The Media’s Propaganda Machine Is Malfunctioning |
The Media’s Propaganda Machine Is Malfunctioning
Your brain is the battlefield.
J.B. Shurk | November 4, 2026
It feels as if the march of history is accelerating now. The number of meaningful current events around the globe continues to grow.
We don’t have time to process the Islamic riots across France before turning our attention to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s attempted judicial coup d’état. While President Trump seeks peace between Russia and Ukraine, the United Kingdom prepares its citizens for WWIII and a Russian invasion. The United States has elections, but Democrat seditionists and subversive members of the American Intelligence Community push for a “color revolution” to topple the Trump administration.
Big events happen every day, and we have scant opportunity to understand what they mean before another comes across our screens. The issue of “screens” is important. If you’re reading this, you are not likely a hermit living self-sufficiently in the woods. Unless you limit your “screen time,” televisions, computers, tablets, and phones are pumping your brain full of information all day long. Even when we’re not consciously reading or watching something on our screens, our brains are picking up signals about the events playing out in the world.
If you are a fan of science fiction, it is not difficult to understand that we are now living in a version of the dystopian worlds that writers such as Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick envisioned. People who possess power in this world have a strong incentive to shape our minds, and they use every available tool to condition our way of thinking.
Information is no longer confined to a book, catalogued in a quiet library. It is blaring at us from all directions.
Different cable news hosts on competing cable news networks repeat the same words and phrases all day long until we find ourselves reaching for those words while having polite conversations in real life.
Songs from pop artists representing different genres push the same messages, and when those pop artists collect awards, they use their acceptance speeches to drive those messages further into the brains of their most loyal fans. Those fans magnify........