Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,
The New York Times has amplified claims by āexpertsā who are calling for Joe Biden to appoint a āreality czar,ā prompting critics to compare the idea to the Ministry of Truth in George Orwellās 1984.
In an article entitled āHow the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisisā, the NYTās Kevin Roose cites āexpertsā who are calling on āthe Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a āreality czar.ā
The job of this āreality czarā would be to head up āa centralized task force could coordinate a single, strategic responseā to things like COVID-related and election fraud āconspiracy theories.ā
NYTimes suggests the Biden administration needs to appoint a āreality czarā to deal with misinformation and extremism.Ā https://t.co/jVNWNJ3e1C
ā Seth Fiegerman (@sfiegerman)Ā February 2, 2021
āThis task force could also meet regularly with tech platforms, and push for structural changes that could help those companies tackle their own extremism and misinformation problems. (For example, it could formulate āsafe harborā exemptions that would allow platforms to share data about QAnon and other conspiracy theory communities with researchers and government agencies without running afoul of privacy laws.) And it could become the tip of the spear for the federal governmentās response to the reality crisis,ā states the article.
āAh, the Ministry of Truth. Iāve been waiting for this one,āĀ responded Raheem Kassam.
Ah, the Ministry of Truth.
Iāve been waiting for this one.Ā https://t.co/JZ7sN7BgGk
ā Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam)Ā February 2, 2021
While the Orwell comparison has become something of a clichƩ, in this instance its the best available.
In the book, the Ministry of Truth decides what is ātruthā in Oceania no matter what the actual truth may be, and exercises this monopoly over reality by falsifying the nature of historical events.
The Ministry of Truth also uses this power monopoly to redefine the very word ātruthā under the rubric of Newspeak, so ātruthā becomes whatever the government-approved version of events is in that moment.
What the āexpertsā cited by the New York Times are calling far and what Orwell portrayed in his book are so similar, even Kevin Roose admits, āIt sounds a little dystopian.ā
But if āconspiracy theoriesā really do pose a deadly threat to society, who is responsible for pushing the most egregious disinformation?
As we have exhaustively documented ā the most harmful āconspiracy theories,ā ā such as Saddam Husseinās non-existent WMDās and supporting āfreedom fightersā who were actually jihadists in Libya and Syria ā are always exclusively peddled by the mainstream media.
The corporate press pushing these two whoppers created the consensus for war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and an international migrant crisis.
The New York Times was one of the most prominent outlets that amplified both these damaging deceptions and yet they faced no consequences whatsoever.
Such lies are also far more harmful to society because mainstream media networks have the biggest platforms, they are amplified by rigged social media platforms, and they share a common consensus narrative with each other, meaning there is almost no room for questioning or debate.
If there really was a truly independent āreality czar,ā the media would be big trouble because its entire raison dāĆŖtre is predicated around distorting reality.
