Chris heads to Texas to talk to Pierre Kory and others. I think this is the first if a few upcoming videos. Very interesting.
@RhisiartGwilym - you will particularly enjoy the discussion on vitamin C.
Chrisâs commentary prompts me to throw out a fundamental idea, and see what people think. Itâs this: scientists, doctors, experts generally should always - always - be treated with firm scepticism, until their affiliations have been scrutinised closely. And all their stats too!
What Iâm proposing is a further extension of the idea I threw out yesterday, around Winston Smithâs experience in Victory Square. What Iâm teasing out is a peculiar mindstate - indeed a mindset - which makes people behave as if they are operating in conspiratorial mode, even when consciously theyâre (almost) not. This mindstate, of course, depends strongly on a practiced ability at doublethink; which art, letâs be clear, wasnât just meant by Orwell to be a piquant sci-fi novelistâs invention, to spice up his story, but a sober account by an acute observer of behaviour which heâd observed repeatedly and spectacularly, especially amongst the disciplined bourgeois classes.
Iâm coming slowly to suspect that this is whatâs happening amongst entire strata of the technocrat class; and it all seems to be powered by fear. Fear of facing a catastrophic crash in career, income, social status and professional credibility within your emotionally-crucial in-groups; and also, of equal if not greater force, fear of having to face an acute life-crisis in your fundamental, since-childhood beliefs about the reality you inhabit.
Governed by these potent concerns, people doing well in techno-careers will have internalised a whole set of rules of thought fed to them in their youth by the dominant worldview of that time. With the help of doublethink processing, these understandings get repressed out of conscious memory, so that the victim can purport to him/herself - and to anyone else whoâll buy it - to live by some set of lofty abstract rules of good behaviour. But itâs their fears, together with their indoctrination, which are the real drivers of their behaviour - and indeed of the behaviour of all of us to some degree.
Promising youngsters get fed through the âsuitabilityâ filters all the time in mass societies like ours. Naturally, those supervising the filters will select candidates for preferment who can show that - quite spontaneously - they share the prejudices and preferred worldview of the filterers. And these, of course, will be strongly influenced by class-advantage considerations: âWill this young stiff be good for my dragonâs hoard, and my rising position on the dunghillâŚ?â
What with this multifiltration process, and the prior social indoctrination, you can make a fair bet that those who rise to positions of formal authority will be natural goodthinkers, according to the norms of the dominant class of the time. When some chancer cunningly starts a band-waggon rolling, and primes it with a few prominent greatânâgood stiffs aboard, the goodthinkers are going to feel the draw like iron filings feel a magnet. And of course, they already think the ârightâ way, and also already have their doublethinking faculty well polished, to deal with odd difficulties like having to one-eighty the conclusions of a - sacred - RCT, as Chris demonstrates; or having to blank out awareness of inconvenient facts like the multiplying prophylactics/cures for covid, without vaccines.
No formal, smoke-filled-room conspiracies are needed (well, only a few minor ones, amongst like-minded famiglie of chancers, as a significant part of the overall delusion mix), and yet everything runs along just like a well-oiled hyper-conspiracy. As weâre watching right now. And yet: âOh surely there couldnât be a conspiracy this big. Someone would talk!! (gasp, gulp, nasty thoughts, ugh!)â 
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that sounds totally credible to me, RG. And it chimes perfectly with the whole manufacturing consent thesis to which this tiny site pays homage.
So much easier to get people thinking the right way from the beginning than try to censor and hide the truth later!
Cheers
PP
Exactly! And that whole-life indoctrination process was just what struck the bemused Soviet journalists visiting the US, of whom John Pilger relates that key story: The Russians all knew that there was a formal propaganda and censorship system in their own state, and thus knew to discount heavily whatever authority told them, accordingly. But in the US they encountered a society which appeared to have complete freedom of expression, and no immediately-obvious propânâcensor system; and yet the unanimity of all the Western hacks in the stories they spread was simply astonishing. How did the ptb do it?
Well, "Manufacturing Consentâ laid bare the essential pressure and filtering process which winnowed out troublesome truth-dedicated awkward sods very early in the multi-filtering process. And weâre now seeing demonstrated ever more clearly the self-censoring and self-delusion process which is also at work with all who aspire to a middle-class career, income and lifestyle. âKeep your goddamned nose clean, schmuck, or abandon all hope of ever entering here!â - to mangle Danteâs famous line. 
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