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sábado, 9 de março de 2024

This is the best description of genuine feminism. Women who understand how class-based society distorts narratives and hijacks movements to divide and atomize citizens in ways that make most of us politically toothless and intellectually delusional.

John Maynard Keynes predicted that by 2030, productivity gains from technological advances would allow his grandchildren to work just 15 hours a week. The essay is titled “Economic possibilities for our grandchildren.” http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

Was Keynes wrong, as many claim, or were productivity gains channeled to the 1% instead of reaching the masses through reduced working hours and enough money to make a decent living?

If people have access to universal public services and social housing, a lot of money can be saved and we can all enjoy more free time to dedicate ourselves to the things that give meaning and purpose to our lives.

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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