Our Negligence and Gullibility Allowed Our Media and Governments to Go Corrupt
To Delegate Responsibility for Our Lives to 'Big Brother' is Dangerous
So, if our media and governments had indeed turned so corrupt, how could it possibly have happened? Because WE ALLOWED IT. We relied on our democracy too much thinking it works perfectly and would always work like that. We were too confident that no one could take our rights and freedoms away from us, and began taking them for granted (NEVER TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED IN THIS WORLD!). We trusted our institutions and media too much - just because they had proven more or less trustworthy in the past, we assumed that they would be ALWAYS trustworthy. So trusting that we finally live in a good world, we stopped paying attention to our governments and elites at large. We wanted to relax and to enjoy our own lives, after all. To live them fully in the comfortable world our parents created for us, why not? Well, this had fucked us as society up.
Meanwhile, the warning signs were there all along. We just ignored them all because we were too busy clubbing, drinking, partying and watching Netflix and HBO. But they were there, nevertheless, even if we didn't pay attention to them. First warning signs appeared as early as in the beginning of the second decade of 21st century, from 2011, from so-called 'Arab spring' when our media and politicians began at large scale to downplay the danger of Jihadism and fundamental Islam, siding with radical Islamists on the Middle East against 'military dictators' like Gaddafi inconvenient to them, which resulted in shameless and inhumane invasion in Libya (which turned it from relatively prosperous country into a center of modern slavery and child trafficking, above everything) which was at large cheered by American media (even the barbarous murder of Gaddafi with a spade pushed inside his asshole). Elimination of Gaddafi also opened the doors for first 'refugees' influx from the Middle East into Europe, and our media and elites, pushing their globalist goals, began to largely downplay the dangers of mass Muslim immigration and Jihadism even more.
In their reckless course our ruling elites went as far as to almost deny the existence of ISIS terrorist group in Syria, presenting Syrian situation as 'peaceful protesters' (perhaps no word was such overloaded with lies and deprived of its original meaning as 'peaceful protesters' in our modern political discourse) against yet another 'evil dictator' Assad. When it finally became impossible to deny the existence of ISIS, it was too late - Jihadist infection spread too far into Europe along with 'Muslim refugees', and still haunts us. Now when I think of it, had our elites and governments eliminated Gaddafi and initially downplayed the danger of ISIS again ON PURPOSE, in order to initiate mass influx of Muslim refugees into Europe? I wouldn't put anything past our malevolent elites at this point.
Then, there were more and more warning signs. Our media and 'popular' establishment politicians began to condemn Israel as an 'apartheid state' and to side with yet another Islamic terrorists from HAMAS in Palestine, even though before the West had also supported Israel. That was also very one-sided, biased, unfair and utterly wrong, and yet we didn't pay attention to it. This was also very dangerous since it was directly reviving Hitler's Anti-Semitic heritage, rekindling the flames of hatred towards Jews in the world. Yet, our media and politicians kept shamelessly doing that, and they still do. Once started siding with Islamists, our elite apparently couldn't stop. Also, condemnation of Israel went along with yet another false narrative pushed by our media - of 'evil white supremacy suppressing other cultures', where Israel was equated to 'white supremacist' state (despite it being Jewish, half of them non-white, with considerable share of Arab population as well), and Palestine - to 'innocent oppressed victim' (despite HAMAS terrorists actually always starting the military actions first and Israel only responding to it). But the media narrative didn't care of truth, only of propaganda. We still didn't pay attention.
From 2016 onwards, the warning signs were obvious, when Trump and Brexit happened. American media began unprecedented in history and absolutely NOT FACT BASED dirty smearing campaign against Trump (and European media began similar one against Brexit). Those smearing campaigns were directed not only at Trump and Boris Johnson though. No, the media had also targeted all Trump and Brexit voters, and our democracy itself. After all, if Trump was a 'Hitler incarnate', then surely his voters should have been 'neo Nazi'? Or, if being part of EU was indeed such a paradise, then surely those who wanted to exit it must be evil or deluded? So this highly toxic and divisive propaganda, framing half of the population as 'evil and racist' was pushed down on us from all media channels, and we had swallowed it as if it was a sweet drink. Why? Well, first, we used to trust our media, second, their bias echoed our own, hence it was largely unnoticed by us (after all, most of Europeans believed EU to be a good thing - and still do, and most Americans learned to mistrust Republicans based on their history, and Trump as a person with his rudeness and mean Tweets was a pretty easy target). Those of us who noticed that something was wrong, were either ridiculed as 'conspiracy theorists', or, worse, dehumanized as 'racist and white supremacist' merely for pointing out to proven cases of media lies and propaganda.
So we kept swallowing pretty toxic and divisive media propaganda pitting us against each other based on our political views for the last four years. Not only based on political views though. Elites and media craftily used our differences to divide us as well. They pit Blacks against whites in US and Muslim immigrants against locals - in EU. They turned women against men (hello 'MeToo'), and then trans people against cis ones (hello JK Rowling and all 'TERFs'). This was again pretty toxic and hateful propaganda, and it was poisoning our minds for four last years.
Not only this propaganda was pitting us against each other, it attacked our mere democracy as well. After all, if such 'bad choices' as Brexit and Trump could be made in democracy, then is democracy such a good thing? Maybe, some people shouldn't be allowed to vote at all, or at least their right to vote should be heavily restricted? After all, they're so 'ignorant and deluded conspiracy theorists', or 'evil racist and white supremacists', why should we let them to fuck up our 'progressive society'? So maybe, only 'progressive and educated' Left wing 'intellectuals' should be allowed to vote? This shit again was openly discussed on many forums on social media and even pushed in some mainstream media articles. Again, this propaganda was pushed down on us for last four years, and we allowed it to poison our minds.
So, when we had missed so many warning signs, and allowed toxic and divisive media propaganda to poison our minds, is it any wonder that we failed to recognize Big Pharma Big Fraud with COVID as well? After all, we were still trusting our media. And those media used the same technique there as they used for last four years with Brexit and Trump - they framed first all lockdown and then all vaccine passports opponents either as 'deluded conspiracy theorists (while presenting themselves as 'proponents of science') or 'evil racists and white supremacists' (since it mostly conservative and right wing politicians and political parties like Republicans in US who spoke against COVID hysteria). Again, just like with Trump and Brexit. We're 'educated science proponents', they're 'ignorant conspiracy theorists'. We're 'responsible good people who want to save lives', they're 'selfish and greedy assholes who care only of their money (economy) and their comfort which they didn't want to sacrifice for the 'greater good' (in truth it's Big Pharma companies and governments and media bought by them who care only of money though but alas propaganda believers ignore this fact). Also, media propaganda again pitted us against each other - first masked vs unmasked, then vaccinated vs unvaccinated. And it again worked. We had swallowed yet another poison, much more toxic than previous one even, as if it was a delicious fruit juice.
We need to stop swallowing media poison and to start thinking for ourselves again. We need to peer review the experts and to fact-check the fact-checkers. We need to stop dismissing the evidence of our own eyes and conclusions of our own common sense in favor of 'expert opinions'. We need to stop blindly trusting institutions and authorities and allow the possibility of their corruption finally. We need to start paying attention to glaring warning signs and stop watching Netflix, delegating the responsibility for our lives to politicians and 'experts' unworthy of it. We need to finally wake up and see the monster our elites and governments and media turned into, and destroy this monster we had helped to create by our negligence, for good.