azspot: “Gil Scott-Heron told us in 1970 that the revolution would not be televised. He understood...

azspot : “Gil Scott-Heron told us in 1970 that the revolution would not be televised. He understood that the medium of television was not a neutral conduit for truth but a mechanism of control, a kind of narcotic that turned citizens into spectators and political life into entertainment. But Scott-Heron could not have foreseen the more perfect trap that awaited us: a system in which the spectators…