Spectacle Consumers (Formerly Known as Voters)

Mogg, Johnson, Braverman are consciously and deliberately playing a cartoon, pantomime villain. This is how they normalise authoritarian mental routines, and injects them into the minds of unsuspecting English spectacle consumers (formerly known as ‘voters’), as with Trump, Medvedyev, and others. Is conjuring trick…

Source: Twitter Note (UNIQUE to Twitter)

The devastating parenthetical: “(formerly known as ‘voters’).” That is what spectacle accomplishes. It transforms citizens with political agency into consumers of entertainment. Voters become spectators. The Political Realm becomes the Entertainment Realm. And in the Entertainment Realm, you have no power — only popcorn.

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