Truth is an Endangered Species
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Truth is an Endangered Species
Paul Craig Roberts
Dear Readers, you have kept this website going
longer than I had hoped. It is a lot of work for me. My
columns and those of guests generate a lot of appreciation and also a lot of
demonization and expressions of hatred toward me. The slightest
criticism of Israel labels one an anti-semite. People who are aware
understand that this word is so over-used that it has become meaningless, but
the insouciant conclude that if you are labeled an anti-semite you are some
kind of monster who wants to harm Jews. If you point out the
double-standards that white people suffer, you get branded a “racist white
supremacist.” If you point out that #MeToo feminists are criminalizing
heterosexual sexual attraction, you become a misogynist. If you
expose the official lies fed to the American people—Saddam Hussein’s weapons of
mass destruction, Assad’s use of chemical weapons, Iranian nukes, Russian
invasion of Ukraine, 9/11, Gulf of Tonkin, and so on—you are dismissed as a “conspiracy
theorist” who hates America. Instead of seeing you as someone who is
trying to rescue America, morons ask “If you hate America so much, why don’t
you move to Russia?” or Iran, or China, or Venezuela, or to whatever is the
demonized and attacked country that the moron believes is getting its just
reward.
Every year it becomes harder to tell the truth
about anything. If you do too much truth-telling, as I am inclined
to do, they come after you in droves. I had to stop websites that
reproduce my columns, at least the ones I know about, from posting comments,
because all sorts of paid trolls libel me and then spread the libel all over
social media. Their purpose is to discredit me and to scare readers
away from my website. It does work. When the mysterious
site PropOrNot, financed by no one knows who, put me on a list of “Russian
agents and Putin stooges,” thousands dropped off the newsletter
list.
Then they use Wikipedia, being an open
biographical source that permits anyone to control your public image, to brand
you an anti-semite, a conspiracy theorist, and a holocaust denier. Perhaps
you remember my column, “The Lies About WW II” (https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/05/13/the-lies-about-world-war-ii/), a review of David Irving’s World War II
histories—Churchill’s War and Hitler’s War. These
are not the standard victor’s history written to make us feel good about
ourselves. To the contrary, Irving’s histories are based on decades
of historical investigation and on official documents, speeches, letters, and
memoirs. Irving went around the world interviewing those who lived
the experience. He found documents such as Rommel’s and Goebbels’ diaries,
examined every document concerning the German government’s Jewish policy,
disproved the fake Hitler diaries, and so on. His books are regarded
by objective historians as masterpieces. Yet, he was shut down. He
told too much truth, an unacceptable sin.
In my extensive review of Irving’s histories,
I gave a summary paragraph of documentary evidence Irving provides of massacres
of Jews and reported his conclusion that there was a holocaust of sorts but one
different from the official picture. The definition of
the Holocaust is the official Zionist story. To
provide a holocaust description that differs from the official one makes a
person a Holocaust Denier even if he describes a holocaust. And thus
Irving’s account makes him a Holocaust Denier. What Wikipedia did to
me was to misrepresent my description of Irving’s views as my own views and put
me in the category of Holocaust Denier. It took forever to get the
misrepresentation corrected. There are still problems with my biography in
Wikipedia, but I have given up. Every time corrections are made they are
erased. An open sourced biography requires far more integrity than
exists, and this is the reason that Wikipedia is unreliable. You can
only dare rely on Wikipedia for people and issues devoid of controversy.
Basically, in my experience, Wikipedia is a mechanism for discrediting people
who tell the truth.
As I often report, the vast majority of people
are brainwashed by the propaganda that serves the ruling interests. They
are too weak both mentally and emotionally to handle anything that is not the
established view. It simply scares them and they run away. So
when you write you know you are writing only for a select few.
The only way you can do this is to believe Margaret
Mead that it only takes a few people to change the world. I think
this was once true. Lenin and the Bolshevikls were a very few, and so were the
Founding Fathers of the United States. But today our rulers have
such extraordinary control mechanisms. Not that long ago the Internet was
believed to be an instrument for freedom of speech, but they can shut you out
and make you invisible. Alex Jones, for example, has been severed
from youtube and social media as have others. Google’s search engine
is instructed not to find disapproved commentators in searches. Large
well-funded Internet sites funded by ruling interests can, along with the print
and TV media, demonize you, as has been done to Julian Assange and Manning and
even to the Presidents of the United States and Russia. I have
already noticed that some dissident websites that were credible and resisting
The Matrix have pulled in their horns. They fear that too much truth
will marginalize them.
The Saker describes the censorship: “What we
are witnessing today is a new age of censorship in which government and
corporations work hand in hand to crush (ban, censor, demonetize,
algorithmically purge and otherwise silence) all those who challenge the
official ideology and its many narratives. It would be naïve to the extreme to
assume that the so-called ‘alternative media’ and blogosphere have been spared
such an effort at silencing heresies.”
It has always been the case that the messanger
is shot, but at least in former times the message could be heard. Today
you can be shot and the message thrown down the Memory Hole.
I am tiring of the slings and arrows and all
the ignorant, narcissistic, and rude emails that I receive. These letters
don’t come from my readers. They come from the paid trolls. The Saker
describes their function: “These are the folks whose task it is to obfuscate
the real issues, to bury them under tons of vapid ideological nonsense; the
best way to do that is to misdirect any discussion away from the original topic
and sidetrack it into either a barrage of ad hominems or
ideological clichés.”
Some are not content to convince me once
or even twice that they are blithering idiots, but insist on doing so every
day. It is extraordinary how proud some are to demonstrate
themselves as fools incapable of comprehending what they read. As an
example, my recent columns about the use of the El Paso mass shooting to
demonize white people, in which I quote people calling for the extermination of
the white race, have resulted in me being denounced on other websites for
“preaching hate,” when in fact I am quoting those who are preaching hate and
asking why are they doing so.
So, if you want to stop supporting this
website, I won’t cry. Indeed, I will be relieved of a burden, and
can insulate myself from the stupidity of people. I have just about
arrived at the conclusion that “intelligent American” is an oxymoron.
Many readers have shared their frustrations of trying to inform friends
and relatives that CNN doesn’t always have the facts. I have the same
experience with some friends and relatives. When I get questions from
persons too brainwashed for truth to penetrate, I reply that I don’t know, ask
CNN.
This website is a contract between me and
readers. As long as readers support the site, I will write what I think is the
truth as long as I have the mental acuity and energy to do so. My
agenda is the truth. Truth is truth. It is not
race-truth, class-truth, gender- and transgender-truth, Identity
Politics-truth, Republican-truth, Democratic-truth, liberal-truth, conservative-truth,
libertarian-truth, leftwing-truth or any other kind of hyphenated truth.
If you are more interested in my typos than my
content, find something else to read. Keep in mind that my fingers are
aging and at times suffer from artheritis, my keyboard is worn out, new ones
don’t fit my computer, and typos result. After the millions of words
I have written in my lifetime, it is impossible to proof read myself, and I
don’t always have a proof reader at hand. I have turned off the
spellcheck, because Apple also substitutes words for you, and if you don’t
notice because you are focused on content, you can end up with puzzling
sentences. The digital revolution is not the blessing that you are brainwashed
to believe.
September is always the worst month for an
appeal, but if you use the calendar year, that is where the quarter falls. I
know you are busted. You blew it on a summer vacation and on the Labor Day
3-day weekend fling. But keep in mind that my energy and my will are
what your support energizes.
The ruling elite have the American people so
well insulated from reality behind empty patriotic and democratic slogans that
not many of them can be reached. To be rescued from The Matrix you
have to already be extraordinary. I am not a savior who can rescue
you, but I can push you toward self-rescue. If you want to have a
free mind, you can achieve it, but you must have the emotional strength for it. Things
are not as you have been trained to perceive them. There is evil and
corruption all around you. And it is in places and words that you have been
taught to respect.
From the beginings of time there have been
humans who have wanted to know the truth about things. Truth was the purpose of
early philosophy. The scientific revolution gave humans a chance at some
natural truths, and they had to be fought for. Today money is the main
determinant of “truth.” “Truth” is what money says, and money has
the power to enforce “truth.” Real truth, such as I attempt to tell,
is not welcome today by any government or ruling interest anywhere in the
Western World or in those countries that have been corrupted by the Western
World. Indeed, the enemy of truth today is no longer in Moscow or
China. The enemy is in Washington, New York, and Hollywood, in CNN,
MSNBC, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, and in the universities and
scientists who lie for money, and in the superrich who control these entities,
including Congress, the Executive Branch and Oval Office, and Judiciary.
Of all the endangered species, Truth is the
most endangered. I am watching it go out.
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