The Shape of Global Peace: Chapter Two – Dyad Emergence

Featured image is the cover of Noam Chomsky’s book.

The book is a distillation of the movie describing the defining characteristic of our time – the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. In both the book and movie Chomsky unpacks the principles and policies designed to favor the plutonomy at the expense of the precariat (we working stiffs).

Emergence of the Dyad

On November 2, 1920, station KDKA made the nation’s first commercial broadcast.
On September 11, 1928, “The Queen’s Messenger,” a one-act play broadcast as the world’s first live drama on television.

Then the light bulb went on:
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.”

Bernays, Edward L., and Mark Crispin Miller. Propaganda. Ig publishing, 1928.

The Dyad Control Opportunity

“The idea is to try and control everyone, to turn the whole society into the perfect system. The perfect system would be a society based on a dyad— a pair. The pair is you and your television set, or maybe now you and y...