Richard Fernandez, who regularly posts commentary at his Belmont Club column for PJ Media, makes an interesting observation combined with a truly inspired analogy.
While there has always been a considerable amount of hack journalism in the West, not until the advent of digital social media has it been possible to manipulate publics of billions in near real-time. Now you can tell any damn fool story you want. No one, as in former times, fesses up their sins, acknowledges guilt, and resolves to mend their ways anymore. They simply redefine error out of existence.It is social media’s power to create a virtual universe that makes it, after actual officeholding, the most coveted political object in the West and largely explains the bitter struggle between Twitter’s board and Elon Musk’s attempt to take over the company. It is Sauron’s Ring, the one mechanism to rule the narratives and “in the darkness bind them”.
Do I hear Jack Dorsey mumbling something about "my precious?"
