Considering how much the far-right culture-war propaganda machine dominates social media and mainstream television, I’m terrified that it works too well, and enough of the lumpenproletariat will suffer misery blindly so long as alleged enemies are made to suffer more.
I hope we’re better than that, or can crack the code (or young people who grow up with it are more immune – that is the case with general advertising). Otherwise it speaks to a horrible future for humanity.
The far-rich tends to be far-right. The ones that are smarter or have a conscience want to improve the lives of the working-class to fulfill the social contract so they don’t revolt, but they still are only interested in a system in which their wealth and power are preserved.
Considering how much the far-right culture-war propaganda machine dominates social media and mainstream television, I’m terrified that it works too well, and enough of the lumpenproletariat will suffer misery blindly so long as alleged enemies are made to suffer more.
I hope we’re better than that, or can crack the code (or young people who grow up with it are more immune – that is the case with general advertising). Otherwise it speaks to a horrible future for humanity.
I hope so, too. It’s not just the far right, though. It’s the far rich.
The far-rich tends to be far-right. The ones that are smarter or have a conscience want to improve the lives of the working-class to fulfill the social contract so they don’t revolt, but they still are only interested in a system in which their wealth and power are preserved.