I agree with this, Neil Postmans "Amusing ourselves to death" is still a good read in 2025.
The only antidotes I can imagine are honesty and real community: make whatever you want from this, it should be obvious by now that global cut-throat capitalism does not lead to democracy, or to efficient resource usage (externalization...), or to equality.
Honestly my concern is WW3 fueled on propaganda. The ONLY reason I think this might not happen is because people are too amused to even bother fighting a war now. I'm not joking.
The only antidotes I can imagine are honesty and real community: make whatever you want from this, it should be obvious by now that global cut-throat capitalism does not lead to democracy, or to efficient resource usage (externalization...), or to equality.