Posted on 10/15/2020 3:54:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz
Appreciate it, but I’m not on par with Larry. I’m not bad, but not as good as LS.
My biggest claim to fame is probably making large and complicated arguments into single sentences.
Grant that money does not equal survival. That does make sense in the present climate.
What about the portfolio carried by the media to inculcate, supress, manage and otherwise control ALL information?
If people do not watch (click;buy), then they are not being influenced.
If there are choices (and there are, even if they devolve down to the samizdat level), people will gravitate to those choices.
If the MSM cannot fulfill its revolutionary purpose and is still subsidized by the power-mongers, then why?
To play hog-in-the-trough and crowd out the dissenters? That _could_ happen if/when commies take total control. Hence, the samizdat option.
How long can any institution remain smugly confident they are the only source of whatever they produce and so, everyone must partake and agree?
This is how counter-revolutions arise.
America has been rotted from within. Result: at least 1/2 the populace disbelieves any institution and that number keeps growing.
But, humans have been re-hardwired to create institutions over the past 200 years. Don’t they then create alternatives with the result of institutional civil war, dueling authorities, and at some point, outright kinetic war?
The Soviet experiment last 70 years. For at least the last 25, the populace was cynical, sullen, resentful and just needed organizing to rebel. If they had been armed, would it have happened sooner?
Today, with information technology, everything is sped up. Information technology favors individualism: anyone can write a book, set up a web site, promote their views (I realize this is becoming more and more difficult)
Even with the enlistment of violent youth and professional street cadres, ala the Asian Communist model, there is still not a uniformly compliant populace.
Isn’t this particular approach of a controlling news media already failing and sowing the seeds of a new, more distributed model?
A good claim to fame
Excellent
“Pravda and Isvestia never worried about their ratings.”
Well said.
Yep, Vremya was always the most watched show in the Soviet Union.
“Communists are very patient. They see the battle in terms of generations and not months or even years.”
“I don’t know when they started working in earnest”
The Bolsheviks came to power in October of 1917. In 1918, their “Diplomatic staff” in New York City were organizing the teachers union. Since then.
“I used to say, all the way back in the early 2000’s:
“We defeated the Soviet Union. Then we became them.”
How prescient I was.“
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I’ve been Saying the same thing for the past 20 years! When the USSR fell in the early 90’s we (in the West) thought that we had won over communism. But the reality is that they infiltrated ALL our institutions (gov’t, academia, media, Hollywood, Sports, Corporate America, etc). When our leaders sold us out to China by allowing them into the WTO among other things (like shifting almost all manufacturing overseas)....that was the death nail! How we comeback from this- especially if Trump doesn’t win next month- I don’t know!
Re: “brevity”. Me as well.
We recognize the enemedia for what it is.
‘Pod.
“The most insidious power that the news media has is the power to ignore.“ Chris Plante, WMAL.
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