Interlude on Censorship: Another Home and Other Refuges

Erik Satie - Gnossiennes 1-6 (6 October 2016). Video Source: Youtube.

Yesterday and overnight, a number of alternative channels were blocked or demonetized on Youtube. Youtube is owned by Google, which also hosts Blogger, the platform for this blog and my other blog, The Dragonfly. I will have to migrate content to back it up on another platform and welcome suggestions from readers. I will elaborate on this problem in another post.

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New Post at The Dragonfly: The Anchorman of the Apocalypse

Image Source: 4chan.

I have a new post up at The Dragonfly, following my post from yesterday. To understand better how rationalist materialism is confronting serious challenges as a justification for power, I am analyzing how its discursive structure works in relation to the nCov pandemic:

Ask the Anchorman of the Apocalypse How Power Really Works

The real meaning of the word, 'apocalypse,' is 'revelation,' the moment when the veil is ripped away and we see the truth in things.

The coronavirus is exposing a lot of problems beneath the surface of the mainstream. The pandemic is prompting totalitarian moves on the part of governments and corporations. At the same time, these moves are red-pilling a lot of people about the system. Citizens are beginning to realize that the system does not have their best interests at heart. They are starting to wonder where all this is going, and why.

I discuss how anons and other critics are picking apart layers of establishment hypocrisy with their own brands of trutherism. I consider how trutherism works. In the minds of truthers, counter-arguments should be based on truth before they are based on fact.

Notice that Assange does not state: "You have to start with the facts." That would be the normal stance for a Fourth Estate journalist. Assange starts with the truth. This implies a different world view, associated with the rise of the Fifth Estate. Image Source: Facebook.

Truth and fact are not synonymous, because truth has a larger symbolic or metaphorical weight, which is independent of everyday life. Truthers' justification for this renegotiation of values depends on criticism of the establishment, whose authority theoretically relies on facts, but actually depends on corruption, lies, and compartmentalized realities.

Image Source: 4chan.

Image Source: 4chan.

See all my posts on Epidemics here and here.

New Post at The Dragonfly: How the Truther Movement became Anti-Rationalist

In The Matrix, the character breaks through to the truth, and discovers that supposedly free citizens are slaves. Reproduced under Fair Use.

To follow up on my June 2017 post, Red Pill, Blue Pill, Green Pill, Black Pill, I am exploring how the coronavirus pandemic is exposing flaws and distrust in the system. Anti-establishment sentiment starts with a Millennial desire for real truth over authoritative facts. I begin with a look at how metaphors work in literature, when they take truth one step away from reality:

Red-Pilled Meta-Truthers
and Platonic Outsiders