Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the legacy media even today, has no idea why its losing. The main stream media is failing, because not only does no one trust them, we’ve realized they’re actually trying to manipulate us. Their lack of self awareness on this is astounding. I just watched a short segment of media elites talking about it. The elite’s couched everything in terms of politics. “The right wing controls this space and we control that space…” Exposing their bias openly and notoriously. In doing so also showing their utter lack of self awareness. Because, their openly politicizing for leftists, is a primary reason people have lost faith in the manipulating media. The press doesn’t see itself as informers but manipulators. To manipulate the rest of us to the will of those who pay their checks.
I suspect Covid, the MRNA “vaccine” disaster and the lies orbiting that humanitarian catastrophe, are a large reason why no one trusts the main stream media. The lies the media pushed, the propaganda ginning up fear and the covering up of the terrible side effects, millions are living with right now, are monumental lies. Not white lies about if a President tripped on a slippery ramp or not. The lies the legacy media spun are strangling people to this day. The thing about propaganda and Hegelian manipulation is, once the trap is sprung, it’s hard to conceal again. With young and healthy sports figures along with actors, dropping dead of “undisclosed…” the side effects are getting harder and harder to contain. Exposing the lies and fear mongering of the media.
The fundamental problem is their worldview. They see themselves as manipulators of the masses in service to their masters. That’s their Bacon’s cave. The filter through which they see the world. Information is a tool and commodity to push or suppress depending on it’s political effect. That’s why some information is called misinformation. In that it exposes truths their masters would rather have hidden. As a tactic this works fine… if you have a monopoly on the narrative. Then, even blatant exposures can be memory holed. Today isn’t that kind of environment. The internet dissolved their monopoly on the narrative. So, while the main stream media is stuck in their manipulator media mindset, the people have seen the ugliness behind the mask and are repulsed by it.
The media elite however only see their mask in the mirror. Which allows them to fall victim to their own propaganda. Eroding any self awareness they might still have. So media executives go on air, and complain about this or that party, controls this or that media space. Showing themselves to be open partisans. Ignorantly removing the mask for all to see. Then gazing at the mask lovingly and with admiration for its construction and beauty. Even as the rest of us recoil at the hideous face of despotism and hypocrisy that it hid. Which is why they’re failing so badly and are unable to understand why. Having sold out for so long skews their mindset. They think it’s the normal state of affairs. Perhaps it is. Yet that paradigm of control through a manipulating media is changing.
The quotidian beauty of free enterprise and association, coupled with the Internet, is that it allows people to gravitate to the information sources we like. People want agency. At least to believe we have agency. A naked partisan media, without a whit of self awareness, who’s lies have cost millions and continue to cost with the side effects of the vial they pushed on us… they’ve lost all credibility. Who wants to be manipulated to self harm. Not if they can help it. We’re as self interested as the pathological elites who pay the manipulating media to lie to us. Except we matured our cortex to several Piagetian levels past the psychopathic elites. So we don’t lie, cheat and steal for wealth… we work for it. Like the manipulating media used to… for their political masters.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
