In 1979, Jean-Francois Lyotard asked “What is the postmodern condition?”
He said it was typified by
…an incredulity towards Grand Narratives.
These Grand Narratives are the tales we are told about reality. They are myths, shaped intentionally, to guide us toward some answers and away from inconvenient questions.
The greatest myth of the 20th century is Liberal Democracy itself.
This system, created a hundred years ago, is the rule of elites by the manufacture of consent through propaganda.
Everything it has told you since has been shaped to one end: the Grand Narratives of the 20th Century are the myths which make belief.
This making of belief is the industry of power in the “Liberal Democratic” system. Its cultural and political production line provide mass produced processed concepts to explain reality to the consumer, according to the terms and conditions of the management.
As we will see today, attempts to …
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