For Journalists Who've Worked in China, New White House Tactics Seem Familiar

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25 pointslegodt3 comments

Feudalism is the new black.

I don't get the analogy - as I understand it, Feudalism is about subletting military/political power because the central government is too weak to control things directly, which doesn't seem to have much in common with the allegations of media abuse in the article

If we're getting into the things textbooks tell us, our government serves by the will of the people. Top-down media control doesn't really jive with this.

If we go by the Bloch definition of the nobility, the clergy, and the peasantry bound by manorialism, swap each out with a modern-day group (military-industrial complex [of which SV is an offshoot], clergy, media/entertainment, and the general public), and you can still make out the same old constellation.

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