All the criticisms of NPR recently aired by an insider are doubly true for the CBC, which recently announced plans to cut 10 percent of its workforce despite lavish state funding. It is a propaganda arm of the ruling party and will broadcast its dogmas and never scrutinize them.
All the criticisms of NPR recently aired by an insider are doubly true for the CBC, which recently announced plans to cut 10 percent of its workforce despite lavish state funding. It is a propaganda arm of the ruling party and will broadcast its dogmas and never scrutinize them.
The more these media rely on state funding or on ultra-progressive cause-oriented donors who are the only entities willing to pour their money down a sinkhole in exchange for perfect obeisance to the dogma, the more traction they lose with the public. This in turn intensifies the passions of those left behind in the echo chamber while further diminishing its reach. This process of self-marginalization now afflicts the hitherto dominant institutions of acculturation -- the mainstream press, the public schools, the commercial culture industries which still retain a grip of respectability even as they plunge ever further into cargo cult-like frenzies (sterilizing gay and autistic children, rituals of white self-abnegation taken from Weather Underground-era struggle sessions.)
The smooth integration of ritual self-mortification and child sacrifice from the childhood of humanity into the ordinary protocols of bourgeois life in the advanced post-industrial economies is the strangest development of the my lifetime and is of course the richest of all subjects for someone with a novelistic imagination. Fuck anyone who says this is an unworthy interest to cultivate.
@wesyang Recycling Bronze-Age rituals - as if the Buddha, Confucius, Abraham and Heraclitus never spoke.