So you’re pointing to exactly what I said was the absolute user end result of the American conditioning system and saying it’s the conditioning itself. Americans are racist by socialization. But it takes a personal effort to make sure you see past that and overcome that racist socialization. That’s not the conditioning itself.

And I brought up Russia because they’re the “axis” sister superpower to china. I brought it up to make the comparison because in the US, the conditioning is very much that those two superpowers are the “other side” to the US/EU. The spirit of the antagonistic conditioning against those two countries is incredibly similar.

Again, what I think you’re doing is confusing the end result with the conditioning. In the great pyramid of US messaging, we see the exhaust. The conditioning is going on in the fuel injector. Alllll of those twists and turns and mechanisms means that messaging is funneled through so many different hands and rich people with their own motives before we really get a chance to experience it. To confuse what we see on a day to day basis, especially today in our social media age, with US conditioning is a very misinformed way of seeing it, I think. All of the echoes of that conditioning are altered and ricocheted by every person they pass through. Our daily experience is all happening after the exhaust has been expelled. And you’re attributing it all to the US messaging as if we experience top-down, highly controlled, streamlined communications. We just don’t. No matter what the hyperbole says, we don’t have state run media (China does, though. Russia does, though.)

Are we experiencing the greatest propaganda machine ever invented? Probably sounds crazy for me to say after everything I’ve just laid out, but yes, we are. However, the media just doesn’t work like you’re making it out to work. I don’t mean any slight against you, but it’s a really immature way of thinking about the world around you. I’m sorry if that seems like a pointed remark, I didn’t mean for it to. It’s the most common type of thinking—and I mean it’s the first step in starting to question the world around you as it’s fed to you. Which is great to do, but there’s a lot of work to do after that. And—again, no offense—communism tends to be that first step too. A lot of us took those steps when we were first getting our feet wet in the greater world around us at like 13, whereas many others take it much, much later. And in the US, that “much much later” came for a big number of people at however old people were around 2016.