PROMETHEAN ANTAGONIST

The wealthy leaders of Corporate America, including its media outlets, supposedly act in accordance with their (economic) “interests” thus supporting the “capitalist party line” (or “superstructure” as Marxist would tell it).

This of course, appears to make sense “intuitively.” But, if it were indeed so then wouldn't the wealthy directors and actors of Hollywood also be notably right wing and pro-capitalist? Wouldn't the well paid and pampered gas-bags of academia be overwhelmingly conservative in their hopes of maintaining their status and affiliation with "privilege?"

Why does a multi-millionaire like Michael Moore devote his energy to pervasive and dishonest undermining and insult to his country and its people? Why does a billionaire like Ted Turner consider Fidel Castro a great man as well as a personal pal?

As it turns out, there are things that motivate as well as -- or more than -- money. To see one's self as revolutionary, cool, or superior intellectually and morally is a common motivation amongst the hypocrites and self-delusioned of leftland.

These arrogant fools will look you strait in the eye and tell you they “don't believe anything that corporate media tells them.” In virtually the same breath they'll quote CBS or the New York Times regarding the latest proof that George Bush is the Anti-Christ. Sometimes they will avoid the corporate media and find a higher truth in some kid's conclusions on a free blog site (I know, like this one...). During such epiphanies they discover that Muslim terrorists really didn't hit the World Trade Center but it was actually a conspiracy by George Bush -- or some mysterious higher forces that control him.

The contemporary collectivist ideologues of anti-freedom are idiots in a frenzy. While their books (i.e. Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn) are required reading in colleges and high schools across the country and while their “views” clog the movies, television, and news channels of the world, we are continually told that our knowledge of life and world events are really colored by the base interests of some scary rich businessmen or corporations.

While the nonsense continues we're supposed to believe that the Jacobin pseudo-rebel has got some kind of X-ray vision on the truth.

When your greatest sympathies go out to Muslim Fascists and totalitarian “experiments” that have slaughtered millions, your credibility is justifiably diminished.

So, supposedly corporate America and rich boogymen continue to promote their interests; and the left is promoting what exactly?

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...Meanwhile the non - corporate media keeps doing what they do best. The BBC a case in point:


“...Try these tests next time you are watching your favorite BBC drama or Hollywood movie: If the characters happen to include - say - a white middle class guy and a non-white working class guy, who is going to turn out to have surprising hidden qualities and who is going to turn out to have a surprising hidden dark side? Or compare the proportion homosexual characters on your TV screen with that in your own real life. Try and find the drama where the ‘right wing' character turns out to be full of compassion and the ‘left wing' character full of bile or where the successful business executive turns out to be rather a nice chap...”