[ExI] Big Media is turning into Big Brother

[BillK]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 16:40, spike jones via extropy-chat
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> ...> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
> >...If you notice that it is propaganda, then it has failed...
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> Do let me assure you sir, we noticed.  Our own mainstream news media spew propaganda continuously.
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> >...In the last, and perhaps the most delightful, of these selections, Orwell reminds us of how post-Civil War monopoly capitalism tarnished the old, untrammeled, egalitarian America of the 1840s. But the article is no polemic; it is, rather, an evocation of the America of George Orwell’s fondest imaginings—the free and buoyant land that is more symbol than geographic or political fact but is none the less real for that.
> —Richard F. Snow
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> >...BillK
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> Ja, the US civil war has been interpreted a number of ways.  The northern US states in those days were deep into the industrial revolution.  Capitalism ruled with a vengeance.  He who has the most money is the boss.
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> The agrarian south still had the social constructs of nobility: a few families owned most of the farmable land, which was the primary source of production in those states not yet heavily industrialized.
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> In that sense, the notion of slavery and states' rights created kind of proxy war which was really capitalism vs socialism.  Capitalists won that struggle.
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> spike
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Orwell was a Socialist who believed in justice and liberty.
1984 was written about the horrors of a totalitarian state.
Interesting that the US corporate capitalists are now eagerly
using those same totalitarian techniques.




BillK