General Discussion

… from the quagmire we find ourselves in.

As far as major media coming to our aid, forget about that. The owners of major media will not allow that to happen.

You say we can pass laws that breakup media monopolies. Well, review Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent. It would be difficult back then (1981), impossible now. Institutional capture (by the oligarchy and their well paid agents in the major media, courts, Congress, and Presidential Administrations) make that a momentous task. Never mind that the rot descends all the way down to local governments, school boards, and the like.

You may say major media has lost its grip on the American mind, splintered by social media. So there’s hope. However, what we have now is splintered encampments that only listen to their own camps, to the ideas entrained in the brains of so many of us by 40-45 years of oligarchy.

There is no Walter Conkrite to our rescue (and if you’ve read the Chomsky reference, above, you understand that he, too, primarily championed the causes of the “establishment”). Nor is there a website (other than DU, of course) that speaks truth to power over a wide audience.

Honestly, I could rant on. I don’t know how we dig ourselves out of the mess we’re in. There was the Civil War, the Civil Rights movement, the anti war movement that helped bring about the end of the forever war in Vietnam. But my mind is not creative enough to see what’s next.