THE WESTERN TOTALITARIAN COALITION OF COMPLETE NARRATIVE CONTROL

It was a clever move but not without precedent. Those who had read George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’ were (or should have been) very familiar with it. Those who hadn’t… well, most appear to have been taken in, many completely.

The runup to the morphing into a totalitarian controlled zone was gradual. The establishment of that zone required a clear enemy (as in ‘1984’) a perpetual and heinous enemy with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. A source of pure evil and a history of vile deeds that put that enemy beyond the pale. That enemy was relentlessly demonised by every form of media for a decade and a half. Books, magazine and newspaper articles, television programmes, speeches by prominent political figures and by notable pundits and commentators. Any counter arguments to the prevailing narratives promulgated by mass media and senior figures had no meaningful effect. As far as the vast mass of the general public were concerned they had been told the truth and that “truth” was laid in deep in the subconscious by myriad sources relentlessly communicating the same message: “Here is our evil enemy, the enemy you should fear, loathe, hate and wish totally defeated, eliminated and replaced. This enemy cannot be redeemed, no good will come from talking with it. Diplomacy is wasted on it. It should only be tricked, fooled, confused, and relentlessly attacked until it is no more.

This tactic, employed consistently since 2007 worked all but perfectly. The only ones not conditioned completely by the relentlessly negative targeting of them were those who had an interest in geopolitics and had observed how half-truths and downright lies had become a weapon of war in the two decades before when a series of nations were attacked in one form or another by use of deceptive and dishonest means. Most people however had remained largely oblivious to the lies they were told during this time, either didn’t care much or firmly believed the lies were true and supported each and every attack or invasion. The majority of western populations then were open to a fresh series of conditioning messages broadcast from every possible media source and elite communication. Despite all the fabrications of the past two decades the new fabrications passed for truth with the majority, indeed with almost everyone. The percentage of skeptics was undoubtedly extremely low.

So, the groundwork was laid for the next push by those who had held the levers of power regarding the regime change wars of choice that had gone before. They or those who took their place and held the same stances regarding foreign policy as those they replaced. The necessity to destroy the enemy was held as a sacrosanct and unquestionable fixed idea. To rebel against it meant career suicide and was totally unthinkable. To demonstrate that you were the most fervent believer in that necessity was the path to ever-greater success, job advancement and all-round acceptance by your peers. In this way the coming totalitarian environment for the general population began with its installation in all the corridors of power across the West.

What were the reasons for such a dramatic shift in behaviour? Western state institutions had always been highly conservative and used to a certain degree of uniformity in thinking… but at the same time it was realised that complete uniformity might lead to blind spots where reality was obscured by dogma and fixed modes of thinking. Specialist teams in the UK Foreign Office and U.S. StateDepartment along with similar components in the UK MI5/6 and CIA had performed similar functions. By 2011 however, all were to be politicised and very soon after virtually all mass media also. From then on there would one single view, one series of narratives and, for the time being one single enemy. But why? Why do this to a system that had by and large worked well for you over centuries? Why turn a complex world of colourful geopolitical realities into one simple black and white fabrication?

Because the worst thing imaginable was going to happen to you. You were going to become impotent, weak and no longer able to have your way. The entire proud edifice of western power was clearly at enormous risk. The political, economic and military power and influence of the West was in imminent threat of dissolution in geopolitical terms threat. It was clear that within thirty years at most what had been built up over the previous three hundred would be totally lost. Those first would soon be last. All the status, the power, the pride, the “glorious” history, the right to govern, to manipulate, exploit, punish, obliterate, denigrate and push around would be gone… forever, never to return. Powers were seen to be rising that would take it all away, every last prideful and sexy, glorious and self-appointed, enriching and empowering, chest-puffing and status-ensuring reason for being what it was always assumed they would be forever and a day, special, exceptional and always, superior. The warders of the world would lose their place. The global cops would be retired and told to stay home. It was utterly unacceptable.

And so here we are. What was seen thirty years ago to be coming has arrived. Ironically brought on in a significant degree by the very actions designed to thwart it. The western elites, the power junkies that they have become over centuries, are losing their fix. And we all know what happens when a junkie begins to lose his or her fix. Desperation sets in. A willingness to contemplate acts that would have been eschewed in times of plenty. And, as the fix became ever more endangered all aspects of earlier relatively reasonable and ethical behaviour began to be dispensed with. Torture began to be used and semantic exercises indulged in to justify it. Wars were initiated along with invasions and attacks of many kinds both overt and covert, some using terrorist proxies. All leading to the point where no holds were barred at all. And this is also where we are now.

One of the primary weapons of these times where nothing is “off the table” is the creation of a coalition of states where the truth is what the agreed narrative is as decided by the coalition leader. In the case of the western states this is of course the USA, the state with most to lose by the rise of those who would inexorably take away its power, as foreseen all those years ago when the plans to counteract their development and to contain them were laid. The most potent element of the “truth” broadcast by all possible means was of course that about the enemy. That “truth” was paramount in creating the obedient states necessary to fight the enemy and to submit their taxes, energies and end of their life ambitions to the task of defeating that enemy without let or hindrance. And this is also where we are now. In a fight to the death with no Plan B, no questioning of the need to press onward, no matter the cost, even if the cost is the end of life itself as it has existed on this planet. Anything is better for the elites driving this juggernaut than losing the power and all that comes with it that they have enjoyed for so very long and cannot for even a second contemplate losing.

‘1984’ is recommended reading, to see where this leads, to understand what a totalitarian regime is capable of doing to its citizens. And then to consider the message of ‘1984’ in our present era where the use of strategic nuclear weapons is seen by some as yet another way to “win”...