Like So Much Else, The Fuss Over 'International Law' Is Really About Narrative Control

Like So Much Else, The Fuss Over 'International Law' Is Really About Narrative Control

May 25, 2024

ISRAEL and U.S. IMPERIALISM

"That’s why you see U.S. and Israeli officials raging and fuming about the actions of the ICJ and the ICC.

It’s not because they’re worried those courts will be able to enforce the rulings they make, it’s because it weakens their control of the narrative."

Anything that causes the empire managers to lose their grip on the dominant stories people are telling about what’s happening in the world is a direct threat to imperial power, because it shakes people out of the propaganda-induced stupor which causes them to consent to the imperial status quo. That’s why the U.S. and Israel pour so much effort into controlling the collective narrative in the west; they need people consenting to things which no psychologically healthy person would ever consent to without being manipulated and deceived.

Empire managers work so hard to control the dominant narratives of our civilization because they understand something that ordinary people do not: that real power comes from narrative control.

The only reason our society looks the way it looks and moves in the way that it moves is because of the narratives which we have collectively agreed to treat as true and real. It’s the only reason power sits where it sits and operates the way it operates. It’s the only reason money works the way it works. It’s the only reason laws are laws and social etiquette is social etiquette.

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