I’ve always perceived ‘genius’ as having positive / commendable quality to its attributions, so I don’t see the American disinformation and anti-communism project as genius at all, but instead it is vile, insidious, conniving, and treacherous. Negative qualities possessed by the people who conceived it and all who upheld it over the decades. The damage it has done to human spirit and material conditions, the suffering and death that resulted from policies and culture shaped by this ongoing campaign will not be fully understood until this demonic fucking empire is dead and buried.
I’d disagree, genius doesn’t necessarily have a moral dimension to it. A lot of things can be the product of genius, but the application is what can be measured through whether it is commendable or insidious. If there is one thing I can say the US really does better than any country on earth, it is propaganda, and the methodology and apparatus that was developed to propagate and instill these beliefs took a lot of research and “geniuses” to get it to where it is. Now of course the way they used this talent to further destabilizing propaganda, lies, and capitalist realism is of course morally reprehensible and should be condemned, but their effectiveness cannot be denied. Much like how the Manhattan Project was a product of brilliant physics and engineering, but the weapons it created were used for some of the cruelest killings in history.
The propaganda gets a heavy helping hand from the underlying material conditions, where the US enriched itself on superprofits from imperialism and paid off its labor aristocracy to demilitarize and deradicalize.
The propaganda won’t work as well as the first world workers are debourgeousified by the declining rate of superprofit.
Probably. My compatriots also any like ideas can’t be improved on, learning from others’ mistakes.
