Modern society

[obyknven]

Postmodernist society is Abraham Moles "mosaic culture" become reality. Society is divided into small groups, each with its own "geniuses" (utterly wretched), its own neophytes (even more wretched), its own standards of quality, its own morality, and its own fashion. Postmodernist society can no longer act as a whole; it is defenseless before those wielding power. Micro-groups are unable to unite, and they have great difficulty interacting with one another since they are secretly hostile and do not need one another. The postmodern world is a world of singles. In the ideal case, postmodern society strives toward atomization, to complete self-satisfied equality, and to intellectual limits, despite its apparent diversity ("The Machine Stops," according to E.M. Forster). The biggest, carefully guarded secret of the postmodern world is its extraordinary political utility for the ruling elite. The elite is consolidated, engaged, and utterly rational; and it owns property, receives profits, and organizes (on purely rational grounds) world industry and the world political process. The elite is conservative out of necessity (no profit without stability); it does not play postmodernist games. (It wears stiff suits; its children attend closed schools where they receive a classical education and the nineteenth-century discipline of the rod; it buys C

[Gorth]

It might surprise you. but apart from Berlusconi Era Italy, western media are not state controlled. Rather the opposite. What they are however, is controlled by lobby and special interest groups with agendas that can sometimes be almost hopeless to figure out, due to lack of transparency. So no, they are rarely "independent", but not state controlled either. You could argue they are controlled by the same people that control governments (the "king makers").

[Hurlshort]

I'm guessing you're not really Alexander Tarasov.

[Orogun01]

I miss LoF

[Nonek]

Yes but we've got luminous condoms, thus all the downsides of modern society are counter balanced.

[Meshugger]

I miss LoF

 

He's probably busy writing a thesis on the "Occupy"-movement.

[obyknven]

LoF is not true commie.

 

Multi-million demonstrations are impressive, of course, but the result is always the same: the ruling class quietly spits at them and continues their neoliberal counterreforms everywhere. We can see it in Greece, and in Italy, and in France, and in Spain, and in Portugal, and in Germany, and in Britain, and in Ireland. Elections, which do not change anything, serve as a bone tossed to the embittered people: Labour may take over from the Conservatives (in Britain), and vice versa the Conservatives (neoliberal radicals) may replace the Socialists (in Greece) that does not matter; whoever forms the government, it keeps pursuing (and even intensifying) the same policy of counterreforms despite the widest and most impressive protests of the population.

 

Why is it happening? Because participants of the mass protests in the metropolis, who are wage earners, representatives of the middle class, make no attempt at the founding principles of the System. These classes, which have been for decades bribed with a share of the super profit extracted by monopolies from the Third World and distributed among the general population, are quite satisfied with capitalism, and all they want is to have capitalism with a "human face". And they are completely unaware of the fact, or rather prefer not to hear about it because it is an unpleasant fact, that such a "human face" in the metropolis can be made possible only by way of looting and overexploiting the periphery. That means their protest is purely defensive (and even conservative where it comes to preserving the vanishing welfare state under capitalism), they think in terms of conformism and reformism.

 

All the scandalous electoral successes of the ultra-right in various countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Austria and even Greece, go with the above-said phenomena. The successes are diverse in scale but all are thought-provoking.

 

Let us recall what was the first response of British workers to the crisis? It was

[Labadal]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution told me that the Illuminati was behind everything.

[Bos_hybrid]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution told me that the Illuminati was behind everything.

 

Don't be silly, it's the lizard people.

[Gfted1]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution told me that the Illuminati was behind everything.

 

Don't be silly, it's the lizard people.

 

Thats what the reverse vampires want you to think.

[Monte Carlo]

The problem with Oby isn't that he's a troll. It's that he's dull. At least LoF wasn't boring.

[Guard Dog]

LoF was angry. He wanted what he wanted right now with as many opposing folks dead as possible. Oby isn't angry at anyone.

[obyknven]

 

Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor...

 

...Take the fundamental laws of modern states, take their administration, take freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, or

[Morgoth]

Nothing changes.

 

[Gfted1]

[Hurlshort]

Brilliant Morgie

[HoonDing]

obyknven should post more pics of cute Russian bred girls.