[A]s long as the actions of two parties advance each others' interests, they can be considered allies, even if their philosophies of the world are so… - Curtis Yarvin

Our lovely "mainstream media" is not, of course, a hierarchical organization reporting to the hidden Elders of Journalism. However, modern journalism is descended from such a hierarchical organization. That organization was the Office of War Information, OWI.

Democratic politics is best understood as a sort of symbolic violence, like deciding who wins the battle by how many troops they brought.

And while not all the crimes in this tragedy (crimes of the 20th century) were committed by democrats, democracy is indeed its prime and ultimate cause. It is not a coincidence that the century of murder and the century of democracy were one and the same.