Today I'm going to discourse a little on the role of talk radio in holding together the Republican party. Were it not for the likes of Limbaugh and the some 1000 stations that carry his and others messages, there wouldn't be much of a Republican base outside the beltway. Radio power, especially that of the local talk show, goes a long way towards maintaining fictions that Republicans need to maintain their sense of identity.
Many people who would naturally veer more toward independent or even to progressive positions are held captive in a sense by the false illusions these radio moguls create. Pat Buchanan said once, on a Rachel Maddow show, that republicans really don't have leaders, it's really every man for himself, or words to that effect. That was the one statement of his I really heard, because it hit too close to home in my own family. More below the fold.
To understand the nature of the beast, on one level, you have to catch one and kill it -- then dissect the anatomy and explore the physiology. Republican platform positions are available about everywhere you care to look, but what isn't talked about is the static, that part of the message no one really hears but everyone acts on. At the extreme end you have people who want no government, or very small government. Toward the center you have more like what's out there now, larger than perhaps most would like but smaller than what is needed to provide a balance with big corporation interests. Too much further past that point and you'll hear static waves of "socialism" and "government interference" on the chatter. Yet, that is where the country must go in order to restore our infrastructure, provide and care for people, and promote sanity in the common defense.
Dismantling Republican talk radio will be a herculean task, yet, it must happen in order for people to begin to think again. These denizens of the airwaves have provided packaged positions for far too long to America's heartland in particular. Over the global landscape, they represent such a narrow view of reality that it strains credibility. We cannot move forward as a nation with this kind of chain wrapped around the country's axle. The amount of energy tied up in the Republican talk show machinery needs to be released. The stations which feature it and no alternatives need to be bought out and reprogrammed. Most of all, the spokespeople need to move on, and release the mind of the masses from this false sense of who they are. The lies and distortions, the spin, all of it has no place in the America of the future.
To that end I want to provide some links here to a new sort of radio physics, if you will. Media tends to take on a life of its own, and we as active participants tend to become like cells in this body. The material in the links below is based on the work of Marshall Mac Luhan, who predicted this very situation developing in the radio media years ago. Some of these links will be discussing topics which have only partially made it to the mainstream media culture: in particular, man as a "five-bodied" entity. This idea will seem foreign at first to you.
Those bodies I am speaking of are the chemical (or physical body), the "astral" (think consciousness and conscious awareness) body, the TV body (think talking heads, TV commercials showing people and objects relating to each other) the avatar you are, and finally and perhaps most importantly, the chip body...this being the universal awareness, almost off-planet, invisible, solar aspects of our selves...the body that hears Sirius radio, for example. From these four a new body is emerging, because the time/space framework for the other four has merged, literally collapsing on itself in the wake of rf and ems bombardment. Media is a living thing now.
We are in a post-information framework. The fifth body, the "mystery" body as some call it, has thrown us all into a new caveman type reality, where everything we knew does not match what is happening. I'm putting this out there for you, because it's time once again to EVOL(ve). We are literally defining new social orders. The blogosphere is one such order.
If we unplug from radio now, some of us can still hear each other. The importance of this cannot go unnoticed by those of you who have experienced the type of resonance to which I am alluding. You literally don't need your cells, you are developing the ability to connect independently through this fifth body. This is who you are. It is your greatest gift, a connectedness unknown by any generation previously.
To exploring that end, here are the links. Anyone who is interested will find that they have not wasted their time by at least listening to and learning about some of MacLuhan's ideas. If you learn more about who you are, and what you might be capable of achieving, you will have at your disposal the means to dismantle Republican talk radio. I am saying "you must disconnect from this" in order to reconnect. Old paradigms have no place in this new day and age. More data can be found at The Fifth Body.
New Inventory:
- Bob Dobbs - The Wizard of Media Ecology
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- WHO'S FORGOTTEN FURRY LINT?
http://www.youtube.com/...
- James Martinez & Bob Neveritt: Cash Flow
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