{"id":394138,"date":"2019-01-25T11:56:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T10:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-ruling-elites-love-how-easily-were-distracted\/"},"modified":"2019-01-25T11:56:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T10:56:58","slug":"the-ruling-elites-love-how-easily-were-distracted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-ruling-elites-love-how-easily-were-distracted\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ruling Elites Love How Easily We\u2019re Distracted"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No wonder the ruling elites love how easily we\u2019re distracted and divided against ourselves: it\u2019s so easy to dominate a distracted, divided, blinded-by-propaganda and negative emotions populace.<\/i><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say you\u2019re one of the ruling elites operating the nation for the benefit of the oligarchy.<\/b>\u00a0What\u2019s the best way to distract the populace from your self-serving dominance in a blatantly neofeudal system?<\/p>\n

1. Provide modern-day versions of\u00a0Bread and Circuses<\/i>\u00a0to distract the commoners from what actually matters:<\/b>\u00a0\u201cthe golden age of TV\u201d and binge-watching; a cultural obsession with glorifying oneself via selfies posted on Facebook and Instagram; tweeting outrage and indignation on Twitter; a corporate-state media which magnifies insignificant events into social crises, political \u201cleaders\u201d who intentionally inflame polarization and conflict and so on.
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\nMoney and Work Unchained<\/a><\/span><\/span>
\nCharles Hugh Smith<\/span>
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Combine all these distracting circuses into one 24\/7 system-overload, and what do you get?<\/b>\u00a0A populace so distracted, so stressed, so emotionally dazed that they are unable to focus on the predatory exploitation of the ruling elites, much less figure out how to change the neofeudal status quo.<\/p>\n

2. Divide the populace with calculatedly divisive cultural issues and turn the commoner class against itself<\/b>: with no middle ground and no shared class identity allowed, the populace is easily sliced and diced into angry, disaffected tribes who blame whomever media propaganda has targeted as \u201cthe other\u201d for the nation\u2019s woes.<\/p>\n

Correspondent Jonathan Twombly recently posted a description of this divide-and-conquer strategy of the ruling elites<\/b>:<\/p>\n

I eschew conspiracy theories because I don\u2019t feel humans are…<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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No wonder the ruling elites love how easily we\u2019re distracted and divided against ourselves: it\u2019s so easy to dominate a distracted, divided, blinded-by-propaganda and negative emotions populace. Let\u2019s say you\u2019re one of the ruling elites operating the nation for the benefit of the oligarchy.\u00a0What\u2019s the best way to distract the populace from your self-serving dominance […]<\/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-394138","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\/394138","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=394138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}