The global takeover of media and politics -- those inseparable Gemini twins of the new world order of things -- is one of the most profound phenomenons in human history. And by corporate take over I do not mean in the strictest corporate consolidation sense, though that is happing too. I mean it in the sense that capitalist corporatist values have been internalized by all participants in both politics and media to the extent that they can only operate toward its ends. It constitutes their very unconscious in that it is the operating instructions for their daily lives, world view and behavior. As it does for so many ordinary Australians and Americans and just about anybody else on the planet with an extra buck in their pockets that can be extracted.
I recently attended the National Conference on Media Reform in America. There I met hundreds of sincere Americans putting out great energies in an effort to reverse the consolidation of media and create a place for alternative views exist in the public eye. All of them were "working within the system" for change. At the end of it all I felt sad. Sad because working within the system means working within a system owned, governed and operated by our adversaries.
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The org that organized the National Conference on Media Reform in America is HQ'd in a former textile mill in Florence, Massachusetts. The offices are lovely - brick walls, high ceilings, wooden floors and beams - retrofitted, of course, with conference rooms, web servers, and media production facilities.
They just lost a big one.
Posted by: ikorush sikorsky | June 20, 2008 at 11:24 PM
I forgot to mention the Feng Shui. Nice!
Posted by: ikorush sikorsky | June 21, 2008 at 12:21 AM
We should be grateful for all efforts towards media reform. The losses are mounting. Maybe Feng Shui will help.
Posted by: Phil | June 21, 2008 at 10:38 AM