I think modern media, aka, the internet, does give incredible influence by some over what is most broadly discussed. Yet the consequences are exposing the flaws in the narrative being supported.
The loss of nuance and the tendency to drive one sided views is leaving a lot of people aware those seeking to control the narrative only have their own interests at heart, even if they don't see a viable alternative.
I've read recently the Democrats have funded a fair number of pro Trump Republicans, in the belief they would be easier to beat, than more mainstream ones. Apparently ignorant of the fact that's exactly how Trump originally won the Republican primaries on 16, because the media did their best to give him the most exposure, sure he would be the easiest one to beat.
The point being this dynamic is destroying respect for the entire system, both left and right, as those with the real power try the usual tactics of divide and conquer, but end up making their preferred pawns and puppets look ever more infantile and inconsequential.
The overall result is that it is clearing the table in a big way.
The breakdown of society is both social/spiritual and economic, as well as political. They might be effective in controlling the political debates for awhile, but are not giving much attention to the social, spiritual, or even economic discussions going on and if these could gain enough momentum, while they are being ignored, the effect could be a tidal wave over the political circus.
On the spiritual side, I would point out that logically, a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the light shining through the film, than the images on it.
Ideals are not absolutes and a culture essentially founded on the assumption will be inherently conflicted, as all the various ideals, from Wahabism, to wokism, fight it out to the death.
To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.
Democracy and Republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. Family as the godhead.
The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as the state religion, as the empire solidified and the Republic faded. It validates the Big Guy Rules.
When the West went back to more popular forms of government, it required separation of church and state, effectively culture and civics.
I could go on, but now economics;
Government, as executive and regulatory function, is analogous to the central nervous system, while money and banking reflect blood and the circulation system.
We have evolved to the point of recognizing government as a public utility, but haven't yet opened our eyes to the fact the same principle applies to banking.
When the medium enabling markets is privately held, we are all just tenant farmers to the banks.
I could go on with this as well, but all the ways it is permeating society should be overwhelmingly obvious, give the extent to which everyone , from the government to students, is drowning in debt. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.
The Ancients devised debt jubilees as a circuit breaker to stop the feedback loop of compound interest and here we are, three thousand years later, still stuck in the same rut.
So these are just two of the bigger cracks in the social foundations, on which those powers that be are stomping their feet a little too hard.
So the way I see it, if they want to destroy the system holding them up, don't fight it too hard. Just keep working the grass roots, far out of sight of the hall monitors.
