On July 4th: M$M's other transgression -- Dominating Our Cultural Identity

M$M's other transgression -- Dominating Cultural Identity

The American Revolution occurred from a colonial society far enough away from England to attain its own unique societal identity, and out of that new culture a new government was envisioned and born.

Can this be done again? Here I try to find the answer.

Today we are at the mercy of corporate mainstream media for the information we need to make correct choices and decisions. And the M$M is failing us.

But it goes beyond the Corporate Media's failure to honestly and objectively supply us information.

Our very culture also is now dominated by the M$M's choices and censorship and profit-motive. And, since corporations dominate the media, it is a reach that should be called corporatist.

In the past only government had such an ability to dominate our lives. Sometimes, when the people had had enough bad government, they rose up in force -- group force -- to change it. Culture was the vessel that held the understanding and communication of the people's needs and desires and values. Culture was the source from which to create a group force to alter government (through reform or revolution). Where is that cultural/societal group force now? Has it been replaced by those glowing blue tv screens one can see through windows of every home? Was our ability to muster our group force stolen away when corporate-defined Culture became our only perceived definition of our societal expression? Did it flee with the first mass consumption of the Superbowl, or the O.J. Trial, or the last episode of Seinfeld?

Something now makes us quiet when we should be noisy. Most of us watch UNMOVED as our government continues to be engulfed with corruption, continues to destroy and torture in our name, continues to choose to give us wars instead of real healthcare.

Americans believe what their media shows them IS their culture. Is that so? Are we what we see on the tv machine? Is that all we are, or are we more? Do we have an American Culture separate from the Media's projections and propaganda? Or have several generations of seeing what is permitted on The Box made us what we see on The Box?

If government improves ONLY as a result of the force of the people's culture/society/civilization demanding improvement, are we in trouble now? Where can change come from now? If our entire culture is dictated by that which we desire to change -- from where does change arise now?

If we are to attain change now, it is going to be AT LEAST in three steps: 1.) Reject the hoax perpetrated by the Corporatists' smoke and mirrors of media lies and censorship, 2.) Rediscover or remake a REALWORLD Culture that can birth our group force, 3.) Take that group force and with it create the government that serves our needs and wants and preserves and actualizes our greatest collective aspirations.

Happy Fourth of July. Make your own fireworks; blow-up your TV. (Just a figure of speech, of course.)