Thank you Patrick – a timely and excellent article. Several comments, if I may:
- What is the meaning of your term “infra-dig”? I have no idea since I have never seen it before.
- It is important to clarify who is really the audience of the State (or corporate) mainstream media..
o It is NOT their viewing audience but its paying “donors” – advertisers whose donation is tax deductible cost of doing business.
o And, of course, foreign governments who pay for their propaganda packaged as news (see Saudis, Bahrein, Qatar, UAE, etc.)
- One should ad one more Nobel Peace Prize winner to Maria Ressa and Henry Kissinger – Barack Obama whose intensified drone strikes killed ONLY “militants” – swindler Obama redefined militants as any male above 18-year old.
- Another obvious fraud is Frances Haugen – a beloved DNC-CIA “whistleblower” – while a real whistleblower who tarnished St. Obama droning legacy, Daniel Hale, is now effectively in solitary confinement – a torture that creates mental illness in less than a year. Remember, already Alexis de Tocqueville was consternated with use of this torture in the US - several centuries ago !!!
Thank you, Feral. (And thanks to all commenters. Always grateful.)
"Infra-dig" means more precisely beneath dignity. Your definition suits just as well. No credit to Wolfe, though. Infra-dig was a common term among the Beats, which is where I picked it up. Wolfe was a mere scavenger in the wilds of American subculture.
Illuminating, Patrick - as always. Democracy Now, too. Ms Ressa? The Russian co-recipient? No doubt! Former Australian PM (a Rhodes scholar who called himself "the suppository of wisdom" - says a lot for Rhodes scholardom) Tony Abbott - a friend of Hungary's Orban and of the Polish government and just a week or so back popping up in Taipeh to poke at China (and how he gets to travel so easily in these Covid times is unknown to 99.9999% of Australians) is now in the process of attacking the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC - in Australia) even more than the conservatives already have over the past decade - slashing its budget - attacking at every possible moment any revelation of right wing perfidy - cowing it in fact to a timid version of its former self!
What the news reports is effects. Where do we go to find the causes?
An empire is a synchronization and centralization of energies, like waves combining into one big rogue wave, or a herd slipstreaming into one larger organism.
So what is the centralizing factor in our world? It isn't government. Look who is in charge; Biden? Johnson? Does someone pull their strings directly, or are they just given boundaries to work within?
As Deep Throat said, if you want to know what's happening, follow the money. What is money? Is it a commodity to mine from society, or is it a contract enabling it? Consider the Federal Reserve isn't so much a direct function of government, as it is one of those public/private partnerships. One where the rewards of running the banks are privatized, while the risks are socialized. Consider as well, that the capital markets couldn't function, without the government siphoning up trillions in surplus investment money. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.
If you want to understand the causes behind all these efforts to make people shut up and do what they are told, that is where you have to look.
Though even parasites need a healthy host and they are out to destroy theirs.
People are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality and there is only so much gold that can be stored in the penthouse, while the foundations are left to rot, before it does more than just trickle down.
Thank you Patrick – a timely and excellent article. Several comments, if I may:
- What is the meaning of your term “infra-dig”? I have no idea since I have never seen it before.
- It is important to clarify who is really the audience of the State (or corporate) mainstream media..
o It is NOT their viewing audience but its paying “donors” – advertisers whose donation is tax deductible cost of doing business.
o And, of course, foreign governments who pay for their propaganda packaged as news (see Saudis, Bahrein, Qatar, UAE, etc.)
- One should ad one more Nobel Peace Prize winner to Maria Ressa and Henry Kissinger – Barack Obama whose intensified drone strikes killed ONLY “militants” – swindler Obama redefined militants as any male above 18-year old.
- Another obvious fraud is Frances Haugen – a beloved DNC-CIA “whistleblower” – while a real whistleblower who tarnished St. Obama droning legacy, Daniel Hale, is now effectively in solitary confinement – a torture that creates mental illness in less than a year. Remember, already Alexis de Tocqueville was consternated with use of this torture in the US - several centuries ago !!!
The term "infra dig" means "beneath uncool". I believe that it originated with or was popularized by Tom Wolfe.
Thank you, Feral. (And thanks to all commenters. Always grateful.)
"Infra-dig" means more precisely beneath dignity. Your definition suits just as well. No credit to Wolfe, though. Infra-dig was a common term among the Beats, which is where I picked it up. Wolfe was a mere scavenger in the wilds of American subculture.
Thank you !! But how many people understand it ? I love Tom Wolfe writings - have corresponded with him but -- NEVER ever heard the expression.
Illuminating, Patrick - as always. Democracy Now, too. Ms Ressa? The Russian co-recipient? No doubt! Former Australian PM (a Rhodes scholar who called himself "the suppository of wisdom" - says a lot for Rhodes scholardom) Tony Abbott - a friend of Hungary's Orban and of the Polish government and just a week or so back popping up in Taipeh to poke at China (and how he gets to travel so easily in these Covid times is unknown to 99.9999% of Australians) is now in the process of attacking the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC - in Australia) even more than the conservatives already have over the past decade - slashing its budget - attacking at every possible moment any revelation of right wing perfidy - cowing it in fact to a timid version of its former self!
I'll stand by what I said over on Consortium.
If the establishment is good at nothing else, it is very good at determining whom to buy off, whom to co-opt, whom to eliminate, whom to ignore.
What the news reports is effects. Where do we go to find the causes?
An empire is a synchronization and centralization of energies, like waves combining into one big rogue wave, or a herd slipstreaming into one larger organism.
So what is the centralizing factor in our world? It isn't government. Look who is in charge; Biden? Johnson? Does someone pull their strings directly, or are they just given boundaries to work within?
As Deep Throat said, if you want to know what's happening, follow the money. What is money? Is it a commodity to mine from society, or is it a contract enabling it? Consider the Federal Reserve isn't so much a direct function of government, as it is one of those public/private partnerships. One where the rewards of running the banks are privatized, while the risks are socialized. Consider as well, that the capital markets couldn't function, without the government siphoning up trillions in surplus investment money. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.
If you want to understand the causes behind all these efforts to make people shut up and do what they are told, that is where you have to look.
Though even parasites need a healthy host and they are out to destroy theirs.
People are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality and there is only so much gold that can be stored in the penthouse, while the foundations are left to rot, before it does more than just trickle down.