Fundamentally, the government mouthpiece corporate media keeps us in a state of slavery by asking its consumers to employ Orwellian modes of thought about what it reports. That the consumer can doublethink is integral to the exercise of perception shaping that essentially, when you strip it down to bare bones, is all that modern corporate media exists these days to do. And part of this, as I’ve explained before many times here, is asking its consumers to make intellectual and emotional investment in the significance of the corporate media – to believe in its authority by subscribing to an illusion of its size and importance.

The Libyan War, as well as being a good demonstration of the out-and-out perversion of our criminal political elite (that’s why I’ve dwelt upon it), also offers an opportunity to show how the media insists on doublethink in its consumer-ship. For instance, Al-Qaeda is bad, but Al-Qaeda is good. Kinetic military action is not war (therefore a nuclear warhead strike is not war). War itself is peace-keeping. Protecting civilians is bombing them. Ethnic cleansing is not ethnic cleaning, and neither is systematic murder of black people a genocide. Holding some of Tripoli is to capture the capital city of Libya. It goes on and on.

NATO and their Al-Qaeda associates can only execute the theatre of endless (but deadly) charades that is the Libyan War because so many people in the UK, France and the USA – principally – are able to do the doublethinking that their governments require of them; that in itself is an indication of their slavery. The public might have heard of the book 1984 (and some of them even read it), but in doublethink’s greatest triumph, even if they understand that the psychology and group-think described therein is feasible, they don’t believe it exists in real life.

Of course, the conduit through which the trickery, and therefore the slavery, is delivered is the corporate media. And just when we thought they had exhausted the capacity of their consumers to deceive themselves, they stepped up another gear.

What they – or should I say, in this case, the Guardian – were presenting on Friday was the story of how, the NTC had launched what it hoped would be a final assault on Sirte. In the Guardian, the headline writer penned this : "Gaddafi’s last stronghold, the city of Sirte, becomes Libya’s final battle."

In the body of the story, which also calls the newest assault on Sirte "Libya’s last battle", it becomes clear that NATO/Al-Qaeda (ultimately Cameron, Obama, Sarkozy, and their bosses) want corporate media consumers to think that all the fighting is going to be done and dusted after Sirte because the "new government of Libya" will be able to announce full liberation when the town falls.

Breathtakingly, the evidence that this would be an announcement that would only shape perception, rather than describe any reality, is given in the same stroke of the pen:

In this reportage there is only vague acknowedgement (in case you are awake) that back in September, the official "liberation" of Libya was described as being a concept that included the defeat of Bani Walid. This is from here, published 19th September:

And now only the taking of Sirte is required for "full liberation" to be declared.

This is a clear moving of the goal posts. It should indicate to anyone who is awake that NATO/Al-Qaeda’s terms of victory are meaningless. They just make them up, and make them easy to accomplish, and they tell the mass ranks of the deluded that they have won. If they can’t accomplish their fake goals, then they hoax it – with the help of the likes of SKY News and Al Jazeera.

Furthermore, the whole scam reveals that what we thought we knew about Sirte and Bani Walid turns out to be true. The Guardian article does suggest that an assumption made here atLuikkerland.com about Sirte as a meaningless target in terms of a strategic conquest, but vital as a symbolic one that can be used to shape perception, has been vindicated. Bani Walid was also, it seems, one of these symbollic targets – but in a different way. Sirte was Gaddafi’s home town. Bani Walid would be used as a high profile example of Gaddafi loyalists submitting to the rebels.

The NATO/Al-Qaeda gangster cartel made a mistake when it hyped up Bani Walid for this purpose. Remeber how Al Jazeera was present at the "peace talks" there before the fighting started in earnest? Having drawn the world’s attention to Bani Walid, the rebels were then soundly beaten, and the propaganda backfired. The corporate media stopped reporting it. And finally now, because it looks like NATO/Al-Qaeda can’t take Bani Walid, in the world of the corporate media’s projected fantasy the town becomes completely irrelevant; in terms of the reality that they want to portray, essentially non-existent.

What’s so worrying is how this manipulation of the perecption of reality through the corporate media is so blatant, and yet people cannot equate it with their own bondage; they cannot see (and they aren’t interested in being told) that the systematic and widespread adherence to the perceived weight of corporate media is the first chain that needs to be cut loose.

In the States there is finally movement against the corrupt political classes because the corporate media has been identified as the enemy. This is why they can now "Occupy Wall Street" and "Occupy the Fed" and identify and battle with Establishment types who want to co-opt it and provocateur the movement to discredit it. In this country, despite seemingly solitary efforts here and there, we haven’t got a core mind-set in public opinion that isn’t compromised by pride from association with the Establishment. We haven’t got the alternative media outlets that can defend marching in the streets from Establishment infiltration and demonization, and we are not likely to because, in general, citizen journalism in the UK still desires Establishment guidance and validation.

The trouble is, the day is soon coming when bondage will be out-in-the-open painful, and at that point, when it doesn’t feel good so the people don’t like it anymore, it will be much too late.

As for Sirte; the rebels said they would take it on Friday. By 3pm, 22 NTC fighters were dead, and, 146 injured. Saturday came, and there has not been a declaration of "liberation" – at least not as far as I’m aware. If there was, it would be meaningless – that’s the whole point, isn’t it?