Billionaire Reveals Virtual Reality Experience Called 'Mainstream Media'
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At a hotly anticipated remote keynote presentation on Friday, billionaire Jeff Bezos revealed the details of an exciting new virtual reality experience which he says will allow consumers to log on to an artificial fantasy world completely unlike our existing reality.
"We're calling it Mainstream Media, or MSM for short," Bezos told viewers. "MSM will allow users to interface with an alternate world of the imagination where capitalism is working fine for everyone, constant military expansionism is normal and desirable, Washington's enemies are all bloodthirsty monsters, and billionaires are just harmless job creators. Let's check it out."
Bezos explained that his 2013 purchase of The Washington Post ensured that consumers will remain psychologically plugged in to a virtual reality in which the sociopolitical status quo upon which his Amazon empire is built looks totally fine and not at all insane or dystopian.
"Unlike the virtual reality enterprises of certain other billionaires, the Mainstream Media universe operates continually and without the need for fancy headsets or equipment," Bezos said. "In fact, the psychological technology is so immersive that users aren't generally even aware that they're not experiencing actual reality."
Bezos was soon joined in his presentation by fellow billionaires Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett and Carlos Slim Helú.
"Warren! Mike! Carlos! Rupert! What are you guys doing here?" Bezos recited in scripted surprise.
"We wanted in on the Mainstream Media universe too," Bloomberg answered. "Can't let you have all the fun, Jeff."
"With my vast media empire I've been able alter the outcomes of elections, shape policies and political agendas, start wars and kill social progress in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres," Murdoch boasted.
"My position as chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway has given me control over dozens of daily newspapers throughout the United States," Buffett added.
"My holdings in the New York Times give me leverage over the hiring and publishing practices of the most influential paper in the most powerful nation on earth," said Slim.
"By buying up media influence and controlling the public's perception of reality, we ensure that all the systems which have been funnelling wealth and power toward us remain intact," explained Bloomberg.
"And it keeps the guillotine blades away from our necks!" Slim interjected.
"That's right Carlos," Bezos said. "By psychologically helping the public to perceive a different reality than the one that actually exists, we can prevent prevent social uprisings which might prove hazardous to our wealth and vital organs."
"So we give the riff raff a virtual reality to live in," said Murdoch. "Because actual reality belongs to us."
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The good news is the number of people plugged into MSM is waning.
The bad news is, it still exists.
Back in the 80s I think it was there was a Sunday talking heads show out of Washington, D.C. I used to watch. When that ads came on it was Archer Daniels Midland showing those big harvesters, GE showing nuclear plants and submarines, General Dynamics showing fighter jets, and Monsanto showing foreclosed family farms. Kidding; more of those big harvesters.
I didn't think much about it, only noting it's strangeness because I never saw those ads anywhere else, and I watched lots of TV back then.
Only later did I realize their purpose: those conglomerates were buying influence over which guests could be on and what came out of their mouths; the exact same thing these psychopaths Caitlin mentioned are doing today.
I've found if I talk to someone spouting nonsense it's a good bet they're still plugged into MSM.
They know they have to keep people contented or things will not go in their favour. So your piece is not far off lol.
All the more, people’s discontent should be encouraged. We should encourage people’s discontent and disgust with the current matrix, but at the same time offer something beautiful and visionary which they can fight for, share, and educate their friends with, and have fun doing it all.
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
Despite other issues, nations like China have a vision with things like the Belt and Road Initiative. Russia has a vision. And much of Eurasia is ultimately encompassed in this vision. All the while, the West retreats into further levels of delusion, alternate realities (whether with drugs, entertainment, social media, etc).
Great leaders like FDR, Kennedy, Lincoln, MLK all had a vision. From electrifying the Southern United States after years of swamps and slave-economies with Roosevelt’s Tennessee Valley Authority, to the Apollo Program which yielded a $10-$14 return for every dollar spent thanks to all the spin-off technologies that were then integrated into civilian economies, the world over needs a vision of great projects and goals that will actually develop and increase the productivity AND creativity of nations and people’s. And it also needs an artistic culture that awakens and sparks that natural creativity innate in human beings.
The oligarchical system on the other hand seeks to destroy creativity, or at least pervert it; it seeks to eliminate sovereignty, and the real productivity of nations and people (as opposed to the Wall Street speculative orgies on homes, food, currency, resources—everything that countries need for a healthy and stable economy with a long term perspective, rather than a short-sighted high profit model).
People are proud when they can say they built or created something, and they contributed to the next generations—to the future. When they feel all sense of purpose has been taken away, they retreat into self-absorbed fantasy, distractions, drugs, entertainment (as opposed to real art), anything to avoid the reality, or “cope.” However, despite sheer levels of ugliness and destruction, if people have a sense that they can actually be a part of something bigger, to reverse the destruction, and create something new and better that is rooted in humanity’s true nature, rather than a brave new world perversion, then they will fight, they will become creative.
They won’t let themselves, their children, and the future be enslaved.