The absurdity of what the West believes in — on Andrei Nekrasov, human programming, self-censorship, fear, COVID, methods of control, and my thoughts.

The absurdity of what the West believes in — on Andrei Nekrasov, human programming, self-censorship, fear, COVID, methods of control, and my thoughts.

I posted this video before in this post. What I would like to point out is that it was made 4 years ago. I would like to start this post with a discussion of one of the latest videos on The Duran. 

https://theduran.com/the-magnitsky-act-narrative-control-andrei-nekrasov-alexander-mercouris-glenn-diesen/

Andrei Nekrasov was mentioned by Max Blumenthal in a video I posted: 

https://theduran.com/ai-translated-putins-2007-munich-security-conference-speech-in-english-voiced-by-putin-himselfand-short-history-of-russia-and-putin-by-max-blumenthal/

“If you watch Andrei Nekrasov’s film, which is effectively banned in the US—Browder has prevented it from being shown at the European Parliament—you’ll see an entirely different story. This Norwegian filmmaker, who is anti-Putin, started following Browder around, thinking he was going to make a film about this great dissident, and found out that he was an international con artist and vulture capitalist who had used his personal fortune to doctor American foreign policy and engineer a 99-to-nothing vote in the US Congress to sanction Russia unprovoked. There was no clear provocation for these sanctions. The Magnitsky sanctions deepened the sense of enmity, mistrust, and fear in Russia that the US is coming back for more.

Now the Magnitsky sanctions have been expanded to the global Magnitsky sanctions, so they are now being applied against Venezuela and will soon be used to destroy Nicaragua’s economy, and so on. We have to see the repercussions of the Cold War globally.” -Max Blumenthal

1:15:55

“When I criticize the West, people must understand that I’m part of that generation of Russians who looked up to the West.

I read Marx, unlike a lot of Russians, because they were kind of fed up with propaganda, and I was generally much more left-wing than average. You probably know that many Russians now — even those who are critical of the Putin government — tend to lean right-wing. This is historically understandable to some extent because we had a government that was theoretically Communist, so government control became associated with left-wing ideology. Now, you see a kind of reversal, a mirror image of sorts.

We admired the West for good reasons. There was debate, and, as a left-leaning person, I wasn’t in love with capitalism as a system. But on balance, it was more free. In my field — I’m a filmmaker and writer — there was certainly more freedom in the West. For example, left-wing critics who harshly opposed their governments in countries like France or America were allowed to express their views.

As Glenn rightly said, that’s what art is all about. You know enough about art and writing to understand that creativity cannot exist without debate — debate with oneself, with society, and with opponents. It’s about dialectics. Art is not a slogan. Slogans can be clever or catchy, but true art involves contradiction and complexity — reflecting the contradictory nature of politics, society, and even human beings themselves. Everything is interconnected, including our psychology.” -Andrei Nekrasov

Andrei Nekrasov is that Moscow intellectuals loving Ronald Reagan, Marlboro cigarettes, and the Confederacy during the Civil War. From my other post:

https://theduran.com/you-realise-that-youre-not-doing-politics-youre-doing-religion-its-religion-youre-dealing-with-because-youre-dealing-with-belief-and-its-hard-michael-parenti/

“When people cannot challenge the validity of the evidence you present, they resort to fallback positions. I remember the Moscow intellectuals back when the Soviet Union still existed in the 1980s. There was an interesting article in National Review, a conservative right-wing magazine, where the author described Moscow intellectuals as loving Ronald Reagan, Marlboro cigarettes, and the Confederacy during the Civil War. I found that description quite accurate, based on my encounters with them. They despised socialism.

A friend of mine had a similar experience. She was in Leningrad with Soviet intellectuals, and one of them said to her, “The poorest people in your country live better than I do.” Here was a man who had attended Moscow University, spoke fluent English, had a small but comfortable apartment, and owned a bookshelf filled with books. He had never missed a meal in his life, yet he believed that the poorest in America lived better than he did. Whenever they spoke of America, their eyes would light up—“America! America!” -Michael Parenti

And those lighting up eyes was Edward Berneys explain in my other post:

https://theduran.com/how-one-man-made-you-want-hot-dogs-hate-communism-plato-cave/

Andrei Nekrasov mentions during the program dialectic and I speak about idealism and Plato.

It’s funny to watch Andrei Nekrasov fight with himself; literally you can see him fighting his own programming that he went through, contradicting himself. Defending system that he knows is broken and harms him but he needs to defend it because he was programmed that way. People in the West can’t acknowledge truth because of their programming, that’s especially true among intellectuals. Which was well explain by Chomsky who is unknowingly controlled opposition so the thing he describe in manufacturing consent:

“When we talk about the system of manufacturing consent, whose consent is being manufactured?

To start with, there are two different groups. We can get into more detail, but at the first level of approximation, there are two primary targets for propaganda. One group is sometimes referred to as the “political class.” This group represents about 20 percent of the population, consisting of relatively educated, more or less articulate individuals who play a role in decision-making. They are expected to participate in social life, either as managers or cultural leaders—teachers, writers, and so on. They are supposed to vote and play an active role in shaping economic, political, and cultural life. Their consent is crucial, so they must be deeply indoctrinated.

Then there’s the remaining 80 percent of the population, whose primary function is to follow orders and refrain from independent thought.”

It’s amusing to watch people struggle against their internal programming. You can observe Andrei Nekrasov speaking the truth about the West, but immediately feeling the need to clarify that he supports limiting free speech and opposes Communism. He understands the truth, yet he has been programmed in such a way that certain doctrines and ideologies have been ingrained in his mind—ideologies he was conditioned to accept. Therefore, even when reality contradicts those doctrines, he still feels compelled to express his belief in them, despite knowing truths that undermine what he was taught to believe. This dynamic is fascinating to watch.

Anyway, I wanted to mention something else. I had initially planned to post part of what I wrote here as a comment on The Duran forum, as well as a comment later on The Duran YouTube channel. However, I refrained from doing so—not out of concern for myself, but because I was worried about The Duran. I would like to encourage everyone to support The Duran, as they are actively fighting for our freedom by providing us with access to accurate information. The Duran allows me to post on their forum, and they are bearing the costs of maintaining it. In my opinion, The Duran forum is already shadow-banned. I’m not entirely sure if it’s due to my posts, but I suspect it could be related. This is what I posted earlier:

I am unable to access this forum from my phone and can only access it from my PC. Additionally, I shared my posts with friends who were initially able to view the page, but they are now unable to access it. This indicates that the issue is not limited to me; other people are also experiencing problems accessing this page. I am almost certain that the page has been shadow-banned, and I suspect it might be because of my posts.

Because of this, I chose not to post my comment on The Duran YouTube channel, as I was concerned that I might inadvertently harm them, just as I might have caused this forum to be shadow-banned. The Duran allowed me to express what I believe to be true, and they seem to have been punished for it. I didn’t want to cause them further trouble. In fact, I have resorted to self-censorship to avoid creating additional problems for The Duran because they are a force for good, and I sincerely don’t want to harm them.

However, upon further reflection, I realized that this situation perfectly illustrates how the system works. If what I am saying is true, a situation has been created in which I am afraid to speak the truth because anyone who provides me with a platform and allows my ideas to be heard might suffer as a result.

I have already decided that I am willing to take risks for myself; otherwise, I wouldn’t write what I believe to be true.

This is what I have been doing for almost 20 years—blending in, watching people witness the world fall apart while thinking it’s normal. When I was young, I told my father what I knew, and he told me I was crazy. That’s why I never spoke out; I only watched, listened, and learned. Later, during COVID, he accused me of killing people because I refused to get vaccinated, to the point where he even threatened to disinherit me if I didn’t comply. Despite the pressure, I still chose not to vaccinate, but COVID showed me the extent of their grip on the narrative.

I’ve written about this before, but when COVID first emerged, I was almost certain it was exaggerated nonsense, and after the first new variant appeared, I was convinced they were lying. Not because someone I trusted said so, but because I understood the underlying principle and applied it to search for the truth just like with anything else. Every new variant is weaker, primarily because viruses don’t want to kill their host—they need the host to survive, and killing the host means killing themselves. Secondly, if variants become more dangerous, they have reduced chances of spreading, whereas less dangerous variants spread more easily, meaning that weaker ones eventually dominate.

Unlike others, I remember the swine flu and bird flu outbreaks. During my research back then, I discovered that they were also coronaviruses. I found out that these viruses evolved naturally into weaker strains, and now about 20 to 30 percent of seasonal flu cases are caused by coronaviruses related to swine flu and bird flu. These viruses didn’t disappear; they simply evolved into milder forms and became part of the seasonal flu cycle. Knowing these facts shaped how I viewed COVID. However, since I don’t have a degree, a title, or a lab coat, the logic of my arguments didn’t matter. No matter how much sense my reasoning made, it was dismissed because I lack formal education.

Meanwhile, those with degrees, titles, and lab coats—who often made no sense and contradicted basic science and logic—were trusted simply because they represented authority. As Noam Chomsky said:

“One group is sometimes referred to as the ‘political class.’ This group represents about 20 percent of the population, consisting of relatively educated, more or less articulate individuals who play a role in decision-making. They are expected to participate in social life, either as managers or cultural leaders—teachers, writers, and so on. They are supposed to vote and play an active role in shaping economic, political, and cultural life. Their consent is crucial, so they must be deeply indoctrinated.”

So, despite not being formally educated, I made sense, but it didn’t matter because the authorities—those “deeply indoctrinated” individuals—said otherwise. This is how a narrative is created: by fostering belief in authority and controlling those who represent that authority.

Sorry for rambling and jumping from one subject to another, but first of all, everything is connected—you can’t take things in isolation. To truly understand something, you need to see how various elements are interconnected. Secondly, I’m not very good at expressing myself. I tend to be specific, and I’m fairly good at logical analysis, which helps me understand and analyze things, but I’m terrible at conveying my thoughts. I don’t even know how to write well. What I write is only somewhat coherent because I use AI chat to make it more digestible.

That’s why, unlike others, I don’t feel superior to anyone. People immediately become defensive when you point out that they are wrong, as if knowing and understanding more makes me somehow better than them. This mindset prevents them from wanting to acknowledge what I say. Ironically, I see myself as no one special and perhaps even worse than others. Look at history—Einstein married his cousin, Tesla later in life considered one of his pigeons his wife, and Nietzsche went mad. If you look closely, highly intelligent people are often socially unconventional. Intelligence comes with the price of being different.

It’s amusing because while people get offended and defensive when corrected, assuming it implies superiority, the reality is that truly intelligent individuals often see themselves as inferior to others. Honestly, I’d much prefer being able to mindlessly enjoy life like a “normal” person—it would make life so much easier. Moreover, if you think you’re better than others simply because you know or understand more, you’re not truly intelligent—you’re merely intellectual, which is something different.

A truly intelligent person is described by the quote I posted earlier:

“Every course of action seems insufficient and so he is paralysed, or as Dostoevsky puts it, he finds himself stuck in a state of inertia, only able to think but unable to act. He suffers the greatest ailment of all, consciousness. To think too much is a disease. This best describes the Underground Man’s state of mind, he is stuck in his own reflective hyperconsciousness, thus creating a greater accumulation of spite than in the man of action. The result is that the intellectual is unable to do anything and is thus characterless. He writes:

“I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”

He is aware of his flaws, while the man of action is content in his foolishness and believes that he is great. The Underground Man finds solace as he is smarter than all of the people he meets but socially they are all well above him. His vanity convinces him of his own intellectual superiority and he despises everybody; but when he realises that he cannot rest without their recognition of his superiority, he hates others for their indifference and falls into self-loathing at his own humiliating dependence.

The Underground Man considers the man of action as the real normal man, while he sees himself as a product born out of a test tube. He calls himself a mouse, though nobody tells him he is one, it is as if he has constructed a hell out of his own internal ruminations”

Maybe I know and understand more than others, but I have always considered myself a loser and a screw-up. It never made me feel superior to anyone because I am fully aware of my flaws. While I may know and understand more in some areas, socially, everyone is far above me.