I have been thinking about this kind of thing lately: like, I've heard that AOC, Tucker Carlson, Anderson Cooper, Obama's mom, Chelsea Manning, Chapo, and the Mayor Pete High-Hopes Dance are all CIA assets. Okay I made up the dance one, but still. I'm not saying any of these people are or are not CIA, but I just wonder what the speculation does for activism, organizing, the left, etc., and whether it just deflates people's enthusiasm, because if the bourgeoisie's intelligence agents have controlled everything, it reminds us the game is rigged from the get-go.
the "everything is CIA" meme is a product of an over-read, under-organized internet left that wants a simple answer to the question of why we suck so much. every marginal political faction has its narratives of external subversion, but those only take center stage when there's no other tools of analysis.
if solidarity is more than a lovely word, then it doesn't matter if the state is attacking our minds. if our comrades are known to us, our enemies can't stand against us.
It's small club and we ain't in it. Pretty much everyone who gets famous in media has some sort of connection to the "deep state"/CIA simply because media is full of nepotism and rich kids who can get their stuff out there. Menaker's grandpa was a double agent for the KGB and FBI. Felix's "neocon uncle" that he has alluded to was literally law partners with Paul Helliwell, Disney's CIA guy and iirc has connections to the Pritzkers.
I have been thinking about this kind of thing lately: like, I've heard that AOC, Tucker Carlson, Anderson Cooper, Obama's mom, Chelsea Manning, Chapo, and the Mayor Pete High-Hopes Dance are all CIA assets. Okay I made up the dance one, but still. I'm not saying any of these people are or are not CIA, but I just wonder what the speculation does for activism, organizing, the left, etc., and whether it just deflates people's enthusiasm, because if the bourgeoisie's intelligence agents have controlled everything, it reminds us the game is rigged from the get-go.
the "everything is CIA" meme is a product of an over-read, under-organized internet left that wants a simple answer to the question of why we suck so much. every marginal political faction has its narratives of external subversion, but those only take center stage when there's no other tools of analysis.
if solidarity is more than a lovely word, then it doesn't matter if the state is attacking our minds. if our comrades are known to us, our enemies can't stand against us.
beautifully said.
It's small club and we ain't in it. Pretty much everyone who gets famous in media has some sort of connection to the "deep state"/CIA simply because media is full of nepotism and rich kids who can get their stuff out there. Menaker's grandpa was a double agent for the KGB and FBI. Felix's "neocon uncle" that he has alluded to was literally law partners with Paul Helliwell, Disney's CIA guy and iirc has connections to the Pritzkers.
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