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>>12175248

wanna post?

>>9046626

i've been trying to work this--fake news--out not only in terms of american democracy (which i think it is fairly and categorically destructive), but in terms of weber's idea of disenchantment of hegel-nietzsche's notions of mythology. for instance, it seems to me that you are absolutely right and offer a powerful insight viz. the shift from top-down propaganda to ground-up or more horizontally democratic forms of myth-making. but is this not the swan song of a certain battle between secularism and theology? is this not a crack--finally--in the black sepulchre of god?
i mean: does not the production of fake news 1. disclose the local death of our democracy, but 2. disclose the universal awakening of the spirit to itself? the capacity to lie is no longer to business of the happy, chosen few, who prelate within their sanctum sanctori--but isn't mythmaking a matter of the common man, the mass, the single person who sees, at the new dawn of a human epoch, an invitation to master and labor upon the world as never before? a perversion of hegel and nietzsche--or is it the fulfillment of their dialectics once realized in our actual human conditions?
how does the status of this type of lying relate to the status of lying, say, among the ubermensch you so wonderfully addressed here (>>9045047
>>9045106)?
i'm certainly not saying those asshole macedonian fake newsers are tiny ubermenschen leading us to a brave utopia--but perhaps they are a bridge, a stepping stone, a precursor to something truly great? what existential space have they carved out--and who, i wonder, will feign capacity to fill it?