La guerra fría nunca estuvo tan caliente.

The cold war was never so hot.

SOCIAL classes; DIRECT broadcast satellite television; PSYCHOLOGICAL typologies; STREAMING video & television; MASS media

Los medios de comunicación, principalmente la televisión por satélite e Internet son un río por el cual la información fluye a gran velocidad. ¿Qué pasará entonces si nos dejamos arrastrar por la corriente de la información? Qué es importante y qué no. Bien, para empezar el que esté leyendo este texto pertenece a lo que hoy en día conocemos como clases sociales. Si hablamos en estos términos estamos hablando pura y simplemente de divisiones, dentro del capitalismo, basadas en lo económico. Pero esas divisiones, muy en su origen, y me quiero remontar a más allá del Capital, son divisiones de tipo mental y psicológico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mass media, mainly satellite television and the Internet, are a river through which information flows at great speed. What will happen then if we let ourselves be carried away by the flow of information? What is important and what is not. Well, to begin with, whoever is reading this text belongs to what we know today as social classes. If we speak in these terms we are talking purely and simply of divisions, within capitalism, based on the economic. But those divisions, very originally, and I want to go back beyond Capital, are divisions of a mental and psychological type. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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