Början på ett mediakrig om mångkulturen?

We are experiencing the emergence of what can be described as Post-Modern Authoritarianism (PMA). This description refers both to an empirically observable condition - the way in which the institutions of modernist parliamentary democracy are being hollowed out through the transfer of powers to a range of unaccountable agencies - and to the ideological device for advancing this silent revolution.

[- - -] In contrast to earlier and more openly anti-democratic currents, the Post-Modern Authoritarians (PMAs) adopt a subtle 'passive-aggressive' strategy based upon undermining the foundations of the nation state - the only viable mechanism by which the ruling elite is held to account - whilst simultaneously denying the reality of the system they are building.

[- - -] Post-modernism is the perfect underlying framework for a duplicitous political project that cannot afford to reveal its true nature. This is because it rejects the modernist idea that ideologies can and should be based on attempts to identify connecting truths that enable something fundamental about the totality of an issue to be said. Post-modernists contend, for reasons that will be given later, that the age of the 'grand narrative' is dead and that only stories about fragments of existence can be communicated. Thus, the PMAs, like a guerrilla hit-and-run army, try to avoid direct, large-scale confrontations.

[- - -] This leads, on the one hand, to attempts to associate the EU with pleasing cultural images and, on the other, to wage McCarthyite, black propaganda campaigns against opponents, associating them with negative attributes such as xenophobia and philistinism.

[- - -] In the European sphere, the grand narrative the PMAs wish to destroy is that of the nation state. They seek to do this in a variety of different ways, including the assertion that independent nations lead to war (even genocide) and cannot cope with issues that transcend national borders. But, true to their passive-aggressive mindset, the PMAs refuse to articulate their own 'grand narrative', namely transnational governance.