I have written about myths and habits and prejudices and superstitions
that we have… these myths and so on, are programs written into us
by our families and church and media and state…we are programmed
from childhood to hold certain beliefs… America is the greatest country on earth…
with myths like this, we indoctrinate our youth to hold certain beliefs
that we want to passed down from generation to generation…
but what current myths and habits and prejudices and superstitions
exist today?
for example, the fake news impression from IQ45…but other myths also
inhabit our world… for example, the myth that the landings on the moon.
were somehow faked…the reason for these fake landings are never really made
clear, but that is the point…
the rise of the conspiracy world is no less about myths and habits and prejudices
and superstition then in the past when people believed in spirits and angels and
god and heaven and hell… how is the believe in such myths and habits
any different then the conspiracy theory of the faked moon landing or in
the other urban myths of today…the Jews run the world type of myth…
or the secret cabal that runs the world, somehow or the illuminati that runs the world…
how are these modern myths any different then the age old myths of witches
and demons and angels and god, heaven and hell?
I for one, don’t see any difference between the long ago old myths and the new myths/
conspiracies of today… the fake news of today is no different then the fake news of
yesterday… it has just changed in the type of myths and habits and prejudices and
superstition we see today, it doesn’t change the hold that these myths and habits
have on people…
and the value that society has in the people having these myths is a rather interesting one…
if people are hung up on these fake news/myths, then they are not paying attention
to what is happening today…the real crimes of anti-democratic actions such as
inequality and injustice and intolerance are being committed…
fake news is perpetuated because it keeps people from seeing what is going on or
to get people to say, the hell with it, pox on both houses and I am just not going
to pay any attention of any kind…it allows people permission to just tune
out the news of the world and not pay attention…
I know people who hold these conspiracy theory’s and they are always
going on about the media is just fake news and the moon landing is fake
and about government conspiracies to take over the nation…
these people are no different then those who hold views about
angels and the devil and witches and demons… there is no difference in
the need to hold these myths and habits and prejudices and superstitions…
for that is what they are, these modern urban lies are myths
and habits and prejudices and superstitions…
we cannot grow as a people until we learn to live without these myths
and habits and prejudices and superstitions…
Kropotkin