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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Doctor Jonas: [qb] I'm beginning to think that, somehow, world affairs are pushing our opinions both to a more socialist concept of economy, and just like Jason said, more distrustful of those in positions of power. But I also think that world affairs on themselves didn't provoke that change in opinions. We all are getting our news on the web, right? But not only from mainstream media, but also from blogs, social networks, videos uploaded by the web users... The flurry of information might be afftecting the way we were thinking, a set of ideas modeled more in the shape the mainstream media intended (and this doesn't mean it's always intentional from the media to create a mindset, but it's obvious by now that the fact exists), but now, we're more in contact with different points of view, and more exposed to the (dare I say) negative consequences of economic and political management, thanks to that change in exposure to the news. [/qb][/QUOTE]I do agree with all that but I'm looking at things through a slightly different perspective- American (and I suspect the world's) perceptions are swayed more by the "media barons" that control the news than the actual facts themselves- you can read a lot of the same spin towards wars or against an administration going back to the early 1900's (at least) when we got such manufactured crisis as the Spanish American War. Many of the same fear-based talking points are still used today- oh, the boogeyman threat that acts a fulcrum to action is a rotating foreign menace (Muslim extremists instead of Spainard imperialists or Maoist commies, for example), but the song has the same beat and the dance moves are very familliar. Today's media barons- the Bloombergs and Murdochs, Koch Brothers and whoever else are part of the same sort of clique that existed at the turn of the last century...and their public visibility will wax and wane from public perception much the same as their predecessors did, with new players assuming old roles. If anything, it's amazing how very much like our 1900's ancestors we still are in opinion and gulibility- all the same campaign talking points, media hysteria and editorials and even celebrity gossip to sell news when the world stage seems unpalatable. All this is not to suggest some long-term conspiracy- far from it. It's people with wealth exerting their influence by all means available to them for their own ends- and it's not all mindless selfishness either: I'm cerain that people like David Koch honestly feel justified in their actions and personal morals. As Rev points out,"Such in the nature of entrenched bureaucracy". Thus the real question becomes- how do we, as a country, move out of this cycle? How would we even know that trying to change is not itself part of the cycle- today's OWS gatherings paralleling the 60's protests during time of war, etc. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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