SCRIPT- Despotism:
The Blind Road to Media Control
Chapter 1: In The Beginning
[Opening image-
Private Property]
Car is heard, ambient
noise
Smith: This must be
the place. Not as bad as I was expecting. Don’t see why everyone working for
Medicorp has to live in the same place though... [Drifts off]
Smith: I’ve been in
this job for 18 months now, started off as a hard nut but now I’m not so sure.
I mean it’s hard to miss something you haven’t experienced, but if you have
experienced the ‘before’, then this is pretty tough going, having to relocate,
be away from family and friends. You know the usual. I always wanted to become
a spin doctor, probably the cocky arrogance residing in me since my days at
University. I started my training with political government but I was soon
commandeered by Medicorp. I mean,
my job as a spin-doctor was safe, it was an already established tradition of
government propaganda; spin. It’s what makes the governmental world go round
(no pun intended).
Smith: I’d better get
a move on and have a look around, see if I can find someone. This place looks
dead. [Smith walks away out of shot].
Chapter 2: Economical Consent [Office
Location- end with shot looking out of window]
[Opening image-Exterior Building Shot]
Smith: Controlling the public mind, getting under their skin, learning
how they operate, what they want to hear is public relations to a tee. Covert
control, highly effective, just my speciality in fact. What have we got
here?... Nice headline. Bit late for that now though!
[Phone rings]
Smith: Yep
Smith: Sure
Smith: Okay
Smith: I’ll be watching it
Smith: I'll give you a call later. Keep your phone on.
Chapter 3: Media Control and I
[Opening image-
Office]
Smith: ‘He who fights
too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long
into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you’. –Nietzsche. Good quote that and
so very true...
Smith: Manipulating
public opinion that was what I was brought in to do. It seems quite stupid now
getting a conscience. I didn’t get into this role for the moral good, it just
paid extremely well. Yeah well it’s a bit late now isn’t it?! When I started
out working for Medicorp was fun, we used to put on bets, see what we could get
the public to do... I was a very rich man that year... It beggars belief how
screwed up society is, they’d believe anything and react more or less the same;
social pressure I can tell you has made my job a little easier. I mean,
thinking back to only a few years ago when Government was still political not
media, course you remember the PM Cameron. Announced a potential petrol strike you know nothing set in
stone but the whole country went ape shit panic buying, petrol stations running
out, massive queues, the lot. True scaremongering tactics that, a great way to
get the generally subdued into the palm of your hands where you want them. I
remember when I was brought in not long after for my spin doctor training, that
was the pinnacle success story-pure genius. Not long after that fiasco, politicians
started going to the dogs and by dogs I mean the major media moguls. Wanting to
learn even better tactics for getting the public to hang on to their every
word. The politicians soon realized that the media moguls could teach them a
thing or two. A big scandal emerged, something to do with corrupt politicians.
The media went all hush-hush about it- which looking back is quite ironic. Anyway, long story short the PM had to
stand down, elections were had, the usual business but in a weird turn of
events, political influence was not on the government’s side. Media moguls were
running for power, I didn’t think it was possible but I’m sure some deal was
made when the Media Moguls went in. So then Medicorp become in power, abolished
political government and made it their own, Putin would’ve been proud! Changed
the whole government structure. At first, the public thought was for the
better… They were only told on a need to know basis so didn’t really know the
extent to what was going on. Power was in the selective few at the top of
Medicorp and that’s how it all started...
Smith: The public
need to be leaded, they need a leader that tells them what they should think,
act, behave and do. Without it, many people are lost,
chaos would begin. One where the government haven’t orchestrated that chaos
(there is a significant difference). We like the public to be in the palm of
our hands, being able to manipulate them like puppets with invisible strings.
We want them to do something, then we’ll bring in a law, if we don’t want them
to do something, then we make it illegal. We called it ‘intelligent ways to encourage, support
and enable people to make better choices for themselves’. Simple.
Medicorp have made the public more reliant on the
Media than ever before, society 'feeds' off the Media to survive, to know
what’s going on in the world around them. In doing so, every citizen surrenders
their personal information and privacy; without them even knowing their doing
it. If only they knew...
Chapter 4: Alone
[Opening image-
Inside of home]
Smith: feel like a sitting duck in this place,
the more isolated I become, the more cynical I feel. Everything I read, or
watch I see in a different light. The more I think about it, the more I think
political government was as corrupt as ours, but not as effective. I mean, just
look at the unbalanced relationship between media and the public before all
this. I will always remember the
one thing from my very first briefing with Medicorp. ‘We will remake the world.
Create the future through fear’. As you and I both know, fear is the most
powerful weapon of all. If only the public saw this coming, being led down the
blind road of media control. Then maybe just maybe they’d realise how heavily
reliant they are on the media to understand the world, and how manipulated
and inculcated they are by the media saturated world around them. Still this monologue inside my
head is making me go crazy, no one can hear me, no one is listening, no one is there
but me.
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