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‘In a mediocracy, the views of the elite dictate every area of life ... Culture is redefined to be whatever receives approval from those licensed by the state apparatus. It is required to promote the ideology, i.e. be reductionist about the individual and support intervention.’
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inversions & deceptions in the new hegemony
the concept
• mediocracy is a condition in which culture is subordinated to pseudo-egalitarian ideology
• symptoms include: dumbing, jargonism, infantilisation, vacuity, phoney democratisation and authoritarianism, as well as general mediocrity
• a key weapon of the mediocratic agenda is the Orwellian redefinition of words and ideas (e.g. equality)
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• symptoms include: dumbing, jargonism, infantilisation, vacuity, phoney democratisation and authoritarianism, as well as general mediocrity
• a key weapon of the mediocratic agenda is the Orwellian redefinition of words and ideas (e.g. equality)
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the book
‘In a mediocracy, the views of the elite dictate every area of life ... Culture is redefined to be whatever receives approval from those licensed by the state apparatus. It is required to promote the ideology, i.e. be reductionist about the individual and support intervention.’
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the author
Fabian Tassano is a British academic.
A summary of his views on contemporary academia can be read here.
More information here.
LinkedIn page
A summary of his views on contemporary academia can be read here.
More information here.
LinkedIn page
archive
2011
qualified ‘philosophers’
politicising the university system
tacit civil war & nobbling herbalists
quick revision links
notepads:
- January (equality, BBC-world, libraries)
- April (Fukushima, voting, class system)
- Celia Green
- July (Prince Philip, journalism, the body)
- September (turbulence, frustration, Downton)
- October (feminism, Google, money-printing)
- November (Europe, Woolf, Oxford)
- December (immigration, shopping, futurology)
2010
Semi-voluntary euthanasia
Academia: decline and fall
Post-election notes
Upper-class ideals
Irritating the bourgeoisie
Sherlock and the missing cortex
The abolition of thought
Political ‘research’
EaziLeaks
2009
complete list
Markets and banking
Financial ‘no-brainers’
Products devised by trained cows
Scapegoats for the banking mess
Culture and markets
The theory of the second-best
Politics
Modern ‘Conservatives’
Trivialised MPs and their expenses
Any colour so long as it’s left
Invasion of the policy snatchers
David Davis: highly anomalous
The meaning of ‘liberal’
Gordon Brown on liberty
Academia
Biased humanities
Just another PC think tank
Academic vacuity
Academic vacuity (part 2)
Terry Eagleton and the Left
The pseudoscience of well-being
‘Economics’
Libertarian paternalism
Dan Ariely: predictably tendentious
Economics as pseudoscience
Cognitive bias and ideology
Chris Dillow and ‘liberal’ economics
‘Philosophy’
A C Grayling on happiness
Jamie Whyte: must try harder
Steven Pinker the apologist
Free speech
No deviations tolerated
Keeping out the wrong views
The blog as soapbox
Tintin must be banned!
Dangerous literature is illegal
Ideology
The disappearance of ‘character’
Sex in a mediocracy
All shall be elite
Western values: worth defending?
The state will give you your identity
Critics will be punished
Medicine
Pillows and morphine
Depressed? You need medication
The abuses of psychiatry
Tories and the medical profession
“All your organ are belong to us”
Interventionism
Real motives and cover stories (PDF)
The politicisation of medicine
Institutionalised child abuse
Politics masquerading as science
Art
The banality of contemporary art
Damien Hirst’s disposable products
The state demands ‘radical’ art
Movies & TV
TV and behaviour: no connection?
Reflections on movie violence
Michael Haneke: evil genius?
Movies and torture porn
The Tudors: history rewritten
BBC murders Pullman
Culture
Politicising sports
Dawkins' dumbed-down rationalism
Politicised opera
Happy-clappy evolutionism
Journalism
Sex and The Times
Bryan Appleyard on James Watson
Samuel Brittan on Mediocracy
The trivialisation of Orwell
Daniel Finkelstein on ideology
Education
Coercive ‘education’ of adults
Gordon Brown’s schooldays
No bourgeois students please
Student loans
Comprehensives: worse than prison
Dysfunctionality
Sense and ‘sensibleness’
Terminal 5
Epidemics at NHS hospitals
The Custodian
Sainsbury’s
Rowan Williams
Anthony Seldon
Oliver James
George Monbiot
Anthony Giddens
Naomi Klein
Institute of Education
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Other satire
Election 2010
Two solutions for inequality
The top 10 political blogs of all time
Decline & fall
A short history of the human race
Miscellaneous
Freedom and what to do with it
High culture and the blogosphere
The 'evils' of inheritance
Mediocracy for Dummies
qualified ‘philosophers’
politicising the university system
tacit civil war & nobbling herbalists
quick revision links
notepads:
- January (equality, BBC-world, libraries)
- April (Fukushima, voting, class system)
- Celia Green
- July (Prince Philip, journalism, the body)
- September (turbulence, frustration, Downton)
- October (feminism, Google, money-printing)
- November (Europe, Woolf, Oxford)
- December (immigration, shopping, futurology)
2010
Semi-voluntary euthanasia
Academia: decline and fall
Post-election notes
Upper-class ideals
Irritating the bourgeoisie
Sherlock and the missing cortex
The abolition of thought
Political ‘research’
EaziLeaks
2009
complete list
Markets and banking
Financial ‘no-brainers’
Products devised by trained cows
Scapegoats for the banking mess
Culture and markets
The theory of the second-best
Politics
Modern ‘Conservatives’
Trivialised MPs and their expenses
Any colour so long as it’s left
Invasion of the policy snatchers
David Davis: highly anomalous
The meaning of ‘liberal’
Gordon Brown on liberty
Academia
Biased humanities
Just another PC think tank
Academic vacuity
Academic vacuity (part 2)
Terry Eagleton and the Left
The pseudoscience of well-being
‘Economics’
Libertarian paternalism
Dan Ariely: predictably tendentious
Economics as pseudoscience
Cognitive bias and ideology
Chris Dillow and ‘liberal’ economics
‘Philosophy’
A C Grayling on happiness
Jamie Whyte: must try harder
Steven Pinker the apologist
Free speech
No deviations tolerated
Keeping out the wrong views
The blog as soapbox
Tintin must be banned!
Dangerous literature is illegal
Ideology
The disappearance of ‘character’
Sex in a mediocracy
All shall be elite
Western values: worth defending?
The state will give you your identity
Critics will be punished
Medicine
Pillows and morphine
Depressed? You need medication
The abuses of psychiatry
Tories and the medical profession
“All your organ are belong to us”
Interventionism
Real motives and cover stories (PDF)
The politicisation of medicine
Institutionalised child abuse
Politics masquerading as science
Art
The banality of contemporary art
Damien Hirst’s disposable products
The state demands ‘radical’ art
Movies & TV
TV and behaviour: no connection?
Reflections on movie violence
Michael Haneke: evil genius?
Movies and torture porn
The Tudors: history rewritten
BBC murders Pullman
Culture
Politicising sports
Dawkins' dumbed-down rationalism
Politicised opera
Happy-clappy evolutionism
Journalism
Sex and The Times
Bryan Appleyard on James Watson
Samuel Brittan on Mediocracy
The trivialisation of Orwell
Daniel Finkelstein on ideology
Education
Coercive ‘education’ of adults
Gordon Brown’s schooldays
No bourgeois students please
Student loans
Comprehensives: worse than prison
Dysfunctionality
Sense and ‘sensibleness’
Terminal 5
Epidemics at NHS hospitals
The Custodian
Sainsbury’s
Rowan Williams
Anthony Seldon
Oliver James
George Monbiot
Anthony Giddens
Naomi Klein
Institute of Education
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Other satire
Election 2010
Two solutions for inequality
The top 10 political blogs of all time
Decline & fall
A short history of the human race
Miscellaneous
Freedom and what to do with it
High culture and the blogosphere
The 'evils' of inheritance
Mediocracy for Dummies