There is much food for thought in this essay about how corporate media keep ordinary people fighting each other instead of their real rich and powerful oppressors--and this is from someone who has spent so many years in journalism and has admittedly participated in the ruse.
The trick is to constantly narrow your mental horizons and keep you geeked up [def.] on impotent anger. It’s a twist on Manufacturing Consent’s description of an artificially narrowed debate.