The Media just grows and grows, and progressively takes-over control of all the functionally useful social systems from politics to religion, from education to the arts. Yet the Mass Media is a system like no other – it has no function of its own, so it can just keep growing. It has no positive aim for society, and regards all knowledge just a matter of opinion. Therefore the Mass Media subverts all that is useful, and everything that gives meaning and purpose to life. Since the Media works like a drug, the first step is withdrawal, and a 'detox' program. Having escaped addiction, we may become free of the lies and lunacies of life in the Media bubble, and return to the realities of direct personal knowledge, actual experience and common sense.
Author(s): Bruce G. Charlton
Publisher: University of Buckingham Press
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 176
Tags: Applied Psychology;Psychology & Counseling;Health, Fitness & Dieting;Applied Psychology;Psychology;General;Psychology;Communication & Media Studies;Social Sciences;Politics & Social Sciences;Reference;Political Science;Politics & Government;Politics & Social Sciences
Introduction
Mass Media – Singular or Plural?
We live in the grip of delusion
What is the Mass Media?
What is the problem?
Opinionated Relativism
Permanent Revolution
Does the Mass media have a Leftist bias?
The intrinsic function is just… to grow
The paradox of Mass Media control
The Mass Media will destroy social cohesion
Opinionated Relativism v communism
Chaos begets chaos
Participation is primary
Mass Media addiction
System-language of the Mass Media
Oppositional ideology of PC
Acknowledgement of reality
Product of, and therapy for, modernity
Blind the people...
First-strike framing
From hero to antihero
Pervasive demonic perspective
Negativism – a tool for self-cure
The modern Luddite
How the Mass Media learns to do harm
Social Media = Mass Media
The Mass Media versus religion
The purpose of modern life: to feed the Media
Can you handle it?
Environmental overload makes simple minds
The savage triviality of Mass Media morality
The need for eternal vigilance
How to cure an addicted society
Escaping the colonization of small talk
Withdrawal and detox programme
Who needs withdrawal and detox?
Postscript: the Jimmy Savile affair
Technical Appendix
Notes and references
