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Because the criminal and drug addict George Floyd suffocated in a police altercation we had to do years of ideological calisthenics to exorcise our ‘whiteness’ and All Good People agreed that the riots that burned down city blocks and that cities are still recovering from…
…were ‘mostly peaceful’ despite $ billions in damages and dozens of deaths.
Meanwhile, the tent cities set up by campus midwits to signal third-world-solidarity and protest US assistance of what is a major military intervention that were actually mostly peaceful were…
…almost immediately deemed unacceptable.
By these actions I don’t think ‘the institutions’ could have handed a bigger propaganda victory to those who advocate for an anti-semitically inflected, white identitarian politics.
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The NPR CEO tweets are great fun and support my thesis that parody, satire, and fiction can no longer compete with reality (she’s a better Titania McGrath than Titania McGrath), but the fact that this intellectually vacant and ideologically excited midwit…
…was chosen to lead one of the few remaining viable legacy news orgs is also an important marker for NGO teleology and where things are headed.
There’s no reason that NPR has to care about its mission, reach, or whether its listener base is shrinking.
NPR can regress into…
…smug self satisfaction, focusing primarily on the wants and needs of its employees and a small segment of the public that is closely ideologically aligned.
The narcissism and self entitlement of NGO employees is a constant force that threatens to pull these orgs off course…
I have a friend in finance. During the pandemic they had a bunch of top epidemiologists and scientists on retainer who they could call up and ask what they really thought.
I think this is the future: even for matters of major public importance information is going to…
…become increasingly opaque and private and the delta between the quality of what’s publicly versus privately available is going to increase as public information becomes almost complete garbage.
Legacy media is mostly going to be a venue for ‘sponsored content’…
…from nat sec, NGOs, and whatever other interests are motivated to have their messaging pumped through.
Of course, there will continue to be room in legacy media for credentialed narcissists to showcase their thoughts and opinions, provided willingness to be paid in…