Just as the healthcare system is not really broken, neither is the media ecosystem. Both are working exactly as they were designed to work. Since they're not broken they can't be fixed. We can only build something better.
Bang on. Ecosystem is such a useful phrase to describe this.
Capitalism has relied on reshaping our language and our expectations so drastically that we can no longer identify harmful systems. It's given us a "logic" that justifies why the losers lose, and the winners win. A logic so insidious that we turn it on ourselves.
I have chills from reading the article about Briana Boston. The quotes from the police are so abusive, as if she should know better than to verbally lash out at the insurance reps and therefore expect to be sent to jail. No reasonable person should expect that as the consequence. I talk to insurance reps all the time because I'm living with cancer. I've learned that I need to be polite and when that doesn't work sometimes start to cry - which is my natural response to excessive stress. Sometimes crying works and sometimes it backfires. But other peoples' natural response is anger. I mean...for fucks sakes. This poor woman.
Luigi Mangione is the Gavrilo Princip of our day. No one wants to see another World War like what happened after Gavrilo killed the Archduke and his wife, but the point here is that the class war of the elites against the rest of us has long been raging. Luigi’s action just brought it out in the open.
That Ms. Boston's emotional outburst be criminalized into a threat feels itself to be a threat.
Many of the publications you mention are heavily pay walled. The points of view being pedaled will reach those dreamers of class jumping or fellow writers.
Just as the healthcare system is not really broken, neither is the media ecosystem. Both are working exactly as they were designed to work. Since they're not broken they can't be fixed. We can only build something better.
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Bang on. Ecosystem is such a useful phrase to describe this.
Capitalism has relied on reshaping our language and our expectations so drastically that we can no longer identify harmful systems. It's given us a "logic" that justifies why the losers lose, and the winners win. A logic so insidious that we turn it on ourselves.
I have chills from reading the article about Briana Boston. The quotes from the police are so abusive, as if she should know better than to verbally lash out at the insurance reps and therefore expect to be sent to jail. No reasonable person should expect that as the consequence. I talk to insurance reps all the time because I'm living with cancer. I've learned that I need to be polite and when that doesn't work sometimes start to cry - which is my natural response to excessive stress. Sometimes crying works and sometimes it backfires. But other peoples' natural response is anger. I mean...for fucks sakes. This poor woman.
Luigi Mangione is the Gavrilo Princip of our day. No one wants to see another World War like what happened after Gavrilo killed the Archduke and his wife, but the point here is that the class war of the elites against the rest of us has long been raging. Luigi’s action just brought it out in the open.
I am grateful for your articles. Thank you.
Thanks for this important analysis, Joshua.
Thank you. Good analysis.
Thank you for connecting the dots! Great piece.
That Ms. Boston's emotional outburst be criminalized into a threat feels itself to be a threat.
Many of the publications you mention are heavily pay walled. The points of view being pedaled will reach those dreamers of class jumping or fellow writers.
Thank you for the list of sources.
Because they work for the ruling class.
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