The death throes of truth

By Tarquin Sutherland:

 

As we should all know by now, it was Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda Josef Goebbels that said “If you repeat a lie often enough — it becomes the truth”.

It was some years back now that the notion of the ‘post truth’ world came into play, and along with the Marxist maxim of ‘speaking truth to power’ and the concept of one’s ‘lived experience’ those of us who were paying attention could hear the dull thud of nails being hammered into the coffin of truth itself. Not long after, the Left wing dominated Legacy Media rolling news channels across the Western world began to march in lockstep and foist upon anyone stupid enough to listen a veritable slew of propagandist falsehoods, half-truths and downright, bare-faced lies. Goebbels himself must now be laughing in Hell as the very biggest of these gross deceits has gripped the imaginations of least educated in society and fomented a righteous — almost religious rage against the prevailing order.

All white people are racist.

In watching the unedifying spectacle of law enforcement officers, military personnel and public figures along with politicians bending their collective knee to this frankly repugnant secular pseudo religion — one that has, incidentally, all the hallmarks, prerequisites and purity spirals baked into it that could so very easily lead to it becoming some kind of perverse modern day version of the Spanish Inquisition; as the likes of Don Lemon and Chris Como in the States and Andrew Marr and Emily Maitlis over here simply spout an incessant stream of the most specious gibberish all day every day; I am terrifyingly reminded of one of the darkest chapters in world history to have stained the modern age — and one that also happens to make an absolute nonsense of this Goebellsesque lie that somehow the melanin content of one’s skin either denotes the every birthing of an unthinking and unmitigated racist or on the other hand renders one immune and indeed above the concept of judging others by the hue of their skin.

I speak of the Rwandan Civil War. A Genocide that was whipped up by unrelenting propaganda that both demonised and dehumanised its targets resulting in a bloodbath that claimed the lives of perhaps a million people — though an exact figure is hard to ascertain the horror of the conflict was so all encompassing. There are many parallels in what happened in Rwanda to what we are witnessing here — especially in the use of propaganda to whip up a justification for committing genocide by invoking a ‘slave revolt’ narrative among the Hutu population and encouraging them to NOT ‘identify’ as being Rwandan, but as Hutu first and Rwandan only in some diminished secondary way. Tutsis were said to have the Devil in them — that they were literally possessed, (with racism?) A narrative of historical ‘slavery’ was constructed by the propagandists to stoke hatred for the Tutsis – who were by no means innocent in any of this – the nation has a long and complex history regarding it’s colonisation, though it was across tribal lines that alluded to racial discrimination that the Huti propagandists pumped out their narrative across the airwaves that created a rift between the two peoples that was pushed further into an ethnic difference that in reality didn’t exist, but was extremely effective in fomenting a hatred that led to some of the worst attrocities that civil conflict has ever witnessed in recent history. Does any of this sound familiar? One might paraphrase the whole thing with the epithet ‘Hutu Lives Matter’. Of course, the Tutsis reacted in kind and as the war of words and narratives escalated, so did the killing. We tread a dangerous path right now and we must all of us be wary of skating off over the ever thinner societal ice, for the freezing dark and dangerous waters of Civil War lurk beneath – and should that ice crack under the weight of enflamed, righteous rhetoric from either side we shall find it extremely difficult if not nigh on impossible to clamber out again and become engulfed in frozen hatred, our lungs desperately heaving for the air of sanity. Of peace.

Here and now across the Anglosphere it matters not just what the facts and figures state. Statics are worth not a proverbial jot. To state that ALL lives regardless of creed and colour have some intrinsic vale is to proclaim your belief in White Supremacy. A failure to ‘take the knee’ defines you as one of THEM, not one of US.

This is the most dangerous of games, Humanity has been here before — and not just in Rwanda — and the destination has always been the same: mass graves.

We watched in horror some 10 or more years ago as the barbarians of ISIS blew ancient Buddhist statues to smithereens in their insane attempt to raze history itself to the ground and now we are forced to watch the ignorant and ill-educated tear down statues right here in Britain as our pathetically ineffective Police ‘service’ stand by — at best, if they aren’t kneeling in supplication to the mob. As ever, it starts with one statue — but before too long, and if not nipped very powerfully in the bud, more and yet more monuments to history are to be found tumbling to the ground in front of a baying crowd that sniffs metaphorical blood in the air. What, then, when all the statues have fallen? The ‘US’ invariably seeks out the ‘THEM’ and that funk of metaphorical blood is fast replaced with the coppery stench of literal gore.

The Left wing dominated media on both sides of the Atlantic should be ashamed of themselves for engaging in this most dangerous of games. They should — above all people, KNOW where the lines of overt propaganda lead! One can only surmise that they have all lost their minds, engaged as they are in the literal rewriting of history right under our very noses with the kind of arrogant disdain so redolent of the ACTUAL Nazis they purport to find so objectionable. They think themselves unbeatable, invincible indeed — and that it shall be their hastily constructed and entirely specious narrative that shall wend it’s way into the history books and within a short generation or two, become ‘The Truth’.

Goebbels would be proud.