There’s this very popular trope in movies and TV of a “damning” video or document that, if exposed to the public, would collapse the whole government. We see this trope over and over again. Like in the 2005 sci-fi movie Serenity (based on the TV show Firefly), the good guys “expose” the government wiping out a whole planetary colony in a botched drug trial that makes people either go catatonic or turns them into sado-masochists. The entire premise of this movie is that if people find out their government is incompetent and evil, they’ll want a different government.
Pretty funny, right?
What happened in the years following Serenity’s release? Wikileaks started exposing the USA’s war crimes. Did this end with regime change? Of course not, the opposite happened. All NATO regimes came together to emasculate Wikileaks, and Julian Assange, the darling of the left, got character assassinated. So not only did the “smoking gun” evidence of atrocities not result in a government being overthrown, they did an Uno-Reverse card on the guy who exposed them. “Well umm, AKSHULLLLY, Assange is a bad guy who has sex with different women at the same time and isn’t nice enough to them.” Boom, his career as a freedom fighter was over and basically every western leftist condemned him. Because as we all know, being nice to women and not having threesomes is more important than stopping fascism.
In real life, such information operations to discredit a government only succeed if that government was in very dire straits to begin with; bankrupt, demoralized troops, unhappy and hungry citizens, etc. Like Nepal. It’s not a place I was paying attention to, but if the CIA was able to overthrow them with a bunch of retarded teenagers addicted to TikTok, then that government must not have been in very good shape to begin with.
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This post did not demonstrate how Serenity show the Delusion of Revolution
This post did not demonstrate how Serenity show the Delusion of Revolution
I liked the explanation for the reavers. Government wanted servile citizens but got cannibals instead.
I liked the explanation for the reavers. Government wanted servile citizens but got cannibals instead.
It reminds me of UFO conspiracy people, InfoWars viewers, QAnon types, and other modern gnostics, who will tell you that the secret knowledge they hold is SO EXPLOSIVE and SO DANGEROUS that the government has to cover it up because otherwise there’d be mass hysteria and riots in the streets if the public ever found out!
Most of our political, social, and business elites had decades-long entanglements in a Mossad honey trap set by the world’s most prolific child sex-trafficker, who’re now busy playing hot potato to see who’s going to get blamed most for it, and yet we still keep voting them into office. If aliens were real or JFK Jr faked his death to help Trump fight the deep state, I think we could handle that knowledge lol.
It reminds me of UFO conspiracy people, InfoWars viewers, QAnon types, and other modern gnostics, who will tell you that the secret knowledge they hold is SO EXPLOSIVE and SO DANGEROUS that the government has to cover it up because otherwise there'd be mass hysteria and riots in the streets if the public ever found out! Most of our political, social, and business elites had decades-long entanglements in a Mossad honey trap set by the world's most prolific child sex-trafficker, who're now busy playing hot potato to see who's going to get blamed most for it, and yet we still keep voting them into office. If aliens were real or JFK Jr faked his death to help Trump fight the deep state, I think we could handle that knowledge lol.