Media culture completely misses the point — regarding Mark Zuckerberg

© 2018 Peter Free

 

04 April 2018

 

 

I thought the following report was interesting . . .

 

. . . probably because I'm primed to think that the Lamestream is filled with Party Line idiots.

 

Rob Price, reporting on other reporters, said that:

 

 

Mark Zuckerberg [— see who he is here —] says he is still the best person to run Facebook in the wake of its series of scandals.

 

There [had] been calls from a major Facebook shareholder for Zuckerberg to stand down as chairman of the board.

 

In a question-and-answer session with journalists on Wednesday afternoon, the 33-year-old CEO was asked whether he was still the most appropriate person to lead the social network.

 

Earlier on Wednesday, Facebook said that it now estimates data from 87 million user profiles were improperly used by the political research firm Cambridge Analytica [see explanation here].

 

"Yes," he responded. "I mean — I think life is about learning from mistakes, and working out what you need to do to move forward."

 

"If we got this right we would've messed something else up."

 

© 2018 Rob Price, Mark Zuckerberg says he's still the best person to run Facebook after scandals: 'I think life is about learning from mistakes', Business Insider (04 April 2018) (excerpts, resequenced for flow)

 

 

Notice a couple of things

 

First — it evidently has not occurred to very many among our uninsightful population that the Cambridge Analytica "scandal" is a routine consequence of capitalism.

 

What did we think Facebook was going to do with profitable information?

 

Hide it away?

 

Second — in view of the fact that the structure of our economic System is at fault, why should we target Mr. Zuckerberg?

 

Zuckerberg just did, and will continue to do, what American suck-loot-out-of-every-orifice economic practice dictates.

 

You think that shareholders are going to sit still for unexploited niches of potential profit?

 

 

The moral? — When we miss Evil's main focus — as we virtually always do — we miss the route to salvation

 

This is one aspect of western economy that Marxist societal analysis perceived correctly.

 

A fact which, in turn, is certainly why our Robber Baron, capital-holding elite has historically been so focused on the rest of us holding Marxists (and other communitarians) in hostile contempt.

 

These Fat Cats know that what we do not recognize as a pervasively prevailing Way of Doing Things — one that primarily benefits greedy hyenas at everyone else's expense — we will not guard ourselves against. Easy blood is hyena lip-smacking good.

 

Why would Privileged Elites allow insight to develop, when it is so ridiculously easy to fool virtually all the people, all the time?

 

Mr. Zuckerberg is not the problem. Any more than President Trump is.

 

Both are splendidly accurate reflections of the ethically and economically rotten Edifice that we have created together — in these deluded states of propagandized mind.