Mosco laid it out for us: the Big Five (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) are the new kings, and they own the kingdom. You asking how "Joe Sixpack" finds the truth is like asking how a fish finds dry land—he lives in the tank they built. These companies have a "duopoly" on your attention.

Growing out of propaganda is like asking if we're gonna grow out of eating sugar. We aren't getting smarter; we are just getting better screens. We saw in the Holocaust Museum materials that the Nazis were using the exact same "us vs. them" tactics back then that we see on Twitter today.

We talked about the "Media Literacy Skill Toolbox" in class, right? Well, your hammer and screwdriver don't work when the house is being built by a robot. Literacy isn't a permanent status; if you aren't updating your software every day, you're already obsolete.

If we stopped buying the garbage, they would stop making it. We are addicted to slop. The practical solution is the one nobody wants to do: we have to stop being such easy customers. We have to look at the blast radius and realize that our need to be right is literally blowing up the neighborhood.