Scott M McLoughlin
Jul 10, 2017 · 1 min read

Cheap broadcast of fictions via novels, radio, film and TV alongside silly consumer ads are brand new. At least in the US, those forces are weaker than ever before for coastal educated elites. We can call it propaganda for shorthand.

FWIW, at least Buddhism, Christendom and Islam were both very factually hurricane like movements gathering other philosophical schools and building monastic communities around libraries across vast distances. Any myths for peasants are unrelated to long maturing intellectual traditions from Augustine to Newton recycling Aristotle and Marcus Aurelius.

The Anglo-American delusions of “future status” rationalized inferiority and misery for a few centuries. That now seems over.

No popular revolutions will deliver anything good to ruined adults. Recent US research pegs our children predictably ruined by age 7 and gives a net plus to universal Head Start. There is no democracy of TV schooled Lumpenproletariat. Even Marx said so.