Propaganda creates an illusion that people believe in about their country and how the world works. They then make decisions in their lives and argue with one another based on this illusion.
Joe, I have been following you for years starting with Collective Evolution and no censorship has kept me from reading your writings. I don't quite understand how censorship made your following drop so much because you are still there online. You have consistently been one of the top voices for common sense and a strong moral stand through this madness when others have gone over the edge with drama. There have been times when YOUR voice has given me any hope of sanity I could find. I am very old now and never dreamed life would be like this - I thought humanity would mature - especially after the predicted changes of 2012. I try to have a longer view of this chaos being a catalyst for awakening because I can't deal with life otherwise. I see you suffer in this and I am so sorry. Try not to be discouraged because you are truly one of the good guys and I am deeply grateful.
I served for a time as a Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner...and later "Performance Excellence Program" - examiners are volunteers who have been trained to apply a criteria for performance excellence while examining companies who apply for the award.
At that time I had led companies of my own for 30 years and had certain practices that were informed by my examination of excellent companies and what they do.
I learned that excellent companies share the truth...they take control of the narrative by making sure everyone has the facts...the truth...as much as was possible. And if they got it wrong, then they immediately corrected it.
So this must have been the practice that was highjacked and became a "narrative" - something concocted to sound like the truth but was not the truth and was what the powers thought they could sell that would serve their purpose.
Telling your employees the facts and the truth rather than a narrative is still a best practice for the truly excellent high-performing companies.
ESG of course existed and still does in these excellence companies but it was applied as a value system that a hammer to beat up the board and threaten financial exclusion. Examiners like myself understood that companies with strong value systems could achieve better results because employees were loyal and worked hard for companies that stood for something. Employees know the difference as does our population at large.
Very well put. I learn a lot from the connections you present, like the connection between propaganda and voting. I think it was Socrates who said "Democracy is only as good as the education around it." After reading this I start feeling more that the buy-in to the system is a buy-in to 'illusion' as you put it.
Only rarely are other people the enemy, unless we choose to make them so. Our own ignorance and intolerance is always the enemy. That also rings true for people "on the other side." Guns and assorted weapons do not kill people all that often. Governments do!
Clear, logical and thought-provoking. Thanks. The Pulse has become one of my pitstops of sanity.
Joe, I have been following you for years starting with Collective Evolution and no censorship has kept me from reading your writings. I don't quite understand how censorship made your following drop so much because you are still there online. You have consistently been one of the top voices for common sense and a strong moral stand through this madness when others have gone over the edge with drama. There have been times when YOUR voice has given me any hope of sanity I could find. I am very old now and never dreamed life would be like this - I thought humanity would mature - especially after the predicted changes of 2012. I try to have a longer view of this chaos being a catalyst for awakening because I can't deal with life otherwise. I see you suffer in this and I am so sorry. Try not to be discouraged because you are truly one of the good guys and I am deeply grateful.
A lot to think about here. Thanks for this!
Oh, is part 3 of your Great Reset series coming soon?
I served for a time as a Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner...and later "Performance Excellence Program" - examiners are volunteers who have been trained to apply a criteria for performance excellence while examining companies who apply for the award.
At that time I had led companies of my own for 30 years and had certain practices that were informed by my examination of excellent companies and what they do.
I learned that excellent companies share the truth...they take control of the narrative by making sure everyone has the facts...the truth...as much as was possible. And if they got it wrong, then they immediately corrected it.
So this must have been the practice that was highjacked and became a "narrative" - something concocted to sound like the truth but was not the truth and was what the powers thought they could sell that would serve their purpose.
Telling your employees the facts and the truth rather than a narrative is still a best practice for the truly excellent high-performing companies.
ESG of course existed and still does in these excellence companies but it was applied as a value system that a hammer to beat up the board and threaten financial exclusion. Examiners like myself understood that companies with strong value systems could achieve better results because employees were loyal and worked hard for companies that stood for something. Employees know the difference as does our population at large.
Very well put. I learn a lot from the connections you present, like the connection between propaganda and voting. I think it was Socrates who said "Democracy is only as good as the education around it." After reading this I start feeling more that the buy-in to the system is a buy-in to 'illusion' as you put it.
propaganda Is the oldest trick in book and it is always up to you to determine whether you embrace that or not.
Only rarely are other people the enemy, unless we choose to make them so. Our own ignorance and intolerance is always the enemy. That also rings true for people "on the other side." Guns and assorted weapons do not kill people all that often. Governments do!
Love your reflection back in school to where, "every country uses propaganda and they're bad... but no, not over here. We're the good guys!"
Definitely recommend folks learning more about propaganda because once you realize it, you realize it's EVERYWHERE! Here's a good article that discusses it: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-corporations-influence-you-and