[Vision Thing]

Your comparison of the old media to Hegelian Marxists can be further expanded by bringing in another economist/political philospoher.

Friedrich Hayek disparaged socialists for their belief in the superiority of central planning. He believed that the free economy and prices act as a massive information system that best served the needs of a diverse set of market participants. Hayek would smile at how well his economic theories play well in the rise of the blogs and internet discussion boards.

[AmericanVictory]

Well, exactly, particularly his analysis of how the last thing that they think they are doing, as they drive toward elitist totalitarianism, is creating such evil control and deprivation of freedom, and would be shocked, shocked, as so many of his colleagues and friends were as he began to move away from socialism and point out what was happening.