“The damage is profound," Murdoch said. “The sacking of the Capitol is proof positive that what we thought was dangerous is indeed very, very much so. Those outlets that propagate lies to their audience have unleashed insidious and uncontrollable forces that will be with us for years.”Unfortunately, he is right. The media bears a lot of responsibility, chiefly owing to its business model pioneered by Rupert Murdoch. That model needs to change instead of imposing censorship.
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I view the Capitol riots as the first positive thing to happen in American politics since the 1960s and way more important than the failed "Occupy" protests. The low brow, low class, mainstream pushing the elite, the professors, the politicians, the media, ceos, whom all think we can go backwards to their former glory and total dominance of the political process during the nadir of democracy during the Obama era. The symbols were incredible, peaceful masses descending on the legislative houses that represent the people with leaders crouched under tables in fear, their police shooting innocents, decrying coup d'etat without a bullet fired by protesters and no plan to take the government, just to occupy the space and voice protests.
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ReplyDeleteI was there (at the barricades) in the 60s and 70s, so I am sympathetic to your view. However, the demonstrations then, vastly larger than Occupy or the Capitol crowd, did nothing to change policy, even after the shooting at Kent State. Nixon was ousted by his own stupid overreach which even his own party could no longer stomach, not by protests, which, btw, most of the country was against owing to the media that represented it as a bunch of DFHs (dirty fucking hippies) and assorted anarchists, which a mixture of disgruntled kids that didn't want to be cannon fodder.
We recognized then that the system was not going to change owing to protest (although it did get rid of the draft). So I look at protest more as a symptom than a cure.
The country as a whole has to wake up and smell the coffee and that is coming. The pandemic is or much greater influence, and the planet is now hotter than it has ever been on record. When the US and German militaries both ID climate change as a threat, one can be pretty sure that change is coming, one way or another.
Business has woken up to this, and therefore the Great Reset. Unfortunately, that has morphed into the basis for a conspiracy theory, but there is a certain truth underlying it.
So far the historical dialectic in this regard is not only oppositional, as dialectic is, but also conflicting. These are tumultuous times and it seems we are caught up in a Zeitgeist that has a will of its own, so to speak. Where it will take up is "uncertain" although the alternatives are visible on the horizon and mostly they don't look good.
We recognized then that the system was not going to change owing to protest (although it did get rid of the draft).
ReplyDeleteSo you actually made things worse.
On behalf of the rest of the developing world, thank-you.