Dead Media Beat: The Chaos Scenario, Among the Ruins of Mass Media

*One has to wonder how a magazine that sells news about advertising stays alive to publish this article, when news is dying from lack of advertising revenue.

*I’m believing this “chaos scenario,” but I’m also wondering if “chaos” is the front porch of a “long emergency” and “new dark age.” Of course — if you were entering a “long emergency,” and there was nobody left to tell you about that reality except for James Howard Kunstler and his noncommercial folksinger guitar, would that *be* an emergency at all? Maybe you’d just be functionally illiterate and dwelling in your favela, like the usual condition of most human beings outside hyperactive market capitalism.

Fascinating to contemplate this new media reality. I could go on about it all day. Tremendous topic. I wonder if anybody will ever again pay me to write about such things.

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