I might have to agree in some ways. But in a big picture way. With the invention of the radio, it was not long before Hitler, Stalin, and to an extent, american politicians, even FDR jumped in to use this powerful media to sway public opinion or promote propaganda, depending on your point of view.
Hitler and Stalin were both notable for seeing big possibilities. Stalin i think, set up radios in all the communes, hooked to loudspeakers.
My point is, since then we have developed even more powerful media, that is even more influential. I will include the internet.
Well, right behind the politicians, the corporate and business world also saw the power and possibilities, and they both pump billions of dollars into using them.
So, is it possible that in this day and age, media is just to powerful, whatever that means?
Will true discourse and individual thought even be what it was? Will the economic and political world ever be truly democratic? (If it ever was) will our lives ever be free of the taint of powerful people and organizations who want to tell us what to think and seem to be fairly successful?
SO, in that regard, media may have killed us all. Is this what Holden, or JD meant? I don't know. But if it was, then I would have to consider him pretty wise.
Hitler and Stalin were both notable for seeing big possibilities. Stalin i think, set up radios in all the communes, hooked to loudspeakers.
My point is, since then we have developed even more powerful media, that is even more influential. I will include the internet.
Well, right behind the politicians, the corporate and business world also saw the power and possibilities, and they both pump billions of dollars into using them.
So, is it possible that in this day and age, media is just to powerful, whatever that means?
Will true discourse and individual thought even be what it was? Will the economic and political world ever be truly democratic? (If it ever was) will our lives ever be free of the taint of powerful people and organizations who want to tell us what to think and seem to be fairly successful?
SO, in that regard, media may have killed us all. Is this what Holden, or JD meant? I don't know. But if it was, then I would have to consider him pretty wise.