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@ Free-floating Intelligence
2024-12-03 07:42:23
Article by Milosz Matuschek, published at Freischwebende Intelligenz (see original for links)
The actor Keanu Reeves recently told in an interview how he tried to explain the movie Matrix to a 15-year-old and that he was the hero fighting for what is real. The teenager's reaction: “Who cares if it's real”?
Reality can be an uncomfortable place. It is better to live (at least for a while) in a comfortable construction. In his “Myths of Everyday Life”, French philosopher Roland Barthes investigated how even everyday objects are ideologically charged without us realizing it: Magazines, advertising, sporting events. According to Barthes, modern myths are culturally constructed and reinforce the social hierarchy. The German philosopher Hans Blumenberg saw the creation of myths as a protective mechanism for oneself: Everyone thus creates their own “lifeworld”, which does not have to correspond to reality, which is intangible anyway. First the lie, then the manipulation of memory
More and more frequently, we see that there seem to be several illusory realities in relation to the facts alone. But only one can be genuine, i.e. actually correspond to reality.
The fairy tale of “right-wing deportation plans”, which were allegedly discussed at a conference entitled “Wannsee 2.0”, has lasted longer than judges need to issue temporary injunctions. The predicted summer of hell took place on the bullshit screen, and most people survived it better thanks to wellies and rain jackets.
The best myths about corona can still be read today, as if there had never been even a hint of knowledge to cloud one's superstition.
In a constant fit of auto-suggestive back-slapping, the mainstream constantly wants to believe that we have “come through the pandemic well”. Spiegel columnist Sascha Lobo therefore loudly proclaims in a column that coronavirus critics are living in a parallel reality, while at the same time the RKI protocols reveal how great the discrepancy was between RKI science and the parallel world of authoritarian coronavirus policy. Then he bends reality to suit himself: “Was the truth always told? “Of course not...but it's not always that easy.” We weirdos understand that, Mr. Lobo: it's not easy to describe any mistakes made during the pandemic if, like you, you also want to give well-paid lectures to the pharmaceutical industry. Reappraisal, where?
A prime example of “not wanting to know better” after the fact: Spiegel's Thomas Fischer (Screenshot/Spiegel.de)
His columnist colleague Thomas Fischer, a former criminal judge (!) at the highest (!) ordinary court, the Federal Court of Justice, dutifully (better “dutifully sloppy”?) flanked what he still remembered about the pandemic in the media's short memory. Even the title of the column is highbrow gaslighting, because: Where is there a tendency to rehash right now? And why is this supposed to be “unpleasant”? Or for whom? Does this also apply to the last 80 years? A few examples:
``` According to Fischer, over 100,000 people have died “from corona” in Germany, and “millions” worldwide. As a good newspaper reader, the Spiegel criminal lawyer knows this even without autopsies. Co-morbidities? Age distribution of deaths? Not an issue.
Not a word about excess mortality in 2021, by the way; you shouldn't challenge your own cognitive dissonance too much if you want to write for Der Spiegel.
Fischer is equally aware that millions of Americans “vaccinated themselves with disinfectant” on presidential recommendation and then “died miserably” (he was probably sitting at the bedside watching).
He also claims to know that the intensive care units in Germany were working at the limit of their capacity for many months. He does not reveal where this knowledge comes from; the official DIVI register speaks a different language (incidentally already taken off the net).
Where is the breaking point, Mr. Fischer?
The witty fairy-tale uncle doesn't spare his readers the staircase joke about the “pictures of Bergamo” either. The panic images, which even Lauterbach later praised, did not show a wave of corona deaths, but a temporary overload of local crematoria. ```
A flight attendant's blurred video of 13 military trucks thus became a worldwide legend. Even Bayerischer Rundfunk reported on it in September 2021, which shows that Once the legend is in your head, even mainstream news currently takes more than three years of incubation to (still not) mill its way into the head of a former federal judge. And we are still wondering why a) no progress is being made with the investigation and b) what the supposedly great documentation department at Der Spiegel actually does for a living.
Thank you in any case, Mr. Fischer, for the instructive insight into the reality horizon of German top judges! Your journalistic support for the destruction of trust in the remaining judiciary is excellent! Incidentally, Der Spiegel has recently successfully halved its profits, its circulation is falling and a power struggle is raging at the top.
Hendrik Streek, poster boy of the pseudo-critical flank of the mainstream, also likes selective perception. In his book “Nachbeben” (Aftershocks), he maintains his myth of the “very rare vaccination side effects”. He omits the fact that 2.5 million vaccination side effects from the data of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung) have not even been processed by the Paul Ehrlich Institute. The authority has allegedly been working on an “interface” for years in order to be able to process the data. For those who believe it: the simplest analog interface would be a mailbox slot. A year ago, PEI employee Keller-Stanislawski stated in parliamentary questioning that the processing of vaccination damage reports had barely been kept up with and that this vaccine had caused a lot more work. Streek now wants to enter the Bundestag for the CDU. What doesn't fit is made to fit afterwards
A false reality is created through media bias and the creation of a false (and lazy) consensus. With a pinch of authoritarianism and gaslighting, it is then not too difficult to elevate the illusory reality to a dogma. Anyone who doesn't believe in it is fought against - the Matrix sends its regards.
Misleading fact checks and heavy censorship on YouTube or in social media served as discourse cosmetics in the coronavirus era, while important political decisions were made in the shadows. Today, the nomenclature is already censoring itself in order to be able to hold on to its narrative that it knew nothing for as long as possible. The RKI cancer register? Frozen since 2020. The DIVI intensive care register? Taken offline. The RKI health reporting? Offline. The PEI vaccine injury register? “Temporarily” offline since 2022. Really, technical problems? Who is supposed to believe that in the best Germany ever?
The Second German Television, ZDF (advertising slogan: “You can see better with the second one”) is censoring itself particularly conspicuously. The Mainzelmännchen have the deletion devil on the loose. For example, numerous reports on compulsory vaccination (which at first hardly any politicians wanted, and then suddenly many did) can no longer be found in the media library. The political breach of word is being erased. Much of what would make politicians look bad today with statements from back then on the most sensitive fundamental rights issue of recent decades is disappearing. Kevin Kühnert from the SPD said in a deleted post from December 7, 2021 on the breach of promise regarding compulsory vaccination: “That shouldn't have happened to us”.
In the fake reality of the media, it never happened. What happened?
The article about Kühnert has been deleted. (backed up here).
So it goes on:
``` What's up with the forced vaccination rumor? (In the end it was quite a lot). Deleted (saved here, check link above).
MPs call for compulsory corona vaccination from 18? Deleted (backed up here).
Scholz thinks there should be “no more red lines”? Deleted (backed up here).
According to Federal Minister of Justice Lambrecht, the coalition never wanted compulsory vaccination? Deleted (backed up here). ```
How was it with Orwell? He who determines the past determines the future? Well, if you don't get lost in the present.
Presumably ZDF (“it's better not to watch anything on the second channel”) has to save on server costs despite billions in compulsory fees. If you want to watch the “Fernsehgarten” from December 18, 2016 again, you can easily find it in the media library.
I guess that's “basic service”.
Your fees at work.
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