return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 16 hours agoZuckerberg calls for "repopulation" of "cultural elite class"www.axios.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down15cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
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minus-squareExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up21·edit-26 hours ago The big picture: Zuckerberg said that a “new class of creators” — social media users — should “become the new kind of cultural elites.” In other words: The uneducated mediocre should become the cultural elite. See point 11 of The 14 Characteristics of Fascism.
minus-squareWhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 hours agoAmerica has arguably been most of those for most of its existence, so it’s always been proto-fascist. Now it’s just fascist.
minus-squareExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 hours agoAgreed. That doesn’t make it any less scary though.
In other words: The uneducated mediocre should become the cultural elite.
See point 11 of The 14 Characteristics of Fascism.
America has arguably been most of those for most of its existence, so it’s always been proto-fascist. Now it’s just fascist.
Agreed. That doesn’t make it any less scary though.