So, I've been thinking about how the mass media keeps people asleep and thinking the opposite of reality, especially when it comes to the Russia situation. Or should that be "the Western situation"?
I remember reading in history books that in WW2, when the war was declared over and that Japan had lost, the general Japanese citizenry outside of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were absolutely blown away in shock and mental fragmentation because they'd been hearing non-stop from the Emperor's radio broadcasts to keep fighting because Japan was winning.
I can see a similar situation happening here. The sleeping, media-fed population of the West will be baffled when the Western Deep State loses the game.
They won't know how to process it outside of further feelings of agitation at Russia, rather than agitation at the Deep State for being dishonest.
I started to think, how lucky we are to have this movement, that we may have a chance on all fronts to minimise the global harm done by these psychopaths, simply by providing counter-opinions and research in real time.
This info war can be taxing and mindshattering, but there's a chance to avoid complete and total mental break, which, in a world full of mind-control, is a helluva thing.
The Japanese citizenry were more than in shock and blown away, they jumped off cliffs to commit suicide rather than be captured (liberated?).
https://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675050854_American-Marines_World-War-II_Japanese-women-jump_cave-entrances
I think this was partially due to their militaristic, “honor” based culture that viewed suicide as a more honorable death that surrender or defeat. Their samurai committed ritual suicide (seppuku) for centuries under such circumstances.
Oh, absolutely. And I can't really fault them for that thinking.
It's the ultimate expression of sticking to your ideals, that you'd rather die by your own hand before dishonor.
Much of it was due to the instilled fear of the invading barbarian troops coming to rape the women and boil their children alive and whatnot atrocities. The enemy had been thoroughly dehumanized by that point and the civilians were just terrified that impossibly, those animalistic brutes were somehow now on their doorstep.
They just wanted to save their families from that fate and the only option they could see was death.
I don't necessarily think it was liberation. Liberation from one system and thrown into another.
That being said, with the brutal inhumane acts committed by the Japanese soldiery, it's not like they were a shining example of the image we have today of "traditional Japan with tea and cherry blossoms".
Something other than western military domination had to be attractive to them, as Japan became quite obsessed with US culture for a time. Though that's probably just the effects of US mass media as a salve on the fractured defeated mind of Japan.
Interestingly, as far as "culture wars" go, it seems that the Western world is now obsessed with Japanese media to the point that Western media is almost an afterthought to Westerners.
Haha yeah what? Did he imply the entirety of America consists of weebs?