Capitalism
depends on who is controlling legacy media’s last feeble news fronts. E.G. Jeff Bezo’s supine Washington Post or social media apes with megaphones standing in public squares shouting unsubstantiated rumors at babies and showing pornographic photos to children. The world believes what rich men want it to.
Culture
Let’s stop talking about the failures of mainstream media. In our fractured media landscape, mainstream media has become irrelevant. Because media and information have gone from scarce to abundant, the ability of governments to control a narrative is gone. In this world of fractured media there is always incentive, and ability tom show what is
Activism
Genuine change and resistance cannot be bought or sold. True revolutions are driven by ideals and actions, not by profit motives. The revolution will be driven by genuine action and the pursuit of social change for its own sake, rather than for financial or commercial gain. The revolution will not be commodified and sold to consumers. The
Capitalism
Left versus right is just divide and conquer while all our political parties are owned and controlled by upper class influences based on campaign contributions and political lobbying. The political right is controlled by the upper class, the political left by the upper middle class. Meanwhile, the working poor have no political representation, this is
Conservatives
So what Zuck is saying is “Facts are facts and accuracy matters… except in the US.”
Culture
“Nihilism,” according to the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, is “not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one’s shoulder to the plough; one destroys.” A nihilistic culture is defined by the drive to destroy, by the will to power. And that definition now describes the American nation. The evidence for this? Consider