The Podcast And A Revolution Of Truth

Podcasts will save humanity

For a long, long time, humanity has been informationally stunted.

For decades, most of our information came through the television, newspapers and the radio. News organisations presented everything we knew about the outside world to us and we accepted what they told us. Hugely complicated issues were condensed into 5 minute segments squished between commercial breaks.

The brutal truth about the mainstream media is that a small number of corporations controlled all of the information we were able to see. They were the bottleneck through which all of the information about the world came to us.

These corporations chose which news stories were highlighted and which were kept in the dark. They chose what we focused on and what we didn’t focus on. They chose which political candidates were able to have their voices heard. They chose how stories were framed. They chose how the public thought about particular people. For decades, they had an overwhelming influence over the minds of the public in most developed countries.

In the old informational environment, the average person was clueless and helpless. When talking about the world outside their personal sphere, they might have started their sentence with “I heard something about that on the…