The Trouble With ‘Western Values’ Is That Westerners Don’t Value Them

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The PROBLEM with this column is, westerners DON'T have "ANY VALUES",
none whatsoever.

WASPs understood more than 500 years ago that a human brain is nothing
but a "brainwashable organ" and humans are "emotional animals".


So, they control the entire MSM and brainwash their public every day, in
every issue, ALL the fucking time.

So, obviously westerners have NO ABILITY to separate fact from fiction
because they are born and brought up and live in a STINKY OCEAN OF LIES
their entire lives.



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https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/09/15/the-trouble-with-western-values-is-that-westerners-dont-value-them/


Have you ever noticed how those who shriek the loudest about tyranny in
foreign countries are always the same people calling for the censorship
and deplatforming of anyone who criticizes the western empire?

It’s a ubiquitous mind virus throughout western society. Anyone — and I
do mean anyone — who aggressively and consistently criticizes the
foreign policy of the US and its allies in front of a sizeable audience
gets branded a Russian agent by empire apologists, and this consensus is
accompanied by the steadily growing opinion that Russia’s operatives and
useful idiots should be banned from western platforms.

Defenders of the western empire won’t admit to wanting all empire
critics silenced, but that’s what you get when you combine (A) the fact
that they view everyone who criticizes the empire with sufficient
aggression as a Russian agent with (B) their opinion that those given to
Russian influence ought to be censored. Whenever I criticize the foreign
policy of the western empire I get its apologists telling me I’d never
be allowed to criticize my rulers like that if I lived in a nation like
Russia or China, when they know full well that if it were up to them I
wouldn’t be allowed to criticize the western empire here either. They
are the same as the tyrants they claim to despise.

The trouble with “western values” is that westerners don’t value them.
They think they value them, but all that reverence for free expression
and holding power to account with the light of truth goes right out the
window the second they see someone saying something that sharply differs
from what their rulers and their propagandists have told them to think.
Then they want that person silenced and shut down.

In truth, the most forceful critics of the western empire actually
embody these western values infinitely more than empire apologists do.
It is the critics of empire who value free speech and holding the
powerful to account. It’s the brainwashed bootlickers of the
US-centralized empire who are calling for censorship and shouting down
anyone who directs fierce oppositional scrutiny toward the most powerful
people in the world.

People tell me “Move to Russia!” or “Move to China!” depending on what
aspect of the empire’s global power agendas I happen to be criticizing
at the moment, and I always want to tell them, no, you move to Russia.
You move to China. You’re the one trying to suppress dissent and
criticism of the powerful. I’m the one who is living by western values
as they were sold to me and demanding normal scrutiny of the most
powerful empire that has ever existed. You don’t belong here.

In school we are taught that our society values truth, free speech,
equality, accountability for the powerful, and adversarial journalism,
then we grow up and we see everyone rending their garments because
institutions like CBS News or Amnesty International let slip one small
report which doesn’t fully comply with the official line of our rulers.
We see Russian media banned and censorship protocols expanded to the
enthusiastic cheerleading of mainstream liberals. We see astroturf
trolling operations used to mass report and shout down those who
scrutinize the establishment line about Ukraine on social media. We see
Julian Assange languishing in Belmarsh Prison for the crime of
unauthorized journalism.

It’s obvious with a look around that the “western values” we’re all told
about are not actually terribly common in the west. Look at the west’s
major media platforms and they virtually never platform anyone who is
meaningfully critical of the real centers of power in western
civilization. Look at western governments and they continually dance to
the beat of oligarchy and empire regardless of how people vote in their
supposedly free democratic elections. Look at the internet and it’s
actually very difficult to find authentic criticisms of imperial power
unless you already know where to look.

Some of us bought into those western values we were taught about in
school, but it’s not the people you’ve been trained to expect. It’s we
marginalized outsiders who are adamantly opposing censorship, propaganda
and the empire’s war on the press while continuously working to shine
the light of truth on the mechanisms of power from the fringes, while we
are being yelled at and accused of treason by mainstream sycophants who
have far more in common with the autocrats they claim to oppose than
with the western values they purport to uphold.