Nobody has ever suggested this or anything even close to this to me.
No, this is just bad, inflammatory reporting by The Daily Beast.
It doesn't sound to be Jalopnik's mo either to do this kind of thing, heck they even pretense every car review with out they got access to the carNobody has ever suggested this or anything even close to this to me.
I was going to make a corporate overlords joke... but those jokes are becoming less funny. I mean, we are really just letting this shit happen. The corporations aren't taking over, they took over long ago. We just let it happen. I wish I could say it is just America, as it is easy enough to just dismiss America as broken (no offense), but I fear it is the entire western world.
This is gross.
Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"?
Wolin portrays a country where citizens are politically uninterested and submissive--and where elites are eager to keep them that way. At best the nation has become a "managed democracy" where the public is shepherded, not sovereign. At worst it is a place where corporate power no longer answers to state controls. Wolin makes clear that today's America is in no way morally or politically comparable to totalitarian states like Nazi Germany, yet he warns that unchecked economic power risks verging on total power and has its own unnerving pathologies. Wolin examines the myths and mythmaking that justify today's politics, the quest for an ever-expanding economy, and the perverse attractions of an endless war on terror. He argues passionately that democracy's best hope lies in citizens themselves learning anew to exercise power at the local level.
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it—with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth.
No, this is just bad, inflammatory reporting by The Daily Beast.
Hopefully this puts this to rest: https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1151677961445269505?s=21
Hopefully this puts this to rest: https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1151677961445269505?s=21
Are you familiar with the YouTube model? Maybe you should take a look at it.This is why more and more people are turning to individuals at youtube for their gaming news. For better or for worse, depending on who you ask. Their "perception" of not being influenced by advertisements and sponsors.