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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
No. I don't think our population is able to cohere to a sufficient extent to win a major war. This would be due mainly to the manner in which we are influenced by the divisive and corrosive power of contemporary media.
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the media can unite as quickly as it divides... it does not have a morality or purpose of its own, which is separate from the economic system and the state and ruling class which this system creates.
ie - the media can "divide and conquer" the working class and cause people to bicker constantly about which corporate president/prime minister one has - rather than working to rebuild the whole system
or the media can play patriotic Russian music through the streets of Stalingrad, and rouse the Russian people into the great patriotic war in defence of a deeply unpopular dictatorship.
The media is just an instrument, it reflects the interests of capital in a capitalist society, the interests of the state in a dictatorship, it has no power of independent action in my opinion. Of course the media undermines public opinion on the war in Iraq... this war is against the principle of the market, if the conquerer's of Mexico did not mean it, the capitalist does... we take nothing by conquest, thank God!