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Question Everything

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Question Eveything

Tuesday, Dec 09, 2025 - 01:20 PM
Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com,

The average person in the First World receives far more information than he would if he lived in a Second or Third World country. In many countries of the world, the very idea of twenty-four hour television news coverage would be unthinkable, yet many Westerners feel that, without this constant input, they would be woefully uninformed.

Not surprising, then, that the average First Worlder feels that he understands current events better than those elsewhere in the world. But, as in other things, quality and quantity are not the same.

The average news programme features a commentator who provides “the news,” or at least that portion of events that the network deems worthy to be presented. In addition, it is presented from the political slant of the controllers of the network. But we are reassured that the reporting is “balanced,” in a portion of the programme that features a panel of “experts.”

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Generally, the discussion reveals precious little actual insight and, in fact, only the standard opposing liberal and conservative positions are discussed, implying that the viewer must choose one or the other to adopt as his own opinion.
[And] Each issue facet that is addressed is repeated many times in the course of the day, then extended for as many days, weeks, or months as the issue remains current. The “message,” therefore, is repeated virtually as often as an advert for a brand of laundry powder.

So, what is the net effect of such news reportage? Has the viewer become well-informed?

In actual fact, not at all. What he has become is well-indoctrinated.

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Many viewers will agree that this is so, yet not recognise that, essentially, they are being programmed to simply absorb information. Along the way, their inclination to actually question and think for themselves is being eroded.

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The proof of this is that those who have been programmed, tend to react with anger when they encounter a Nigel Farage or a Ron Paul, [or a SignyM] who might well challenge them to consider a third option—an interpretation beyond the narrow conservative and liberal views of events. In truth, on any issue, there exists a wide field of alternate possibilities.

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Those in First World countries often point with pride at the advanced technology that allows them a greater volume of news than the rest of the world customarily receives.

Further, they are likely to take pride in their belief that the two opposing views that are presented indicate that they live in a “free” country, where dissent is encouraged.

Unfortunately, what is encouraged is one of two views—either the liberal view or the conservative view. Other views are discouraged.

The liberal view espouses that a powerful liberal government is necessary to control the greed of capitalists, taxing and regulating them as much as possible to limit their ability to victimise the poorer classes.

The conservative view espouses that a powerful conservative government is needed to control the liberals, who threaten to create chaos and moral collapse through such efforts as gay rights, legalised abortion, etc.

What these two dogmatic concepts have in common is that a powerful government is needed.

Each group, therefore, seeks the increase in the power of its group of legislators to overpower the opposing group. This ensures that, regardless of whether the present government is dominated by liberals or conservatives, the one certainty will be that the government will be powerful.

When seen in this light, if the television viewer were to click the remote back and forth regularly from the liberal channel to the conservative channel, he would begin to see a strong similarity between the two.

It’s easy for any viewer to question the opposition group, to consider them disingenuous—the bearers of false information. It is far more difficult to question the pundits who are on our own “team,” to ask ourselves if they, also, are disingenuous.

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Today, a[n] ... effective method [of propaganda] exists—one that retains the repetition of the latter method but helps to eliminate the open-ended field of alternate points of view. It does so by providing a choice between “View A” and “View B.”

In a democracy, there is always an “A” and a “B.” This illusion of choice is infinitely more effective in helping the populace to believe that they have been able to choose their leaders and their points of view.

In the modern method, when voting, regardless of what choice the individual makes, he is voting for an all-powerful government. (Whether it calls itself a conservative one or a liberal one is incidental.)

One solution to avoid being brainwashed by the dogmatic messaging of the media is to simply avoid watching the news. But this is difficult to do, as our associates and neighbours are watching it every day and will want to discuss with us what they have been taught.

The other choice is to question everything.

To consider that the event that is being discussed may not only be being falsely reported, but that the message being provided by the pundits may be consciously planned for our consumption.

FULL ARTICLE AT https://internationalman.com/articles/question-everything/

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Wednesday, December 10, 2025 12:02 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

It's a brilliant article.

There's always one thing that is going to ensure that we always fight and nobody really has any true handle on the truth though.

We're human beings. Those that got power would do anything to maintain that power. Information control was one of those things.

I think up until the internet came out, they had everything on lockdown. I remember getting yelled at by my Mexican American, ex-Marine stepfather yelled at me at the dinner table one night for shit-talking our (then current) President Clinton about something and that conversation veered into me shit-talking our Government. I was 18 at the time and our relationship was already tenuous at best, but he wasn't having any of that talk at the dinner table.

My Mexican American, ex-Marine, ex-Rush Limbaugh listening, stepfather who has voted for Donald Trump 3 times yelled at me for shit talking Clinton and our government in the late 90's.

... different times.

The Internet went mainstream and fucked all that up. Not only did it give a huge amount of alternative media in our country, but eventually all over the world. And because American's have Constitutional Protections that have safeguarded our ability (up to this point at least) to have a generally "free" internet, it came at a pretty severe cost.

You don't have this disunity in China, is all I'm saying. The got their shit on lockdown. They don't have to worry about hardly any external propaganda and the CCP is completely free to keep on indoctrinating their own people without any external influence (unless they desire it). And I would say that their solution is objectively worse because attempting to respect individual rights isn't even on their menu.

Back even in the 90's, a lot of thinking in America was still very homogeneous. Conspiracy Theories were the big things with GenX, and our parents didn't want any part of it. We had our X-Files. Internet became affordable at least at slow speeds for most people my age in our late teens or early twenties. We still had 20 years of preinternet reality anchoring us to reality. Most of us remember living without answering machines or pagers, and some of us even remember a relative who had a rotary phone and were among the only in our generation to know what the ads on TV even meant when they said you needed to order with a "TouchTone Phone"... No CODs, please.

20-somethings today have no such tethers. They grew up with high-speed internet. 15 year olds grew up holding a smartphone in their hands as a babysitter from the day they were capable of doing so.

The Boomer grandparents are out there believing AI cat videos are real and getting scammed out of over $20 Billion per year from Indians and Kenyans.

Unless they have any reason to believe they have the ability to make a good future for themselves, why are any of these dumb kids going to listen to any of us dumb adults about anything?

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