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I'm an old Pogo fan. For some unknown reason I persist in outrage at Feudalism, as if human beings can do much better than this. Our old ways of life are obsolete and are killing us. Will the human race wake up in time? Stay tuned...
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And as long as this goes on, or the next big terror, or the one after that, we are feeding ourselves to a machine we made, to make us safe from the machine we made. Series: Antisocial Media (8 Articles, 9541 views)
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In this new world, a free and adversarial press cannot function as designed in our Constitution, i.e., as a check on political power. This structural feature of the old paradigm no longer works, because the structure has been replaced.
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it is not a battlefield, on which a machine that actually could bring peace and harmony to this war-torn world evolves within the profit-imperative of our global culture. That field is thoroughly colonized. It is claim-staked territory, trampled and dusty under the thundering hooves of the latest gold rush.
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Taibbi has been a journalist, and let the chips fall wherever, which also means, never become part of the story you're reporting. That's high praise (well-deserved I think), and a near-impossibility in this case, even without an embarrassed media establishment hellbent on making him the villain of the story, in hopes of a spectacle that could displace the real story. Which also says something about culture.
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How many of us actually live life fully engaged, out on the field, in the thick of it, taking it as it comes? Who experiences real joy and sorrow, thriving community, authentic love?
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Had Hannibal not... had the Buddha not... had the builders of Stonehenge not done what they did, exactly as they did it, we would not have this thimbleful of sand from a place about as definitively inaccessible as a place can be.
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The distance between this artificial structure and democracy cannot be traversed: the two cannot coexist. And this is the actual polarization that we continue to misidentify as political, endlessly squabbling over irrelevancies, to the enormous profit of a few feudal oligarchs, and to our great and terrible loss.
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Politicians are riding the ambient terror that's now normal in America for all it's worth. We are led by opportunists and con-artists drumming up business among the most uninformed. Not "misinformed" or "disinformed" or yet "malinformed" but just benumbed and hypnotized with fear, ripe for plucking. This has bankrupted democracy, and thrown public discourse into chaos.
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What query does the "search engine" actually run on the vast dump of SEO-tweaked "sponsors" that "want" to be found first regardless of what you ask for?
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What makes a story a story nowadays isn't the information in it. What puts legs under it is the size of the instant virtualized audience it picks up as it ripples out across the network frog-pond from the big lilypad. Ribbit. Ribbit. Ka-ching! The sound of your now-virtualized eyeballs changing hands. But nobody cares what you were looking at, much less what you saw. They've already been to the bank. Series: Antisocial Media (8 Articles, 9541 views)
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Taibbi and Gerth and others are being called "revisionists" now. But "Hamilton 68" was as inevitable as the election of a mediocre con artist to the presidency, or our current apparent descent into permanent world war. In both cases neither side, not the babbling hucksters nor the supposedly cooler heads, had the least intention of changing trajectory, much less addressing it. Series: Antisocial Media (8 Articles, 9541 views)
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Carter's career reveals much about present day conflicts, the thinly-disguised imperial American agenda, and it's violent alliances. Series: Reports from Palestine (58 Articles, 45735 views)
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All media messages are designed to arouse, not inform. Ambient fear became the backdrop of our lives. As a result, we react instead of communicating. Social fragmentation is the toxic byproduct of competing feudal internet fiefdoms. Series: Antisocial Media (8 Articles, 9541 views)
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don't bother chasing any conspiracy theories, remember that this is all baloney. The big money makes it just one more obvious slate-wiping threat to everything living in the known universe. However, we must expect failure when humans try to set up such Babel-towers, long before anything resembling heaven's stairway appears. Series: Antisocial Media (8 Articles, 9541 views)
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The platform, and not any person or community, finds this extremely profitable. But the people who were once related are now merely linked by some trivial attractant ephemera, with no way of knowing what happened. Series: Antisocial Media (8 Articles, 9541 views)
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Veterans For Peace is sailing the Golden Rule all over the United States to educate people about the growing danger of nuclear war, and to promote the historic UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which the UN General Assembly passed by a vote of 122-1 in June 2017.
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The historic Golden Rule anti-nuclear sailboat arrived in Cuba this morning, December 31, 2022. The storied wooden boat, which was sailed toward the Marshall Islands in 1958 to interfere with US nuclear testing, set sail from Key West, Florida on Friday morning with a crew of five. The 34-foot ketch belongs to Veterans For Peace, its mission "to end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons." Series: Peace Boat (3 Articles, 3418 views)
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The storied wooden boat, which was sailed toward the Marshall Islands in 1958 to interfere with US nuclear testing, set sail from Key West, Florida on Friday morning, and will arrive at the Hemingway Marina in Havana on Saturday morning, New Years Eve day. The 34-foot ketch belongs to Veterans For Peace, and implements its mission "to end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons." Series: Peace Boat (3 Articles, 3418 views)
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Here in Palestine, life is extremely difficult to keep hope alive. Decades
of ethnic cleansing, destruction of local people's lives, segregation and
apartheid. Every single day now a Palestinian or two are killed. Yesterday
Netanyahu announced his success in forming the most extremist, fascist
government in Israeli history so things likely will get worse. Series: Reports from Palestine (58 Articles, 45735 views)
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This is so much bigger than an obscenely rich playboy playing pingpong with the public mind, much less a clever researcher into new slang and symbolism on the internet with a book to sell. These may be stories, but they pale next to what's been dumped in Taibbi's lap, probably because of his reputation for old-school journalistic integrity, that he is faithfully, and responsibly, reporting. Series: Antisocial Media (8 Articles, 9541 views)
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