The #ParaSocial sector of society is comprised of all the famous people who direct the thoughts of non-famous people, and the #workingclass in particular.

#Celebrity #culture is particularly problematic, but included in the definition is any famous people who influence the thoughts of the masses.

Do we need that structure of famous people to direct us?

Presently our para-social sector is a bunch of frauds propped-up by self-aggrandizing #capitalist media who exploitatively direct the thoughts of the working-class. These are people who oversee all the persistent structural violence of the system with a big smile.

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We don't need that particularly corrupt form of para-social paradigm, but we do need some structure for imparting ideas that maintain #unity.

#Indigenous cultures have their elders, while in modern culture the para-social structure of famous celebrities, politicians, artists, philosophers, and scientists, etc., represents our form of elders... who we never meet in real life.

It's a disconnected connection. It's a type of leadership that precludes a physical presence.

Strangers direct our thinking in modern culture, which often seems irrational to indigenous people, because it is. We don't know who those people personally, but because they direct the ideas of the masses, we must follow as well, willingly or not.

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Do we need a para-social sector? Due to the nature of modern culture being highly specialized and needing robust #democratic processes, unfortunately a modern society needs some form of para-social sector. Even in an ideal workers-controlled world there would be need to convey #ideological #information to the masses.

Presently our para-social sector equates to #psychological coercion of the masses, but that is not inevitable.

In the same way we learn to differentiate between reality and imagination , we can and must learn to differentiate between the para-social and the personal.

We have a limit to how many personal relationships we can remember. #Anthropologists say that number is about 150. ...... OK.... If I can only remember 150 relationships, I want them to be real people, not people I will never know.

If you have a #Kanye or someone you don't really know influencing your perceptions of the world, replace them with real people.

#Postcolonialism #postcolonialist #classwar #politics #antropology #psychology #sociology #philosophy

#Free your #mind from #mental #slavery