Corporate Censorship of the Public Dialogue.

Having just watched  Shadows of Liberty, several emotions developed within me.  The first emotion was disgust for our society that allows/abets the confinement of discourse occurring in our corporate dominated media.  Secondly, repulsion for The Rendon Group and others vocationally devoted to this corporate censorship, and finally, courage from those who stood up to these rotten figureheads in our society.

I often wonder why is there such a lack of substantive issues reported in our mass media, instead they report titillating stories akin to BDSM in pornography, (you know what it stands for).  These corporate led media conglomerates know they can keep us distracted and stupid with stories of blood and sex for the same instinctual reason we have rubberneckers and romance novels.

Our political discussions are the discussions they frame for us, big media no longer need to silence issues that threaten their ability to make a profit, they are simply never mentioned:  We have no idea what we are not talking about.

Sincerely,
Lawrence Feriozzi

Rush is Corporatist Tool

    The largest corporate donor's billions, their lobbying, and their writing of the complex anti-competitive regulatory laws—which is impenetrable to everyone except them—has defiled our republic.  It has done so by eliminating competitive capitalism at the highest levels.  The largest corporations in all of our mature industries have nearly become state-supported monopolies and oligopolies. 
     The biggest companies in oil, food production, media, education, health care, banking, credit cards, etc., have used Republican's loyalty to the idea of free-markets to perpetrate less competition in our economy.  Their use (abuse) of governmental power; tailored regulations, corporate bailouts, lax antitrust prosecution, will eventually destroy our economy. 
     Do influential Republicans like Rush Limbaugh see this?  Do they know they are a corporatist tool?

Sincerely,
Lawrence Feriozzi

Our Disheartening Dialog of Insignificance

    Want to make millions and be famous?  Just learn to be a good public polemicist*.  The highest paid in media and government are the most popular polemicist.  Like the rich, ancient Greek sophist Gorgias, our popular media figures and politicians motivate the masses for profit and power.  Their swift and sensationally reasoned rhetoric is crafted to capture our hearts--they know our minds will follow.  The best of the modern polemicist, like the playful Gorgias, know they are deceiving, the worst deceive themselves . In either case the polemicist's devotees are their source of notoriety and income; dependent on their popularity.  This wicked brew of cognitive dissidence has propelled our partisan, consumer-driven, codependent media and public officials into a destructive and disheartening dialog of insignificance.  Arguments, if every non-recursive, quickly become so.
     Disenchantment, disgust, and disengagement accrue in the non-polemicist: those who use non-ideologic methods for analysing and synthesizing useful ideas.  It seems our voice is drowned out by the cacophony of self-righteous opinion leaders who vehemently "know;" never mind their knowing is motivated by a fear of losing personal significance in a disheartening dialog of insignificance.

 *A polemic is defined as an aggressive attack on, or refutation of the principals or opinions of another.

Sincerely,


Lawrence Feriozzi