I feel like there was an attempt at a narrative what with the bin Laden thing and the uranium thing and the “we don’t want to have a smoking gun be a mushroom cloud” allusion to a hypothetical Iraqi first strike. Was it all disprovable lies? Sure, but it wasn’t this atemporal “we gotta attack them to prevent the counterattack that would result from our attacking them to prevent the counterattack” ourobouros propaganda.
It’s so nihilistic now: everyone knows they’re lying, they know that no one believes them, even their supporters know it’s all bullshit that won’t convince anyone.
This Iraq War propaganda wasn’t really different than this. The difference is how ubiquitous and popular it was
I feel like there was an attempt at a narrative what with the bin Laden thing and the uranium thing and the “we don’t want to have a smoking gun be a mushroom cloud” allusion to a hypothetical Iraqi first strike. Was it all disprovable lies? Sure, but it wasn’t this atemporal “we gotta attack them to prevent the counterattack that would result from our attacking them to prevent the counterattack” ourobouros propaganda.
It’s so nihilistic now: everyone knows they’re lying, they know that no one believes them, even their supporters know it’s all bullshit that won’t convince anyone.