Massmedia Right Now

This version: 30 November 2021

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Intro The ripeness to Dissolve the present Static Western culture in order to reach a Dynamic culture that can be based on the Dynamic insights of the Athenian culture has escalated after the first phase of the pandemic. Today even the big massmedia report about how the citizens struggle in a collapsed society; in a direct manner – that none can ignore anymore – only the headlines tell it all now. However, there is still an official rejection to ask the fundamental questions "WHY Is it like it is?" and WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? It it is for sure essential to follow the process and understand what is considered to be possible to talk about according to the creepy propaganda of the Academic Cult and the Massmedia. The Articles in Chronological Order - Latest First ‘How dictatorship works’: Hungarian academic quits in censorship row Andrea Pető was asked to withdraw criticism that a Europe-wide standards group had failed to confront illiberalism in Hungary and Poland Jennifer Rankin, 30 November 2021, The Guardian Rankin writes. Andrea Pető, a professor at the Central European University in Vienna, said she had resigned from the Hungarian Accreditation Committee’s humanities subcommittee last week after she was asked to change part of an article she wrote that was due to be published in an academic journal. Pető says. “You can feel how dictatorship works,” the historian and specialist in gender studies said in her first interview with international media since her resignation. “Because this is not the state, this is not Prime Minister Orbán who is giving orders. Those who make this system work are the kind of ordinary people who are running those institutions. The whole story looks as it had happened in communist Hungary well before 1989.” Is society coming apart? Despite Thatcher and Reagan’s best efforts, there is and has always been such a thing as society. The question is not whether it exists, but what shape it must take in a post-pandemic world. Jill Lepore, 25 November 2021, The Guardian This is the ending. Liberalism didn’t kill society. And conservatism didn’t kill society. Because society isn’t dead. But it is pallid and fretful, like a shut-in staring all day long at nothing but a screen, mistaking a mirror for a window. Inside, online, there is no society, only the simulation of it. But, outside, on the grass and the pavement, in the woods and on the streets, in playgrounds and schoolyards and ballparks, in council flats and shops and pubs and agricultural fairs and libraries and union halls, society hums along, if not with the deafening thrum of a steam-driven machine, then with the hand-oiled, creaking clatter of an antwacky wooden loom. Alone, afraid and facing exile: one boy’s ordeal indicts Britain’s asylum system For Bashir Khan Ahmadzai, threatened with deportation to Afghanistan, promises of ‘patience and care’ leave a bitter taste. Aditya Chakrabortty, The Guardian, 21 November 2021 ‘So many women feel caged by gender, sexuality, religion’‘I’ve had to go off the menu to find what fits for me' Glennon Doyle, The Guardian, 21 November 2021 Great quote. ... The lightbulb moment came when she realised she needed to think about what she truly wanted, rather than about what society had trained her to think she wanted. … Sign of the times: row over street art shines light on Spain’s divisions Madrid council orders removal of street art featuring left and rightwing heroes as Socialist-led government proposes prosecution of Franco-era crimes, Sam Jones, 18 November 2021, The Guardian ‘They could be the visionaries of our world’: do ‘overemotional’ people hold the key to happiness? One in five of us struggle to cope with everyday smells, sounds and images. Rather than a weakness, this extreme sensitivity could be a strength in everything from the pandemic to the climate crisis. Emine Saner, 15 November 2021, The Guardian