A reader writes, "the manipulation of information and of peoples are a thing of the past".
I would say that this manipulation is strongly present and it is there to give sense to this utterly foolish war. If people were not given these schemes by which to "understand" this absurdity, they would go mad.
Without a narrative to make everything coherent and comprehensible, I'm sure there'd be mass revolt. After all, the facts are utterly absurd and blood-curdling and we - or our leaderships here in Europe, in the Kremlin, in Washington - are responsible for these events ....are we?
We don't go around blowing apart half a million fellow human beings in normal times, not in a civilised society with conventions about respect for others. We only kill killers, and even then, we are not hired guns.
So anyway, live dangerously, see these stories and propaganda for the opium that they are. It is our leaders who are mad, the guilt stops with them, they are the condemned, we will live, though without perspective or future, thanks to the tender indifference of our rulers. We should revolt.
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