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RE: Russiagate Is Like 9/11, Except It’s Made Of Pure Narrative

in #russia6 years ago

The reaction to Trump's meeting with Putin is shocking. Wolf Blitzer raving at Rand Paul was a classic minute of someone losing it, frightened beyond control. All that power built on unsustainable beliefs (narrative, your term, I understand the term, but, as a former fiction writer I like classical narrative; it is helpful in communicating truth by way of fiction). I can't think of a better term for the construct of explanation and justification used by the powerful to persuade the public. How can the present narrative be changed?
The media has sold out and will broadcast whatever their paymasters demand. As economic conditions deteriorate, fear drives tribalism---if you're not with us you're against us, other people are the problem, etc. So many are in positions where they lose if they object and lose if they don't object. Vote for Hillary. Vote for Trump. You can't vote for Sanders cuz his nomination was stolen.
If there is a way to divert the coming train wreck, I think it probably begins on a personal level. And grows from there. One honest person finding another. Choosing happiness over success. Working out ways to survive cooperatively. Celebrating truth.

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"Her narrative" and classical narrative are one and the same.

It is the story being told. And also how it is being told. Who is telling it matters as well, right?

Narrative is different from messaging, politics, and even Public Relations. Although great PR has or is attached to a very strong narrative.

If they wanted to, the international alliance of plutocrats and intelligence/defense agencies could just as easily use their near-total control of the narrative to advance the story that Trump is a dangerous Russia hawk who is imperiling the entire world by inflicting insane escalations against a nuclear superpower. They could elicit the exact same panicked emotional response that they are eliciting right now using the exact same media and the exact same factual situation. They wouldn't have to change a single thing except where they place their emphasis in telling the story. The known facts would all remain exactly as they are; all that would have to change is the narrative.