Re: The charmed circle-jerk of the unnecessarily rich'n'famous just don't get their own irrelevance, do Archived Message
Posted by margo on April 6, 2019, 7:51 am, in reply to "The charmed circle-jerk of the unnecessarily rich'n'famous just don't get their own irrelevance, do "
The sad thing is that they are not irrelevant, not by a long shot. Their voices have huge amplification on global media platforms and reach to virtually all corners of the world. They are not irrelevant. Their relevance is revealed in the corporate media attention paid to their every appearance and utterance. That - and our collective vulnerability and susceptibility to the phenomenon of "heroes, celebrities, image gods/godesses" - is the tragedy which makes this soft-power propaganda so easy to spread far and wide. Understand the psychology behind western public "buy-in" to content in movies, television, magazines and newspapers ... before you can work out how to open peoples' eyes as to what's actually going on in the wider world.
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