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42 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 3 Feb \ on: Mainstream Media: Core function is synchronization of the masses culture
I was talking to a government ag economist the other day and he had only just heard about these protests.
A lot of decision makers are kept usefully ignorant by these media blackouts, too.
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436 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 3 Feb
People attracted to those positions have a bent against questioning authority. They look up to authority.
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29 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 3 Feb
Yep
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 3 Feb
Exactly. That's really more the problem than the kind of conspiratorial scheming that people imagine is going on. Most of these people have no more authoritarian ambitions than you or I, but they unquestioningly buy into the regime's narratives and steadfastly stay within the bounds of allowable opinion.
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411 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 3 Feb
Yeah, its more systematic. There are megalomaniacs but I think most of those types are the politicians and people at the top of these state agencies.
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29 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 3 Feb
That's all a joke at this point. How they grew the MSM to a real matrix....
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