Tried to read the daily beast article but can’t without signing up.
A lot of it is what I’d assume to be common sense, eg media (including entertainment media) has an agenda and messaging and is used for steering beliefs and perspectives. Homeland anyone? Enjoyable show but very obviously supportive of the dangerous Arabs, heroes America (if a little shady here and there) narrative.
I’ve always taken part of my job as a parent and a teacher to be encouraging critical thinking and teaching how to unpick visual media eg what’s this trying to sell and to who ds and what fears/inferiorities/aspirations is it exploiting to make the target audience think they need it? Etc.
That obvious stuff is presented as radical expose you must be very special if you can see it stuff.
The idea that the overstimulated ever seeking a new thrill super rich and powerful could well be more inclined towards, or easily tempted by socially abhorrent acts such as child abuse also seems pretty obvious to me. Just as the fact that by the time you’re a multimillionaire in a world of poverty it’s clearly no longer about the money in terms of security or what you can buy but has become about power and control and immunity.
None of these things are that surprising really to me at least or even secret.
The presentation of these facts as a deep dark scandalous secret that few are ‘awake’ or brave enough to face actually seems to work in favour of them continuing unchecked imo. Anyone trying to get justice for their maltreatment can be labelled a nut job.
In reality it’s pretty obvious and always has been that dirty power crazed individuals abuse their positions over women and children. We all know that surely?
Sensationalising and talking about clubs and satanical ritual elements detracts from the, very sadly mundane and commonplace, abuse of women and children by powerful men.