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This may be adjacent... But suppose you approach it from a different angle: Perhaps it isn't so much a top-down thing, but an inherent property of the medium itself, which happens to serve the elites very nicely. There are shadowy elites pulling strings and pushing agendas, yes, but it's not only about the content per se.

This is a main theme in Neil Postman's work, especially Technopoly and Amusing Ourselves To Death. The form and modes of Television and the Internet lends themselves to trivial ephemera, rather than depth, which changes the nature of our "collective conversation" or consciousness. The media (both the physical *mediums*, and media in the journalistic sense) are essentially a huge framing devices. None of this was planned during the design of early TV or the Internet, these are properties of the media which were uncovered and eventually exploited, once understood by powerful people. Mediums attract to it content consistent with it's limits. Truly contrarian stuff simply can't gain traction, there isn't fertile ground there. It's like trying to grow an oak tree in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

You should check out Neil Postman. Wrote this book in the 90s and (as cliche as it is to say) it's more relevant now than ever before. We're getting dumber and more reactionary. Circling the drain.

>>14837422
We've been robbed of seriousness

>>14235180
It's the correct opinion

>>13950837
Yes

>>13919243
Everything

This year, your friend really cares about you
Next year, it's not like that
At first, your friend seems modest
Then your friend grows exalted and pompous
The more you nurture and cherish friends
The more distant your friends grow
These dear friends
Who show such smiling faces to begin with
Forget about them!
The Smile of your wife seems so full of joy
But who knows if that's really the case?
One time, it's pure pleasure
Then it's nine months of mental pain
It might be fine for a month
But sooner or later, there's trouble
Your girlfriend,
Forget about her!

What are the most redpilling, game-changing books on how media affect our lives? Especially the Internet, video games and TV. Already read McLuhan's stuff.
Is pic related any good?

>>6364424

you reap what you sow, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree etc etc