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But no, when left to give their take on the new movements in German politics, the people at the Grey Lady did what they do best: they adopted the point of view of the powerful as their primary tool for framing reality.

This is nothing new. The question is to what extent are the Times’ readers aware of how insidiously effective this technique is as a means of a) marshaling mass support of the elite points of view and b) engendering the effective “unseeing” of many other valid frames of reality?

16 May 2011

Sooner or Later Our Children Will Ask: “How Did This Happen?”

That it hasn’t happened yet continues to amaze me. But sooner or later it will.

Sooner or later our children, saddled with our debts, our endless wars and the ever more onerous demands of a predatory “national security state,” will turn to us in large numbers and ask how it happened. They will want to know how the many millions of us who were lucky enough to grow up in the American middle class of the 1960s and 1970s, let it come to this. They will want to know why we who enjoyed personal freedoms and opportunities to “find our bliss,” opportunities that they can only dream of, decided to leave them with a world structured, most of all, by fear and dread.