Thoughts On The Media

Random quotes on the media from my upcoming book Essays On The Media:

We will never again allow ourselves to rejoin the meta-reality created by the media after stepping out from under it. It is not the all-pervasive entity we once thought, it is merely a dark theater playing absurdist films to a stultified audience.

We see the rank corruption in both of our political parties and we know that Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the best this system will ever give us. It’s just going to get worse from here, folks.

Freed from the illusions of the narrative machine, we are nonetheless imprisoned by the consequences of its operations so long as a majority of the people give it credence and support. We cannot do this without you. We, perhaps more clearly than anyone else, realize how interdependent we all are and how we are all in this together.

The media is not sponsored by trees, it is sponsored by those who see in trees nothing more than the profit that can be made by their destruction. The media is not paid for by the animals that are killed by the oil spills and the factory farms and the pollution and the over-harvesting of mega fishing boats. The machine doesn’t factor in human survival, why should it care about other species?

The future lies beyond the floundering vessel that sinks under the weight of its outmoded narrative. We who sit at the edge of the impending catastrophe call to you, knowing that we will sink or swim together, that our fates are inextricably…