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Governing Through Kink: The Fetish Politics of American Power

“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”
— Karl Marx

The United States is governed not merely by laws or markets, but by the libidinal economy of its elite. The fantasies, kinks, and psychosexual obsessions of a narrow ruling class seep into everything from legislation to advertising, from architecture to warfare. This is not metaphor. It is the literal operating code of a late-capitalist order whose leaders rule not only through economics or violence, but through desire.

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The Filtered World: Observations

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Steve Biko

To be raised in the United States is, in many ways, to grow up inside a carefully curated reality. The nation that prides itself on “freedom of speech” and “freedom of the press” maintains one of the most tightly managed flows of information among modern democracies. This is not through overt censorship, but through structural control, ideological gatekeeping, and algorithmic isolation. Americans do not live under a dictatorship of thought, but they do live inside a media ecosystem that selectively filters the world. Global events are not hidden. Instead, they are reshaped to align with American interests via decontextualizing & minimizing.

This is not merely a media issue. It is a cultural condition, a learned blindness, fostered by corporate consolidation, state influence, entertainment soft power, and educational neglect.

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