{"id":35754,"date":"2024-11-23T03:18:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T19:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/?p=35754"},"modified":"2026-02-02T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:10:07","slug":"if-you-want-to-help-the-world-focus-on-fighting-the-empire-caitlin-johnstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dingo.news\/voice\/if-you-want-to-help-the-world-focus-on-fighting-the-empire-caitlin-johnstone\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Want To Help The World, Focus On Fighting The Empire | Caitlin Johnstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Become a soldier because you want to be of service and you will discover that being a soldier doesn\u2019t work the way it\u2019s depicted in movies and shows. You\u2019re not a hero defending your country from murderous thugs, you are the murderous thugs, and the people you are murdering are trying to defend their country from you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Become a cop because you want to be of service and you will discover that being a cop doesn\u2019t work the way it\u2019s depicted in movies and shows. Your job isn\u2019t to protect people from crime, your job is to protect a system whose very existence is criminal, and none of the worst people in your society ever go to prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Become a lawyer because you want to be of service and you will discover that being a lawyer doesn\u2019t work the way it\u2019s depicted in movies and shows. The laws aren\u2019t there to protect ordinary people from the worst among us, they are there to protect the worst among us from ordinary people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Become a politician because you want to be of service and you will discover that being a politician doesn\u2019t work the way it\u2019s depicted in movies and shows. The power and influence you can wield in politics is directly proportionate to your willingness to compromise and collaborate with the plutocrats, interest groups and power structures who are causing the very problems you\u2019re trying to solve in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Become a journalist because you want be of service and you will discover that being a journalist doesn\u2019t work the way it\u2019s depicted in movies and shows. The job of the media in your society are not to report the truth and hold power to account but to propagandize the citizenry into accepting status quo politics and consenting to acts of mass military slaughter around the world, and you can only rise to success in the press to the extent that you are willing to help generate that propaganda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Become a teacher because you want be of service and you will discover that being a teacher doesn\u2019t work the way it\u2019s depicted in movies and shows. As a teacher your job is to lie to the next generation about their nation, their government, their history and their world and indoctrinate them into trusting their government and news media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Become a therapist because you want be of service and you will discover that being a therapist doesn\u2019t work the way it\u2019s depicted in movies and shows. A huge amount of the anxiety and depression your clients bring you cannot be resolved in therapy because they arise from the poverty, toil and lack of support which is built into the abusive and exploitative society in which we live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Become a social worker because you want be of service and you will discover that being a social worker doesn\u2019t work the way it\u2019s depicted in movies and shows. Again and again you will fail to secure your clients the resources they desperately need because your government doesn\u2019t care about them and your society flushes anyone who can\u2019t be used to generate a profit down the toilet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Try to make movies and shows which tell the truth about the kind of society we live in, and you will discover that the only way movies and shows get produced and placed before a large audience is if they promote the class interests of the wealthy people who control the major studios and platforms. Hollywood is one giant propaganda service for empire and capitalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">We live in a civilization built of lies and abuse, powered by lies and abuse, and defended using lies and abuse. Even the most kindhearted and well-intentioned among us struggle to bring about positive change, because the very fabric of our society is stacked against truth and kindness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Do you wish to be of service? Do you want to help the world? Then focus your energy on fighting against the status quo power structure which makes it so difficult to serve and to help. Do everything you can to help <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"Revolution Is Now | Caitlin Johnstone\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caitlinjohnst.one\/p\/revolution-is-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">foment a revolutionary zeitgeist<\/a><\/span> in opposition to militarism, capitalism, imperialism, authoritarianism, and the mainstream politics and media which make these abuses possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Work on opening people\u2019s eyes to the lies and abuse which sustain the tyrannical power structure we all live under, and open their hearts to the possibility that it doesn\u2019t need to be this way. The more eyes and hearts are opened in this way, the closer the people get to using the power of their numbers to force the emergence of a healthy world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a style=\"color: #800000;\" title=\"If You Want To Help The World, Focus On Fighting The Empire | Caitlin Johnstone | Caitlin's Newsletter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caitlinjohnst.one\/p\/if-you-want-to-help-the-world-focus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">If You Want To Help The World, Focus On Fighting The Empire<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"> | Caitlin Johnstone | Caitlin&#8217;s Newsletter<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" title=\"Subscribe to Caitlin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caitlinjohnst.one\/subscribe?utm_source=menu&amp;simple=true&amp;next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.caitlinjohnst.one%2Fp%2Fif-you-want-to-help-the-world-focus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Subscribe to Caitlin<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Become a soldier because you want to be of service and you will discover that being a soldier doesn\u2019t work the way it\u2019s depicted in movies and shows. 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