{"id":720,"date":"2024-08-17T06:04:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T06:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=720"},"modified":"2024-08-17T06:07:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T06:07:21","slug":"ideology-makes-the-narrative-immune-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"Ideology makes the narrative immune to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Professor Glenn Eric Andre Diesen\u00b9 :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ideology makes the narrative immune to reality:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; The UK will still lecture the world about free speech<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; The US will still lecture the world about human rights<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; The EU will still lecture the world about peace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; NATO will still insist on being a defensive alliance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Israel &amp; Ukraine will still be portrayed as liberal democracies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; The conflicts of the world will still be sold to the public as a&nbsp;<strong>struggle between democracy and authoritarianism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Impossible?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Observe&nbsp;<strong>how quickly the assassination attempt of Trump and removal of Biden went into the memory hole, and how quickly Harris as a national embarrassment for three years could be re-launched as the savior of America and the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The genocide will be old news about terrorism, the Nord Stream attack will be dismissed as some rogue elements with a sailboat, and the sabotage of<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;Ukraine-Russia peace agreements will be dismissed as conspiracy theories and propaganda<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Political interference will still be &#8220;democracy promotion&#8221;, foreign intelligence operations will still be &#8220;human rights organisations supporting civil society&#8221;, coups will still be &#8220;democratic revolutions&#8221;, invasions will still be &#8220;humanitarian interventions&#8221; etc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reality is overrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>______________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b9 Glenn Eric Andre Diesen (born 1979) is a Norwegian academic and political scientist. He is a professor at the School of Business of the University of South-Eastern Norway. He is a regular commentator on the Russian state-controlled international news television network RT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Diesen has faced criticism for allegedly promoting Russian propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diesen has been a regular commentator on Russia Today (RT) and has faced criticism for allegedly promoting Russian propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also writes for Steigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Swedish journalist Patrik Oksanen considers Diesen to be &#8220;part of the Russian propaganda machinery.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aage Borchgrevink of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee said that Diesen has &#8220;an important role in RT as the Western expert, which gives legitimacy to what clearly appears to be the Kremlin&#8217;s version [&#8230;] his writings are unreliable, the factual basis is doubtful, and characterized by the content and form of Russian propaganda, as expressed in RT and Sputnik.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diesen has received the support of the rector of the University of South-Eastern Norway Petter Aasen, who defended the academic\u2019s right to free expression. Diesen is opposed to Russia&#8217;s military action against Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, Diesen wrote an op-ed in Aftenposten with Arne Treholt, that stated that Russia has &#8220;legitimate interests and security needs&#8221; and said that Russia was unfairly demonized as a security threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Glenn Eric Andre Diesen\u00b9 : Ideology makes the narrative immune to reality: &#8211; The UK will still lecture the world about free speech &#8211; The US will still lecture the world about human rights &#8211; The EU will still lecture the world about peace &#8211; NATO will still insist on being a defensive alliance &#8211; Israel &amp; Ukraine will still be portrayed as liberal democracies &#8211; The conflicts of the world will still be sold to the public as a&nbsp;struggle between democracy and authoritarianism Impossible? &nbsp;Observe&nbsp;how quickly the assassination&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}