Questo articolo m'ha fatto venire in mente l'inizio di un libro che ho letto da poco:
Hegemony or Survival di Chomsky, che commenta:
Those who want to face their responsibilities with a genuine commitment to democracy and freedom - even to decent survival - should recognize the barriers that stand in the way. In violent states these are not concealed. In more democratic societies barriers are more subtle. While methods differ sharply from more brutal to more free societies, the goals are in many ways similar: to ensure that the 'great beast', as Alexander Hamilton called the people, does not stray from its proper confines. Controlling the general population has always been a dominant concern of power and privilege, particularly since the first modern democratic revolution in seventeenth-century England. [...]
"By [president] Wilson's day it was widely recognized by elite sectors in the US and Britain that within their societies, coercion was a tool of diminishing utility, and that it would be necessary to devise new means to tame the beast, primarily through control of opinion and attitude. Huge industries have since developed devoted to these ends.
Come detto nell'articolo, a TV e' una di queste
industries, forse la più potente perché più diffusa. Internet avrebbe potuto fermarla, avrebbe potuto creare una vera e propria rivoluzione culturale... e c'ha anche provato, (pesiamo al Wolrd Social Forum o a Seattle), subito stroncato dalla demonizzazione dei media (ancora una volta efficientissimo mezzo di controllo delle masse) e da etichette tipo "no global" o "black block".
Insomma, il potenziale c'è, sta a noi sfruttarlo a dovere....ne avremo mai il coraggio?