In Hyperreality, Podcasting Is The New Punk Rock

Following the Nashville shooting on March 27, which left several employees and students at a Christian day school dead, powerful institutions quickly shifted the nation’s focus away from a spiritually and mentally broken individual and opted to issue statements of solidarity with the “trans community.” Major institutions throughout the highest levels of government, media, and business used their institutional influence to warp the public’s perception of reality, as described by late French philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s concept of “hyperreality.”

When reality goes against the preferred narrative of the ruling class, it’s either suppressed, ignored, or warped. The corporate media’s maliciously-drawn out Russia collusion hoax, feigned ignorance of the origins of Covid-19, and excusal of the 2020 BLM riots as “social justice” are all simulacra of an ideologically-controlled reality superimposed on real-life events, obscuring their true nature.

Baudrillard posits that hyperreality occurs when information technologies and media sources become so numerous and pervasive that we will live in a simulacrum of reality shaped by these media apparatuses’ internal logic. Humanity becomes unable to distinguish between actuality and the reality simulated by the Fourth Estate.

Despite having a larger audience than the corporate media, podcasting continues to be painted as the counter-culture. Podcasting allows individuals to participate in discourse regardless of net worth, credentials, or social connections. It’s a crucial medium for fighting back against the corporate media’s narratives.

The ability of independent voices to combat corporate media hegemony in narrative establishment is essential to preserving a truth-based societal consensus. People are becoming increasingly disconnected from reality, and the corporate media relies on this disconnect to further ideologically detain the masses while stifling dissent. In a world where representations of reality become more significant than reality itself, independent voices serve as a counterbalance.