Two Acceptable Positions

How did it become so common to believe that organisations and people should not benefit their nation? The spread of such a depraved lie reshapes societal expectations, requiring considerable effort to amend. It has weaved a narrative so insidious, that even discerning minds struggle to untangle its threads.

More than simple propaganda, this has been a sophisticated campaign of misinformation and manipulation. Consider that large majorities of entire populations within nations have been convinced that their well-being is secondary to corporate greed, and that any local investments outside wealthy private interests are counter-intuitively supportive of internationalism. This obviously required more than just slick advertising or political spin.

Any billionaire or billionaire’s stooge that says otherwise, well they are made the worst type of people by their greed and selfish depravities, one way or the other. This required the orchestration of influences, from academia to media, from legal frameworks to cultural norms. Each piece of the puzzle was aligned until their exploitation became inevitable from all angles, with any dissent seeming impossible. Arguing one way toward the good makes you an unacceptable ‘socialist’ as bad as any Marxist or member of antifa apparently, and the other makes you a backwoods yokel who must have been raised that way with “bad ideas.”

Academia served as both architect and apologist for these massive shifts. Textbooks, research papers, economic theories, all moulded to support the notion that unfettered corporate power is the natural order of things. When the leading institutions endorse and fight for this doctrine, the anti-ideology gains a veneer of legitimacy, making resistance seem not just futile but heretical, and just about the most terrible thing one can do.

The curricula at most universities have been designed to justify corporate dominance rather than question it. Court economists receive cushy jobs preaching one of the two acceptable gospels of international mediocrity or corporate market supremacy in profiteering without acknowledging any darker aspects. This isn’t about suppressing free thought per se but shaping the parameters within which all thought is allowed to operate so the population can imprison themselves.