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domingo, 14 de janeiro de 2024

Very enlightening lecture.

My brain is always boiling because we ignore the mistakes of the recent past, and the precautionary principle is absent from the analysis of reality.

Currently, we are heading towards a techno-fascist transhumanist dystopia. Great?

The population will be “reduced” through eugenic programs (eventually to produce Soylent Green) with the aim of “saving” the planet so that the oligarchs and plutocrats (the megalomaniacal, hedonistic and narcissistic psychopaths and sociopaths who run the show) and their Acolytes can continue to enjoy the privileges, whims, extravagances, and luxuries to which they feel entitled.

My comment on the video: https://youtu.be/omQlimefYSU?si=IuCvmmVStf1ph8GU

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