If you ever wondered why America’s messaging to the world (known as propaganda) has constantly been a dismal failure, you now have the explanation as to why this has been the case. The explanation came in the form of an article written under the title: “In the global meme wars, it’s time to side with the elves against the trolls,” authored by Thomas Kent, and published in the Washington Post on November 16, 2022.
It is important to know that beside teaching at the
college level, Thomas Kent introduces himself as consultant on combating
disinformation. In fact, he is a senior fellow of the Jamestown Foundation and
former president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Unlike Thomas Kent, I do not have credentials that were
attested to or bestowed on me by others. But I have a lifetime of hands-on
experience on how to survive a ferocious meme war such as the one that was unleashed
on me. I was made to endure its crushing pressure in silence and total secrecy
because the perpetrators feared that if their war on me was made public, they
and their collaborators will be the ones to perish instead of me whom they had cancelled
and made invisible as they tried to erase every trace of my existence on the
face of the Earth.
The chief perpetrator was none other than the worldwide
crime syndicate known as World Jewry. It recruited the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police (RCMP) and commanded them to punish and silence me for daring to write a
letter to the editor of a large Toronto newspaper in 1968. It was a harmless
letter in which I proclaimed that Egypt was a civilized country, but this
proved too much for the Jews to stomach at the time. It turned out that in the
view of the crime syndicate, my proclamation was conveying such a threat to
Jews, to Canada and to the world, it was necessary to mobilize and put to work
against me the mightiest of the Anglosphere security apparatuses.
Heads of these institutions were made to swear they’ll
abide by the Jewish-enforced omerta. They were instructed to squeeze the screws
so tight on me, I would lose my mind and commit a horrible act they can point
to and say they always knew I was capable of committing such act, which is why
they persistently persecuted me for the duration of my entire adult life. But I
confounded them by staying sane, law abiding and very much interested to study
the ways of the evil that animates them. My overriding motivation had been to
stay alive so that I may tell future generations about their morbid wickedness
and how to defeat it.
But how did I pull it off?
I did it by following the dictates of my instinct. It
happened that in some instances, those dictates ran contrary to what Thomas
Kent is now advising in his article. In fact, he began by suggesting there was
a need for smart policies to counter disinformation, but then talked about
policies that failed without describing them or telling why they failed. Here
is how he did that:
“In recent years, the US government’s efforts to confront disinformation
have often fallen short. The recent exposure of a covert social media
campaign promoting US interests abroad has demonstrated the shortcomings of
government operations done with little skill”.
So then, how did he propose doing things that can yield the desired
result?
He is proposing several approaches, some of which are correct in my view;
others not so much. Here is a good approach that relies on learning about the
best practices of others and duplicating them. Here is how Thomas Kent
expressed that thought:
“The conflict brought some valuable lessons for those who wish to fight
back. Perhaps the most notable successes have come from nongovernment activists
— campaigners in threatened countries — who have been mounting their own
response to [foreign] propaganda … Perhaps it’s time we learned something from
Eastern Europe’s online nongovernment activists — many of them volunteers. They
possess authenticity and expertise that outside governments cannot match”.
Whereas it is a good thing to learn from
others, I would not advise developing the tendency to form online mobs because
they will sooner or later coalesce into a groupthink that will generate much
heat, thunderous noise, faint light, a bewildering confusion and not much else.
Those in the business of doing or countering propaganda must never forget that in
the long run, a mob always defeats itself.
But how might unwanted mobs develop to begin
with under the Thomas Kent approach? Good question. To answer it, here are the
words he uttered which betray his inner thoughts on the subject:
“Some Eastern Europeans have told me their
work has fallen off because they cannot afford even one full-time person to monitor
disinformation and recruit and organize volunteers. A grant as small as $50,000
that continues year after year can make a difference. Activists also need
professionals to design information campaigns and target them to critical
audiences”.
I had none of that going for me during my
lonely journey through hell and yet, I did more than survive the combined might
of the World Jewry and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In addition, while
defending myself the best I could, I took on the warmongers of this world and
ripped them at every turn without suffering as much as a scratch at their hands.
I achieved everything I aimed to establish
because I let truth speak for itself. Yes, there were instances when truth took
time before it revealed itself, but these were the moments when patience proved
to be my friend and ally.