When I saw "Wag the Dog", of course I thought it was material some Hollywood screenwriter had dreamed up. I disliked the movie because I thought it was ridiculously over the top and had no instructive value.
Fast-forward to the present and we find out "They" do it in "real life". And not only that, I found out they've been deceiving on this scale for a very long time when I stumbled on this quote from George Orwell on the Spanish Civil War:
Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.”
Haha,,yeah, it goes from "ridiculous!" in December of 1997 to "oh yeah, of course" by January 1998. We get trifled with so easily. But it gets worse, and here's something you might find interesting.
First, I would suggest there should probably be no association with the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, since that didn't start until 15 months later.
But in any case, the "predictive programming" made sure we swallowed the scandal right when it came along. right? But how did they get the timing so good? How did they know when or even it was going to break? Mere coincidence? You wouldn't have to believe that if...
When I saw "Wag the Dog", of course I thought it was material some Hollywood screenwriter had dreamed up. I disliked the movie because I thought it was ridiculously over the top and had no instructive value.
Fast-forward to the present and we find out "They" do it in "real life". And not only that, I found out they've been deceiving on this scale for a very long time when I stumbled on this quote from George Orwell on the Spanish Civil War:
When I saw "Wag the Dog", it didn't seem far-fetched to me. I thought it was all about Clinton, Lewinsky, and NATO bombing Serbia.
The movie was released just before the scandal broke. So the "predictive programming" was successful, eh?
Yeah, I wonder. I saw it on video, not at the theater when it first came out.
Haha,,yeah, it goes from "ridiculous!" in December of 1997 to "oh yeah, of course" by January 1998. We get trifled with so easily. But it gets worse, and here's something you might find interesting.
First, I would suggest there should probably be no association with the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, since that didn't start until 15 months later.
But in any case, the "predictive programming" made sure we swallowed the scandal right when it came along. right? But how did they get the timing so good? How did they know when or even it was going to break? Mere coincidence? You wouldn't have to believe that if...
The Monica Lewinsky Scandal was faked (24-page PDF)