#reactionism

What I hate in our Eastern European context is that in our cultural policy there are usually only two extremes - either "everything local is terrible and backward, and the Western is high-quality and civilized", or "these Westerners are corrupting our children with their cartoons, therefore let's go back to our folklore cliche".

Salvation stories are often used to personalize topics dealt with in the news segments of [the Christian Broadcasting Network's 700 Club]. For example, news reports on the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s were typically followed by a story of a 'former' gay man who, in his youth, had moved to San Fransisco to dabble with drugs and perversion. But after watching so many of his friends die of AIDS, he had renounced his homosexual 'lifestyle' and converted to Christ. Thus the salvation story reinforces a worldview that frames social problems--and their resolutions--primarily as matters of individual behavior and/or supernatural forces, not problems to be addressed through collective social responsibility.

On clarifying your audience...

Every ideology is progressive

The media are, and always have been, the supreme obstacle to change. But you would not know it because all media corporations apply the same potent label to such a thought: ‘Unthinkable.’