7 highlights
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Was Arthur Miller correct when he said, “An era is said to have ended when its basic illusions are exhausted”?
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Usually the illusionary cycle simply has to move onward. And you hear the talk of another moral universe, the alternative media. Almost like a castle far away from the fairytale-turned-nightmare mainstream media.
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The motivation of some of these aspiring journalists is centred around the M.A.D. (making a difference) factor
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The problem is something which Robert Hardgrave had once described as the ‘revolution of rising expectations’. The radicalization of such expectations comes from a desperate need to find social relevance in a world which ironically could be alien to their cocooned existence.
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But there is a fundamental problem with such crusading counter-engagements. They don’t emerge and enlighten as an entity beyond the fragments of bleeding heart assortments. It has yet to shed its fetishes for simplistic monochromatic, ‘either this or that’ binaries.
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Ironically, the alternative media space in this country has often fallen prey to the shortcomings which it seeks to juxtapose itself against. Resentment is not enough steam to run a counter-narrative, substance matters.
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A blind spot for the alternative media universe has been its failure to subject itself to the same yardsticks of critique that it has for mainstream media. These are almost Hegelian fault-lines, fault-lines which are being increasingly exposed.