/lit/ - Literature

>>18642905
Your analytical scheme boils down to
>My fellow American morons
>The media and certain politicians, I reluctantly conceed, may have lead your stupid ass to believe certain things in order to guide or manipulate you, depending on whether they're status quo centrist or not
>Buuuuuut actually the real reason for these social problems (problems I'm also somewhat downplaying) was this obscure policy initiated/not initiated by this BOOMER president in response to a trivial ad hoc political crisis---a sincere attempt if it's a centrist, which may have gone awry or whose compromise lacked consensus; if it's a republican it's some borderline jew-like handwringing manipulation for $$$ bank, bro, but only for BOOMERS.

While projecting that appealing HR department veneer of The Reasonable Man (tm) it's still just sententious pro forma talking points, slightly less trashy than the ones you demean, but nonetheless a funhouse ideological program of your own with a few NYT-formatted 'historical' factoids to class it up like a string of pearls. At the end of the day, you might be Rolling Stone to their Star magazine, but you're likewise in a web where you think you're the spider when you're just another fly.

>>18557044
>Today its diagnoses seem wholly contemporary: the ‘triple alliance’ between politics, economics, and cybernetics; the contrast between the self-satisfied ‘nomadism’ of a global overclass and the cultivated herds of ‘neurolivestock’ whose brains labour dumbly in cybernetic pastures; the arrogance of the ‘knights of finance’; and the limitless complacency and petty envy of middle-class dupes haplessly in thrall to household goods and openly hostile to the pursuit of a freedom that might demand patience or labour.