The powerlessness of most people allows the unreality of news to continue. The news is just the first trap in a whole series of walls that stand in the way of our understanding today's world. News commentators can speak as if homelessness, skyrocketing murder rates or AIDS are things that appear with no plan and no explanation. Their quick changes to other topics keep us from questioning this. News thus stops us from thinking about the continuing situation of life today.
Universal corruption is just one by-product of making all human activity sellable.
But like Jon Carroll, the system today often willing to admit its bankruptcy once it has convinced we have no alternative. In the movie Dark Star, the crew of a space ship move from star to star. Their mission is to destroy any planets capable of supporting life, since that life might someday threaten earth. The same principle was used by our rulers during the eighties. Rule by chaos is our phrase for the way this system harnesses its decay and confusion for its own protection.