Our Degenerate Elites Are Losing Control And Lashing Out In Desperation
If you want to know how well our elites are managing to control the discourse, consider this: a pair of Let s Go Brandon anthems shot to the top of iTunes chart rankings this week.
Rapper Bryson Gray s song hit number one despite getting banned from YouTube on the ridiculous pretext that it contains medical misinformation, while rapper Loza Alexander s Let s Go Brandon hit number two. Both of them beat out Adele s Easy On Me, which was knocked down to number three. (Another version of Alexander s song nabbed the number four spot.)
So three of the four top iTunes songs this week are Let s Go Brandon anthems. Truth be told, the songs are not all that good. Their popularity has more to do with what they represent, which is a firm rejection of the idea that we can simply be told what to do and how to think by a cultural and political elite who hate us, and that we have no control over the public discourse or the narratives that define our times.
Big Tech s efforts in this regard are especially notable for being utterly ham-fisted from YouTube s penchant for banning everything from Gray s rap to anything else its censors deem to be medical misinformation, to Twitter s transparently hypocritical enforcement of its rules against abuse and harassment, to Facebook s absurd censorship of a meme blaming President Joe Biden for high gas prices.
Billionaires, it turns out, have a penchant for desperately trying to control information. LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman and left-wing financier George Soros, a couple of billionaires with a history of peddling lies and manipulating the media, this week announced the creation of a creepily named venture, Good Information Inc., which according to Axios will fund and scale businesses that cut through echo chambers with fact-based information. Heading up the operation will be former Democratic strategist Tara McGowan.
Sad but true-seeming.