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Jettisoning the requirement to report news in favor of inciting the rage and fear and hatred of your audience before serving them up ads for guns and bunkers is a perfectly functional business model. It might not be journalism, might be the opposite of journalism, but the check clears.

“… the machinery of state violence benefits just as greatly from the dehumanizing power of what is assumed as much as it does from what is said.”

“A fiction of moral convenience”

“It’s a frequent, nauseating political inheritance: come to experience the world under the reign of someone who thinks of you as subhuman, as undeserving of a future, and an ugly impression is settled that true power is the ability to do the same to someone else.”

Barbarism - absence of culture and civilization