The Newsroom's Centrist Conceit

[CitizenLife]

6. I agree with much of this...furthermore

The show resides in the framework on discourse contrived by these "factions" in the first place, one that locates the entirety of US possibility in a space that trends as "left" as the center-right, and as "right" as the far-far right. There is no authentic left, as all the historic words for the left are four-letter reaction-words in American culture. When was the last time you heard Fox News or a Republican or a Tea Party adherent warn against encroaching fascism or corporate statism? Now, when was the last time you heard anyone rail against (and, wrongly, connect the Obama admin with) "socialism?"

Our narrative reminds me of a drunkard always stumbling to the right, and wondering why the world keeps tilting the floor on him all the time...

I'll posit this in another post/thread, but the idea of having a good sense of the calculus and connectiveness of an interdependent reality - AKA "reality itself" - is absent from these factions entirely, who, in getting the discourse to oscillate to and fro from themselves to the ostensible Other, or from notions of perfect individuation to "slave-state bread line dependence," fail entirely to carve out what's knowable, and necessarily so if we are survive, about the interdependent nature of everything. All else is mythology. Sometimes useful mythology, but the question is, useful to whom?