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In reply to the discussion: Folks it's about not cooperating with the system any more............ [View all]FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)It may not be MASS media, but the number of outlets for people's voices are richer than they have ever been. The fact that we are conversing here about subjects that would have gotten people blacklisted, locked up, or disappeared in the 1950s impresses me.
As for "controlling the mass media" - the rich can blow billions of dollars, but if no one is watching, they are just pissing in the wind. It is the AUDIENCE who controls what the media will focus on.
Authority needs to be distributed. Otherwise, it will be co-opted by a small number of people who are more ruthless and assertive than the rest of us. To me, it matters not whether it is a private or governmental entity. It's all a case of WHICH people. And people who have a legal ability to incarcerate and confiscate need to have their power limited.
BTW, what is IMMEDIATE accountability? How does that work? Are they fired, imprisoned, or lined up against a wall?
And how do THE PEOPLE, collectively, control the government above and beyond the current system? Do we elect cabinet level secretaries, instead of having them appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate?
I'm sorry, but it is SO HARD getting details of the day to day workings and descriptions of an American socialist society from the socialists that I have quizzed. Buy for a dollar, sell for two, I understand. Socialism, who works for whom, where do the paychecks come from, what does it take to "start a business" (open a store, offer one's services as a plumber, electrician, mow yards, etc), honestly confuses me. So many "flavors", so many confusing phrases...