Thu Mar 2, 2023 – 1:25 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — War is not an instrument of civilization. It is shocking to be confronted by the facts these days, as our reality is shaped by people whose purposes, if spoken out loud in simple words, would have them declared dangerously insane.
It is a sign of the barbarism into which our culture has fallen that the simple revision of terminology can make a virtue of the ruin of nations.
The replacement of reality with words is a method of shaping the perception of events, so that the very sense of reality of entire populations becomes a narrative to be shaped.
The very words used to describe these narratives, which are deliberate substitutes for reality, are transmitted through the same mechanism of mass media whose spectacle these redefinitions serve to justify.
This is the reason that a policy of permanent atrocity is described as a grand ideal. “Liberal interventionism” is how permanent war is rebranded. The destruction of sovereign nations is called “regime change.” To support these concepts is to follow the “rules based order.” It is a world of moral inversion, in which the worst deeds go
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