Now that we’re in full-on Christmas season, I’m beginning to take stock of all the so-called “news” I’ve been avoiding over the past several weeks.
The last thing I remember being aware of was the fact that when the election in the United States was decided, the German coalition government fell apart immediately — it was in fact the very same day. I found that very curious.
Since then, it seems to me like a large quantity of hot air has been expressed.
It also appears as if a large portion of the propaganda industry may be a little lost — but only in America. Locally, it appears that Germany has now caught on to smear campaign tactics (maybe just about half a century after they were introduced) and are pressing forward full speed ahead in an effort to Blitzkrieg the centrist myth into the minds of so-called mainstream media consumers, and thereby to prevent so-called extremists and radicals from exercising free speech and similar dubious tactics. Here, mainstream remains everything but sidelined.
The general tenor is that whereas the USA has now completely lost the plot, good old-fashioned mainstream propaganda should be able to guarantee more of the same regardless of real-world nuisances such as widespread crumbling output from almost every other industry.
Nonetheless, there is a spectre haunting Europe — the spectre of recession (if not even outright depression). Let’s wait and see if they can make an awful lot of hot air in Berlin.
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