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229 - Paul Kingsnorth - Civilization and Control

The Symbolic World

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What's Going on in the World?

We're left with an increasingly powerful state, which has a kind of corporate arm and a media arm. And so that's how you get this weird thing in which you can define your own reality, but at the same time you're more controlled than you've ever been. The other thing to think about is just the huge wave of imagery that we're battered with all the time. You know, i longed for the old days when you turned the b b c on and the man would tell you what was going onad that was the news.

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