@john_sipher @jack A veteran of the CIA's global media analysis section? Clearly not. 'Owned' by the peak deception of a monolithic caricature of reality and the immense array of epistemologies and institutions it exclusively represents, validates and secures? Clearly, yes. 878:1
![@nick_routledge "In our society, the media functions as a collective nervous system or immune-response task force, inoculating the social body against any new pattern or incoming information that might threaten conventional values and biases." @danielpinchbeck
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@jeremyscahill The most popular liberal cable news program in the US, The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, continues to completely ignore the massacre underway in Gaza. A total of zero mentions of it this week. She even had the chair of the Senate Intel Committee on last night and... nothing.
So, first, a statistic to tell a story: male life expectancy in Washington, DC, is lower than it is the Gaza Strip [CIA statistics]. Second, a ratio, 878:1.
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A survey conducted by FAIR of the sources on the ABC, CBS and NBC nightly news in the first two weeks of the war found that of 878 on-air sources, only 1 was a representative of a national peace organization—B. Monn. Int. Phys. for Prev of Nuclear War.](/media/1662695633902505985-FxMU3HJaYAMyufq.jpg)
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@nick_routledge "In our society, the media functions as a collective nervous system or immune-response task force, inoculating the social body against any new pattern or incoming information that might threaten conventional values and biases." @danielpinchbeck QT: @jeremyscahill The most popular liberal cable news program in the US, The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, continues to completely ignore the massacre underway in Gaza. A total of zero mentions of it this week. She even had the chair of the Senate Intel Committee on last night and... nothing. So, first, a statistic to tell a story: male life expectancy in Washington, DC, is lower than it is the Gaza Strip [CIA statistics]. Second, a ratio, 878:1. QT: A survey conducted by FAIR of the sources on the ABC, CBS and NBC nightly news in the first two weeks of the war found that of 878 on-air sources, only 1 was a representative of a national peace organization—B. Monn. Int. Phys. for Prev of Nuclear War.
@johnrobb 2/ Then again, a culturally-constructed Spectacle passing for substantive reality is hardly news; nor, for that matter, is the dark sorcery of veiled powers commanding us to be fooled by appearances - ravenous wolves disguised as angels of light. There is another way, of course.
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Copy of Tweet: Nils Gilman Technology is too often used as a stealth vector (often by private actors who control the tech) to enact, embody, or constitute quintessentially “political” matters — that is, matters concerning the allocation & legitimation of power & authority. AI puts this pattern on steroids
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Copy of tweet and subtweet: Nick Routledge Nick_routledge “The successor to politics will be propaganda” - Marshall McLuhan. War propaganda, how’s it going? Subtweet: Nick Routledge Nick_routledge ‘Shaping media’, at home and abroad? Militarist strategy 101. But with the digital shift to a single, conjoined, global mediasphere, so militarism aimed at total, moment-to-moment, noospheric domination, heralds a new, supercharged evolutionary threat, at the planetary level.
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Copy of tweet thread, and subtweet: billy moose The conflict in #Ukraine makes clear we are seeing the weaponizing of attention itself. This has long been true. Somehow this time the fact of it is clearer. Nick Routledge Nick_routledge Yup, vast resources of immense, competing, dominative powers of war and profit, actively shaping universal attention span in the pathological image of division and outrage. Media ecology, fixed into furrows of death, applied as a diabolical claim upon the private soul. Nick Routledge Nick_routledge Nick_routledge and 2/ The attention span is, of course, the salient currency of the Web Era. Enough has already been spoken about the economic logic of feeding it outrage. White, which is to say ‘dominative’ religion, but the conjoined twin pillar of the supremacist Spectacle, in this regard.
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Copy of tweet, and quote tweet containing image: Nick Routledge Nick_routledge Worldly, I arrived Stateside 36 yrs. ago, to a distinct impression that represented reality was superseding direct experience as a/the paramount, defining influence shaping the way peeps related. Already, folks' sense of the Real, of significance itself, seemed strangely 'owned'. Quote tweet: Nick Routledge Nick_routledge 1/ Last Days. “News is the last addiction before what?” - Delillo. The Eschatological Event, a classic instance of therapeutic ‘intervention’; a substrative shift in global ‘attention span’. Simply stated, where US media goes, so goes the planetary paradigm. Image: 12/17/2001 Image, front cover of Time magazine 12/17/2001 showing image of the Taliban's Mullah Omar with the all-page headline, 'The Last Days of the Taliban'