Eva wrote:
There is however in my opinion
a fairly conscious attempt by the mass media to trivialise
and evade all real political issues to prolongue
the idea, that politics has no relevane to
people's lives.
a fairly conscious attempt by the mass media to trivialise
and evade all real political issues to prolongue
the idea, that politics has no relevane to
people's lives.
The mass media is a private business. One
might even call it an oligopoly. Those few owners use their product
"news" to confuse, obliterate, deceive,
mislead quite consciously I'm sure and so is Noam Chomsky and a host of
reporters who work for them. For what purpose? To increase their
personal wealth and power. Are they an elite? Most certainly.
How do they exercise control over their employees? Through hiring, paying
and for disobedience - firing. If those same reporters had a Basic Income
to fall back on, might some of them choose to tell the truth as they see it
rather than tell it through the unspoken guidelines of management? Of
course. Would this benefit the elites? Of course not.
Therefore it seems obvious to me that from the elites perspective, economic
security - even moderate economic security is a direct threat to their personal
goals.
There seems much more honesty and critical
expose within book industry. I wonder why? Perhaps it is because
that the elites have found our what a small percentage of the population have
the time to read. And once having read - a book is an individual
experience - whom would you band together with - other readers are unknown to
you.
Respectfully,
Thomas Lunde
