Reply #102: my terms [View All]

[rman]

the media
The mass media, or mainstream media. The media that the vast majority of people get the bulk of their information from. Those media outlets that are owned by media organizations that are owned by one of the six big corporations that own some 90% of the media, such as General Electric (www.takebackthemedia.com > who owns the media)
I'm not even going to start on partisanship.

ours
Controlled by society, the public, "the people". As opposed to a few big corporations.


It's not a super conspiracy. There's some conspiracy at the top, with only a few people involved. Probably there are several factions within the super elite. The vast majority of their 'henchmen' are seduced and/or deceived into working to further the goals of the powers that be. The goal is accumulation of wealth and power, the seduction is that you'll get a part of it. This doesn't have to be explicitly proposed to these people, since capitalist civilization is permeated by the notion that you have the right to grab what you can, and that it's inevitable that you'll hurt others in the process; "don't worry to much about others". Many people tend to use this, to one extend or another, as an excuse for themselves to do pretty much anything they think they can get away with in order to further their goals. And the more wealth and influence they get, the more of it they want, and the easier it becomes to get away with what they do to get it. And of course it is more risky to cheat on those that are more powerful then you are then it is to cheat on those who are less powerful then you are.