Awakening from a Dream

We, The Midwest Alliance, have ostentatiously proclaimed that the collective representation of social and political reality, which predominately defines the most basic elements of the world-views of the majority of American subjects, is a false ideology; an illusory perception propagated by the “Manufactured Consent” engendered by a media that parades itself as news, but in actuality lacks any journalistic component. The mass media is simply a means through which the managers of public relations disseminate their press releases. There is no criticality involved in the reporting.

The pseudo-journalists, whose physically attractive appearances hold our attentions captive, are not investigating a story. Rather, they are involved in a system of reciprocity with their sources, who offer them contents for their reports. This amounts to a situation where the correspondent is obliged to frame a message that projects the image that the source is involved in crafting, in order to maintain the relationship. It is embedded reporting in two senses of the word: It is dependent upon the subjects of its coverage for access to their carefully planned dramaturgical performances, and, furthermore, it is prisoner to the corporate interests that have consolidated mass media sources in America. These corporations depend upon politicians and people of power for the de-regulation of the media industry, which creates a conflict of interests that undoubtedly tarnishes any attempt at the production of authentic journalism by these profit driven entities.

Therefore, if we are two extrapolate from these two preceding propositions, we can conclude that the media has little or no independence from the elites who dominate American society. Additionally, it is our position that this representation - the conventional political wisdom of American subjects shaped by the flow of discourse emanating from these media sources - is not an effective conceptualization of America and its system of polity, at all. America is not a democracy, or even a Liberal democracy; it is Empire, which maintains a vestige of a dilute republicanism. This is not hyperbole. The rest of the world acknowledges that America is a facade of the edifice that it attempts to project as the care-keeper of the values associated with the Enlightenment. We, as Americans, are alone in our oftentimes intransigent belief that we are the messengers of freedom in the world. America implants within the Trojan Horse of “making the world safe for democracy,” a form of cultural and economic imperialism. America is Empire.

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