mind reader

Not a day goes by that it doesn’t feel increasingly painful to observe the tyranny of despots. However, I want to take a few moments, with my flu addled brain, to consider how tyranny can descend from the powerless when they take arms with the capitalist class. Naturally, you guessed it, we’re talking in abstract terms today but I will seek to illustrate my meaning where I can with concrete examples. After all, what is a modern Marxian dispatch project without strong (if imaginary) exemplars. Australian media is comprised of predominantly corporate owned Murdoch press. While the ABC has recently risen back to the top spot for digital consumption [1] the resounding “voice of the nation” is controlled by, effectively, two corporate hegemons and the government. This leads to a narrowing of voices: journalists, reporters, investigators and so on are, by and large, required to fit editorial standards set to require complicit...