Monday, February 12, 2007
On This Modern Warrior Archetype Part Six.9.15
9m. Megalomania is nothing new, but mass media allows its reach to be greatly extended. It may touch those susceptible to its delusions far more quicker and wider than would be possible otherwise. Shared media experiences allow for false perceptions of shared sacrifice. Relatively, the virtual and vicarious are therefore highly pliant. Although a minority, it’s drives will sometimes tip the balance. In the media realm, empire is the ultimate expression and aspiration for the herd. Fortunately and unfortunately, nothing really guides or cushions its inevitable stupidities. Systems can be upset by idiots.
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Mass media, as the vision of the heraldic idiot, allows for shared sacrifices that produce false perceptions. The stupidities that it guides and cushions, in sake of the heraldic idiot, is susceptible to the delusions of which it intends to perpetuate. Change is thus paradoxically allowed by the vicarious action, not perpetuated by the herd, but instead perpetuated by the violent.
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