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EVERYTHING about the WEST is FAKE and DECEPTION.

In REALITY, west DOESN'T have a SINGLE VALUE.

I apologize....actually west does have values and they are RACISM, BLOOD
LUST, PATHOLOGICAL LYING, CUNNING, DECEPTION, INFINITE SELFISHNESS,
INSATIABLE GREED, PERVERSIONS, VIOLENCE, DEGENERACY and THIEVERY.


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I Support Western Values More Than The West Does: Notes From The Edge Of
The Narrative Matrix

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2023/01/03/i-support-western-values-more-than-the-west-does-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/

I’m often criticized as being “anti-west”, but I am not anti-west, I am pro-west. I am so pro-west that I want our values of peace, freedom,
democracy, truth and justice to be real life things that exist in actual western civilization and not just a fiction that is taught to western schoolchildren.

I am so pro-west that I want the west to embody the actual western
values it pretends to embody. I am so pro-west that I support the
practice of spreading western values to the west. I’m a western cultural imperialist, except I want to do western cultural imperialism to the west. I’m like a conquistador, a western colonialist setting sail to
spread the wonders of western civilization to these godless western
savages. Except instead of actually just bringing them murder, slavery,
theft and disease I really am trying to bring them western civilization.

I am so pro-west that I want the western values that were sold to me as
a child to be actual things that actually exist. And because I support
western values much more than the actual west does, I get called “anti-west” and told to move to China. Shit, they should move to China.

A guy I follow on Twitter named David Gondek put it very nicely: “There
is nothing wrong with western civilization that living up to its own
professed principles wouldn’t fix.”

It’s not “anti-west” to want the west to end warmongering, militarism, censorship, propaganda, government secrecy, oligarchy, injustice,
oppression and exploitation, it is pro-west. The “western values” of
peace, justice, equality, democracy, freedom and accountability that we
were taught in school are very good things. The only problem is that the
west doesn’t actually value them.

To be clear, the US empire is getting everything it wants out of the war
in Ukraine. It claims out of one side of its mouth that this was an
unprovoked invasion that it never wanted, while admitting this war is
giving it everything it ever wanted out the other side. The US did not
just luckily stumble into a happy coincidence that just happens to
advance all of its longstanding geostrategic agendas against a longtime geopolitical target. It deliberately created this situation, and only a baby-brained idiot would believe otherwise.

Putin isn’t waging this war because he thought it would be a nice idea
to grab a bit more land, he’s waging it because he assessed that he’d
need to fight off NATO aggressions in Ukraine at some point and it would
be easier to do it now than later. People say “Hurr hurr, if the US
provoked this war to advance its own interests then Putin’s an idiot for falling for it,” but anyone who’s ever played chess knows strategy is
often about forcing your opponent to choose between two bad options,
either of which benefit you.

There’s still this notion in some anti-imperialist factions that Putin
is a brilliant strategic wizard who is outfoxing the empire in a game of
5D chess, but really he’s just fighting on the back foot against a far wealthier, far more powerful foe, and it’s costing his nation dearly.

Whether Ukraine “wins” this war or not is irrelevant to the fact that
the US empire was for relatively little cost able to create a massive
sinkhole for Moscow to pour its energy and attention into, freeing up
the imperial machine to focus on turning the screws on China.

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Friendly reminder that China poses a threat solely to the US empire and
its agendas of planetary domination, not to the US as a country. Empire architects are intentionally confusing Americans and other westerners by conflating these two issues in a massive propaganda campaign.

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Being a child of wealthy parents is like being born into a cult whose
entire focus is reinforcing class solidarity for the ruling class. Their
social culture, academic culture, family culture etc are all dedicated
to building an elite commonality that excludes the common riff raff.

That’s why the ruling class have such vastly superior class solidarity
to the working class. Most of us aren’t raised with an acute awareness
that we are very different from the ruling class and that their
interests conflict with our own, but everyone in the ruling class is. By
the time they’re mature enough to take the reins, members of the ruling
class have been run through an entire cultural processing system
dedicated to forming solidarity with their class, while the rest of us
have been focused on keeping our heads above water.

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One of the dopiest beliefs on the “populist right” currently is that the ruling elites care about normalizing wokeism and social justice. Our
rulers don’t give a fuck about trans rights or whatever, they only care
about fanning the flames of culture war to prevent a class war. Our
rulers would happily incinerate every trans person in the world if it
meant cementing their rule. The instant Black Lives Matter sloganeering
ceases to be politically useful it will be flushed down the toilet. They don’t care about marginalized groups, they just use them.

It’s so stupid. Like yeah, powerful plutocrats and secretive government agencies are scheming to normalize LGBT rights because they stopped
caring about power and domination and just love wokeness now. Good
thinking, dipshit.

In reality, marginalized groups pose no threat to you in any way
whatsoever. You are meant to view them as the enemy so that you don’t
view your rulers (who don’t care about either of you) as the enemy.

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Rightists who think of themselves as anti-establishment rebels while
clapping along with Trump, Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk are exactly the
same as Democrats who called themselves The Resistance for clapping
along with Mueller and Rachel Maddow. They’re the same kind of
mainstream dupes, just with different narratives.

“Resistance” liberals thought they were fighting the man because they
were trying to get the president arrested. MAGA rightists think they’re fighting the man because something something deep state. But in reality they’re both just mainstream partisans who fully support the imperial uniparty.

At least Democrats are honest about being Democrats. Rightists will clap
along with mainstream Republican politicians and mainstream Republican
pundits and then call other people mainstream partisan NPCs. Really
they’re exactly the same. They’re Republicans LARPing as nonpartisan
free thinkers.

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I don’t dismiss mainstream politicians and media because it’s inherently bad to be mainstream, I do it because right now we live in a highly
controlled civilization wherein the only things permitted to go
mainstream are those that help (or at least do not hinder) our rulers.
Right now the ruling class which controls all means of mainstream
elevation only elevates things which either (A) actively advance their interests or (B) normalize the status quo we live in with things like
shows and movies that depict people thriving under our current systems.

So right now there’s a wisdom in rejection of the mainstream. But we shouldn’t confuse that with the idea that being mainstream is always
bad. Our goal should be to have our own healthy values of peace,
equality and justice be the mainstream one day.

It’s a sign of toxicity to be elevated to the mainstream under the
current status quo. But we should keep in mind that if we are successful
in changing the status quo, the shifting of what becomes mainstream will
one day be a sign of health.

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