Is Fox channeling the Church in the Middle Ages?

[grumpyduck]

Last edited Sat Sep 2, 2023, 01:33 PM - Edit history (1)

Sorry if this has been posted before, but two posts earlier today got me thinking.

As far as we know, the vast majority of people in Europe during the Middle Ages were uneducated. The Church practically held a monopoly on education, and some of it was through art, which included paintings and stained glass windows showing scenes from the Bible. For most people, there weren't any options for education, and the Church counted on this to keep their power.

Nowadays, Fox seems to be the only source for news and commentary for a lot of people. From what I read here, a lot of what they say is just parroting Fox talking points even if they are lies. Just like in the MAs.

And it goes beyond that. Back in the MAs, the message was "if you do this you will go to hell, and the devil will have you forever." For Fox, the Democratic Party has become the devil. Some of the BS they put out sounds like some of the BS the Church put out back then.

What's today's equivalent of religious paintings and stained glass windows? Could it be TikTok, tweets from magats, and red hats?

I dunno... I just keep getting this feeling of deja vu.

[erronis]

1. I'll buy it. But they also need to get rid of alternate sources of info

like the unfettered internet.

The internet in the US could pretty easily be controlled just like in the USSR(ussia), China, Afghanistan, Iran, etc. I'm sure that this is in their planning material.

[Aristus]

2. Buzzwords and talking points. A cheap similacrum of education for the proudly ignorant.

Fox and corrosive media flunkies like Rush Limbaugh start burbling things like 'Democrat Party', and soon, every fuckwit, halfwit, and chuzzlewit in red state America starts bleating it as often as they can.

Bronze-faced tobacco smoke generator John Boehner starts calling the wealthy 'job creators', and every right-wing waste of human protoplasm in the country starts spewing the buzzphrase out of their festering holes.

How long before these hill-trolls start yowling 'four legs good; two legs bad'? Hard to say. But not long...