Please Listen to These Two
A salubrious interview took place last October (2021) between James Corbett of The Corbett Report and his guest Mark Crispin Miller of News From Underground.
I discovered it while deleting old email messages. One not deleted is labeled “Excellent conversation about the power of Propaganda.” It reads as follows.
“Hello Friends, This is one of the best discussions I have yet heard on the whole issue of propaganda, culminating in our current topsy-turvy world, between James Corbett and Mark Crispin Miller (who has taught propaganda courses for many years at NYU). In my opinion, an extremely intelligent & in-depth analysis, and highly worth your watch (about 50 minutes). Blessings, Jane.”
She provided the link.
Jane is right. After listening, I unexpectedly recalled a sketch the great stand-up comic Shelley Berman did on vinyl. It could be titled, “Man In Office Calls Woman and Gets Her Two-Year-Old Daughter.”
He asks in a standard way for Mrs. ____. Kid hangs up. Redialing, he tries something like, “Hello, I’d like to speak with your mother. Is she . . .?” Kid hands up. Next call, he softens his voice and says (perhaps), “Hi, it’s me again. Is your mother there by any chance?” Click. Finally: “Is your mah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-my there?” Kid hangs up.
Trying for an adult conversation in person on some subjects, including Covid-19, can elicit a similar response. Kid hangs up, no matter how old. At one point, Corbett and Miller lament the passing of an age before skilled propagandists became so adept at shaping minds — before so many started slavishly believing government and media authorities.
Case in point: I offered a physician friend my copy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s The Real Anthony Fauci. A week or so later I asked how he liked it. He didn’t start it, he said, noting an enthusiastic blurb on the cover by Tucker Carlson of Fox News.**
At any rate, HERE is the interview. It’s titled “How to Disarm Propaganda – Mark Crispin Miller on #SolutionsWatch.” Readers who find it intriguing are likely to like other content on The Corbett Report and click in. Perchance to chip in.
A few quotes:
From Miller, “The media system is concentrated to an unprecedented degree. There are very few, corporate owners of the media. They are all dominated by the same commercial interests, which bribe in the form of advertising revenues. And as the media has become more concentrated, and more unipolar, it has also become closer to government.”
From Corbett: “Be ever willing to move out of your comfort zone.”
From Miller, on the Covid-19 phenomenon: “The most successful psy-op in human history.”
From Miller: “Oh absolutely, humor is essential, especially because the topics we grapple with are so dark.”
Miller: “What sources do you trust, and why? The sources one trusts tend not to be too doctrinaire.”
Miller or Corbett: “You don’t hector people with counter-arguments.”
Miller: “Scripture tells us it’s a waste of time to argue with a fool.”
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* This entry was edited for minor errors on Aug. 20.
** Carlson’s plug: “Bobby Kennedy is one of the bravest and most uncompromisingly honest people I’ve ever met. Someday he’ll get credit for it. In the meantime, read this book.” It is several lines above one by Mark Crispin Miller, which reads: “The story of Fauci’s rise and reign is really all about the absolute corruption of our major institutions — government, medicine, academia, and (above all) the press — by Big Pharma (and the Gates Foundation). Those of us who really do believe in science now have this book to help rid the world of that corruption.”