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I think this highlights a problem in the anarchist paradigm,
Posted on: March 5, 2018 at 08:39:28 CT
JeffB MU
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a problem shared with crony capitalism.
The banksters and their friends have corralled so much of the world assets that they can also largely control/heavily influence the mass media, the movies, the politicians and the educational system... and can thereby push their agenda, including, but not limited to shutting down those with opposing views.
A small group of corporations own some 90% of the mass media and their boards share many of the members who are on multiple of these boards. They can pretty much dictate the message received by the masses in a fashion not all that far from what dictators have achieved in the past. Many of these also run or sit on the boards of the other major companies throughout the world. Those companies have major clout, including but not limited to the billions spent on advertising.
Whether or not one likes Info Wars, I think the truth should be acknowledged that the financial elite are able to wield their financial and political might to shut down the voices that they don't like, and are using that muscle to financially punish Info Wars and others in a big way. In the political realm we saw how the Obama administration was able to use their political muscle to have the IRS hammer Obama's political foes... and the FBI to protect Hillary and to go after Trump.
The "no government/no leader" anarchist paradigm allows this type of aggregation of financial assets and power, military and otherwise to accumulate in the hands of a few, every bit as much as crony capitalism, and likely even more so.
Your defense of CNN's right to use its financial and political capital to stamp out its opposition shows anarchy not only has no built in checks and balances on this catastrophic accumulation of power in the hands of a few "survival of the fittest" survivors, but encourages and protects it from its theoretical framework of ideas.
The banksters and their friends have corralled so much of the world assets that they can also largely control/heavily influence the mass media, the movies, the politicians and the educational system... and can thereby push their agenda, including, but not limited to shutting down those with opposing views.
A small group of corporations own some 90% of the mass media and their boards share many of the members who are on multiple of these boards. They can pretty much dictate the message received by the masses in a fashion not all that far from what dictators have achieved in the past. Many of these also run or sit on the boards of the other major companies throughout the world. Those companies have major clout, including but not limited to the billions spent on advertising.
Whether or not one likes Info Wars, I think the truth should be acknowledged that the financial elite are able to wield their financial and political might to shut down the voices that they don't like, and are using that muscle to financially punish Info Wars and others in a big way. In the political realm we saw how the Obama administration was able to use their political muscle to have the IRS hammer Obama's political foes... and the FBI to protect Hillary and to go after Trump.
The "no government/no leader" anarchist paradigm allows this type of aggregation of financial assets and power, military and otherwise to accumulate in the hands of a few, every bit as much as crony capitalism, and likely even more so.
Your defense of CNN's right to use its financial and political capital to stamp out its opposition shows anarchy not only has no built in checks and balances on this catastrophic accumulation of power in the hands of a few "survival of the fittest" survivors, but encourages and protects it from its theoretical framework of ideas.
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I think this highlights a problem in the anarchist paradigm, - JeffB MU - 3/5 08:39:28