Chuckman certainly zeros in on the omnipresent disinformation provided by corporate media, but he searches in vain through history for what caused it. The powerful corporations? The great military-security-policing agencies? The CIA? What has eluded him: the natural development of capitalism to create overwhelming concentrations of wealth and power in the hands of a few.
He did provide one insight with which I, a blogger, especially connected:
The Internet in general has provided an outlet for critical views, but the total exposure to the public is small in the scheme of things - a few channels, as it were, in a multi-trillion channel universe - and can mostly be ignored by authorities, and, in any event, the Internet is evolving quickly into something else far more dominated by commercial interests. The Golden Age of the Internet, so far as ideas are concerned, may well soon be over.The nearly total dominance of the highly developed communication technologies by major corporations makes sites like my own rather ineffective...sort of like pissing in the wind. On the other hand, this situation probably keeps me safe, because they, the ruling capitalist class, don't see me and many others like me as a threat to their rule. This also allows them to proclaim that theirs is a society where freedom of speech and tolerance of dissenting views exists--proof of a "democracy". However, they intend to increase their safety from ideas coming from dissident websites by having their corporations purchase fast-track internet service and leaving the slow congested lanes for us--a 21st century version of the Enclosure Movement.
