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quinta-feira, 29 de agosto de 2024

Europeans created the Capitalocene (globalized imperialist capitalism) based on blatant plunder, military domination, political-economic control, human enslavement, and environmental destruction for profit.

More recently, Anglo-American financial imperialism (Wall Street and the City of London) developed the parasitic rentier financial capitalism (financialization of the economy and ecosystem services), putting pressure on the Global South to open its economies to deepen dependence and increase loot.

Those who focus the blame on the Anthropos while omitting the role of the Capitalocene, class society, and the enclosure of the commons are intellectual charlatans.

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." - Albert Einstein.

Capitalist technoscientism wants to "save" the planet Earth by following the pathway that brought humanity to the actual mess.

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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