The network of military departments, government agencies, and weapons manufacturers known as the military-industrial complex now includes the media, which Frank Zappa referred to as the military-industrial complex's "entertainment division." All of this is nowadays called the deep state, or the perpetual state. We can take this concept further: if we include certain academic institutions as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) — w
hich Canadian journalist Cory Morningstar calls the Non Profit Industrial Complex — we can elaborate the idea of there being an information or propaganda "construct" that formulates and acts as a container for public opinion. The important function of this Construct is not only to admit into the public consciousness only oligarch-approved narratives, but to filter out information that might create awareness of the oligarchy's various wars and colonial projects (with awareness leading eventually to disapproval). In other words, people are maintained in a state wherein they "don't even know what they don't even know." Hence, people will .....
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