Kleptocracy: A form of government in which corrupt rulers (kleptocrats) use their power to exploit the people and natural resources of their own territory in order to extend their personal wealth and political power. - Wikipedia.
Until now, the present generation of ultra-rich ruthlessly exploit the media disninformation technicians, the Winston Smiths, to bring billions under the sway of mass delusion.
But is there potential for the media to take advantage of their present idea hegemony, to stage a coup, to overthrow their masters? In past centuries, the was the concern with the Military. (You likely never heard that the ultra-rich almost overthrew the American government in the 1930s, the so-called Wall St. Plot; if they had succeeded, a military strong man would have succeeded FDR.) By the time you heard the braying of the left against a non-existent Military coup in Seven Days in May, it was a safe subject. (Imagine Gen. Curtis LeMay overthrowing the Ultra-Rich, America's 60 Families!)
But there are various strange emanations of the information sector overthrowing the Ultra-Rich. We think of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence strong-man, but his native class (warriors, priest-intellectuals, merchants, peasant-famers) is can be interpretetd as a Russian equivalent of the Fifth Estate.
In the West, William Randolph Hearst wielded his power through newspaper advertising.
In the East, information control of the political process only had short-term success under the Soviets with the dictatorship of Yuri Andropov.
But post-Soviet, the information sector achieved lasting power in the person of Vlad the lover of children, who famously overthrew various Oligarchs. (NY Times: There are no more Russian Oligarchs.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd2Z3nXnLD0
Is there any potential for the media to overthrow the Soros-Buffett-Gates axis in the American Banana Republic?
