RE: The truth movement is destroying itself.
You may be interested in this article: http://truthstreammedia.com/2015/01/13/cia-flashback-well-know-our-disinformation-program-is-complete-when-everything-the-american-public-believes-is-false/ about the Casey quote.
Regardless whether the attribution is correct or whether that quote was ever said in the first place, the best way to control a people is to manipulate their sense of reality to the point where they don't know what or whom to believe and they have lost confidence in their own perception. It is called gas lighting, or more technically, mindfuck. To make matters worse, because reality itself can be manipulated, the perception itself can be accurate, now we are perceiving correctly something that is false. A nightmarish scenario, which requires us to be particular vigilant and expand our knowledge of historical events as much as possible so that we can put things in perspective and identify patterns that can point us to the actual reality.
Short of that, maybe the only thing we have left is our own inner ethical compass and the companionship of people with an equally developed sense of ethics, even when they don't quite agree with our views and opinions.
Oh my, you just smashed it in 1 go, what a fantastic comment, that is deserving of a post in itself, in my humble opinion, I hope you make it so, I would gladly make it worth your while, thank you my friend, keep doing what you do.
@deliberator, thank you for the support and encouragement. I have a heavy week ahead of me, so I hope that I have enough bandwidth left in me to tackle the post and flesh it out a bit so that I am not merely plagiarizing myself.
(As an aside, I recently learned that in academic circles plagiarism - which I agree is a serious offense - includes self-plagiarism. Wtf, I thought, if it's my intellectual property, then surely it's not plagiarism? Beside, how many great composers, including JS Bach, no less, recycled some of their older work in their newer compositions) Getting a little off track here, the old neurons need some zzzzzz's.
Nonetheless, some understanding of the role of reality and perception (beside the pure philosophical aspect of the question) in the context of social control is essential. We are waging a real battle for sanity, truth and justice and the weapons of our enemy are all the more dangerous than they are within our very minds. Dang, this is really important because we must fight with the appropriate measures, so I may just end up plagiarizing myself after all!
Glad to know I'm not in this by myself, otherwise I'd start to worry whether it's windmills on the horizon...
Just keep doing what you do, and ignore the man made rules, or there will be so many and so complex, that you will lose the right to type one day, wait, that day is close.
I wrote about part of the process of turning pure propaganda into an accepted narrative by the majority, how it embeds itself into established truths through emotional attachments and slowly distorts the story so as to become pure fiction... yet believed to be real because of that emotional load generated.
I personally wouldn't refer to it as my "ethical compass", but rather a pure detachment from all sensory data - including any news - means I can maintain contact with a core consciousness. This is by no means permanent, but it helps see the emotional triggers and not react to them.
This too could turn into a proto-post!
Superb comment thank you, I added you to following, and will have a look at that article.