movement a movement that was fine with a war won by the
communists, but that did not want America fighting for its own ally,
South Vietnam. It pretended to be about "peace" but really was about
"suurrender."
The Leftists created street theatre, and other telegenic events that
attracted coverage, while in Vietnam itself, a few Buddhist monks
immolated themselves before television cameras, providing invaluable
evidence of the sincerity and dedication of the cause. No American
Leftists deliberately offered their lives, of course. But they did stage
all sorts of events, building up to huge mass demonstrations in cities
hosting large numbers of college students. Without the fear of being
drafted and sent to Vietnam, there would have been far fewer men turning
out for those demonstrations.
The era saw occasionally brilliant propaganda, such as this poster aimed
at creating a sexy façade for the men that evaded their duty, in effect
offering the prospect of sexual favors for evading the draft.
[IMAGE: Poster "Girls say yes to guys who say no"]
Once again, the use of activism, video drama, and demonstrations by a
political movement led to victory, though in this case it was tyranny in
the form of a brutal Communist dictatorship, not justice, that triumphed.
From the standpoint of the hard left, this was a feature, not a defect.
It proved to the thinkers on the left that the tool they had generated
(activists, street theatre, and a narrative pushed out to a mass audience
via television) could be used for any cause, no matter if the narrative
being peddled was absolute fiction. Generate an event that grabs
attention, and let the progressives who write and comment on the news
tell the public what the story is: the left's cause is good
(compassionate, scientific, etc.) and the Republicans or conservatives
opposed to them are mean, stupid fanatics.
It has worked on issue after issue. And here we are today with
transgender bathrooms and other ornaments of the progressive worldview
imposed on the public.
However, with the emergence of Fox News and the internet, alternative
narratives gained enough prominence that the propaganda machine started
failing, losing its hegemony at first, and at an increasing pace, its
credibility.
Donald Trumps election was in no small part an active rejection of a
manufactured narrative that was relentlessly pursued by the media
(especially television), aided and abetted by demonstrators creating
manufactured drama. The media-political deepthinkers decided that Trumps
crowd should be portrayed as dangerous, violent thugs reminiscent of
Hitlers rise to power. So Robert Creamer, husband of Rep. Jan Schakowski
(D-IL) and a longtime shadowy Democrat operative, deployed
troublemakers to stir up a hoped-for violent response, which could then
be televised in an appropriately edited form. The resulting drama was
eagerly lapped up by the media lapdogs, and is still believed to be an
accurate vision of Trumps supporters by many people whose media diet
follows the priorities of the editors of New York Times.
But this time around, James OKeefe secretly videotaped Creamer and his
colleague Scott Forval chortling about their coup, and released the tapes
before the election. Hillarys campaign was shocked, shocked by the
revelation and condemned the tactics, of course. So did all Democrats
who try to look respectable. Creamer lost his gig for a while, but has
not slunk away in disgrace. He is far too valuable to be shunned. And he
is suing OKeefe for a million dollars.
When candidate Trump popularized the iconic expression fake news, he
coined a meme that served to throw off balance not just the ostensible
current target CNN, but the entire progressive media establishment. Their
ability to manufacture outrage has drastically declined along with their
credibility. As a result, Democrats have more trouble selling fantasy
narratives, such as the outlandish claims made that a GOP revision would
cause mass suffering on a horrific scale, The high bidder on the deal was
Maxine Waters, who buffoonishly claimed that 700 billion people will lose
their insurance.
The progressive worldview is entirely based on fantasies about human
nature. From there they go on to create entered systems (communism,
socialism, and progressivism) based on the idea of perfecting mankind
through the wisdom of the state. Gramsci taught the communists to grab
control of education and the media, where they create imaginary worlds
for the masses to consume. This technique has been in place for decades,
winning its battles no matter which party controls the White House or
Congress. Politics is downstream from culture, as Andrew Breitbart taught
us.
But that dream machine finally is breaking down, rotting from within as
the old media establishment continues to decline, and as the internet
lowers entry barriers for newcomers to mass communications like Matt
Drudge and this website, among countless other examples.
The workers disguised as activists in the posters pictured above may
well earn their wages, but I dont think the donors of the funds paying
them will get much for their money, as science in the form of fetal
imaging is changing more minds than any abortion fake-activists can.
By breaking up the Gramsciites control of mass media, technology has
fundamentally damaged the Lefts ability to impose its narratives. And
now they face a president who uses the tools of that technology to
communicate around them directly to the public in the millions.
Yet because they have no idea what else to do, they compulsively return
to the fantasy narrative of Russian collusion, and will persist until
it backfires, exposing the web of connections of Hillary Clinton, the
green movement, and many others, to the Kremlin.
Source: http://bit.ly/2vbdxtj
--
"The Marxists, communists and fascists of the Democrat Party have
launched a strategy of deception, projection, and a new generation of
brown shirts who fanatically believe that their violence is honorable,
and necessary, to save America from some kind of a Fourth Reich
perpetrated by the GOP." (Douglas Gibbs )
"The Marxists, communists and fascists of the Democrat Party have
launched a strategy of deception, projection, and a new generation of
brown shirts who fanatically believe that their violence is honorable,
and necessary, to save America from some kind of a Fourth Reich
perpetrated by the GOP." (Douglas Gibbs )