Why do MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe spend so much time and copy on the shenanigans of white, angsty Christian boomers and know nothing twenty somethings who gather in the thousands, when they could barely rustle up a stringer between the lot of them, to cover the age, race, creed, sexuality and language spanning gatherings of hundreds of thousands, and millions?
Let's ask that question again:
Why do corporate media conglomerates - owned by defense, energy, entertainment, real estate, insurance and banking combines - spend so much time and copy covering the minor protests of misdirected angry white middle class antagonists who agitate for reductions on the tax burdens of corporations whilst clinging to a nationalist and militarist disciplinary state (maintained to punish domestic and foreign brown people) when these corporate behemoths could barely rustle up a stringer between the lot of them to cover the insurrectionary, anti-imperial, anti-corporate mass gatherings, often organized by anarchists and leftists, of protest against wars, border control and globalization?
Answers itself.
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Here's something that might be of interest to this situation:
ReplyDeletehttp://gaijinseb.blogspot.com/2009/10/revolution-will-not-be-twittered.html
I think the best way to address the situation is to walk away. That may not appeal much to adrenaline junkies and would-be armed factions, but "walking away from Omelas"* suits me just fine.
ReplyDeleteI'm working to build a small corner of the demi-monde and the greymark, in anticipation of the day when more and more folks spin out of the orbit of the energy and matter sinks we call capitalist accumulation.
* - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas