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I'm beginning to get a feel for the IDLES vibe (whatever the fuck that means ;-p) It's taking me back years. There's that righteous energy to it - derived from the dissatisfaction of injustice.
Brexit - I've got opinions. I have a core belief that, just as a human, I'm more for joining than separation. I just feel myself ethically misaligned with Brexit. The ridiculousness of the binary aspect was just fucking hard. I get the role of the politicians and business owners who had a stake in it - but there was another culprit, one that's even more culpable in the era of Trump: the fucking corporate media.
The people who can magnify a story, birthed in "if it bleeds it leads", raised by social media's algorithm, an economic empire built on misery and pain. Fuck those fuckers.
The last 20 years of devolving media and the development of echo chambers hasn't been great and has resulted in an orange man in the oval office, again. But I do truly believe that this has been a necessary evil to decouple truth from profit. When there's no economic incentive to subvert reality, we can all get back to agreeing on facts.
Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, William Randolph Hearst, Sumner Redstone, Silvio Berlusconi, Oprah Winfrey, Katharine Graham, Robert Maxwell, Michael Bloomberg - they're not worried about the price of a bacon sandwich - they fucking define it.
The "news media" make more money than all the little busybody politicians combined and yet somehow they get a free pass?!
Here's Anti-Flag's The Press Corpse.
Andrew McCluskey
I forget that I'm writing all the time when I'm making playlists with people - this is from an IDLES list which will be published next week. I particularly liked this track write up - from back at the beginning of January but feels just as resonant now The Press Corpse – Anti-Flag