Ok, here’s my Friday night conspiracy theory. Have you noticed how these quasi meaningless spats between Glenn Greenwald and X, or Aaron Maté and Y (young turks) or Jimmy Dore and Z or Joe Rogan and XYZ are always popping up in the twittersphere and bleeding in, as below, to the major news platforms?
And then Michael Tracey jumps in or Caitlin Johnstone.
What does it do, in fact? It positions Greenwald and Maté and Dore and Tracey etc and, in a different way, Rogan, as being ‘dissidents’ against the ‘liberal establishment’ in the USA. Something like that. Monbiot and Jones do the same thing in a different way, they position themselves against the ‘elite’, the elite oil companies, the elite Tories, etc.
This positioning, this branding, creates a public, and then, when the time comes, and it does come, to lead that public in a certain direction, like with covid, for example, or Syria, for another example, at a key point in time, then BOOM, they repeat the corporate state narrative.
It’s a way of creating a ‘fake fight’. Greenwald loves to create a hate following among left liberals. It seems to me he promotes it as a branding exercise. It’s politically almost meaningless, it’s all on Twitter, etc. But the ‘dissident’ brand is very valuable for him, and it’s valuable for the corporate state, WHEN AND IF Greenwald promotes the corporate state narrative.
Aren’t the dissidents, the ‘alt journalists’ in fact of MORE value to the corporate/state or deep state, than the journalists at the NYTimes or Washington Post or BBC? Because the latter speak to the non activist self satisfied segment of the population. They are not going to upset the status quo. But who speaks to the potential active segments? The alt journalists. Thus, at key times, like now, to PREVENT activism, the true value of the alt-journalists is seen. They are NOT screaming about lockdowns and vaccine passports and unnecessary fake vaccines, are they? Or, maybe, barely?
