Making History

This much I know:

The Government (or the financially powerful behind the Government) here in America and Elsewhere, creates a Mythic Story in place of the Real Story when it needs to, to get what it wants.

They tell it to the Press.

The Press reports it as a real story, over and over.

The Press engages pundits and bystanders to report and debate the Mythic Story as if it were the real story.

There is an absence of questioning the story.

There is a culture of don’t ask, don’t ask.

The Mythic Story becomes history.

The Mythic Story becomes the platform of a mythic foreign policy for decades – for ever.

Politicians and intellectuals talk the talk and walk the walk of the Mythic History because they are indoctrinated by powerful allies with fabricated or spun insider “validated evidence”so they will operate with the Mythic Story as the true story worth defending at all costs.

There is a culture and practice of intimidation, out-casting, marginalization or elimination for anyone who effectively disturbs the status quo in any way.

The Myth makers tell the Press when to be silent and the Press then ignores any coverage of questioning or alternative opinions that could gain traction in dismantling the Mythic Story.

When a threatening challenge to the Mythic Story arises and gains a concerning level of traction, typically distractions like other moral dramas with a loaded emotional charge with either a unifying or divisive nature are broadcast as the next big story, obsessively repeated all day for several days or a week while simultaneously avoiding any mention of any other actual Real Stories or else a new Myth is created and sold to the Press in order to “handle it”.

Any catastrophe is a major boon time for the Government or the Powerful to get the things done on their agendas that may only be accomplished during the secrecy afforded by the world being consumed by the news and emotional reverberations related to the catastrophe.

To that end, Governments or the Powerful have a History of occasionally creating catastrophes when needing the benefit of secrecy, evasion and situational manipulation as well as the benefit of its either unifying or divisive impact on the society (whatever is most useful to the operation at hand) and this kind of evil is beyond the imagination or consideration of the average good person, making it unquestionable and ideal for Mythologizing.

This has probably been going on since the beginning of human time.

What’s harder to know, what I’ll maybe never know and will always be curious about is – What are the Real Stories?

May 2011