The Knight in the feudal world has become the Media in our modern world

As the knight was the prototype of the feudal world,’ so the merchant Media has become the prototype of the new world.’  For large swathes of the population in the US and Europe 
the loud hailering of teleological programmes of progress in Liberalism may be alright for a self serving elite but for the mass, they feel rightly that their human agency plays no part in this media propaganda of the teleological rewards in their kind of Progress.