There’s a lot to be spiritually and morally outraged about nowadays in MAGA America. A loopy struggle rages in Iran that has already price over 1,000 lives, lots of them youngsters and not less than six American troopers.
The president of the US follows after the Israeli prime minister—already responsible of struggle crimes in Gaza—to abruptly finish peace talks and as an alternative bomb youngsters and colleges, in a struggle of selection costing near $1 billion {dollars} per day. No rationale given, no finish in sight, and harm spreading throughout the Mideast.
Loads of disturbing information at house and overseas, however right here I wish to concentrate on those that convey us the information.
Within the final 12 months, MAGA has stripped NPR and PBS of all their federal funding. One billionaire household now owns CBS, has wrecked its as soon as heralded information division, and is quick turning into one other Fox Information propaganda machine. Sure, Fox who had been fined $787,500 two years in the past for mendacity in regards to the 2020 election to the American individuals.
This similar billionaire household is lining as much as personal CNN—a 3rd model of Fox! Like Goebbels in Germany, propaganda marches on. The protection division is headed by a weekend discuss present host from Fox.
Sycophants overseeing information is enjoyable to the present powers that be. Count on propaganda from Fox, CBS, CNN with as little as potential reporting from NPR or PBS to counterbalance it.
The Washington Publish is for all sensible functions on board to assist the identical ideology, due to the sellout by Jeff Bezos, one of many world’s richest males. When he purchased the newspaper stationed within the nation’s capital 13 years in the past, he promised to not intervene with the reporting. Now he has buddied up with Trump and MAGA to fulfill his financial lust and curry favors his backside line yearns for. Selecting to not endorse a presidential candidate in 2024, he fired lots of its finest reporters in order to not upset Trump.
It’s estimated that the precise wing owns effectively over 82% of American media in the present day. It’s not sufficient that they dictate financial coverage and purchase elections, however now they personal a lot of the media. Does that bode effectively for a world ever extra harmful and divided? I believe not.
In six weeks, Stephen Colbert and the Late Evening Present might be off the air due to a promoting of CBS’s soul to MAGA oligarchs. I personally will miss Colbert and his clever wit geared toward energy brokers at the start of every present. Humor and satire are probably the most efficient means for preserving autocrats in test only a bit. I resent the federal government telling me what I can and can’t snicker at.
Putin and Hungary’s president dismantled any humorous reveals that poked enjoyable at their management. Fascists haven’t any humorousness, they can’t afford to. You can’t management laughter, and management is the essence of fascism. Now America is racing nearer and nearer to a humorless late evening.
Unchecked capitalism seeks one factor: Extra for individuals who have essentially the most. Capitalists, like fascists, are very single-minded. And ailing relaxed with being laughed at.
ABC caved at first to comparable pressures as CBS after they fired Jimmy Kimmel, however protesters introduced him again. A small victory in a bleak media panorama.
Possibly different media will rise to fight the right-wing monopoly, however it might take time. In the meantime America will get dumber and dumber and increasingly more humorless and democracy dangers will get quieter and quieter….
To learn the transcript of Matthew Fox’s video meditation, click on HERE.
Banner Picture: Though they’re now not department workplaces of a nationwide group, NPR and PBS stations nonetheless function domestically as impartial, community-based organizations, typically affiliated with universities comparable to Texas A&M. Wikimedia Commons.
Queries for Contemplation
How are you feeling in regards to the takeover of American media by the oligarchs and MAGA minions? How do you are feeling about Stephen Colbert being kicked off the air by CBS?
Associated Readings by Matthew Fox
Trump and the MAGA Motion as Antichrist.
Faith USA: Faith and Tradition by Means of Time Journal.
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul & Society.
The Pope’s Struggle: How Ratzinger’s Secret Campaign Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved.
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice.
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Presents for the Peoples of the Church.
Charles Burack, ed.,Matthew Fox: Important Writings in Creation Spirituality.
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Therapeutic of Mom Earth and the Start of a World Renaissance.
Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox,Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient for a New Era.
