@johnsweeneyroar The spectacle differs by banner; systemic moral destitution is shared: sanctify “our innocence/their evil,” compress the Overton window, inoculate the polis against new patterns threatening to the status quo, keep the war-market liquid, launder state claims, manufacture consent.
@NorrieMacQueen Traditional analysis would say "media serves state power." What we're seeing is more insidious—an interlocking, supranational, ideological order converging in German, US, UK, French, and other Western state-media complexes. Synchronized narrative enforcement at a planetary scale.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: Exactly. The functional totalitarianism of an interlocking, global, techno-industrial control-complex serving the weaponized exceptionalism of elite structures of power profitably and militantly vested in a form of Final Solution to unmanageable social tensions and inequalities. 2/ It's now endemic, of course, the devastating obscenity of a global militarist-media complex wedded through pen and sword to a universalized form of psychotic exceptionalism and its diabolical consecration of a terror war endlessly targeting internal scapegoat and foreign foe.