It should deeply disturb us that there is no difference in worldview between the political class and the media class.
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It should deeply disturb us that there is no difference in worldview between the political class and the media class.
Ever think about how weird and freakish that is? Western pundits and reporters all have the exact same models for looking at the world as western politicians and government officials have. They break down ideologically along exactly the same narrow "progressive-ish versus conservative-ish" spectrum of debate; they all agree on who the Good Guys and Bad Guys are on the world stage; they all subscribe to the same perspectives on how electoral politics work, how their government works, how the economy works and how power works. They don't agree on every issue, but they all share the exact same conceptual frameworks for understanding the world which form the basis of their agreements and disagreements.
This is one of the things that makes western propaganda so effective: the fact that there is no discrepancy at all between the way our governments describe the way the world works and the way all the most prominent journalists, analysts and pundits do. They never make any mention of the fact that we're all being psychologically hammered with mass-scale propaganda every day to manipulate the way we think, speak, vote and work. They ignore the fact that our elections are fake and everything we were taught in school about our government is a lie. They deny the self-evident reality that the US-centralized empire is by far the most murderous and tyrannical force on this planet and is the source of most of the world's problems. They all pretend capitalism is working fine and we will surely figure out how to consume our way out of our soaring injustices and looming ecological collapse any minute now. They all completely redact from their worldview the inconvenient truth that we are ruled by sociopathic plutocrats who are driving us to our doom.
The fact that government and political bodies omit from their perspective all the same information that pundits and reporters do means power never gets held to account by the press, because they're all viewing the actions of the powerful through the same fraudulent reality tunnel. This creates giant dark spots on the field of information in which immense depravities can hide, thereby allowing a gravely disordered status quo to continue uncontested by the news-consuming public.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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