Media was designed to absorb dissent.
Being uninformed is one thing, but having a population that is actively misinformed presents problems when it comes to participating in the national debate, or the democratic process
Being uninformed is one thing, but having a population that is actively misinformed presents problems when it comes to participating in the national debate, or the democratic process
Nothing can trend upward forever.There are now more than 8 billion people on the planet; more than twice as there were in 1960.
Consumer culture is the ideological infrastructure that dictates and motivates peoples activities of consumption.
These are the people who the controlling system (the wealthy, the “power elite”; those who own the media, the government, the means of production) has fooled into policing themselves and who it seeks to control even more, not just with bread and circuses, but with anxieties and drugs as well.It is no coincidence that the
Social Media/Mass Media, under the influence of market forces, functionally acts as a propaganda machine.
Art is more powerful if produced outside the art market and in the context of politics. Artists working for propaganda are truer to art than those who produce for the individual consumer. Every ideology whether political or religious has a vision or image behind it, whereas the art market does not. It merely circulates images.