When any community loses the ability to critique itself, it loses all integrity

[HEyHEY]

When censors, even with the perceived common good, begin deciding what people can say it stifles debate. Consequently, progress is stifled and resentment begins to form. Then, in order hang onto order in the name of the perceived good those charged with administrating the community become authoritarian and then their demise begins.

The authoritarians never see it coming. Being too self-righteous and delusional is never a good thing. Eventually ego takes over and the common good becomes nothing more than a propaganda tool.

[Newest Reality]

1. Judging by the surreal landscape

that modern mass media has sculpted, then we have certainly lost all integrity, Captain!

We are not, in that case, critiquing ourselves. Rather, we are reacting to a Simulation, a spectacle presented for our viewing pleasure and predicted reactions. The perceived good is related to ratings, advertising slots and the profit that ensue, not to mention the more important message of the increasing prevalence of Corporate Occupation that the mass media serves as it spews the carefully designed message of manufactured consent to be controlled and subdued at all costs.

We are being given a grotesque distortion delivered on a massive scale. This hideous, national straw man is presented in a way that would make Dorian Gray envious as to the contrast between the facade presented as reality and its hidden painting of truth in our collective attic. Baudrillard was so on the mark in the sense that the media's endless onslaught of the hyperreal eclipses the reality of our physical, daily lives for so many. It is alluring and captivating and it stands to serve as nothing more than a trumpet call to our complete subservience to corporate monoculture as a replacement for our nation and governance.

How do you debate a nationalize fiction and critique a false representation that intends to replace our concept of ourselves and our context?

[EstimatedProphet]

2. I'd like to wash your mouth out with soap, young man!

How dare you talk this way!

[CommonSensePLZ]

3. ...not sure if rec

Self analysis and the humility to say "hmm, maybe that thing I did and believed wasn't a good idea.." is good, but I don't support people who hate political correctness because they want to be able to throw out racial slurs.