John Pilger: The new propaganda is 'liberal'

John Pilger: The new propaganda is 'liberal'.

Of the world of blogging, tweeting, and social media, Pilger writes:

Edward Said described this wired state in Culture and Imperialism as taking imperialism where navies could never reach. It is the ultimate means of social control because it is voluntary, addictive and shrouded in illusions of personal freedom.

Today's “message” of grotesque inequality, social injustice and war is the propaganda of liberal democracies. By any measure of human behavior, this is extremism.

The conservatives are correct when they say that the mainstream media is liberal. But they misunderstand what the word 'liberal' means. They are led to believe that it means progressive and radical, whereas the meaning imparted by the capitalists is freedom for them to exploit others while hiding this exploitation.