The BBC Is A Home For Radical Leftists & Racists

An excellent video talk from YouTuber, Iconoclast:

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.  

Lauren Southern and the Future of Media

A new documentary on the way from Lauren Southern.  And we like the message in this trailer.  

You want a product?  You can support it and pay for it, and creators take the risks.  That’s how media should work. 

Down that road is editorial freedom, independence – and truth.  Even if it’s only truth gained by splitting the difference, it’s an improvement: let the viewer/listener decide.

This radical thinking scares the top-down statists because they have a didactic mindset in which they ‘look after’ us.  “Inform, educate and entertain…”

State broadcasting is finished, and the paternalist culture of so-called 'public service broadcasting' should be considered archaic - it belongs to a previous time and its structures are functionally redundant.

Time to abolish the BBC and let a billion flowers bloom.

John Collins and the Future of Media

An intelligent man from Rochdale called John Collins produces YouTube videos from a scruffy-looking room in an ordinary house. It's not polished, but it's original and interesting and you can take something away from it, even if you don't agree with his quite trenchant opinions. You know when you get to the end of 10, 20 or 30 minutes, or however long it has been, that you've gained some insight.  Each of his videos attracts thousands of views.  

There are more polished YouTube content creators with more professional output, some of them producing at a standard comparable to the BBC and the major broadcasters; but we would prefer to see a media full of people like the man from Rochdale. Not all of us agree with John Collins, but at least he doesn't lie to us.  In our experience, the more polished the production values, the more lie-ridden the content.  A world that is harsher, rougher, smellier, and rawer is (as a rule) also truer.

The future should be an anarchist media. Digital technology and the web make this freedom possible on a scale never before imaginable. That's one important reason we want to see an end to the BBC, but that should only be the beginning.  The New Media is developing its own lie machines, with an emerging archetypal framework of Big Media and Big Platforms that smother and stifle new and dissenting voices - that is a problem too, but at least in the anarchist future, there will be choice.