it is incredibly important to have a state media apparatus that is robust and covers all facets of life, so that INCREDIBLY STUPID PEOPLE DONT HAVE PLATFORMS. like holy fucking shit, on live national tv theyre saying you should confront people who wear masks like theyre the devil! i am 100% down for communist brainwashing at this point. nothing else will work, you just have to tell the stupid people whats what and offer no other opinions. if you dont have a media apparatus, your society will become absolutely unhinged. i want there to be 200 communist tv broadcasts constantly blaring propaganda to drown out any dumbass remarks being made
I would point out that there is a cultural/historical element to this beyond just dumb people being selfish, you can look at East Asian countries even neoliberal hell like Japan/SK, a completely different culture where people will gladly wear masks even for a mild cold and I don't think they needed complete control of state media to achieve that. Here is a random article about this.
Obviously there are historical factors but the point is that just because the US is having to start from square -12513516 doesn't mean these are ideal solutions. I agree that at this point for a society that is built around sacred ideas of freedom and selfishness the solutions definitely need to be drastic.
But the fundamental premise that you need to protect dumb people from their opinion is more of a temporary thing rather than an absolute concept. You can change culture, and culture will change behaviour regardless of intelligence. The US problem is a culture tailored for capitalist interests. Change that and we will never have to worry about dumb people and their platforms.
People in East Asia are used to wearing masks because of frequent respiratory disease outbreaks for decades. In many places they wear them to protect themselves from air pollution actually.
Yes air pollution is definitely a factor(e.g China) but in some cases it predates that, in Japan the habit is even older..
read Marx, idealist libs
You cannot change the superstructure, it doesn't actually exist outside of the material base.