Posted on 07/08/2025 3:24:03 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
In our day our rulers are corrupt and abusive, just like always. And just like always, they will maintain their corrupt and abusive ways until something stops them. But in the age of Mass Media, we never got to talk back.
Then the universe changed, and now, with Two-way Media we have ways of talking back.
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And so, armed with the new communication technologies, the public is no longer forced to follow orders.
It has largely stopped listening, and [...] started talking back.
But I think there is something bigger than the public talking back. Today, with the internet and with social media, we the public can talk to each other.
And another thing. We can discuss with each other what we think of the lords that rule over us [...]
And another thing. If you are General Mike Flynn, that got shafted by the IC back in 2017, you can comment on X/Twitter about the guy that screwed you over, the former CIA god John Brennan, when it turns out that Brennan is the IC equivalent of Peck’s Bad Boy.
Then there are the people -- like Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Bari Weiss -- that found they could bail out of their Mass Media jobs and parachute into new careers.
And then there are the people like Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman that didn’t exist before the Age of Conversation. They went from being nobodies to being Lords of the Conversation, so that presidential candidates and tech lords are ready, willing, and able to converse with them.
What does it all mean? Here’s an idea.
Back in the industrial revolution, nobodies like Rockefeller and Carnegie started businesses and changed the world. What if this Age of Conversation becomes a cultural revolution of nobodies that changes the world?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The truth, like froth on a Starbuck's mocha latte, is rising to the top very quickly and everywhere all at once.;-)
The last time this happened was in the 1500s, when the printing press allowed Little People to talk back to corrupt authority, and the result was the Reformation, representative government, and eventually the ultimate societal experiment, us. The reborn corrupt authority had us all hypnotized, but the new media has been like Puddleglum sticking his foot in the fire to force himself awake, even at the cost of a burnt foot. We’re awake again, and there is nothing short of a worldwide North Korea crackdown to stop us now.
Or a worldwide Ayatollah crackdown (which is the plan for the West).
FR rocks!
Bkmk
Yes, it does. It is my ‘Social’ media, as it is for many here I’d guess. A great concept well executed for many years. May it live on!!! (Just donated...)
I’ve referred to FR for many years now (been so long I can’t remember when I first started!) Never really thought about it as part of a conversation revolution but that makes sense to me now. After reading postings I immediately turn to the comments where almost always I learn things that I would have never considered. I believe the comments are the most valuable part of FR.
A lot of good things have been said on FR & may they continue. Now if we could just be able to get more truth out of MSM. Of course, educated comments on things like FR may force that to happen. May truth win out!
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