as another component of my reply, I include this excerpt from *Suck*, the
webzine... this was written by "St. Huck"
the conflicts of interest
that arise when a single
corporation owns the
entertainment magazine that
reviews the blockbuster summer
movie that features the cable
news channel in a cameo, but his
cracks never materialize into a
call for reform. Unlike the
The inescapable truth is that this is the great age of consolidation: there
will be fewer alternatives in the next century, the power relations will be
tightly cemented... minds will be either tightly programmed from an early
age to be eager and unreflective servants of the machine; or ruthless,
contemptuous masters of it. Odd that this comes as a greater shock to us,
breastfed on liberal sentimentality and grandiose lyrics of the joys of
mental masturbation, than it would to the clear mind of Nicolo Machiavalli
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