Inside the Propaganda Matrix
As I sat there wondering how to explain the latest twist in the US presidential election, this story popped up on my Twitter feed: Bank of America analysts claim there’s a 50% chance we live in a “Matrix reality simulation”.
Aha!
As I read, it all began to make “sense”:
“Top bank analysts claim there’s a 50% chance our world is a computer simulation and we’re all plugged into a Matrix-style virtual reality.
“And they also reckon if it’s true – then there’s no way we’ll ever find out about it.
“The Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch made the astonishing claim in a research note citing comments by top scientists, astrophysicists, and philosophers….
“It said: ‘Many scientists, philosophers, and business leaders believe that there is a 20-50% probability that humans are already living in a computer-simulated virtual world. In April 2016, researchers gathered at the American Museum of Natural History to debate this notion.’”
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There’s no need to debate this notion any longer because there is indeed a way to discover whether it’s true. One merely has to read sports reporter Cindy Boren’s recent article in the Washington Post – a “respectable” newspaper – to confirm this theory as fact:
“Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist who has made the NFL so uncomfortable with his discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brains of deceased players, suggests that Hillary Clinton’s campaign be checked for possible poisons after her collapse Sunday in New York.
“Omalu, whose story was famously told in the movie ‘Concussion’” made the suggestion on Twitter, writing that he advised campaign officials to ‘perform toxicologic analysis of Ms. Clinton’s blood.’
“The suggestion was greeted somewhat skeptically in the replies.
“But this is Omalu, whose credentials and tenacity are well known. He wasn’t giving up on Twitter, adding that his reasoning is that he does not trust Russian President Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee who has expressed admiration for Putin.
“Putin, as The Washington Post reported, was implicated by a British inquiry in January in the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB operative, in London in 2006.”
How in the name of all that’s holy did this article make it past the editors of theWashington Post? This is a question that one might ask if journalists were living in a rational universe – but are they? I would submit that the answer is an emphatic no.
Either the Matrix theory advanced above is correct, or – and this seems more likely – the media is so unhinged by TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome – that “reporters” are no longer able to distinguish fantasy from reality. And it isn’t just the Post: theBoston Globe, not to be outdone in the irrationality sweepstakes, picked up the Omalu story and reported it with a straight face. Indeed, in an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, I made the argument that the media has dropped all pretense at objectivity and become an arm of the Clinton campaign, but there’s more to the story.
TDS seems to be a disease linked to yet another mass infection: the epidemic of Russophobia that seems to be sweeping the most “liberal” precincts of the country – with the epicenter in Washington, D.C. , and ground zero located at the precise coordinates of the Washington Post’s editorial offices.
Consider this: the Post has run the following pieces over the last few weeks:
A story averring, without proof, that the Russians are intent on rigging the election via cyberwar – and while the Post reporter doesn’t come out and say they’re trying to rig it in Trump’s favor, references to the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the subsequent resignation of DNC Debbie Wasserman Schultz make the implication all too clear. The DNC incident, we are told, is “not yet officially ascribed by the U.S. government to Russia,” but the author of this piece isn’t letting facts – or the skepticism of technical experts – get in the way of drawing the “right” conclusions. While “the intelligence community is not saying it has ‘definitive proof’ of such tampering,” the piece goes on to inform us, citing an anonymous “official,” “or any Russian plans to do so,” we should take this seriously because “even the hint of something impacting the security of our election system would be of significant concern.”
In other words: there no facts to back up what is clearly just pure propaganda, but since this is being published in the Washington Post you have to take it seriously.
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