This is an excellent video showing not only how the news manipulates images to fit the story they want to tell, but where Political Correctness first came from. The effects of the Frankfurt school's madness shows no signs of abating.
I think it's important that all university educated people watch this video, if you didn't go to university, you might not need deprogramming as much as those who did.
Very enjoyable clip that nicely summarizes a highly complex situation. I don't disagree with the premises it's founded upon.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I do contend with your implication that higher education is somehow key in the 'programing' of people to the narrative, or that the educated are in greater need of deprogramming. As this anchor suggests, it's much deeper than that - its success is based in part on the criticism's apparently diverse sources, focused on a common Bogey.
For most of those that attend higher education, a certain amount of awareness of social narratives, their powers, ways alternative narratives are suppressed as 'pc', and so on would be hard to miss. What those students (and teachers as well) do with that, whether they agree that the various critical schools' provide valuable tools for the various oppressed; whether they take this man's approach and recognize the ways in which the narrative has come to unfairly pin all blame unduly on a particular culture; whether they exploit their knowledge to personal advantage; whether they fail to grasp it or care at all, depends on the individual's disposition (to briefly summarize the wide variety of factors that determine one's response to such things). While there are many self educated folks who can think critically about public discourse and the rhetoric and logic involved, lacking institutional higher education does not somehow give greater insight by default or protect one against the kind of programming which you are referring to.
The universities throughout history have been both great defenders of power and great challengers of it. I don't think it is fair or accurate to put all Unis and their faculties under a category of subservience to the dominant narrative. In my own undergrad experience, I had profs who taught on both sides of that fence, openly debated with each other, and invited students to consider the evidence for themselves.