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domingo, 25 de fevereiro de 2024

Humanity's existential crisis is not due to the "Divided Brain" but instead to the principle of power.

The only thing necessary for a society to become dysfunctional is to allow a minority to accumulate enough power to influence how society is organized.

In time, they will create a legal system to protect them and a moral code to glorify them.

Most people attracted to power have narcissistic, sociopathic, or psychopathic tendencies; some are megalomaniacs who will resort to any means to achieve their ends.

One way or another, through the profit motive and the imposition of manufactured scarcity, the powers that be coerce us into adapting to a reality that we intuitively know to be bad.

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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