tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850795848027608997.post5371196730098019489..comments2023-11-05T02:15:15.513-08:00Comments on Majia's Blog: Propaganda Near and FarMajia's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04941091700194936591noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850795848027608997.post-36057925270997117072017-10-30T13:27:03.225-07:002017-10-30T13:27:03.225-07:00https://nuclearinformation.wordpress.com/2017/10/3...https://nuclearinformation.wordpress.com/2017/10/30/environmental-progressand-michael-shellenberger-spreading-nuclear-lies-and-quack-science/<br /><br />"Environmental Progress" and Michael Shellenberger spreading nuclear lies and quack science. Garrethttp://nuclearinformation.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850795848027608997.post-64158838164219616942017-10-30T10:38:39.201-07:002017-10-30T10:38:39.201-07:00From
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/30/dona...From<br /><br />https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/30/donald-trump-as-the-bully-in-chief-weaponizing-the-politics-of-humiliation/<br /><br />Donald Trump as the Bully-in Chief: Weaponizing the politics of Humiliation<br /><br />by HENRY GIROUX<br /><br /><br /><br />Photo by Matt Johnson | CC BY 2.0<br /><br />"Donald Trump’s ascendancy in American politics has made visible a scourge of oppressive stupidity, manufactured deceptions, a corrupt political system, and a contempt for reason that has been decades in the making; it also points to the withering of civic attachments, the undoing of civic culture, the decline of public life, and the erosion of any sense of shared citizenship. Galvanizing his base of true-believers in post-election demonstrations, the world is witnessing how Trump’s history of unabashed racism and politics of hate is transformed into a spectacle of fear, divisions, and disinformation. Under President Trump, the plague of mid-20thcentury authoritarianism has returned not only in the menacing spectacle of populist rallies, fear-mongering, unchecked bigotry, and humiliation, but also in an emboldened culture of war, militarization, and extreme violence that looms over society like a rising storm.<br /><br />The reality of Trump’s ascendency to the highest levels of power may be the most momentous development of the age because of its apocalyptic irrationality and the shock it has produced. People throughout the world are watching, pondering how such a dreadful event could have happened. How have we arrived here? What forces have undermined education as a democratic public sphere making it incapable of producing the formative culture and critical citizens that could have prevented such a catastrophe from happening in an alleged democracy? We get a glimpse of this failure of civic culture, education, and civic literacy in the willingness and success of the Trump administration to empty language of any meaning while reducing political rhetoric to the service of humiliating taunts and a discourse of bigotry and hatred. This is more than a politics of theatrical diversion, it is a rhetorical practice that constitutes a flight from historical memory, ethics, justice, and social responsibility. Under such circumstances and with too little opposition, the United States government has taken on the workings of a disimagination machine, characterized by an utter disregard for the truth, and often accompanied, as in Trump’s case, by “primitive schoolyard taunts and threats.” In this instance, Orwell’s “Ignorance is Strength” materializes in the Trump administration’s weaponized attempt not only to rewrite history, but also to obliterate it. What we are witnessing is not simply a political project but also a reworking of the very meaning of education both as an institution and as a broader cultural force.<br /><br />Trump along with Fox News, Breitbart, and other right-wing cultural apparatuses, echoes one of totalitarianism’s most revered notions, one which pushes the notion that truth is a liability and ignorance a virtue. "<br />Kanhttp://counterpunch.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850795848027608997.post-78044005593065843492017-10-30T09:33:52.166-07:002017-10-30T09:33:52.166-07:00There is a lot of propaganda. The worse is the nuc...There is a lot of propaganda. The worse is the nuclear propaganda. This is from a pronuclear propagandist on twitter. He uses the old line that fear of radiation kills and hurts more people than radionuclides or radiation does. Maybe thats why trump and Pruitt raised limits for allowable radiation in water. They really believe this.<br />Frog<br />@_RoyBatty_<br />Oct 27<br />Fear and ignorance of radiation kills far more people than radiation itself. Educate yourself. #fukushima<br />View details ·Sherryhttp://nukefree.orgnoreply@blogger.com