{"id":350467,"date":"2018-03-02T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/colonizing-the-western-mind\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T10:19:10","slug":"colonizing-the-western-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/colonizing-the-western-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonizing the Western Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_100207\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100207\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-01-at-4.13.03-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"339\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Marco | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In Christopher Nolan\u2019s captivating and visually dazzling film Inception, a practitioner of psychic corporate espionage must plant and idea inside a CEO\u2019s head. The process is called inception, and it represents the frontier of corporate influence, in which mind spies no longer just \u201cextract\u201d ideas from the dreams of others, but seed useful ideas in a target\u2019s subconscious. Inception is a well-crafted piece of futuristic sci-fi drama, but some of the ideas it imparts are already deeply embedded in the American subconscious. The notion of inception, of hatching an idea in the mind of a man or woman without his or her knowledge, is the kernel of propaganda, a black art practiced in the States since the First World War. Today we live beneath an invisible cultural hegemony, a set of ideas implanted in the mass mind by the U.S. state and its corporate media over decades. Invisibility seems to happen when something is either obscure or ubiquitous. In a propaganda system, an overarching objective is to render the messaging invisible by universalizing it within the culture. Difference is known by contrast. If there are no contrasting views in your field of vision, it\u2019s easier to accept the ubiquitous explanation. The good news is that the ideology is well-known to some who have, for one lucky reason or another, found themselves outside the hegemonic field and are thus able to contrast the dominant worldview with alternative opinions. On the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/02\/colonizing-the-western-mind\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Marco | CC BY 2.0 In Christopher Nolan\u2019s captivating and visually dazzling film Inception, a practitioner of psychic corporate espionage must plant and idea inside a CEO\u2019s head. The process is called inception, and it represents the frontier of corporate influence, in which mind spies no longer just \u201cextract\u201d ideas from the dreams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}