media

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. - A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

The goal of media is to make every problem, your problem.

Remember, perhaps the most important commodity in politics is attention: mass media failed us this election by focusing on trivia while not doing enough to follow and correctly report huge stories. Our attention was diluted into trivia and gossip and unjustified mass hacks that were actually political sabotage, not whistleblowing, and in some cases misinformation.

“How could disinformation campaigns even work?” you ask. Well, millions of people still think the US Army created AIDS at Ft. Detrick thanks to a 1983 KGB op, using a single article in an Indian newspaper.