Exactly how fast can a story disappear? In this current era of advanced attention domination despotism, what seemed so sure and important five minutes ago may not make any sense right now. Rapid fire breaking news has this jack in the box feature. Each new headline is supplanted by a now new term of even more eager outrage and importance. A ship just crashed into a bridge! A pipeline just exploded at the bottom of the ocean! A preemptive war was just launched against…!!! A deadly virus was just discovered in the jungle/livestock/icecap!!! On an on it goes. The twists of Bob Dylan’s Balled of a Thin Man is manifest. “You know something is happening, but you don’t know what it is…” Each shock and awe headline splash may hold details that allow one to breach the programed propaganda wall of fraud we call news, but it requires stopping for a second to drill into that particular subject. Make the story stand still. Voraciously devouring news spins up a detail and context maelstrom. The ensuing blur cloaks the disappearing act, and leaves the rest up to “interpretation. If the goal is disaffection and distraction, it’s working. Headline purveyors hit the throttle. The next thing you know, issues that drove thoughts, moods, and attitudes are hard to even remember. When memories pop up the seem hard to believe. Cardboard cut outs of fans at ball games. Really?! What the heck is even going on?
I remember when there was like a month for two of North Korean nuclear missile crisis. We had missiles flying into the Sea of Japan, imminent danger. and intolerable circumstances. Insane leaders opposed to diplomacy, and bent on destruction. Then suddenly, snap, you never heard another word about it. How about the meltdowns at Fukushima? China syndrome event for which there is no known technology to stop. A nuclear furnace that will be erupting “forever’. Now we haven’t heard about it in forever. On it goes. The Twilight Zone doesn’t have this much curiosity. Some of the last things reported about the CV-19 pandemic were conspiratorial in nature. Then all of a sudden, poof, not another word. No more Fauci. No more CDC. No more WHO. No more anything. Now what? Hantavirus?
In modern institutional systematic ways it has become abundantly clear that what the populace experiences is indoctrination, not education. The clever techniques of dismantling critical thinking and displacing it with obedience has prepared popular consciousness ground for exploitation. With wedge issues thrown into the propaganda mix, the ever increasingly disabled body of humanity can’t agree on what they don’t really know. All they know is that they can’t agree.
With each passing minute another manufactured factoid of existence flashes and passes into obscurity. It passes without ever being critically unpacked. The deliberate efforts the money trust parasites that drive this system have made a lot of progress polluting, damaging, and really obliterating planetary culture and environment. While perhaps compromised, and mixed up, critical thought still exists. It’s allowed to be applied to matters that don’t threaten the corporate industrial complex machine. Turn the lens. What appears will be an angle on an event procession that lacks coherency, sustainability, and visibility. In this, piece by piece, stuff is going to reappear. Watch.