Silence and Propaganda

 Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

A quote from Aldous Huxley which is very apt regarding YouTube’s stated policy of censoring and removing from their platform all videos relating to electoral fraud in the recent US Presidential election - this in spite of, or let’s be honest, because of the most obvious evidence of malpractices, particularly caught on camera in Georgia in the State Farm Arena Center where after vote counting was officially closed shortly after 10pm, once the legally required monitors had all left, suitcases of ballots hidden from view underneath tables were very swiftly produced and counting again began in earnest by the select few left behind. To depart from the pure visual evidence and hazard a theory: the many thousands of hidden ballots illegally tabulated consisted of a 100% balance of votes in favour of Joe Biden. And it is very reasonable to assume such practices were occurring in far more places than this one center. It’s far too organised to have been simply a random isolated episode, and there is a hell of a lot more evidence and claims beyond this episode. And so Donald Trump could gain the highest ever number of votes in a US election by nearly five million votes up to this point and ... emm ... lose to the charismatic Joe Biden. This is simply a logistic impossibility.  To return to Huxley’s quote, the evidence is clearly here pointing to serious and highly organised malpractice, and since there are very obvious desired outcomes at play here, suppression and silence are infinitely preferable to open debate of the issue.

 Youtube is owned by Google, and so when such an active policy of censorship is being enacted on that medium’s front, of course very similar policies are being implemented to police the Google search engine’s avenues to information, and this policy of organised silence, or ridicule, is also being replicated virtually across the entire Western mainstream media.

In ‘The Prince’ Machiavelli states that there is an eternal dynamic of a ruling nobility wishing to oppress the public, and against this is a contrary wish of the public not to be oppressed. Over time and amidst growing populations, one might expect and hope that the balance of power would inevitably move towards the public and away from a much less populous ruling elite, virtually just by weight of numbers, but Machiavelli makes the point that:

The nobles have more foresight and are more astute; they always act in time to safeguard their interests.

So taking the nobility to be a fluid term equating to the ruling elites rather than a particular aristocracy, one hugely key area of interest is the control of information which would certainly not be left to chance - and so Huxley’s quote that “the media of mass communication are controlled by members of the Power Elites.” This is just an obvious and inevitable fact. Youtube for example was not created by Google, but it was swiftly bought up by them, and for very good reason. Besides the significant financial aspect, it is a hugely important tool within the structure of society, and as we are currently very clearly seeing, a ruthless ruling elite are desperately attempting to control the flow of information within society so as to control the public’s perceptions of reality and ensure their desired political regime is in place.