/lit/ - Literature

>>12646554
>A Network remake would be fucking fantastic
sorry i made a few changes in there. i disagree that it would have to be anti-Semitic, the original wasn't and this one wouldn't have to be either.

>Stewart
that clip is fucking awesome. and this is exactly the kind of thing that i think the world dearly, *dearly* is missing today - a place where journalists have to go and actually deal with the responses and rejoinders of people reading their stories that are not

a) another fucking echo chamber built for public consumption, or
b) a clearly adversarial position (Fox/CNN, Breitbart, w/ev) where people can simply go in and throw grenades and say they scored a touchdown (nice mixed metaphors, i know).

having Stewart around to actually talk to journalists and ask them difficult questions was a fucking godsend. today it's Rogan who fills that void, to some degree, although he's not quite as savvy as Stewart (again, different people). it was Rogan who gave a lot of people the first exposure to Peterson, for example, and he also got Musk, and he's going to get fucking Kanye in a couple of months too. Maher tries to check the Left in his own way too, and sometimes he does it well and sometimes not. but there is absolutely no way to replace a guy like Stewart, and i'm quite glad you shared that clip, because that is solid gold. Metanarrative Review would be a great fucking idea, whether it was a philosopher, a stand-up comedian, an outsider, whoever - just somebody who could call out bullshit journalism for what it is. he did it on Crossfire and he fucking completely demolished Judith Miller here also. things like this make me unironically believe humanity is not worth feeding into Land's nightmare machine.

just imagine a place where journalists do not always wind up going hog-wild and getting high on their own supply. would be so good. just until the universe irons out a few kinks. ugh.

>The problem is we're living in their world. Even if America was an English country it isn't now and the people who collectivize are guaranteed to rise above the helpless individuals.
yeah, but nothiing good comes of that power. it attracts the worst kind of people anyways. and in the end they fuck things up because it appears to be almost impossible to not abuse. Herbert knew it too.

>Hopefully Americans subvert it all by rejecting the central media and Washington in favor of local and state pride to the point of decentralization that favors the individual. Jeffersonian federalism, but with Farmville running on your home server.
sounds good to me.

thanks again for that clip anon, i really enjoyed that and had not seen it before.