• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    the main function of the contemporary media: to convey the message that even if you’re clever enough to have figured out that it’s all a cynical power game, the rest of America is a ridiculous pack of sheep.

    This is the trap.

    -David Graeber, The Democracy Project

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      10 hours ago

      You mean most people know better?

      How could society signal to themselves that they know?