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domingo, 5 de maio de 2024

We live in the Capitalocene Era, 500 years of capitalism in the web of life, creating artificial scarcity, enclosing the commons, and exploiting natural resources for profit and wealth accumulation. The development of industrial capitalism instigated the consumption of superfluous goods to continue generating profits.

Rentist financial capitalism (financialization of the economy) with the supremacy of the FIRE sector is yet another leap forward in the Capitalocene Era with the financialization of the ecosystem services.

Finally, the commodification of literally everything, including life, the dependence on convenience, and technofixism demonstrates the power of capital in the web of life.

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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