Video Conversation: The West's Awake
'My belief is that many these [journaliars] are taking dropsies from the Government, because no self-respecting person could possibly do what they're doing unless they were being bribed to do it.'
In the Beginning was the Word. Then came the lie.
Before, behind and underneath the calamity that has assailed the world for the past nearly 32 months is another — perhaps the most fundamental and damaging aspect of all: the prior destruction of society’s mode of talking to itself about the important matters confronting it, a process that used to be called journalism. Since March 2020, it has been clear to any sentient human being that not only the corpus of media organisations charged with providing platforms for this vital democratic conversation, but the actual profession of journalism itself — to the tune of 99.9 per car of its constituent members — has gone rogue, consenting to being hi-jacked and bought off with the appropriated power of democratic authority and the mainly criminally accumulated slush funds of the pharmaceutical industry. In such conditions, it is unsurprising the the public has fallen prey to what is now, without the slightest doubt, the most calculated, and most egregious, crime in history. Absent this corruption, the Free World might have had a chance of defending itself from the assault carried out under cover of Covid.
In this conversation, I discuss these questions with Gerry O’Neill, host of another Substack platform, The West’s Awake, teasing out the nature of this betrayal — not just the surrendering of integrity, principle and codes of conduct, but also the antecedent destruction of journalism as a sometime quasi-literary endeavour seeking to address human reality and possibility to the depths, and now reduced to a mere ‘processing of information’.
What remains of ‘journalism’ now, as it plunges deeper into the mire of its own making, has become a mechanism for the ‘processing’ of knowing disinformation and misinformation.
Is there anything to be done?