Way of the World and the Future of Media

An important role of the BBC was to bind the country together by propagating shared values and providing, through its media, a virtual space in which the knowledge, science, arts and culture of Britain could be celebrated and discussed, and in which public affairs could be rigorously debated.

The BBC has failed in this mission and has become instead a propaganda outlet for a narrow social agenda.  Technology is providing choice and self-empowerment and allowing us to compare the BBC's output with others and recognise its limitations and distortions.  We no longer have to rely on one single source or a few sources for our information, we now have a multiplicity of sources and the BBC's lies and shortcomings are becoming painfully apparent.

The future of media once the BBC is gone will be marked by an expansion of media diversity. Some providers will be quite sizeable and focused on advertising revenues through the provision of escapist entertainment - films, sports, sensationalist news and so on.  Other providers will cater to more considered tastes, aiming at viewers and listeners who want to be informed.  Each type of broadcaster and media provider will be building its own virtual community: we self-identify and associate with others through our tastes and interests.

In this digital landscape of virtual interest communities, there will also be a need for the recognition of a meta-community, the basis for overall cohesion in society - embodying the civic norms and values that regulate daily life and represent the vision and ideation of Britain shared by the country's different and disparate interest groups.  The BBC was supposed to be a pillar of Britain's meta-community and was meant to uphold it, but it can't and won't, and it must go.  The beginnings of what might take its place are emerging, in voices on the web and in a radical political movement out in the country that aims to counter and ultimately upturn the Leftist dispensation.

Way of the World's channel represents a style of media that has emerged over the last 10 years or so in which content creators use digital platforms to broadcast a coherent polemic, and rather like the vigorous debates of the coffee shops of early modernism, anyone can comment underneath and begin a dialogue with others.  In this environment, discussion is 'de-socialised' and opinion is 'de-publicised'.  The truth is not handed-down to us on a plate from a Platonic broadcasting elite; instead, there is argument and debate and views and opinions become 'private' again, because we have re-learnt that views are based on interests. Emerging from this are renewed calls for a reactionary dispensation; not just a simple free market, but an older type of society that is really a complex, architectonic ecosystem with certain essential features: Borders, Independence, Culture, Families, Tradition, Hierarchy, Freedom and Identity.  The "British' Broadcasting Corporation has no place in this future, nor does any state media.