tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post6289046808978732993..comments2024-03-19T15:24:48.864-07:00Comments on Green Eagle: The Power of the NarrativeGreen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-23714575310340906372011-12-28T08:11:21.924-08:002011-12-28T08:11:21.924-08:00Let's not forget the corporate media's par...Let's not forget the corporate media's part in the narrative. Their job is not to investigate and report the facts. Their job is to promote conflict, sell advertising, and make profit. <br /><br />When a Republican says the sky is yellow and a Democrat, or anyone else for that matter, says the sky is blue, Blitzer's job is to say, "Let's just say the truth is in between the two positions, so the sky is green".<br /><br />"And we'll have to leave it at that. Coming up next, should we be afraid of the OWS protestors?"Dave Dubyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03279370558997246976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-44419451476687433822011-12-28T01:16:06.900-08:002011-12-28T01:16:06.900-08:00It would be really interesting if Obama was asked ...It would be really interesting if Obama was asked that question.<br />I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t disagree with your narrative, because it’s no less and no more than the truth, and he would know that.<br /><br />Right-wing narratives are potent because they exploit the worst of human emotions – fear, hate, suspicion of informed opinion.<br />They don’t offer you a better future, but they do offer to pay lip service to God and guns. And if that’s the limit of your vision that that is what you will buy.<br />Effectively you don’t have to create a narrative – you just thread together all the nastily useful ones that are already out there, amplifying them with ‘think tanks’. <br /><br />The temptation becomes to focus on deconstructing that. On telling people the truth.<br />All good but immediately you are playing the Right-wing at their game. Talking about their points.<br /><br />On Christmas day I was at my sister’s place looking at pictures of her trip to the US. She and her husband were marvelling at all that was built during the New Deal. The scale on which America did stuff back then.<br />Infrastructure, employment and innovation all brought together to pull the country out of the Depression. Collectively one of the great wonders of the industrial age.<br />And my brother-in-law - who is not that political – said “there it is! That’s what they should do, instead of pouring money into wars on this and wars on that”.<br /><br />There is ever one great truth of capitalism: you create lasting prosperity by making stuff. All else is theft.Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15489091434613178568noreply@blogger.com