For Canadians its a steady diet of red herrings
For Canadians its a steady diet of red herrings
HATING CHINA AND RUSSIA ARE REALLY RED HERRINGS.
If you are a jewel thief with a pack of hound dogs chasing you, it is a good idea to have a red herring to throw on the ground. A well salted herring has an odor that knocks the dogs off their scent and sends them howling in six different directions. Everything old is new again and that is how politics, especially in Canada operates.
Red herring is an archaic and smelly term so today we have many euphemisms for it; like weapons of mass distraction, scapegoats and even the term “conspiracy theory”.
Guess who created the term and planted it in the media? None other than the CIA ! Anything that deviates from the official interpretation of an issue or incident is discredited as being a “conspiracy theory” an effective way of suppressing dissident opinions and controlling the narrative, which is also known a perception management, also known as brainwashing— yet another archaic term. So today we have developed some very sophisticated and devious red herrings to keep us separated from the truth as it is.
Oddly enough many long standing conspiracy theories with time, patience and revelation turn out to be the true version of events. For the sake of brevity I won’t start listing them here.
Truth today is a very precious commodity. It’s golden with too much fool’s gold on the airwaves.
Hating Russians and Chinese are pathetic red herrings to distract us while our war mongering politicians are out to destroy the world and foreclose the future of the planet. Hating others comes too easily in fear ridden, gullible and paranoiac cultures.
It was a band of very loathsome criminals who blew up the Nordstream pipelines and left all of Europe freezing in the dark. We have had pails of herring thrown at us to cover up who did it. All you have to ask yourself is what country will blow up anything it wants whenever it suits them? The truth, especially when we are not used to it, leaves us speechless.
We should start a Red Herring Index(RHI) to indicate the state of our nation and an indicator of its mental health. An open democratic society relatively free of government secrecy, duplicity and hypocrisy would have a low RHI. Secretive societies with failing democracies, frequent wars and high levels of poverty ( physical, moral and intellectual) would see their RHI blow through the roof and take the whole house with it.
Politicians in the Collective West are shoveling tons of herring and exhausting themselves doing it. They have a very big mess on the hands of their own making and they can’t shovel the herring fast enough.
A red herring is of course just another name for an out right lie and there is no shortage of those around. Today a lie told often enough becomes the truth. Truth is a precious witness to the present as she is beaten and battered, too often arriving late, but arrive she does. A better global RHI would allow her to put her feet up more often.
Anyone who has seen a school of herring knows they travel in huge dense swarms numbering in the thousands, just like the smarmy politicians who like to bury us under them.
When it comes to politicians we must carefully consider “the school”they come from and whether there is a piranha in their family tree. And do they see themselves as the only fish in the sea that matters?
*****
Politicians have a symbiotic relationship with their confreres in mainstream media ( MSM). In Canada the MSM is subsidized by the government and owned by corporations so they are all best friends. The MSM too often acts as the apologist for government as it shaves its content such that coverage never gets too close to the real truth and never threatens the domince of the government/corporate autocracy. They are like the mushroom farmers of the Fraser Valley—keeping the public in the dark and feeding us bullshit and red herrings alternately.
The flow of red herrings is discredited as perception management requires the highest level of deception and craft. It cannot be left to hauteur politicians who deliver woody scripted messages that are no more than cheap sloganeering, well worn platitudes, and crippled cliches. Nor can MSM journalists get away with shaving their content when the average consummer can hit six websites before breakfast; international sites are there to contradict their biased bilge.
I have a bullshit detector sitting on my desk. Everyone should have one and use it often.
I don’t like to speak badly of herring. I love them pickled with a glass of beer.
Good fishin’