Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "The Rise and Fall of the Mainstream Media" video.

  1. We're looking at "modern wisdom". You tell me that story-tellers are full of real modern-wisdom! I've personally not found that. Art, novels, movies are not wisdom. Williamson seems to have a set of ideas he looks for. For example, he lists 100 essential books to read; and many of those books are very pragmatic; not theory laden like most academic books. Williamson isn't interested in speculative nonsense such as left academic studies or novels. He'd clearly a person who sees wisdom as some kind of template to live a real life by. BTW: Williamson isn't the only person to have a go at Claudine Gay for "knowing nothing". Gay is a grifter who only got her job due to the reverse racism of DEI which parachuted her into position and allowed her to persecute other black heterodox (independent) thinkers at Harvard. Here whole life is ultra privileged.
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  2. The "ideology" we find in media is simply a distillation of the biases of the journalists who write media. Every society has a culture or cultures and ideology of media is generally the unconscious expression our the journalists culture which we encounter. Some of us only notice ideologies which rub up against our own biases and view-points. It is impossible to represent any idea to another without putting an ideological spin on it. Your critique of ideology is ancient Marxism, and idealism. Only Marxists critique ideology, because only Marxists think there's such a thing as an objective viewpoint. Objectivity is a myth. Ideology is the norm; and hegemony is the form it takes. That does not mean we should rejoice in this state of affairs. It probably means we should look for more heterodox sources for news, reporting, and opinion. I leave that as an exercise for the reader. Woke is a fabrication the left created for themselves because they needed common ideas to unite behind for their own anti-hegemony. Since after the early 1990s the left basically gave up on Marxism/communism. So we had a left fragmented into Feminism, Anti-racism, anti-capitalism, gay rights, environmentalism, ... - isms/schisms. Woke puts these disparate movements into a straight-jacket to unify them in the same way Marxism, or Fabianism had once unified the left. To existing oppositional left ideas woke bolts on myths of anti-colonialism, DEI, and Sustainability, Net Zero, virus paranoia as ideals. Woke is a meme to unite modern leftists.
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  3. The problem with Chomsky is - he is a communist - he looks at the media and sees an anti-communist conspiracy - in truth, media was anti-communist, because communism simply does not work as a economic system - anti-communism is an "ideology" in the same sense that self-preservation is.
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  4. There are no trans-people. They're a myth. Not a creation of media and press; but a fabrication by the Leftist academy financed by billionaires such as Soros. An anti-social ideology to fit the anti-social ideal-vision of the modern academy.
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  5. Oppenheimer's protests against nuclear weapons? Are you talking about the letter to the president promoted by Oppenheimer's younger brother which basically ruined that brother's career. I wasn't aware of any other protests - my bad - must've read the wrong biography.
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