American Youth: The Rise of The New Media
American Youth: The Rise of The New Media
When this period in U.S. history is finally written, the alternative media will either be seen as heroic figures—which I believe many of them to be—or they won’t be remembered at all. They will be wiped from history, barely a footnote, except for a few young people.
Sometime at the beginning of the 22-century, maybe, young people will begin to dig deep for their long-lost past. Because they’ve got nothing better to do. Young people tend to be curious, unlike many of their elders. “How did we end up here,” they’ll ask. Wherever “Here” is.
That will be the beginning.
I don’t think the kind of diffused political revolution, like the one we’re seeing today, has ever happened before, in all history. It couldn’t. The technology didn’t exist. The Internet has changed that. Nothing can be hidden for long. Because the Internet is watching. There are no more dark places. A light will shine like a shoot of grass, peeking out from concrete, no matter how hard they try to uproot it. And believe me, "They" know, who "They" are.
What-the-hell doe it all mean, this cacophony of voices, big and small. Everyone can be heard now. No one is left out. It will, however, be a long time before we figure it out, if we ever do.
The first serious attack in this information war came with Net Neutrality, which was nothing more than an attempt to control the uncontrollable global Internet. Western nations couldn’t just do, what totalitarian nations have always done. They can’t just come out and say “You people need to shut up and sit down and let your betters do their job of reorganizing the world while raking in trillions of dollars in global money.
It used to be far easier to con the masses. In the past, the big three networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS told people what to think. As powerful as they were, they knew better than to challenge the real power brokers, the money men, the global corporations, who could fight back, with deep, deep pockets and lethal political connections. That’s why Watergate took years to break. One; because the story seemed far-fetched. Why would Richard Nixon risk everything to spy on the Democrats, when he was a shoe-in, his victory a foregone conclusion? But he did. Nixon did spy. Just as Barack Obama spied. And for the same reasons, arrogance, and a belief that he/they couldn’t lose. Well, they did lose, and they will continue to lose, as the barriers to free thought crumble like the Berlin Wall eventually did. The Berlin Wall was just a more obvious and direct symbol of totalitarianism then Net Neutrality.
The old radicals are still there, though. At least, in spirit, as their progeny flood out of college campuses armed with leftwing ideology, most of which is little more than a handful of socialist talking points. Thankfully, (for them, at least,) they’re up against a nation of blind people, so their one eye offers a field of vision that seems positively panoramic, by comparison. But, there are, also, plenty of insightful people out there, in the hinterlands, far more than they think. Smart, astute, politically aware, middle-class guerrilla warriors, sitting at keyboards, offering insights that are out-of-bounds for the mainstream media. But everything goes, on the Internet, and it will be damned tuff to silence those voices.
That’s where Donald Trump comes in; mowing down the opposition like a mack-truck, driven by a billionaire, right-of-center Dean Moriarty.
Meanwhile, long-time imbeciles like Canada’s Justin (he’s so dreamy) Trudeau, mouths SJW platitudes, selling Canada down the river, just like his daddy, Pierre Trudeau did, many decades ago. And don’t the media love him for it. “It,” being the reinforcing of their political viewpoint, which we all love. Personal validation carries a lot of weight in a world of 7.5 billion people.
Make no mistake, though, the Left is hated around the world. The Democrats are likewise hated because they are the Left masquerading as old-school Democrats, which never really existed, any more than old-school Republicans existed. But this is a new day, with new technology, and the truly radical opinions cannot be quelled. And I don’t mean neo-Marxism, either, which is always the Left’s default position, when I use the term "Radical." That kind of radicalism is comprised of the usual idiots, who know nothing but like to evoke Malcolm X with their rhetorical flourishes. Put on a beret and talk about solidarity, Che Guevara-style. Not the real Che, who was mass-murdering scum-bag. The manufactured T-shirt Che. that's the one they’re selling. That’s the real enemy. The global corporations and their cronies in the media, selling neo-Marxist bullshit, clothed in middling rhetoric, directed at America’s youth; The young. The dumb. The sexually confused. The end of the line.
Or, maybe not. We shall see.
Mark Magula
When this period in U.S. history is finally written, the alternative media will either be seen as heroic figures—which I believe many of them to be—or they won’t be remembered at all. They will be wiped from history, barely a footnote, except for a few young people.
Sometime at the beginning of the 22-century, maybe, young people will begin to dig deep for their long-lost past. Because they’ve got nothing better to do. Young people tend to be curious, unlike many of their elders. “How did we end up here,” they’ll ask. Wherever “Here” is.
That will be the beginning.
I don’t think the kind of diffused political revolution, like the one we’re seeing today, has ever happened before, in all history. It couldn’t. The technology didn’t exist. The Internet has changed that. Nothing can be hidden for long. Because the Internet is watching. There are no more dark places. A light will shine like a shoot of grass, peeking out from concrete, no matter how hard they try to uproot it. And believe me, "They" know, who "They" are.
What-the-hell doe it all mean, this cacophony of voices, big and small. Everyone can be heard now. No one is left out. It will, however, be a long time before we figure it out, if we ever do.
The first serious attack in this information war came with Net Neutrality, which was nothing more than an attempt to control the uncontrollable global Internet. Western nations couldn’t just do, what totalitarian nations have always done. They can’t just come out and say “You people need to shut up and sit down and let your betters do their job of reorganizing the world while raking in trillions of dollars in global money.
It used to be far easier to con the masses. In the past, the big three networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS told people what to think. As powerful as they were, they knew better than to challenge the real power brokers, the money men, the global corporations, who could fight back, with deep, deep pockets and lethal political connections. That’s why Watergate took years to break. One; because the story seemed far-fetched. Why would Richard Nixon risk everything to spy on the Democrats, when he was a shoe-in, his victory a foregone conclusion? But he did. Nixon did spy. Just as Barack Obama spied. And for the same reasons, arrogance, and a belief that he/they couldn’t lose. Well, they did lose, and they will continue to lose, as the barriers to free thought crumble like the Berlin Wall eventually did. The Berlin Wall was just a more obvious and direct symbol of totalitarianism then Net Neutrality.
The old radicals are still there, though. At least, in spirit, as their progeny flood out of college campuses armed with leftwing ideology, most of which is little more than a handful of socialist talking points. Thankfully, (for them, at least,) they’re up against a nation of blind people, so their one eye offers a field of vision that seems positively panoramic, by comparison. But, there are, also, plenty of insightful people out there, in the hinterlands, far more than they think. Smart, astute, politically aware, middle-class guerrilla warriors, sitting at keyboards, offering insights that are out-of-bounds for the mainstream media. But everything goes, on the Internet, and it will be damned tuff to silence those voices.
That’s where Donald Trump comes in; mowing down the opposition like a mack-truck, driven by a billionaire, right-of-center Dean Moriarty.
Meanwhile, long-time imbeciles like Canada’s Justin (he’s so dreamy) Trudeau, mouths SJW platitudes, selling Canada down the river, just like his daddy, Pierre Trudeau did, many decades ago. And don’t the media love him for it. “It,” being the reinforcing of their political viewpoint, which we all love. Personal validation carries a lot of weight in a world of 7.5 billion people.
Make no mistake, though, the Left is hated around the world. The Democrats are likewise hated because they are the Left masquerading as old-school Democrats, which never really existed, any more than old-school Republicans existed. But this is a new day, with new technology, and the truly radical opinions cannot be quelled. And I don’t mean neo-Marxism, either, which is always the Left’s default position, when I use the term "Radical." That kind of radicalism is comprised of the usual idiots, who know nothing but like to evoke Malcolm X with their rhetorical flourishes. Put on a beret and talk about solidarity, Che Guevara-style. Not the real Che, who was mass-murdering scum-bag. The manufactured T-shirt Che. that's the one they’re selling. That’s the real enemy. The global corporations and their cronies in the media, selling neo-Marxist bullshit, clothed in middling rhetoric, directed at America’s youth; The young. The dumb. The sexually confused. The end of the line.
Or, maybe not. We shall see.
Mark Magula