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This is how modern oligarchs work. They don't burn books—they bury them in content. They don't silence the news—they reframe it as entertainment. They don't kill publishing—they make it appealing to a four-quadrant audience.
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Democracy Dies in a Rebrand
Democracy doesn’t die in darkness—it dies in a rebrand, as watchdogs are neutered into lapdogsJoan Westenberg (The Index.)
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •And big tech social media are slowly strangling truth…
After all, it is just an opinion. Welcome in the factfree society, that is easily manipulated.
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •Huxley vs. Orwell: The Webcomic
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •Chris Johnson
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •"Billionaires don't want to own our sources of information—they want to pacify them, convert them from a source of truth into content factories."
Nicolas Pettiaux
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •Russel Means- Lakota Activist R.I.P.,
gives talk from 1989 on this subject, as the little guy goes, so goes the karma fer the big guys?
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in reply to JA Westenberg • • •datatofu
in reply to JA Westenberg • • •a mashup of "A Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, "1984" by Orwell, and a few other dystopian futures. Notably, none of them have happy proteins.
On the other hand, I am still waiting for my mashup of "Ghost in the Shell" by Masamune Shirow and "Blade Runner" by Fancher & Peoples. Those futures are equivalently dystopia, but at least they veer sharply away from colonial entities like Skynet and mainframe in I-Robot... even if a telepathic robot on Mars is kind of cool...
Rafael Bova
in reply to JA Westenberg • • •Zhi Zhu 🕸️
in reply to JA Westenberg • • •"The #WashingtonPost, formerly one of America's most respected #newspapers and home to the slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness" unveiled its new mission statement this week: "Riveting Storytelling for All of America."...
Think about that new mission statement... Not truth-telling. Not accountability. Not #democracy. Storytelling. It's a mission statement that turns #journalists into entertainers & citizens into #consumers."
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Democracy Dies in a Rebrand
Joan Westenberg (The Index.)