Paper Trail: Media and Culture
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007A handful of pages from a metro daily paper present a cross-section of our culture. Media masters cull and frame events to structure the reader’s mind with mental and emotional reflexes that suppress thought and the ability to think. One could say that the goal of the masters, beyond continuing on payroll, is to frame a page or folio of pages so that it becomes a mirror frame: when a subject beholds the mélange of images and words s/he sees his or her own mind that has been fashioned by decades of mass media propaganda until media content becomes the individual mind. Voila: “virtual reality” with use of the words “real” and “really” in the vernacular becoming more frequent in proportion to the rapidly rising virtual, abstract and etheric quality of our culture and relationships as the hierarchs emerge in meancing regional behemoths.
Today we begin with the microcosm to analyze this method and the tawdry goddess worship at the core of the new global order… (more…)
