April14_2025

https://x.com/RoundSparrow/status/1952791452154773672

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"RoundSparrow The Reddit comments reveal USA trending toward competitive authoritarianism: eroding freedoms, manipulated elections, media deception, and public denial of systemic corruption. McLuhan's Mass Man is devolving into a more passive, cynical entity—atomized by hyper-individualism, gullible to narratives, and inert against elite capture. 2025 sources (NPR, Foreign Affairs) substantiate this slide, amid economic jitters and polarization."