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quinta-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2023

Not even when the general public is aware of sensible ideas and projects with the potential to make society more sustainable, balanced, and fair do they become a political priority unless they serve vested interests?

The dominant narratives in our subconscious are responsible for how we perceive reality. These narratives are created and disseminated by the elites to manage the masses with promises that never go beyond cosmetic measures through managing hope, gradualism, incrementalism, and trickle-down economics.

It is common sense to sacrifice ourselves in the present to enjoy something we want in the future. This principle is weaponized by political demagoguery to promise what there is no intention of delivering. The integrity of representative democracy should involve the sacredness of electoral programs. The disrespect for the electorate begins with the fundamental issue of normalizing lies as part of the "art" of doing politics.

The future society is being conceived and designed in the present, and one of the inalienable principles is perpetuating the existing power structure.

Even if some substantial changes are implemented, they are designed to protect the interests of the plutoligarchy.

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and never will. Find out exactly what any people will silently submit to, and you will discover the exact measure of injustice and evil imposed on them. It will continue until they are resisted with words or blows or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the resistance of those they oppress. Frederick Douglass

A social and ecological political economy capable of satisfying the needs of society as a whole within the boundaries of the biosphere is complicated to implement because:

1- the perception of reality is conditioned by dominant narratives.

2- dominant narratives are designed to defend the interests of dominant elites.

3- divergences between dominant narratives based on ideological incompatibilities rarely jeopardize the class unity that elites recognize as an existential issue.

4- Identity politics and woke culture are ideological-cultural tools that divide and tribalize the public and prevent the formation of organized movements focused on the underlying issues that affect the majority of the population, such as economic precariousness, exploitation, exhaustion, housing, debt, demoralization, helplessness which, despite being felt more intensely by certain minorities, are structural problems that erode the fabric of society.

5- the intentional militarization of language, politics, culture and arts is part of the strategy of emphasizing issues that, despite being relevant, obscure a comprehensive view of broader problems.

How the Media Frames Political Issues

In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]

McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15]

http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html