Disinformation Governance Board
Furthers our Present Orwellian Matrix
by Scott S. Powell
The Biden administration’s announcement
of creating a new ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ reveals desperation in the
face of Americans waking up to overwhelming evidence of coverup and deceit by mainstream
and social media on life and death matters. First, people are coming to realize
the truth behind the so-called Covid-19 pandemic, with all the attendant life-threatening
bad advice and loss of Constitutional freedoms and rights that took place. Second,
people are now seeing documentary proof of undeniable evidence of industrial
scale vote fraud that drove an illegitimate result in the November 2020 elections.
Many
have drawn parallels between Biden’s ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ and George
Orwell’s ‘Ministry of Truth,’ arguing that it’s a threat to First Amendment
free speech. But wait. Haven’t we already been living in the matrix of an
Orwellian world, with freedom of speech in America hanging by a thread even
before this crazy Disinformation Governance Board was hatched?
In Orwell’s own
words the Ministry of Truth had two primary objectives: 1) the institutionalization of propaganda
narratives, which were designed to warp and destroy people’s grasp on reality;
and 2) the fostering of groupthink, conformity, and collectivism designed to
eliminate critical and independent thinking.
It has been
widely assumed that because the press is not state-controlled in the U.S.,
there is a long way to go before the American government has the power of
Orwell’s Big Brother. Nothing could be further from the truth.
And the proof is
that a large part of the America population has been cowed and brainwashed into
accepting quite a number of global elitist-fostered narratives.
Consider how there
is little discussion about the burden and risks to the American people from
Biden’s open southern border policy. Or consider how discussion is silenced
about the possibility that Covid-19 may have been developed and released as a
bioweapon directed primarily at the Western free nations and specifically the
United States.
America’s
globalist enemies understood and openly communicated how a pandemic fear could be
exploited to subvert the Constitution, with no compunction about the attendant shutting
down of businesses, churches, and schools. And surely, the fear factor was
again at work in mob violence from George Floyd’s unfortunate death, which catalyzed
the greatest physical destruction of property and businesses in American
history. And that pandemic fear was the secret weapon to exploit and blow up mail-in
and ballot harvesting to rig the 2020 election against a strong and popular
president whose primary cause was rolling back globalism and restoring American
strength and prosperity. And lastly consider how the fear factor has been used
to induces mass vaccination, which many see as integral part of advancing a global
control agenda.
One may have
doubts about some of this, but an objective outsider would be on solid ground
in pointing out that people got snookered because quarantines for the minority
at high risk make sense, while lockdowns of the general population do not; mask mandates that have little to no
scientific basis make no sense, and particularly for the very young whose
development is stunted by mask wearing; and Covid vaccination mandates for everyone
are a violation of public trust for the simple reason that there was no certainty
that the vaccines were safe, as they were released on an Emergency Use
Authorization(EUA) basis. EUA granted the vaccine development companies
protection against any legal liability in lieu of the accelerated program under
which the vaccines were developed by truncating the normal FDA-required safety
testing.
It is obvious that
the two objectives of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth have already been partially accomplished
in a large part of the American public by the universities, the K-12 educational system and the major print,
TV, and social media institutions. These institutions embrace the groupthink and
narratives that ingratiate them with the globalist elite. And then there are the
culture shapers in Hollywood and the advertising industry on Madison Avenue,
who follow a similar path in participating in and reinforcing the same
groupthink norms. And as a partial result, corporations have become
increasingly woke—and in some cases have abandoned the focus and business
practices that enabled their prior success.
If anyone now doubts how deep the cultural
transformation rot has gone in corporate America, they need only look at the
Disney Corporation. Disney has been America’s most iconic company because of
its foundation and roots in providing children and family entertainment. Disney
was enormously successful because of its focus and loyalty to its vast customer
base of those traditional families, who make up more than 90% of the
population. But the Disney corporate elite are as brainwashed as the newer and
younger employees in their workforce, for there is simply no rational explanation
of corporate leaders forsaking the vast majority of their company’s customers
and shareholders.
Citizens today can take hope and heed from several of our
greatest presidents, such as Washington, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Coolidge who
each warned in different ways that the
greatest threat to America’s national survival would not come from foreign military
invasion, but rather our downfall would come from within from public ignorance,
moral decline, division, corruption and failing to exercise restraint in public spending and foreign entanglements.
Today problems in all these areas threaten U.S.
survival. But if most Americans can agree that our priority starts with maintaining
liberty, rule of law, prosperity, and opportunity for all, we need to focus on defeating
the assault on the First Amendment, which is the cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution.
It is the competition of ideas that leads to the truth, and it is the light of truth
that overcomes darkness and leads to success. By protecting freedom of
expression, freedom of religion, and the right to peaceably petition the
Government for a redress of grievances, we also protect the other amendments
and the rest of the Constitution.
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Scott S. Powell is senior fellow at
Discovery Institute. Parts of this article are explored more deeply in his new book, Rediscovering
America, ranked
#1 in Amazon’s New Releases in the historical studies genre for eight weeks. Found here at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1637581599. Reach him at scottp@discovery.org
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