So I was watching Andrew Klavan and he played a clip of Joy Reid. https://youtu.be/TGjEVtOIwkg?t=645 (good video by the way, Klavan has good takes on culture). I avoid corporate news but this clip has unsettled me. It's uncanny. Is this behavior normal in corporate media now? Is it just a cringey "fellow kids" moment where Reid is trying to poorly emulate clapback culture? Is the NPC meme real? I could see her declaring Lil Nas X as the Hero of Kvatch. Is Alex Jones right and they really are all infected with demons. The most unsettling thing is that millions could watch that display and say "yes, this is a thing I will continue to watch and take seriously."
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I found Michael Knowles analysis on it interesting, mostly because I'm an atheist and I want to understand the Christian activist perspective on a fairly archetypal issue.
My previous experience with religious activists tend to be poor because they tend to be inarticulate, uninformed, unsophisticated, and relying primarily emotional demagoguery.
But, Knowles correctly pointed out that the music video is effectively based on Paradise Lost, and then he goes on to explain his views on the moral and philosophical concept of will versus reality. I found it to be an interesting perspective even though I disagree with it as an atheist, a Libertarian, and a big fan of Nietzsche.
All that being said, yes: the corporate media are effectively drowning in Twitter culture and they don't know how to get out. Twitter became to much of a central point for influential individuals to gather, so the journalists all got stuck there. The corporate media profits are absolutely dying, and their paymasters are losing money hand-over-fist to keep them pushing propaganda. They've totally lost the ability to make money without pushing propaganda and rage-bait.
Their desperate to find anything to get people clicking without Trump and they absolutely can't afford their current set-up. So, when the corpatists know that something could make them money, but they don't know how to get it, they start throwing shit at a wall to try and make it appealing (not realizing how much they are fucking up). They did this through the entirety of the 90's. To appeal to kids in the early 90's they pushed a lot of stuff involving really shitty rap, eXtreme!!!! things, and other clearly corporate edgy bullshit.
Believe it or not, this is them doing that because their on twitter and literally everyone in PR is telling them that kids LOVE radical communism. They are at least partially right because late Millennials and Zoomers were growing up on social media and having their brains worsened in addition to all the radical Leftism that exists normally in their schools, on television, in the news media, and all of their entertainment. Back in the 90's, the punk, grudge, metal, rap, and even gamer genera's were left wing ideologically, but so far outside the scope of the establishment that they had no idea how to even approach any of it, and there was plenty of gatekeeping to keep too much corporate influence out.
Anyone born after the year 2000.. their brains are different since they have tech from birth. 2 year olds are on iphones and ipads.
It has to have some kinda detrimental effect on them. Tech is their god and is like the third parent.
Agreed. Kids shouldn't even be touching a cellphone until their 16.
How long do you think their current model will be sustainable? I'm all for bleeding them out, but unless they're losing billions yearly with no end in sight it won't be fast enough to prevent the catastrophic cultural damage done to the rest of us in the meantime. Will the government try to "bail out" the media companies? Absorb them and nationalize them officially so we finally get our own version of the BBC?
lose != loose
fixed