Andre Vltchek
NEO
‘The West is busy manufacturing ‘pseudo reality’. And in this grotesque pseudo-reality, several deprived individuals like starving chess players, street vendors and slum dwellers are suddenly becoming rich, successful and fulfilled. Millions of others, all around them, continue to suffer. But somehow, they don’t seem to matter much.’
Watch blockbuster movies from the ‘south’ and chances are you will start to believe that the world is not really such a desperate place. Perhaps you might even get convinced that under the present imperialist and turbo-capitalist global arrangement things can always get better.
If you live in a gutter somewhere in Sub-Continent or Africa, you could simply try hard, you could ‘believe in yourself and love yourself’, you could ‘listen to your instincts’, and everything may eventually fall into the right places. You could get acknowledged, rewarded and even catapulted from your misery into some plush pastures that are covering the tall green hills of success.
Think twice! Or… don’t think at all – just bury your head in the sand.
There were always books written and films produced just in order to please the Western funding agencies and propaganda machine. I described the process, colorfully, in my recent political/revolutionary novel ‘Aurora’.
This post was published at 21st Century Wire on MAY 27, 2017.
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