If you believe as we do that MAGA fails without FOX and that destroying honest media like PBS makes it even worse defund the FOX rage and hate machine.
Eviscerate FOX with an indirect strategy that works fast. Deny FOX ad $ by denying the ad buying company CEO and execs bonuses. For example Home Depot. Boycott them for a full fiscal quarter and maybe more while keeping Wall Street analysts apprised. Get all on line influencers to post every day for the entire time ending every post every day with “Don’t forget - boycott Home Depot, they fund the FOX rage and hate machine.” See how fast CEO’s stop buying ads - do only ONE brand - do it implacably for an entire fiscal quarter. See how quickly you become the new sheriff in town and how fast other CEO’s quit buying ads. See how fast FOX changes content. All they care about is $. Oh - and next generation FOX CEO will be a decent human being if you do this.
Execution details matter. Talk to me. See Target, Bud Light and Tesla for examples. Companies are people, not paper. Make it personal.
Ai, is now a Trojan Horse that spreads uncontrolled power to the powerful and wealthiest 1%.
The effects of social media and the addiction to mobile phones has taken control of peoples attitudes and everything we do in our lives.
The digital world has changed the world far quicker than imagined.
How I would like to go back to analogue and landline phones, the pace of technology is unsustainable.
Ai must not be owned by the 1%, our freedom and democracies will vanish and we will be left in the hands of people who will only bring destruction to us all.
Absolutely, that's what needs to be done. A one day strike. No TV, no radio, no internet, no shopping, no Amazon, FB or Google or anything. Show them the power. And don't let them seduce you by offering super sales to get you cave.
Try a Week! We save the money and if everyone starved Big Business for a week a month the PEOPLE would get their attention! Boycott everything FOX, AMAZON, cut off Subscriptions, fuck the Billionaires!
Exactly. 'Honest media' has become an oxymoron. The problem isn't just one biased network; it's that the entire media landscape has become the primary battlefield for the 'Great Distraction'—a system designed to sell us outrage and keep us divided, regardless of who's signing the checks.
Thanks for this analysis. I think one of the tribes that people get sorted into is political apathy, which is just as destructive but far more insidious (and therefore, harder to identify!) than the outraged folks.
Then we have the Christian religious fanatics. How do we handle them. They think the rest of America is evil, while Republicans politicians are picking their pockets.
I have been saying for years now that social media is causing civilizational and political rot - however, as you pointed out, it couldn't have happened without the polarizing TV- and radio-based seeding that came before it. I am sorely disappointed that my fellow U.S. citizens have allowed their brains to be exploited by an outrage machine that rewards them with hits of adrenaline and dopamine from anger and likes. Truth no longer matters as long as those neurotransmitters keep flowing.
If we are to continue to have a civil society, a massive education campaign about how tech companies manipulate their users using psychophysiological hacks must be undertaken. Finland has been a leader in educating its citizens about media literacy and how to spot disinformation starting with children as young as six. A democracy is only as sound as its citizens, after all.
It's been actively going on since Operation Mockingbird in 1947. Economic manipulation highjacked Generation X entirely, and is now being used against the younger generation for the same purpose. Find two documentaries. The first is the BBC's "The Century of the Self" which reveals the real roots of the problem going back to the late 1800's with Edward Bernays, Freud's nephew, being the primary architect alongside other contemporaries like Ivy Ledbetter Lee (the PR guy for IG Farben until his death in 1934). The second is "Psywar" which reviews U.S. history through the War on Terror and the activites of the Department of Defense inside the news media.
I was coming to say it started much earlier than Y2K, since Rush Limbaugh got his hatemongering tv show on FOX in the 90s. But I think you're right here.
People are frequently predisposed to date timelines with things we've remembered from our own life spans, and we don't commonly stop to think about things that were either seeded or even already in place before we were born.
The Murdoch family “News” was cancelled in their home country…they are reaping millions…ever notice they all yell and and ever wonder why? I mean it really isn’t a news station but a machine of loud mouths and lies?
Under Clinton, when the Cold war was over, Lockheed Martin's guy named Bruce P. Jackson (son of William Jackson, National Security Adviser under Eisenhower) spent millions of dollars on the committee for NATO expansion in order to push a bunch of Eastern European countries into NATO.
BTW, the same guy bankrolled the committee for the war in Iraq.
"In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to War Psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace"
-John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State (1888-1959) and older brother of Allen Dulles (fmr head of the OSS/CIA), financed the Bond sales for Nazis to rearm Germany after WW1.
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
-Eisenhower, 1961
***
"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
"While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war."
-Douglas MacArthur, five-star general
***
"Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. "
-George F. Kennan, 1987
***
BTW Under Clinton, when the Cold war was over, Lockheed Martin's guy named Bruce P. Jackson (son of William Jackson, National Security Adviser under Eisenhower) spent millions of dollars on the committee for NATO expansion in order to push a bunch of Eastern European countries into NATO. BTW, the same guy bankrolled the committee for the war in Iraq.
Reading your article (Your anger makes them rich) and focusing my point of view based on your conclusions, I noticed that people's anger makes them powerful, Literally. The notion that it makes them rich is incidental, figuratively speaking.
"Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.
"When, through process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of the government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers.
"These truths are well known among our principal men, who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance.
"It is thus, by discrete action, we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished."
-Montagu Norman, Governor of The Bank Of England, (1920-1944) addressing the United States Bankers’ Association, October 1924.
Not a few decades. Ever since the Depression and Roosevelt championing the working class the surviving oligarchs have fought to bring back their golden age of the 1880's through the 1920s.
Also, that they survived, grew, learned, and have created new partners should terrifying you. Many of these families are older than existing countries. They also have more resources than many countries.
You’re right.
If you believe as we do that MAGA fails without FOX and that destroying honest media like PBS makes it even worse defund the FOX rage and hate machine.
Eviscerate FOX with an indirect strategy that works fast. Deny FOX ad $ by denying the ad buying company CEO and execs bonuses. For example Home Depot. Boycott them for a full fiscal quarter and maybe more while keeping Wall Street analysts apprised. Get all on line influencers to post every day for the entire time ending every post every day with “Don’t forget - boycott Home Depot, they fund the FOX rage and hate machine.” See how fast CEO’s stop buying ads - do only ONE brand - do it implacably for an entire fiscal quarter. See how quickly you become the new sheriff in town and how fast other CEO’s quit buying ads. See how fast FOX changes content. All they care about is $. Oh - and next generation FOX CEO will be a decent human being if you do this.
Execution details matter. Talk to me. See Target, Bud Light and Tesla for examples. Companies are people, not paper. Make it personal.
Ai, is now a Trojan Horse that spreads uncontrolled power to the powerful and wealthiest 1%.
The effects of social media and the addiction to mobile phones has taken control of peoples attitudes and everything we do in our lives.
The digital world has changed the world far quicker than imagined.
How I would like to go back to analogue and landline phones, the pace of technology is unsustainable.
Ai must not be owned by the 1%, our freedom and democracies will vanish and we will be left in the hands of people who will only bring destruction to us all.
This is a great strategy. Stop the puppet masters!
You betcha
Absolutely, that's what needs to be done. A one day strike. No TV, no radio, no internet, no shopping, no Amazon, FB or Google or anything. Show them the power. And don't let them seduce you by offering super sales to get you cave.
A one day, a one Day-er my thinking is no that’s nowhere near enough
Agreed. But that’s probably no more than majority of folks can handle, without fear of affecting their jobs, credit.etc
Perhaps based on time zones~ EST/ Central/ PST
and the others like “hillbilly elegy”
Try a Week! We save the money and if everyone starved Big Business for a week a month the PEOPLE would get their attention! Boycott everything FOX, AMAZON, cut off Subscriptions, fuck the Billionaires!
When do we start?!
They’re boycotting Home Depot today as I read this
Typical boycotting anyone that is against their opinion
Exactly. 'Honest media' has become an oxymoron. The problem isn't just one biased network; it's that the entire media landscape has become the primary battlefield for the 'Great Distraction'—a system designed to sell us outrage and keep us divided, regardless of who's signing the checks.
Aye, glad you could find the time to read some of my posts.
I agree that PBS has agendas, although more of a shotgun blast and seemingly not well focused.
Perhaps the correct question is “How can you believe otherwise?” Or, “Didn’t your mother love you enough?”
Why don't you engage with my comment instead of their hostile one?
Remove the hostileZ we’ve got to many in our side of the earth
Thanks for this analysis. I think one of the tribes that people get sorted into is political apathy, which is just as destructive but far more insidious (and therefore, harder to identify!) than the outraged folks.
Then we have the Christian religious fanatics. How do we handle them. They think the rest of America is evil, while Republicans politicians are picking their pockets.
Ethan did this post while back when Charlie Kirk was happening … we could pull it ya ~
bout a month ago -
I am a Christian. The Trump supporting so called Christian does not honor the instructions of Jesus Christ. They follow a disciple of Satan…
That apathy addiction is really tough one to break. Requires no effort or thought
I have been saying for years now that social media is causing civilizational and political rot - however, as you pointed out, it couldn't have happened without the polarizing TV- and radio-based seeding that came before it. I am sorely disappointed that my fellow U.S. citizens have allowed their brains to be exploited by an outrage machine that rewards them with hits of adrenaline and dopamine from anger and likes. Truth no longer matters as long as those neurotransmitters keep flowing.
If we are to continue to have a civil society, a massive education campaign about how tech companies manipulate their users using psychophysiological hacks must be undertaken. Finland has been a leader in educating its citizens about media literacy and how to spot disinformation starting with children as young as six. A democracy is only as sound as its citizens, after all.
It's been actively going on since Operation Mockingbird in 1947. Economic manipulation highjacked Generation X entirely, and is now being used against the younger generation for the same purpose. Find two documentaries. The first is the BBC's "The Century of the Self" which reveals the real roots of the problem going back to the late 1800's with Edward Bernays, Freud's nephew, being the primary architect alongside other contemporaries like Ivy Ledbetter Lee (the PR guy for IG Farben until his death in 1934). The second is "Psywar" which reviews U.S. history through the War on Terror and the activites of the Department of Defense inside the news media.
I was coming to say it started much earlier than Y2K, since Rush Limbaugh got his hatemongering tv show on FOX in the 90s. But I think you're right here.
People are frequently predisposed to date timelines with things we've remembered from our own life spans, and we don't commonly stop to think about things that were either seeded or even already in place before we were born.
(This is why history is important, folks!)
Great analysis and to everyone who has been paying attention, right on point!
The Murdoch family “News” was cancelled in their home country…they are reaping millions…ever notice they all yell and and ever wonder why? I mean it really isn’t a news station but a machine of loud mouths and lies?
as General Eisenhower said, beware the special interest groups. “
Under Clinton, when the Cold war was over, Lockheed Martin's guy named Bruce P. Jackson (son of William Jackson, National Security Adviser under Eisenhower) spent millions of dollars on the committee for NATO expansion in order to push a bunch of Eastern European countries into NATO.
BTW, the same guy bankrolled the committee for the war in Iraq.
youtube.com/watch?v=t0DLNDAgAwU
"In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to War Psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace"
-John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State (1888-1959) and older brother of Allen Dulles (fmr head of the OSS/CIA), financed the Bond sales for Nazis to rearm Germany after WW1.
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
-Eisenhower, 1961
***
"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
"While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war."
-Douglas MacArthur, five-star general
***
"Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. "
-George F. Kennan, 1987
***
BTW Under Clinton, when the Cold war was over, Lockheed Martin's guy named Bruce P. Jackson (son of William Jackson, National Security Adviser under Eisenhower) spent millions of dollars on the committee for NATO expansion in order to push a bunch of Eastern European countries into NATO. BTW, the same guy bankrolled the committee for the war in Iraq.
youtube.com/watch?v=t0DLNDAgAwU
Yes
Reading your article (Your anger makes them rich) and focusing my point of view based on your conclusions, I noticed that people's anger makes them powerful, Literally. The notion that it makes them rich is incidental, figuratively speaking.
Isn’t the resistance … our anger and outrage also a tribe
"Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible.
"When, through process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of the government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers.
"These truths are well known among our principal men, who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance.
"It is thus, by discrete action, we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished."
-Montagu Norman, Governor of The Bank Of England, (1920-1944) addressing the United States Bankers’ Association, October 1924.
But isn't build a machine, just another silo?
Absolutley. I’m getting a flip phone when this one dies. And a dumb tv.
Not a few decades. Ever since the Depression and Roosevelt championing the working class the surviving oligarchs have fought to bring back their golden age of the 1880's through the 1920s.
Also, that they survived, grew, learned, and have created new partners should terrifying you. Many of these families are older than existing countries. They also have more resources than many countries.
A very plausible and intriguing analysis.
Sounds right to me, glad you made it simple and structured for us.
Thank you.
Nailed IT💯🌊