User:RD/9k/democratization (Q32,79)
Main entry
- fragmentation as democracy / democracy (fragmentation) / many tiny fragmented things equals Democracy / decentralization (chopping things up into tiny pieces to supposedly create Freedom) / democratization (spreading out a particular activity to more people without regard for how well it will be done, whether it will lead to uncontrolled hotspots of the activity being used for violent or hateful purposes, or whether it will divide people) / choppification (meta-Marxism; generic)
"Democracy" of the press
- Two newspapers is tyranny / North Korea having a few newspapers is tyranny / North Korean mass media is amongst the most strictly controlled in the world [1] / Because a greater number of separate non-cooperating media outlets necessarily equals more freedom, North Korean mass media is amongst the most strictly controlled in the world -> claim found on Wikipedia page. this is a very misleading framing. it's accurate to say that Korean state media is 'a monopoly' or there is a limited number of media producers. but this is literally due to the wealth of the country. it's an underdeveloped country that only develops slower with every sanction, thus by Liberal-republican poststructuralist pluralized-wealth-equals-freedom standards becoming ""less free"".
you start to see how disingenuous this is when you realize how common Western-Marxist rhetoric has become and how much every single political movement becomes about "moral panics in mass media" and "representing things correctly in the media". in North Korea you don't have that problem. the one good thing about the state monopoly over what mass media will be is that mass media never becomes this wild uncontrolled thing that can just go spontaneously spreading racism at the drop of a hat when nobody expects it. the Existentialist-Althusserian-Trotskyite axis basically created that problem and then proceeded to push all other issues under the rug while badly trying to solve the problem it created. - Two North Korean newspapers is tyranny -> this proposition really reveals a whole lot about how people in the United States think — more than you know. the United States concept of journalism really adheres to the principle that freedom can't be manufactured by government, and is just something that exists inside civil society that can only be limited or more accurately destroyed. meanwhile, one of the only ways that civil society can actively manufacture more freedom is to actively proliferate tiny businesses. the nature of civil society is that individuals will do very nearly whatever they want up to the point of being oppressive and you can hardly make them stop except by quarantining them in their own special pocket of reality and making another one where they're not allowed; civil society manufactures freedom by fragmenting and dividing and idly hoping that there is some way for other parts of it to form back together instead of it remaining permanently grated like parmesan cheese. as long as any of the islands actually remain instead of shattering, they end up in these sideways Hegelian conflicts where they're trying but often failing to become the only one and get rid of the others. "freedom" is unbelievably messy. but people will point to this utter anhierarchy as a form of "democracy". I think this is one of a number of points of evidence that capitalism itself is an anarchism before the moment it forms Liberal-republicanism.
Related
- Government cannot create liberty / Formal government cannot manufacture freedom; it cannot create the ability to act and choose freely (anarchism, meta-Marxism) / (9k)
- People wanting third party candidates is blue-anarchist rhetoric, because it is the same pattern as capitalists proliferating newspapers to supposedly have more freedom of choice in who administers a single newspaper
Ideology codes
- ES / bourgeois ideologies
- ES / capitalism as anarchism
- LR / Liberal-republicanism
- JC / Juche-socialism
- ES onto JC
- LR onto JC