By Anon
Adam Curtis (above) refers to Nonlinear Warfare.
In Nonlinear Warfare, the public is not sure what is real and what is fake.
So the public is not sure what on earth to do.
Curtis attended the ..
Aging disk jockeys are prosecuted for crimes they committed decades ago, while practically no one in the City of London is prosecuted for the endless financial crimes that have been revealed there.
In Syria, we are told that President Assad is the evil enemy, but then his enemies turn out to be even more evil than him, so we bomb them, and by doing that, we help keep Assad in power.
But the real epicenter of this non-linear world is the economy, and the closest we have to our own shape-shifting post-modern politician is [U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer] George Osborne.
He tells us proudly that the economy is growing, but at the same time, wages are going down.
He says he is reducing the deficit, but then it is revealed that the deficit is going up.
But the dark heart of this shape-shifting world is Quantitative Easing.
The government is insisting on taking billions of Pounds out of the economy through its austerity program, yet at the very same time it is pumping billion of Pounds into the economy through Quantitative Easing, the equivalent of 24,000 Pounds for every family in Britain.
But it gets even more confusing, because the Bank of England has admitted that those billions of Pounds are not going where they are supposed to.
A vast majority of that money has actually found its way into the hands of the wealthiest five percent in Britain.
It could be a huge scandal, comparable to the greedy oligarchs in Russia. A ruthless elite, siphoning off billions in public money. But nobody seems to know.
It sums up the strange mood of our time, where nothing really makes any coherent sense.
And it means that we as individuals become ever more powerless, unable to challenge anything, because we live a state of confusion and uncertainty.