EARLY ACCESS: How The Media Controls The Masses
Added 2024-03-21 14:07:55 +0000 UTCHowdy, friends! We all know the corporate media lies, but they've been particularly bad on the subject of Palestine. Why? Why are they so insistent on covering for a genocidal apartheid regime? Let's talk about the tools the media uses to manufacture consent and how they've covered the most obvious genocide in modern history. Hope you enjoy!
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This subject should be developed. The control of the media is not one of the leverages of the rich but the most important of them, Without the ownership of the media the rich would lose political power and, as a consequence, economic and social power too.
Mirco Gambini
2024-07-23 21:15:46 +0000 UTCSent you 22$ wish I could send more but...well hope it helps.
Peter Lusk, Jr.
2024-04-05 18:30:25 +0000 UTCAll of what you said is so beautiful, and I’ve been coming to similar conclusions on my own and seen people in my sphere also separately coming to the same conclusion. Capitalism seems to be designed with mechanisms that separate us from one another, that disconnect us as a collective into individuals all vying for themselves. Yet we all come from the same life, so we are all one. Exactly like you said, we’re a body. We are individual cells, but we are nothing without the whole. You question is everything. How do we shift our perspective and the perspectives of others to come together in unity? I’d love to hear your thoughts, or anyone else’s. For me, so far I’m just trying to increase my circle and be kinder and more giving (as well as more accepting of help).
Ander Meredith
2024-03-26 15:04:56 +0000 UTCBeautifully said. Community Permaculture gardens and mutual aid gift economy networks. Our more appealing regenerative alternatives -- interconnected socialist islands if you will, can certainly "edge out" their toxic systems. I like this :)
Thomas Pettitt
2024-03-23 16:23:31 +0000 UTCAbsolutely, I love this 100%. And really the best way to disrupt the systems in place IS to develop alternative systems. Mutual aid networks, community gardens, etc. We can’t just tear the structures down, as you say, we need to build the alternatives. And in many cases the alternatives can edge out the systems. Thank you for that shift in focus.
Ander Meredith
2024-03-23 16:15:13 +0000 UTCI like your direction. But if I may be blunt - disruption of centralized business is not a solution in the long term. It's about as effective as charity. Figuring out how to not rely on or rally against large institutions should be a focus. Socialism is a wonderful tool for forcing local action. Anytime a social structure is developed and accepted , it ultimately becomes an entity that can be streamlined, and co-opted. Think of the failure of the occupy movement. Plenty disruption occured, but no reliable alternative structures were advanced.
Ivan A
2024-03-23 14:04:53 +0000 UTCIt is very difficult to be greedy if we change our perspective and see Everyone as One or live by an ethic that generates the same effect. Why be a cancerous cell in the Earth body when, by deciding to, we can exercise compassion and cooperation and work for the benefit of all Life? Unity is our power -- "power with". Conversely, it is very easy to be fearful and greedy when we see ourselves as separate from each other and all Life. What we crave is meaningful relationship, not the poor facsimiles of stuff or "power over" -- the square peg, round hole scenario. In the relatively thin layer of living tissue on Earth (biosphere), we are all cells in the same body so to speak. It is even theorized that consciousness itself is shared -- panpsychism, which is very cool. Can we learn to see ourselves in all of Life and to treat each other and all Life with respect?
Thomas Pettitt
2024-03-22 19:48:29 +0000 UTCJosey and Ander, your comments peel back the layers of the onion to the root causes, like how JT looks deeper into the underlying structural system (capitalism) that perpetuates most of our inequity instead of being lost in the specific details. So then if we look deeper, what causes greed? I humbly offer this: perceived separation. Even though our experience of Life is as (mostly) separate beings, we are all made of intimately connected entangled stardust. Our bodies are literally one with all that is, was, and will be.
Thomas Pettitt
2024-03-22 19:47:53 +0000 UTCManufacturing Consent as Noam Chomsky put it in his book on the same subject
Phantom Rose
2024-03-22 19:15:18 +0000 UTCThank you TJ for demonstrating how to spot the media information tricks.
Thomas Pettitt
2024-03-22 08:07:02 +0000 UTCWith a lil ;) ….
Meghan Potasse
2024-03-22 01:57:59 +0000 UTCIt all about retaining the status quo
Greenlach7
2024-03-22 01:15:31 +0000 UTCIt was actually Max Blumenthal from the Grayzone that first debunked the NYT sexual assault story back in January. The Grayzone is an excellent source of non-corporate news about the genocide as well as other accounts concerning the abuses of the western empire in general: https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/10/questions-nyt-hamas-rape-report/
Bob Webb
2024-03-21 16:49:29 +0000 UTC...fumbled the enter key. Was trying to say that most things are not a matter of opinion. Neither the current genocide in Gaza nor the original holocaust are matters of opinion, no more than gravity or 2+2=4 is a matter of opinion.
Stephen J Hardy
2024-03-21 16:35:16 +0000 UTCI really shouldn't watch these early in the morning; just ties my stomach in knots to see genocide proceed with support from American liberals who really should know better. I've tried arguing with them in person and on-line, but the denial is strong. I can tell that they know that they've been defeated, but they still come out with nonsense like "in my opinion there is no genocide" (as if the fact of the holocaust is a matter of opinion. No, it). As a great mind once said, it's easier to fool a man than convince a man that he's been fooled. This video is infinitely better than my feeble efforts, though, so I'll definitely be spreading it around.
Stephen J Hardy
2024-03-21 16:31:47 +0000 UTCI love the call to action at the end. We all need to be creative and find ways to disrupt business as usual and make the ruling class uncomfortable.
Ander Meredith
2024-03-21 16:07:10 +0000 UTCThis one makes me worry for you JT! Thoroughly and incredibly based work throughout. The three letter agencies will not like this one!
Piza Piiza
2024-03-21 14:55:01 +0000 UTCI feel this so much. I have spent so much time trying to understand how people can be so bereft of compassion, and I understand that it’s greed for money and power, but I still don’t UNDERSTAND.
Ander Meredith
2024-03-21 14:53:28 +0000 UTCWhen you realize that seemingly every nasty, unsavory incident in, not only recent, but all of our shared history eventually boils down to greed makes me extremely sad. Greed for either money or it's equivalent and/or the power to control others that comes with it, when there is and has always been enough for everyone. I know this is a ridiculously simplified take on things, but its still disheartening to realuze. As always I appreciate your explanation of things I'd inevitably not be exposed to, keep up the good work!
Josey Wales
2024-03-21 14:26:36 +0000 UTC
